Direct Wavelet Expansion of the Primordial Power Spectrum

Abstract

In order to constrain and possibly detect unusual physics during inflation, we allow the power spectrum of primordial matter density fluctuations, P_{in}(k), to be an arbitrary function in the estimation of cosmological parameters from data. The multi-resolution and good localization properties of orthogonal wavelets make them suitable for detecting features in P_{in}(k). We expand P_{in}(k) directly in wavelet basis functions. The likelihood of the data is thus a function of the wavelet coefficients of P_{in}(k), as well as the H_0, Ω_b h^2, ${\Omega }_c{h}^{2}andthe{\tau }_{ri},inaflat$Λ$CDM cosmology. We derive constraints on these parameters from CMB anisotropy data (WMAP, CBI, and ACBAR) and large scale structure (LSS) data (2dFGRS and PSCZ) using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique. The direct wavelet expansion method is different and complimentary to the wavelet band power method of Mukherjee & Wang (2003a,b), and results from the two methods are consistent. In addition, as we demonstrate, the direct wavelet expansion method has the advantage that once the wavelet coefficients have been constrained, the reconstruction of P_{in}(k) can be effectively denoised, i.e., P_{in}(k) can be reconstructed using only the coefficients that, say, deviate from zero at greater than 1σ. In doing so the essential properties of P_{in}(k) are retained. The reconstruction also suffers much less from the correlated errors of binning methods. The shape of the primordial power spectrum, as reconstructed in detail here, reveals an interesting new feature at 0.001 \la k/{Mpc}^{-1} \la 0.005. It will be interesting to see if this feature is confirmed by future data. The reconstructed and denoised P_{in}(k) is favored over the scale-invariant and power-law forms at \ga 1σ.

ApJ accepted. Color figures available upon request from [email protected]

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