On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Bartosz Lew wrote:
another interesting thing for simple inflation models and against topology would be the lack of non-gaussian signal in WMAP map at lest downto the threshold of the sensitivity.
Ggngngngngn!!! four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; four legs good, two legs bad; (Please read the above out aloud to make sure you've learnt it properly.) So: How many legs are good? Lots of people have found non-gaussian signal in WMAP data!!! If you look at page 8 of astro-ph/0402608 (i recommend this as quite an interesting paper to read), you'll see a reference to: Detection of non-Gaussianity in the WMAP 1-year data using spherical wavelets - P. Vielva, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, R. B. Barreiro, J. L. Sanz, L. Cayon http://de.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310273 And if you look at: http://adjani.astro.uni.torun.pl:9673/zwicky/CosmoNews you'll also find: multipole vector analysis of WMAP data in favour of non-Gaussianity and cross-correlations of fluctuations on scales 2 < l < 8 http://de.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310511 # Non-Gaussianity of the derived maps from the first-year WMAP data Authors: Lung-Yih Chiang (1), Pavel D. Naselsky (1,2), Oleg V. Verkhodanov (1,3), Michael J. Way http://de.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303643 Wavelets and WMAP non-Gaussianity - Pia Mukherjee, Yun Wang http://de.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402602 (posted on astro-ph just a few minutes before our article!) gaussianity good, non-gaussianity bad; gaussianity good, non-gaussianity bad; gaussianity good, non-gaussianity bad; gaussianity good, non-gaussianity bad; gaussianity good, non-gaussianity bad; gaussianity good, non-gaussianity bad; Remember to say this before you go to sleep each night.