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We use hydrodynamical separate universe simulations with the IllustrisTNG model to predict the local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) bias parameters $b_{\phi}$ and $b_{\phi\delta}$, which enter at leading order in the galaxy power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 Alexandre Barreira

The primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) in matter density perturbation is a very powerful probe of the physics of the very early Universe. The local PNG can induce a distinct scale-dependent bias on the large scale structure distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-26 Yan Gong , Xin Wang , Zheng Zheng , Xuelei Chen

We perform a Fisher matrix analysis to forecast the capability of ongoing and future Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster surveys in constraining the deviations from Gaussian distribution of primordial density perturbations. We use the constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Daisy S. Y. Mak , Elena Pierpaoli

Primordial, non-Gaussian perturbations can generate scale-dependent bias in the galaxy distribution. This in turn will modify correlations between galaxy positions and peculiar velocities at late times, since peculiar velocities reflect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yin-Zhe Ma , James E. Taylor , Douglas Scott

We compute non-Gaussianities in N-flation, a string motivated model of assisted inflation with quadratic, separable potentials and masses given by the Marcenko-Pastur distribution. After estimating parameters characterizing the bi- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Diana Battefeld , Thorsten Battefeld

A $\delta N$ formalism is used to study the non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbation on an uniform density hypersurfaces generated by the warm inflation for the first time. After introducing the framework of the warm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-01 Xiao-Min Zhang , Hong-Yang Ma , Peng-Cheng Chu , Jun-Ting Liu , Jian-Yang Zhu

We study a model of multiple-field DBI inflation leading to mixed form of primordial non-Gaussianity, including equilateral and local bispectrum shapes. We present a general formalism based on the Hamilton-Jacobi approach, allowing us to go…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-23 Jon Emery , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

An optimal method to constrain the non-linearity parameter g_NL of the local-type non-Gaussianity from CMB data is proposed. Our optimal estimator for g_NL is separable and can be efficiently computed in real space. Combining the exact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-03 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Naoshi Sugiyama

We use the angular cross-correlation between a luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Survey data release DR9 and the $Planck$ cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing maps to constrain…

Local primordial non-Gaussianity (LPNG) couples long-wavelength cosmological fluctuations to the short-wavelength behavior of galaxies. This coupling is encoded in bias parameters including $b_{\phi}$ and $b_{\delta\phi}$ at linear and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 James M. Sullivan , Shi-Fan Chen

I will discuss to what degree the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity involving one tensor and two scalar fluctuations, focusing on the correlation of one $B$-mode polarization fluctuation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 P. Daniel Meerburg

We discuss the potential of the multi-tracer technique to improve observational constraints of the local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) parameter $f_{\rm NL}$ from the galaxy power spectrum. For two galaxy samples $A$ and $B$, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Alexandre Barreira , Elisabeth Krause

The parameter $f_{\textrm{NL}}$ measures the local non-Gaussianity in the primordial energy fluctuations of the Universe, with any deviation from $f_{\textrm{NL}}=0$ providing key constraints on inflationary models. Galaxy clustering is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Lucia A. Perez , Shy Genel , Elisabeth Krause , Rachel S. Somerville

We review the relevant 10+ parameters associated with inflation and matter content; the relation between LSS and primary and secondary CMB anisotropy probes; COBE constraints on energy injection; current anisotropy band-powers which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Richard Bond , Andrew H. Jaffe

A measurement of primordial non-gaussianity will be of paramount importance to distinguish between different models of inflation. Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy observations have set unprecedented bounds on the non-gaussianity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Julian B. Muñoz , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Marc Kamionkowski

Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a common prediction of a wide class of inflationary models. Equilateral-type PNG, generically predicted by single-field inflationary models with higher-derivative interactions, imprints subtle but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Divij Sharma , James M. Sullivan , Kazuyuki Akitsu , Mikhail M. Ivanov

We study the primordial non-Gaussinity predicted from simple models of inflation with a linear potential and superimposed oscillations. This generic form of the potential is predicted by the axion monodromy inflation model, that has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Steen Hannestad , Troels Haugboelle , Philip R. Jarnhus , Martin S. Sloth

Cross-correlations between Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and $y$-spectral distortions anisotropies have been previously proposed as a way to measure the local bispectrum parameter $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc.}$ in a range of scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Andrea Ravenni , Michele Liguori , Nicola Bartolo , Maresuke Shiraishi

We use Minkowski Functionals (MF) to constrain a primordial non-Gaussian contribution to the CMB intensity field as observed in the 150 GHz and 145 GHz BOOMERanG maps from the 1998 and 2003 flights, respectively, performing for the first…

We analyze the BOOMERanG 2003 (B03) 145 GHz temperature map to constrain the amplitude of a non Gaussian, primordial contribution to CMB fluctuations. We perform a pixel space analysis restricted to a portion of the map chosen in view of…