Temperature only, local f_NL directional contributions from SMICA. As explained in the text, summing over all the pixel values would give the full sky f_NL needlet estimator result. The left panel displays the directional f_NL map. On the right, the blue points represent the f_NL contibution for each direction (i.e., for each pixel in the directional map), with Monte Carlo error bars. The red line is the average from simulations, which is consistent with zero.