English

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity using two galaxy surveys and CMB lensing

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-09-10 v2

Abstract

Next-generation galaxy surveys will be able to measure perturbations on scales beyond the equality scale. On these ultra-large scales, primordial non-Gaussianity leaves signatures that can shed light on the mechanism by which perturbations in the early Universe are generated. We perform a forecast analysis for constraining local type non-Gaussianity and its two-parameter extension with a simple scale-dependence. We combine different clustering measurements from future galaxy surveys -- a 21cm intensity mapping survey and two photometric galaxy surveys -- via the multi-tracer approach. Furthermore we then include CMB lensing from a CMB Stage 4 experiment in the multi-tracer, which can improve the constraints on bias parameters. We forecast σ(fNL)0.9\sigma(f_{\rm NL}) \simeq 0.9 (1.4) by combining SKA1, a Euclid-like (LSST-like) survey, and CMB-S4 lensing. With CMB lensing, the precision on fNLf_{\rm NL} improves by up to a factor of 2, showing that a joint analysis is important. In the case with running of fNLf_{\rm NL}, our results show that the combination of upcoming cosmological surveys could achieve σ(nNL)0.12\sigma(n_{\rm NL}) \simeq 0.12 (0.22) on the running index.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1906.04730,
  title  = {Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity using two galaxy surveys and CMB lensing},
  author = {Mario Ballardini and William Luke Matthewson and Roy Maartens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.04730},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures. Version accepted by MNRAS

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