학술논문
Estimating the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data
Document Type
Working Paper
Author
Smith, Sarah; Rocha, Graca; Challinor, Anthony; Battye, Richard A.; Carreira, Pedro; Cleary, Kieran; Davies, Rod D.; Davis, Richard J.; Dickinson, Clive; Genova-Santos, Ricardo; Grainge, Keith; Gutierrez, Carlos M.; Hafez, Yaser A.; Hobson, Michael P.; Jones, Michael E.; Kneissl, Rudiger; Lancaster, Katy; Lasenby, Anthony; Leahy, J. P.; Maisinger, Klaus; Pooley, Guy G.; Rajguru, Nutan; Rebolo, Rafael; Rubino-Martin, Jose Alberto; Molina, Pedro Sosa; Saunders, Richard D. E.; Savage, Richard S.; Scott, Paul; Slosar, Anze; Taylor, Angela C.; Titterington, David; Waldram, Elizabeth; Watson, Robert A.
Source
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 887
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Abstract
We estimate the bispectrum of the Very Small Array data from the compact and extended configuration observations released in December 2002, and compare our results to those obtained from Gaussian simulations. There is a slight excess of large bispectrum values for two individual fields, but this does not appear when the fields are combined. Given our expected level of residual point sources, we do not expect these to be the source of the discrepancy. Using the compact configuration data, we put an upper limit of 5400 on the value of f_NL, the non-linear coupling parameter, at 95 per cent confidence. We test our bispectrum estimator using non-Gaussian simulations with a known bispectrum, and recover the input values.
Comment: 17 pages, 16 figures, replaced with version accepted by MNRAS. Primordial bispectrum recalculated and figure 11 changed
Comment: 17 pages, 16 figures, replaced with version accepted by MNRAS. Primordial bispectrum recalculated and figure 11 changed