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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2016

Joint resonant CMB power spectrum and bispectrum estimation

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We develop the tools necessary to assess the statistical significance of resonant features in the CMB correlation functions, combining power spectrum and bispectrum measurements. This significance is typically addressed by running a large number of simulations to derive the probability density function (PDF) of the feature-amplitude in the Gaussian case. Although these simulations are tractable for the power spectrum, for the bispectrum they require significant computational resources. We show that, by assuming that the PDF is given by a multivariate Gaussian where the covariance is determined by the Fisher matrix of the sine and cosine terms, we can efficiently produce spectra that are statistically close to those derived from full simulations. By drawing a large number of spectra from this PDF, both for the power spectrum and the bispectrum, we can quickly determine the statistical significance of candidate signatures in the CMB, considering both single frequency and multifrequency estimators. We show that for resonance models, cosmology and foreground parameters have little influence on the estimated amplitude, which allows us to simplify the analysis considerably. A more precise likelihood treatment can then be applied to candidate signatures only. We also discuss a modal expansion approach for the power spectrum, aimed at quickly scanning through large families of oscillating models.
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hal-03645206 , version 1 (23-05-2022)

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P. Daniel Meerburg, Moritz Münchmeyer, Benjamin Wandelt. Joint resonant CMB power spectrum and bispectrum estimation. Physical Review D, 2016, 93, ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.93.043536⟩. ⟨hal-03645206⟩
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