CMB Bispectrum from Primordial Scalar, Vector and Tensor non-Gaussianities

We present an all-sky formalism for the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) bispectrum induced by the primordial non-Gaussianities not only in scalar but also in vector and tensor fluctuations. We find that the bispectrum can be formed in an explicitly rationally invariant way by taking into account the angular and polarization dependences of the vector and tensor modes. To demonstrate this and present how to use our formalism, we consider a specific example of the correlation between two scalars and a graviton as the source of non-Gaussianity. As a result, we show that the CMB reduced bispectrum of the intensity anisotropies is evaluated as a function of the multipole and the coupling constant between two scalars and a graviton denoted by $g_{tss}$; $|b_{\ell \ell \ell}| \sim \ell^{-4} \times 8 \times 10^{-18} |g_{tss}|$. By estimating the signal-to-noise ratio, we find that the constraint as $|g_{tss}| < 6$ will be expected from the PLANCK experiment.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in PT

Cosmic microwave background bispectrum of tensor passive modes induced from primordial magnetic fields

If the seed magnetic fields exist in the early Universe, tensor components of their anisotropic stresses are not compensated prior to neutrino decoupling and the tensor metric perturbations generated from them survive passively. Consequently, due to the decay of these metric perturbations after recombination, the so-called integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, the large-scale fluctuations of CMB radiation are significantly boosted. This kind of CMB anisotropy is called the "tensor passive mode." Because these fluctuations deviate largely from the Gaussian statistics due to the quadratic dependence on the strength of the Gaussian magnetic field, not only the power spectrum but also the higher-order correlations have reasonable signals. With these motives, we compute the CMB bispectrum induced by this mode. When the magnetic spectrum obeys a nearly scale-invariant shape, we obtain an estimation of a typical value of the normalized reduced bispectrum as $\ell_1(\ell_1 + 1)\ell_3(\ell_3+1)|b_{\ell_1\ell_2\ell_3}| \sim (130-6) \times 10^{-16} (B_{1 \rm Mpc} / 4.7 {\rm nG})^6$ depending on the energy scale of the magnetic field production from $10^{14}$GeV to $10^3$GeV. Here, $B_{1 {\rm Mpc}}$ is the strength of the primordial magnetic field smoothed on $1 {\rm Mpc}$. From the above estimation and the current observational constraint on the primordial non-Gaussianity, we get a rough constraint on the magnetic field strength as $B_{1 {\rm Mpc}} < 2.6 - 4.4 {\rm nG}$.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in PR

A FORMULA FOR PREDICTION OF FREQUENCY OF TONAL SOUND IN CAVITY FLOWS WITH ACOUSTIC RESONANCE

ABSTRACT Self-sustained oscillations with tonal sound in flows over a cavity are investigated by experiments using a wind tunnel and direct numerical simulation of flow and acoustic fields. The effects of the length-to-depth ratio of the cavity and the ratio of the cavity length L to the momentum thickness of the incoming boundary layer on the mode of the oscillations are clarified. The simultaneous measurements of flow pattern and sound pressure are also performed. The results show that a time lag between the generation of an expansion wave due to the collision of a vortex with the downstream edge and the radiation of the expansion wave from the cavity becomes larger for the cavity flow with the acoustic resonance. The computational results explain why the delay becomes larger. Moreover, considering this delay, a new formula for the frequency of the tonal sound in cavity flows with the acoustic resonance is proposed. The frequencies predicted by this formula agree well with those measured

Computation approach for CMB bispectrum from primordial magnetic fields

We present a detailed calculation of our previous short paper [M. Shiraishi, D. Nitta, S. Yokoyama, K. Ichiki, and K. Takahashi, Phys. Rev. D 82, 121302 (2010).] in which we have investigated a constraint on the magnetic field strength through comic microwave background temperature bispectrum of vector modes induced from primordial magnetic fields. By taking into account full angular dependence of the bispectrum with spin spherical harmonics and Wigner symbols, we explicitly show that the cosmic microwave background bispectrum induced from the statistical-isotropic primordial vector fluctuations can be also described as an angle-averaged form in the rotationally invariant way. We also study the cases with different spectral indices of the power spectrum of the primordial magnetic fields.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in PRD. In the arXiv version, we use some colors in the equations for readers to follow the complex equations more easil