The nature of non-Gaussianity and statistical isotropy of the 408 MHz Haslam synchrotron map

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/07/026MaRDI QIDQ5029548zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fazlu Rahman, Pravabati Chingangbam, Tuhin Ghosh

Publication date 14 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00419

zbMATH Keywords

CMBR experimentsgalactic magnetic fieldsnon-Gaussianity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Quantum optics (81V80) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Abstract: Accurate component separation of full-sky maps in the radio and microwave frequencies, such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), relies on a thorough understanding of the statistical properties of the Galactic foreground emissions. Using scalar Minkowski functionals and their tensorial generalization known as Minkowski tensors, we analyze the statistical properties of one of the major foreground components, namely the Galactic synchrotron given by the full sky 408 MHz Haslam map. We focus on understanding the nature of non-Gaussianity and statistical isotropy of the cooler regions of the map as a function of angular scale. We find that the overall level of the non-Gaussian deviations does decrease as more high emission regions are masked and as we go down to smaller scales, in agreement with the results obtained in earlier works. However, they remain significantly high, of order 3.3$sigma$, at the smallest angular scales relevant for the Haslam map. We carry out a detailed examination of the non-Gaussian nature using the generalized skewness and kurtosis cumulants that arise in the perturbative expansion of Minkowski functionals for weakly non-Gaussian fields. We find that the leading sources of non-Gaussianity are the kurtosis terms which are considerably larger than the skewness terms at all angular scales. Further, for the cooler regions of the Haslam map, we find that the non-Gaussian deviations of the Minkowski functionals can be well explained by the perturbative expansion up to second-order (up to kurtosis terms), with first-order terms being sub-dominant. Lastly, we test the statistical isotropy of the Haslam map and find that it becomes increasingly more isotropic at smaller scales.

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