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Scalar metric fluctuations generically source a spectrum of gravitational waves at second order in perturbation theory, poising gravitational wave experiments as potentially powerful probes of the small-scale curvature power spectrum. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Peter Adshead , Kaloian D. Lozanov , Zachary J. Weiner

We address the dual challenge of estimating deviations from Gaussianity arising in models of the Early Universe, whilst retaining information necessary to assess whether a detection of non-Gaussianity is primordial. We do this by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dipak Munshi , Alan Heavens

This contribution gives an overview on primordial non-Gaussianities from a theoretical perspective. After presenting a general formalism to describe nonlinear cosmological perturbations, several classes of models, illustrated with examples,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 David Langlois

We study the level of primordial non-Gaussianity in slow-roll two-field inflation. Using an analytic formula for the nonlinear parameter f_nl in the case of a sum or product separable potential, we find that it is possible to generate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Christian T. Byrnes , Ki-Young Choi , Lisa M. H. Hall

We investigate future constraints on primordial local-type non-Gaussianity from 21 cm angular power spectrum from minihalos. We particularly focus on the trispectrum of primordial curvature perturbations which are characterized by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Tomo Takahashi , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We use the delta N -formalism to investigate the non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbation in the curvaton scenario for the origin of structure. We numerically calculate the full probability distribution function allowing for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Misao Sasaki , Jussi Valiviita , David Wands

Recent second-order perturbation computations have provided an accurate prediction for the primordial gravitational potential $\Phi(x)$ in scenarios in which cosmological perturbations are generated either during or after inflation. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Liguori , F. K. Hansen , E. Komatsu , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

We study non-Gaussianity of density perturbations generated by an axionic curvaton, focusing on the case that the curvaton sits near the hilltop of the potential during inflation. Such hilltop curvatons can generate a red-tilted density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-15 Masahiro Kawasaki , Takeshi Kobayashi , Fuminobu Takahashi

In this review, we discuss how non-Gaussianity of cosmological perturbations arises from inflation. After introducing the in-in formalism to calculate the $n$-point correlation function of quantum fields, we present the computation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Kazuya Koyama

We use cosmological N-body simulations to investigate whether measurements of the moments of large-scale structure can yield constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity. We measure the variance, skewness, and kurtosis of the evolved density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-24 Qingqing Mao , Andreas A. Berlind , Cameron K. McBride , Robert J. Scherrer , Roman Scoccimarro , Marc Manera

Detection of primordial non-Gaussianity will give us an unprecedented detail of the physics of inflation. As observational probes are now exploring new expanses of the inflationary landscape, it is crucial to distinguish and disentangle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-16 Sirichai Chongchitnan

We perform a general study of the primordial scalar non-Gaussianities in multi-field inflationary models in Einstein gravity. We consider models governed by a Lagrangian which is a general function of the scalar fields and their first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Xian Gao

We study the behavior of n-point functions of the primordial curvature perturbations, assuming our observed Universe is only a subset of a larger space with statistically homogeneous and isotropic perturbations. If the larger space has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-25 Elliot Nelson , Sarah Shandera

The late-time effect of primordial non-Gaussianity offers a window into the physics of inflation and the very early Universe. In this work we study the consequences of a particular class of primordial non-Gaussianity that is fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 G. A. Peña , G. N. Candlish

Recently, the primordial non-Gaussianity in the curvaton model has been predicted assuming sudden decay of the curvaton. We extend the calculation to non-instantaneous decay by employing delta N -formalism. The difference between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jussi Valiviita , Misao Sasaki , David Wands

Tighter constraints on measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity will allow the differentiation of inflationary scenarios. The cosmic microwave background bispectrum-the standard method of measuring the local non-Gaussianity-is limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-15 Zahra Gomes , Stefano Camera , Matt J. Jarvis , Catherine Hale , José Fonseca

We investigate in detail the spectrum of gravitational waves induced by a peaked primordial curvature power spectrum generated in single field inflationary models. We argue that the $f_{\rm NL}$ parameter can be inferred by measuring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Vicente Atal , Guillem Domènech

In this paper, we will use $\delta \mathcal{N}$-formalism to calculate the primordial curvature perturbation for the curvaton model with a Lagrange multiplier field. We calculate the non-linearity parameters $f_{NL}$ and $g_{NL}$ in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-27 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li

We investigate the noncommutative effect on the non-Gaussianities of primordial cosmological perturbation. In the lowest order of string length and slow-roll parameter, we find that in the models with small speed of sound the noncommutative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Kejie Fang , Bin Chen , Wei Xue

Cosmic inflation may have led to non-Gaussian initial conditions that cannot be fully parametrised by 3- and/or 4-point functions. In this work, we discuss various strategies to search for primordial non-Gaussianity beyond polyspectra with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-03 Gonzalo A. Palma , Bruno Scheihing Hitschfeld , Spyros Sypsas