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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

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 present constraints on the amplitude of local Primordial Non-Gaussianities (PNG), $f_{\rm NL}$, using the quasar sample in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 16. We analyze the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Marina S. Cagliari , Emanuele Castorina , Marco Bonici , Davide Bianchi

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

The simplest models of inflation predict small non-gaussianities and a featureless power spectrum. However, there exist a large number of well-motivated theoretical scenarios in which large non-gaussianties could be generated. In general,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-11 Stefano Gariazzo , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena

Local-type primordial non-gaussianity generates a distinctive term in the clustering of tracers of large-scale structure, behaving as $k^{-2}$ at small wavenumbers $k$. In order to use this signal in a sample of galaxies to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Neal Dalal , Will J. Percival

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…

Measurements of the non-Gaussianity of the primordial density field have the power to considerably improve our understanding of the physics of inflation. Indeed, if we can increase the precision of current measurements by an order of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Matteo Tellarini , Ashley J. Ross , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

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-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

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

When applied to the non-linear matter distribution of the universe, neural networks have been shown to be very statistically sensitive probes of cosmological parameters, such as the linear perturbation amplitude $\sigma_8$. However, when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Utkarsh Giri , Moritz Münchmeyer , Kendrick M. Smith

Relativistic effects in clustering observations have been shown to introduce scale-dependent corrections to the galaxy over-density field on large scales, which may hamper the detection of primordial non-Gaussianity $f_\textrm{NL}$ through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Mike Shengbo Wang , Florian Beutler , David Bacon

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

The bispectrum vanishes for linear Gaussian fields and is thus a sensitive probe of non-linearities and non-Gaussianities in the cosmic density field. Hence, a detection of the bispectrum in the halo density field would enable tight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-18 Tobias Baldauf , Uros Seljak , Leonardo Senatore

Galaxy cluster surveys will be a powerful probe of dark energy. At the same time, cluster abundance is sensitive to any non-Gaussianity of the primordial density field. It is therefore possible that non-Gaussian initial conditions might be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Emiliano Sefusatti , Chris Vale , Kenji Kadota , Joshua Frieman

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

We present a novel approach to estimate the value of primordial non-Gaussianity ($f_{\rm NL}$) parameter directly from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps using a convolutional neural network (CNN). While traditional methods rely on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Chandan G. Nagarajappa , Yin-Zhe Ma

For over a decade, it has been debated whether the concordance LCDM model is consistent with the observed abundance of giant arcs in clusters. While previous theoretical studies have focused on properties of the lens and source populations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Anson D'Aloisio , Priyamvada Natarajan

Primordial non-Gaussianity can lead to a scale-dependent bias in the density of collapsed halos relative to the underlying matter density. The galaxy power spectrum already provides constraints on local-type primordial non-Gaussianity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Matteo Tellarini , Ashley J. Ross , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands