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Article Dans Une Revue Classical and Quantum Gravity Année : 2011

Hunting for Isocurvature Modes in the CMB non-Gaussianities

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We investigate new shapes of local primordial non-Gaussianities in the CMB. Allowing for a primordial isocurvature mode along with the main adiabatic one, the angular bispectrum is in general a superposition of six distinct shapes: the usual adiabatic term, a purely isocurvature component and four additional components that arise from correlations between the adiabatic and isocurvature modes. We present a class of early Universe models in which various hierarchies between these six components can be obtained, while satisfying the present upper bound on the isocurvature fraction in the power spectrum. Remarkably, even with this constraint, detectable non-Gaussianity could be produced by isocurvature modes. We finally discuss the prospects of detecting these new shapes with the Planck satellite.

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hal-00589058 , version 1 (27-04-2011)

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David Langlois, Bartjan van Tent. Hunting for Isocurvature Modes in the CMB non-Gaussianities. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2011, 28 (22), pp.222001. ⟨10.1088/0264-9381/28/22/222001⟩. ⟨hal-00589058⟩
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