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Constraints on Running of Non-Gaussianity from Large Scale Structure Probes

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

In this letter we present constraints on the scale-dependent "local" type primordial non-Gaussianity, which is described by non-Gaussianity's spectral index nNGn_{\rm NG}, from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey and the quasar catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 6, together with the SDSS Data Release 12 photo-z sample. Here, we use the auto-correlation analyses of these three probes and their cross-correlation analyses with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature map, and obtain the tight constraint on the spectral index: nNG=0.21.0+0.7n_{\rm NG}=0.2 ^{+0.7}_{-1.0} (1σ1\,\sigma C.L.), which shows the first competitive constraint on the running of non-Gaussianity from current large-scale structure clustering data. Furthermore, we also perform the forecast calculations and improve the limit of nNGn_{\rm NG} using the future Euclid mission, and obtain the standard deviation at 68\% confidence level: ΔnNG=1.74\Delta n_{\rm NG}=1.74 when considering the fiducial value fNL=3f_{\rm NL}=3, which provides the complementary constraining power to those from the CMB bispectrum information.

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@article{arxiv.1911.01329,
  title  = {Constraints on Running of Non-Gaussianity from Large Scale Structure Probes},
  author = {Ji-Ping Dai and Jun-Qing Xia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.01329},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures. Accepted by MNRAS Letters