Angular correlation functions for models with logarithmic oscillations

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作者
Jackson, Mark G. [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
Wandelt, Ben [1 ,2 ]
Bouchet, Franois [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Paris 06, Inst Astrophys Paris, CNRS, UMR 7095, F-75014 Paris, France
[2] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[3] Univ Paris 07, Paris Ctr Cosmol Phys, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[4] Univ Paris 07, Lab AstroParticule & Cosmol, F-75205 Paris 13, France
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2014年 / 89卷 / 02期
关键词
INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; COSMOLOGY; FLATNESS; HORIZON; PHYSICS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.89.023510
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
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.
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