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The Angular Trispectrum of the CMB

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arxiv astro-ph/0105117 v3 pith:7LWRMNLS submitted 2001-05-07 astro-ph

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We study the general properties of the CMB temperature four-point function, specifically its harmonic analogue the angular trispectrum, and illustrate its utility in finding optimal quadratic statistics through the weak gravitational lensing effect. We determine the general form of the trispectrum, under the assumptions of rotational, permutation, and parity invariance, its estimators on the sky, and their Gaussian noise properties. The signal-to-noise in the trispectrum can be highly configuration dependent and any quadratic statistic used to compress the information to a manageable two-point level must be carefully chosen. Through a systematic study, we determine that for the case of lensing a specific statistic, the divergence of a filtered temperature-weighted temperature-gradient map, contains the maximal signal-to-noise and reduces the variance of estimates of the large-scale convergence power spectrum by over an order of magnitude over previous gradient-gradient techniques. The total signal-to-noise for lensing with the Planck satellite is of order 60 for a LCDM cosmology.

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    astro-ph.CO 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

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    astro-ph.CO 2025-05 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

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  3. CMB Lensing Trispectrum as a Probe of Parity Violation in LSS

    astro-ph.CO 2025-05 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    The CMB lensing trispectrum is sensitive to parity violation in large-scale structure, and a parity-odd toy model predicts a detectable signal in idealized noiseless forecasts.

  4. Searching for Inflationary Physics with the CMB Trispectrum: 3. Constraints from Planck

    astro-ph.CO 2025-02 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

    A comprehensive Planck PR4 trispectrum analysis finds no primordial non-Gaussianity across 33 templates and sets leading constraints, including tau_NL loc < 1500 at 95% CL.

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