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We consider the expected level of primordial non-Gaussianities in models in which density perturbations are produced by spatial fluctuations in the decay rate of the inflaton. We consider both the non-Gaussianities resulting from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Matias Zaldarriaga

We investigate the possibility to detect primordial non-Gaussianity by analysing the bulk of the probability distribution function (PDF) of late-time cosmic density fluctuations. For this purpose we devise a new method to predict the impact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-02 Oliver Friedrich , Cora Uhlemann , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Tobias Baldauf , Marc Manera , Takahiro Nishimichi

Primordial non-Gaussianity encodes vital information of the physics of the early universe, particularly during the inflationary epoch. To explore the local-type primordial non-Gaussianity $f_{\mathrm{NL}}$, we study the anisotropies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Kazunori Kohri

Brightness-temperature fluctuations in the redshifted 21-cm background from the cosmic dark ages are generated by irregularities in the gas-density distribution and can then be used to determine the statistical properties of density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Annalisa Pillepich , Cristiano Porciani , Sabino Matarrese

Following the discovery of the CMB, the hot big-bang model has become the standard cosmological model. In this theory, small primordial fluctuations are subsequently amplified by gravity to form the large-scale structure seen today.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Licia Verde

While usually cosmological initial conditions are assumed to be Gaussian, inflationary theories can predict a certain amount of primordial non-Gaussianity which can have an impact on the statistical properties of the lensing observables. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 F. Pace , L. Moscardini , M. Bartelmann , E. Branchini , K. Dolag , M. Grossi , S. Matarrese

We study the use of U-Nets in reconstructing the linear dark matter density field and its consequences for constraining cosmological parameters, in particular primordial non-Gaussianity. Our network is able to reconstruct the initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

We perform cosmological N-body simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions generated from two independent fields. The dominant contribution to the perturbations comes from a purely Gaussian field, but we allow the second field to have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Saroj Adhikari , Sarah Shandera , Neal Dalal

Enormous information about interactions is contained in the non-Gaussianities of the primordial curvature perturbations, which are essential to break the degeneracy of inflationary models. We study the primordial bispectra for G-inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Fengge Zhang , Yungui Gong , Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu , Zhu Yi

We present measurements of the bispectrum of dark matter halos in numerical simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions of the local type. We show, in the first place, that the overall effect of primordial non-Gaussianity on the halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Emiliano Sefusatti , Martin Crocce , Vincent Desjacques

We propose to constrain the primordial (local-type) non-Gaussianity signal by first reconstructing the initial density field to remove the late time non-Gaussianities introduced by gravitational evolution. Our reconstruction algorithm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Xinyi Chen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Daniel J. Eisenstein

We show a primordial non-linear "f_NL" term may produce unphysically large CMB anisotropy for a red-tilted primordial power spectrum (n<1), because of coupling to primordial fluctuation on the largest scale. We consider a primordial power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-14 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky

We use the ellipsoidal collapse approximation to investigate the nonlinear redshift space evolution of the density field with primordial non-Gaussianity of the local f_{nl}-type. We utilize the joint distribution of eigenvalues of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tsz Yan Lam , Vincent Desjacques , Ravi K. Sheth

We explore the possibility of putting constraints on dark energy models with statistical property of large scale structure in the non-linear region. In particular, we investigate the $w$ dependence of non-Gaussianity of the smoothed density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Takayuki Tatekawa , Shuntaro Mizuno

The non-Gaussianity of initial perturbations provides information on the mechanism that generated primordial density fluctuations. The expected non-Gaussianity for slow-roll inflationary models is well below the ultimate detection level…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asantha Cooray

Thanks to the rapid progress in precision cosmology in the last few years, we now have access to physical observables that may constrain the theory of inflation through the non-Gaussianity (NG) signatures in the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Xinghai Zhao , Yuexing Li , Sarah Shandera , Donghui Jeong

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

Primordial non-Gaussianity is a crucial test of inflationary cosmology. We consider the impact of non-Gaussianity on the ionization power spectrum from 21 cm emission during the epoch of reionization. We focus on the power spectrum on large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Shahab Joudaki , Olivier Dore , Luis Ferramacho , Manoj Kaplinghat , Mario G. Santos

Using the quantum information picture to describe the early universe as a time dependent quantum density matrix, with time playing the role of a stochastic variable, we compute the non-gaussian features in the distribution of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 Cesar Gomez , Raul Jimenez