The Angular Dependence of the Three-Point Correlation Function of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation as Predicted by Inflationary Cosmologies
Abstract
Inflationary models predict a definite, model independent, angular dependence for the three-point correlation function of $\Delta T/T$ at large angles (greater than $\sim 1^\circ$) which we calculate. The overall amplitude is model dependent and generically unobservably small, but may be large in some specific models. We compare our results with other models of nongaussian fluctuations.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- January 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1086/186707
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9208001
- Bibcode:
- 1993ApJ...403L...1F
- Keywords:
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- Correlation Coefficients;
- Cosmology;
- Relic Radiation;
- Astronomical Models;
- Computational Astrophysics;
- Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite;
- Astrophysics;
- COSMOLOGY: THEORY;
- COSMOLOGY: LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE;
- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 3 figures (described but not included, available on request), in Plain Tex, UCSBTH-92-31