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Planck2013 results. XXIV. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity

Authors
P. Ade,N. Aghanim
C. Armitage-Caplan,M. Arnaud,M. Ashdown,F. Atrio‐Barandela,J. Aumont,C. Baccigalupi,A. Banday,R. Barreiro,Matthias Bartelmann,N. Bartolo,E. Battaner,K. Benabed,A. Benoı̂t,A. Benoit-Lévy,J.-P. Bernard,M. Bersanelli,P. Bielewicz,J. Bobin,J. Bock,A. Bonaldi,L. Bonavera,J. Bond,J. Borrill,F. Bouchet,M. Bridges,M. Bucher,C. Burigana,R. Butler,J.-F. Cardoso,A. Catalano,A. Challinor,A. Chamballu,H. Chiang,L.-Y Chiang,P. Christensen,S. Church,D. Clements,S. Colombi,A. Coulais,F. Couchot,B. Crill,A. Curto,F. Cuttaia,L. Danese,R. Davies,R. Davis,P. Bernardis,A. Rosa,G. Zotti,J. Delabrouille,J.-M. Delouis,F.–X. Désert,J. Diego,H. Dole,S. Donzelli,O. Doré,M. Douspis,A. Ducout,J. Dunkley,X. Dupac,G. Efstathiou,F. Elsner,T. Enßlin,H. Eriksen,J. Fergusson,F. Finelli⋆,O. Forni,M. Frailis,E. Franceschi,S. Galeotta,K. Ganga,M. Giard,Y. Giraud–Héraud,J. González-Nuevo,S. Gratton,A. Gregorio,F. Hansen,D. Hanson,S. Henrot-Versillé,Alan Heavens,C. Hernández-Monteagudo,D. Herranz,S. Hildebrandt,E. Hivon,M. Hobson,W. Holmes,A. Hornstrup,W. Hovest,K. Huffenberger,A. Jaffe,T. Jaffe,W. Jones,M. Juvela,E. Keihänen,R. Keskitalo,T. Kisner,J. Knoche,L. Knox,M. Kunz,H. Kurki-Suonio,F. Lacasa,G. Lagache,A. Lähteenmäki,J.‐M. Lamarre,A. Lasenby,R. Laureijs,C. Lawrence,J. Leahy,R. Leonardi,J. Lesgourgues,Antony Lewis,M. Liguori,P. Lilje,M. Linden-Vørnle,M. López-Caniego,P. Lubin,B. Maffei,N. Mandolesi,A. Mangilli,Domenico Marinucci,M. Maris,D. Marshall,P. Martin,E. Martínez-González,S. Masi,M. Massardi,S. Matarrese,F. Matthai,P. Meinhold,A. Melchiorri,L. Mendes,S. Mitra,M. Migliaccio,M.-A. Miville-Deschênes,A. Moneti,L. Montier,G. Morgante,A. Moss,D. Munshi,J. Murphy,P. Naselsky,P. Natoli,C. Netterfield,H. Nørgaard-Nielsen,F. Noviello,D. Novikov,I. Novikov,S. Osborne,C. Oxborrow,F. Pajot,L. Pagano,D. Paoletti,F. Pasian,G. Patanchon,Hiranya Peiris,O. Perdereau,L. Perotto,F. Perrotta,F. Piacentini,M. Piat,E. Pierpaoli,D. Pietrobon,S. Plaszczynski,É. Pointecouteau,G. Polenta,N. Ponthieu,L. Popa,T. Poutanen,G. Pratt,G. Prézeau,S. Prunet,J.‐L. Puget,R. Rébolo,B. Racine,M. Reinecke,M. Remazeilles,C. Renault,S. Ricciardi,T. Riller,I. Ristorcelli,G. Rocha,C. Rosset,G. Roudier,J. Rubiño-Martín,B. Rusholme,M. Sandri,D. Santos,G. Savini,D. Scott,M. Seiffert,E. Shellard,Kendrick Smith,L. Spencer,Jean‐Luc Starck,V. Stolyarov,R. Stompor,R. Sudiwala,R. Sunyaev,F. Sureau,P. Sutter,D. Sutton,A.-S. Suur-Uski,J.-F. Sygnet,J. Tauber,D. Tavagnacco,L. Terenzi,L. Toffolatti,M. Tomasi,M. Tristram,M. Tucci,J. Tuovinen,L. Valenziano,J. Väliviita,B. Tent,J. Varis,P. Vielva,F. Villa,N. Vittorio,L. Wade,B. Wandelt,Martin White,S. White,A. Zacchei,A. Zonca,J. Bartlett,G. Chon,L. Colombo
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Abstract

The Planck nominal mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps yield unprecedented constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). Using three optimal bispectrum estimators, separable template-fitting (KSW), binned, and modal, we obtain consistent values for the primordial local, equilateral, and orthogonal bispectrum amplitudes, quoting as our final result fNL^local= 2.7+/-5.8, fNL^equil= -42+/-75, and fNL^ortho= -25+\-39 (68% CL statistical). NG is detected in the data; using skew-C_l statistics we find a nonzero bispectrum from residual point sources, and the ISW-lensing bispectrum at a level expected in the LambdaCDM scenario. The results are based on comprehensive cross-validation of these estimators on Gaussian and non-Gaussian simulations, are stable across component separation techniques, pass an extensive suite of tests, and are confirmed by skew-C_l, wavelet bispectrum and Minkowski functional estimators. Beyond estimates of individual shape amplitudes, we present model-independent, 3-dimensional reconstructions of the Planck CMB bispectrum and thus derive constraints on early-Universe scenarios that generate primordial NG, including general single-field models of inflation, excited initial states (non-Bunch-Davies vacua), and directionally-dependent vector models. We provide an initial survey of scale-dependent feature and resonance models. These results bound both general single-field and multi-field model parameter ranges, such as the speed of sound, c_s \geq 0.02 (95% CL), in an effective field theory parametrization, and the curvaton decay fraction r_D \geq 0.15 (95% CL). The Planck data significantly limit the viable parameter space of the ekpyrotic/cyclic scenarios. The amplitude of the 4-point function in the local model tauNL < 2800 (95% CL). These constraints represent the highest precision tests to date of physical mechanisms for the origin of cosmic structure.

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