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Acoustic Signatures in the Primary Microwave Background Bispectrum

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If the primordial fluctuations are non-Gaussian, then this non-Gaussianity will be apparent in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky. With their sensitive all-sky observation, MAP and Planck satellites should be able to detect weak non-Gaussianity in the CMB sky. On large angular scale, there is a simple relationship between the CMB temperature and the primordial curvature perturbation. On smaller scales; however, the radiation transfer function becomes more complex. In this paper, we present the angular bispectrum of the primary CMB anisotropy that uses the full transfer function. We find that the bispectrum has a series of acoustic peaks that change a sign, and a period of acoustic oscillations is twice as long as that of the angular power spectrum. Using a single non-linear coupling parameter to characterize the amplitude of the bispectrum, we estimate the expected signal-to-noise ratio for COBE, MAP, and Planck experiments. We find that the detection of the primary bispectrum by any kind of experiments should be problematic for the simple slow-roll inflationary scenarios. We compare the sensitivity of the primary bispectrum to the primary skewness and conclude that when we can compute the predicted form of the bispectrum, it becomes a ``matched filter'' for detecting the non-Gaussianity in the data, and much more powerful tool than the skewness. We also show that MAP and Planck can separate the primary bispectrum from various secondary bispectra on the basis of the shape difference. The primary CMB bispectrum is a test of the inflationary scenario, and also a probe of the non-linear physics in the very early universe.

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