Angular correlation functions for models with logarithmic oscillations
Abstract
There exist several theoretical motivations for primordial correlation functions (such as the power spectrum) to contain oscillations as a logarithmic function of comoving momentum k. While these features are commonly searched for in k space, an alternative is to use angular space, that is, search for correlations between the directional vectors of observation. We develop tools to efficiently compute the angular correlations based on a stationary phase approximation and examine several example oscillations in the primordial power spectrum, bispectrum, and trispectrum. We find that logarithmically periodic oscillations are essentially featureless and therefore difficult to detect using the standard correlator, though others might be feasible.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- January 2014
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1303.3499
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhRvD..89b3510J
- Keywords:
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- 98.80.Cq;
- 98.70.Vc;
- 98.80.-k;
- Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
- Background radiations;
- Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 11 figures