期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 708, 期 2, 页码 1321-1325出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/708/2/1321
关键词
cosmic microwave background; cosmology: observations; methods: statistical
资金
- Research Council of Norway
- ASI [I/016/07/0]
- NASA
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/F002998/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/F002998/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We investigate local variations of the primordial non-Gaussianity parameter f(NL) in the WMAP data, looking for possible influence of foreground contamination in the full-sky estimate of f(NL). We first improve the needlet bispectrum estimate in Rudjord et al. on the full sky to f(NL) = 73 +/- 31 using the KQ75 mask on the co-added V + W channel. We find no particular values of f(NL) estimates close to the galactic plane and conclude that foregrounds are unlikely to affect the estimate of f(NL) in the V and W bands even for the smaller KQ85 mask. In the Q band, however, we find unexpectedly high values of f(NL) in local estimates close to the galactic mask, as well as significant discrepancies between Q-band estimates and V/W-band estimates. We therefore conclude that the Q band is too contaminated to be used for non-Gaussianity studies even with the larger KQ75 mask. We further note that the local f(NL) estimates on the V + W channel are positive on all equatorial bands from the north to the south pole. The probability for this to happen in a universe with f(NL) = 0 is less than 1%.
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