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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 425, Issue 3, Pages 2187-2196Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21572.x
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methods: analytical; methods: statistical; cosmic background radiation; early Universe
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- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan [24740160]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22340056, 24540267, 24740160] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We analyse non-Gaussianity (NG) due to the primordial bispectrum and trispectrum using cosmic microwave background temperature maps of WMAP 7-year data. We first apply the perturbative formulae of Minkowski functionals (MFs) up to second-order NG derived by Matsubara, which enable us to give limits on cubic NG parametrized with tNL and gNL as well as various types of quadratic NG parametrized with fNL. We find no signature of primordial NG in WMAP 7-year data, but give constraints on the local-type, equilateral-type and orthogonal-type fNL, f NL ( loc )=20+/-42, f NL ( eq )=-121+/-208 and f NL ( ort )=-129+/-171, respectively, and tNL/104 = -7.6 +/- 8.7 and gNL/105 = -1.9 +/- 6.4. We also find that these constraints are consistent with the limits from skewness and kurtosis parameters which characterize the perturbative corrections of MFs.
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