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We study the large-scale bias parameter of cosmic voids with primordial non-Gaussian (PNG) initial conditions of the local type. In this scenario, the dark matter halo bias exhibits a characteristic scale dependence on large scales, which…

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We investigate optimization strategies to measure primordial non-Gaussianity with future spectroscopic surveys. We forecast measurements coming from the 3D galaxy power spectrum and compute constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity…

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We investigate how well future large-scale radio surveys could measure different shapes of primordial non-Gaussianity; in particular we focus on angle-dependent non-Gaussianity arising from primordial anisotropic sources, whose bispectrum…

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We present forecast results for constraining the primordial non-Gaussianity from photometric surveys through a large-scale enhancement of the galaxy clustering amplitude. In photometric surveys, the distribution of observed galaxies at high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Toshiya Namikawa , Tomohiro Okamura , Atsushi Taruya

In the pursuit of primordial non-Gaussianities, we hope to access smaller scales across larger comoving volumes. At low redshift, the search for primordial non-Gaussianities is hindered by gravitational collapse, to which we often associate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Thomas Flöss , Matteo Biagetti , P. Daniel Meerburg

Recent studies have shown that the primordial non-Gaussianity affects clustering of dark matter halos through a scale-dependent bias and various constraints on the non-Gaussianity through this scale-dependent bias have been placed. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Yoshitaka Takeuchi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Takahiko Matsubara

The fluctuations produced during cosmic inflation may exhibit non-Gaussian characteristics that are imprinted in the large-scale structure of the Universe. This non-Gaussian imprint is an ultra-large scale signal that can be detected using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Mponeng Kopana , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

Searches for primordial non-Gaussianity in cosmological perturbations are a key means of revealing novel primordial physics. However, robustly extracting signatures of primordial non-Gaussianity from non-linear scales of the late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 William R. Coulton , Tom Abel , Arka Banerjee

We analyse the large-scale clustering of the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Quasar (QSO) sample from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In particular, we constrain the primordial non-Gaussianity…

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Mario Ballardini , William Luke Matthewson , Roy Maartens

Primordial non-Gaussianity induces a scale-dependent bias in large scale structure (LSS) data, proportional to $f_{\rm NL}/k^2$ for the exact local ansatz. Recent work has shown that models of inflation that predict a large squeezed limit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-03 Nishant Agarwal , Shirley Ho , Sarah Shandera

We place new constraints on the primordial local non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL using recent Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy and galaxy clustering data. We model the galaxy power spectrum according to the halo model, accounting for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Francesco De Bernardis , Paolo Serra , Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri

Primordial non-Gaussianities provide an important test of inflationary models. Although the Planck CMB experiment has produced strong limits on non-Gaussianity on scales of clusters, there is still room for considerable non-Gaussianity on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mélanie Habouzit , Takahiro Nishimichi , Sébastien Peirani , Gary A. Mamon , Joseph Silk , Jacopo Chevallard

Galaxy clustering data from current and upcoming large scale structure surveys can provide strong constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity through the scale-dependent halo bias. To fully exploit the information from galaxy surveys, optimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Eva-Maria Mueller , Will J. Percival , Rossana Ruggeri

We detect the cross-correlation between 2.7 million DESI quasar targets across 14,700 deg$^2$ (180 quasars deg$^{-2}$) and Planck 2018 CMB lensing at $\sim$30$\sigma$. We use the cross-correlation on very large scales to constrain local…

We study the impact of the cosmological parameters uncertainties on the measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity through the large-scale non-Gaussian halo bias effect. While this is not expected to be an issue for the standard LCDM model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Carmelita Carbone , Olga Mena , Licia Verde

We study the constraining power on primordial non-Gaussianity of future surveys of the large-scale structure of the Universe for both near-term surveys (such as the Dark Energy Survey - DES) as well as longer term projects such as Euclid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Tommaso Giannantonio , Cristiano Porciani , Julien Carron , Adam Amara , Annalisa Pillepich

The most promising method for measuring primordial non-Gaussianity in the post-Planck era is to detect large-scale, scale-dependent galaxy bias. Considering the information in the galaxy power spectrum, we here derive the properties of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Roland de Putter , Olivier Doré

We propose a method to probe higher-order correlators of the primordial density field through the inhomogeneity of local non-Gaussian parameters, such as f_NL, measured within smaller patches of the sky. Correlators between n-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-28 Christian T. Byrnes , Sami Nurmi , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

We present forecasts for constraints on deviations from Gaussian distribution of primordial density perturbations from future X-ray surveys of galaxy clusters. Our analysis is based on computing the Fisher-Matrix for number counts and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Sartoris , S. Borgani , C. Fedeli , S. Matarrese , L. Moscardini , P. Rosati , J. Weller