Dark radiation and the CMB bispectrum

Non-Gaussianities in the cosmic microwave background maps arising from correlations between lensing and time variations of the gravitational potential (the so-called integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect) are one of the most important contaminants to the determination of the primordial inflationary bispectr...

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Published in:Physical Review D
Main Authors: DI VALENTINO, ELEONORA, GERBINO, MARTINA, MELCHIORRI, Alessandro
Other Authors: DI VALENTINO, Eleonora, Gerbino, Martina, Melchiorri, Alessandro
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: AMER PHYSICAL SOC 2013
Subjects:
South pole
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11573/540055
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.87.103523
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Summary:Non-Gaussianities in the cosmic microwave background maps arising from correlations between lensing and time variations of the gravitational potential (the so-called integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect) are one of the most important contaminants to the determination of the primordial inflationary bispectrum and may bias its determination. The presence of an extra dark radiation component, as suggested by some recent osmic microwave background measurements from the South Pole Telescope, could bias the expected value of the local bispectrum. In this paper we investigate the impact of dark radiation on the local bispectrum. As a by-product we also quantify the additional information on the dark radiation component that could come from a future precise measurement of the lensing-integrated-Sachs-Wolfe bispectrum.

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