Contributions of point extragalactic sources to the Cosmic Microwave Background bispectrum

Abstract

All the analyses of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature maps up--to--date show that CMB anisotropies follow a Gaussian distribution. On the other hand, astrophysical foregrounds which hamper the detection of the CMB angular power spectrum, are not Gaussian distributed on the sky. Therefore, they should give a sizeable contribution to the CMB bispectrum. In fact, the first year data of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission have allowed the {\it first} detection of the extragalactic source contribution to the CMB bispectrum at 41 GHz and, at the same time, much tighter limits than before to non--Gaussian primordial fluctuations. In view of the above and for achieving higher precision in current and future CMB measurements of non--Gaussianity, in this paper we discuss a comprehensive assessment of the bispectrum due to either uncorrelated and clustered extragalactic point sources in the whole frequency interval around the CMB intensity peak. Our calculations, based on current cosmological evolution models for sources, show that the reduced angular bispectrum due to point sources, $b_{ps}$, should be detectable in all WMAP and Planck frequency channels. We also find agreement with the results on $b_{ps}$ at 41 GHz coming from the analysis of the first year WMAP data. Moreover, by comparing $b_{ps}$ with the primordial reduced CMB bispectrum, we find that only the peak value of the primordial bispectrum (which appears at $l\simeq 200$) results greater than $b_{ps}$ in a frequency window around the intensity peak of the CMB. The amplitude of this window basically depends on the capability of the source detection algorithms (i.e., on the achievable flux detection limit, $S_{lim}$, for sources).

26 pages, 6 Figures, use AasTex5.0, ApJ, in press, Oct. 10, 2003 Issue

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