Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 565248, 27 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/565248
Review Article

Primordial Non-Gaussianity in the Cosmic Microwave Background

Amit P. S. Yadav1 and Benjamin D. Wandelt2,3

1Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
2Department of Astronomy and Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
3Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, 98 bis, Boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France

Received 17 March 2010; Accepted 3 June 2010

Academic Editor: Eiichiro Komatsu

Copyright © 2010 Amit P. S. Yadav and Benjamin D. Wandelt. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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