期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 664, 期 2, 页码 680-686出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/519071
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cosmic microwave background; early universe
Measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity (f(NL)) open a new window onto the physics of inflation. We describe a fast cubic (bispectrum) estimator of f(NL), using a combined analysis of temperature and polarization observations. The speed of our estimator allows us to use a sufficient number of Monte Carlo simulations to characterize its statistical properties in the presence of real-world issues such as instrumental effects, partial sky coverage, and foreground contamination. We find that our estimator is optimal, where optimality is defined by saturation of the Cramer-Rao bound, if noise is homogeneous. Our estimator is also computationally efficient, scaling as O(N-3/2), compared to the O(N-5/2) scaling of the brute-force bispectrum calculation for sky maps with N pixels. For Planck this translates into a speedup by factors of millions, reducing the required computing time from thousands of years to just hours and thus making fNL estimation feasible for future surveys.
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