Best Unbiased Estimators for the Three-Point Correlators of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

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dc.creatorGangui, Alejandro
dc.creatorMartin, Jerome
dc.date2000-01-20
dc.date2001-02-22
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:28:40Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:28:40Z
dc.descriptionMeasuring the three-point correlators of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies could help to get a handle on the level of non-Gaussianity present in the observational datasets and therefore would strongly constrain models of the early Universe. However, typically, the expected non-Gaussian signal is very small. Therefore, one has to face the problem of extracting it from the noise, in particular from the `cosmic variance' noise. For this purpose, one has to construct the best unbiased estimators for the three-point correlators that are needed for concrete detections of non-Gaussian features. In this article, we study this problem for both the CMB third moment and the CMB angular bispectrum. We emphasize that the knowledge of the best estimator for the former does not permit one to infer the best estimator for the latter and vice versa. We present the corresponding best unbiased estimators in both cases and compute their corresponding cosmic variances.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001361
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001361
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D62:103004,2000
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.103004
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/196466
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleBest Unbiased Estimators for the Three-Point Correlators of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
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