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Primordial gravitational waves could be non-Gaussian, just like primordial scalar perturbations. Although the tensor two-point function has thus-far remained elusive, the three-point function could, in principle, be large enough to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Maresuke Shiraishi

Upcoming galaxy redshift surveys promise to significantly improve current limits on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) through measurements of 2- and 3-point correlation functions in Fourier space. However, realizing the full potential of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Matteo Biagetti , Emiliano Sefusatti , Vincent Desjacques , Jorge Noreña

We investigate how much can be learnt about four types of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) from small-scale measurements of the halo field. Using the QUIJOTE-PNG simulations, we quantify the information content accessible with measurements…

We study structure formation in the presence of primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type with parameters f_NL and g_NL. We show that the distribution of dark-matter halos is naturally described by a multivariate bias scheme where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-14 Tommaso Giannantonio , Cristiano Porciani

The first year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) set quantitative constraints on the amplitude of any primordial non-Gaussianity. We run a series of dark matter-only N-body simulations with the WMAP constraints to investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 X. Kang , P. Norberg , J. Silk

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

Next-generation galaxy and 21cm intensity mapping surveys will rely on a combination of the power spectrum and bispectrum for high-precision measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity. In turn, these measurements will allow us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Roy Maartens , Sheean Jolicoeur , Obinna Umeh , Eline M. De Weerd , Chris Clarkson

We present a framework for forecasting cosmological constraints from future neutral hydrogen intensity mapping experiments at low to intermediate redshifts. In the process, we establish a simple way of comparing such surveys with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-08 Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira , Prina Patel , Mario G. Santos

Non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbations may arise from a variety of well motivated early Universe scenarios. In particular, inflationary theories with additional light degrees of freedom can generate a bispectrum that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Peter Adshead , Avery J. Tishue

Intensity mapping (IM) of spectral lines has the potential to revolutionize cosmology by increasing the total number of observed modes by several orders of magnitude compared to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 Jurek B. Bauer , David J. E. Marsh , Renée Hložek , Hamsa Padmanabhan , Alex Laguë

In this letter we present constraints on the scale-dependent "local" type primordial non-Gaussianity, which is described by non-Gaussianity's spectral index $n_{\rm NG}$, from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey and the quasar catalog of the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ji-Ping Dai , Jun-Qing Xia

We study the effect of primordial nongaussianity on large-scale structure, focusing upon the most massive virialized objects. Using analytic arguments and N-body simulations, we calculate the mass function and clustering of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Neal Dalal , Olivier Doré , Dragan Huterer , Alexander Shirokov

Primordial non-Gaussianity is an invaluable window into the physical processes that gave rise to the cosmological structure. The presence of local shape PNG imprints a distinct scale-dependent correction to the bias of dark matter tracers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-15 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Garrett K. Keating , Anastasia Fialkov

One of the main signatures of primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type is a scale-dependent correction to the bias of large-scale structure tracers such as galaxies or clusters, whose amplitude depends on the bias of the tracers itself.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-11 Nico Hamaus , Uros Seljak , Vincent Desjacques

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

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

The statistics of large-scale structure in the Universe can be used to probe non-Gaussianity of the primordial density field, complementary to existing constraints from the cosmic microwave background. In particular, the scale dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gianmassimo Tasinato , Matteo Tellarini , Ashley J. Ross , David Wands

Measuring the small primordial nonGaussianity (PNG) predicted by cosmic inflation theories may help diagnose them. The detectability of PNG by its imprint on the 21cm power spectrum from the epoch of reionization is reassessed here in terms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yi Mao , Anson D'Aloisio , Jun Zhang , Paul R. Shapiro

We studied the effect of primordial non-Gaussianity with varied bispectrum shapes on the number counts of signal-to-noise peaks in wide field cosmic shear maps. The two cosmological contributions to this particular weak lensing statistic,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Maturi , C. Fedeli , L. Moscardini

We apply the time-renormalization group approach to study the effect of primordial non-Gaussianities in the non-linear evolution of cosmological dark matter density perturbations. This method improves the standard perturbation approach by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicola Bartolo , J. P. Beltran Almeida , Sabino Matarrese , Massimo Pietroni , Antonio Riotto