학술논문
Inflationary study of non-Gaussianity using two-dimensional geometrical measures of CMB temperature maps.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*COSMIC background radiation
*PERTURBATION theory
*CONFIGURATION space
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ISSN
2470-0010
Abstract
In this work we effectively calculated the two-dimensional Minkowski functionals for cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps generated by single field models of inflation with a standard kinetic term. We started with a calculation of the bispectrum of initial perturbations and then calculated the two-dimensional configuration space cubic moments for temperature fluctuations. These cubic moments give rise to first order non-Gaussian correction terms to the Minkowski functionals. Thus, we developed a robust mechanism to predict the amount of non-Gaussianity generated by inflation in the CMB temperature maps using Minkowski functionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]