Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 408, Issue 3, Pages 1658-1665Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17228.x
Keywords
methods: analytical; methods: statistical; early Universe; cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations
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- CIAR
- CSA
- NSERC in Canada
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
- University La Sapienza
- Programma Nazionale Ricerche in Antartide in Italy
- PPARC
- Leverhulme Trust in the UK
- NASA [NAG5-9251, NAG5-12723]
- NSF in the USA [OPP-9980654, OPP-0407592]
- DOE [DE-AC03-76SF00098]
- CASPUR (Rome, Italy)
- ASI [I/016/07/0]
- Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council [PP/C501692/1]
- SPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
- STFC [ST/G002711/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- UK Space Agency [ST/H00002X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We use Minkowski functionals (MFs) to constrain a primordial non-Gaussian contribution to the cosmic microwave background intensity field as observed in the 150- and 145-GHz BOOMERanG maps from the 1998 and 2003 flights, respectively, performing for the first time a joint analysis of the two data sets. A perturbative expansion of the MF formulae in the limit of a weakly non-Gaussian field yields analytical formulae, derived by Hikage et al., which can be used to constrain the coupling parameter f(NL) without the need for non-Gaussian simulations. We find -770 < f(NL) < 500 at 95 per cent CL, significantly improving the previous constraints by De Troia et al. on the BOOMERanG 2003 data set. These are the best f(NL) limits to date for suborbital probes.
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