Non-Gaussianity in WMAP data due to the correlation of CMB lensing potential with secondary anisotropies
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Erminia Calabrese, Joseph Smidt, Alexandre Amblard, Asantha Cooray, Alessandro Melchiorri, Paolo Serra, Alan Heavens, and Dipak Munshi Center for Cosmology, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA Physics Department and INFN, Universita’ di Roma ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Ple Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, United Kingdom School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA (Received 25 September 2009; published 17 February 2010)
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