search for non-gaussianities in the wmap data with the scaling index method寻找同时在wmap数据扩展指数方法.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Astronomy Volume 2011, Article ID 174873, 21 pages doi:10.1155/2011/174873 Review Article Search for Non-Gaussianities in the WMAP Data with the Scaling Index Method 1 1 ¨ 1 2, 3, 4 ´ 5, 6 1 G. Rossmanith, H. Modest, C. Rath, A. J. Banday, K. M. Gorski, and G. Morfill 1 Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstraβe 1, 85748 Garching, Germany ¨ 2 Universite de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP, 5 allees Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse, France ´ ´ 3 Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements 9, Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31028 Toulouse, France 4 Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straβe 1, 85741 Garching, Germany ¨ 5 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA 6 Warsaw University Observatory, Aleje Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warszawa, Poland Correspondence should be addressed to G. Rossmanith, rossmanith@mpe.mpg.de Received 14 July 2011; Accepted 1 August 2011 Academic Editor: Gary Wegner Copyright © 2011 G. Rossmanith et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In the recent years, non-Gaussianity and statistical isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) was investigated with various statistical measures, first and foremost by means of the measurements of the WMAP satellite. In this paper, we focus on the