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A detection or non detection of primordial non--Gaussianity (NG) by using the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is a possible way to break the degeneracy of early universe models. Since a single statistical estimator hardly can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 W. A. Cardona , A. Bernui , M. J. Reboucas

The large-scale clustering of galaxies can serve as a probe of primordial non-Gaussianity in the Universe competitive with the anisotropies of the CMB. Here, we present improved theoretical predictions which include an important, previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Vincent Desjacques , Donghui Jeong , Fabian Schmidt

After the precise observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy power spectrum, attention is now being focused on the higher order statistics of the CMB anisotropies. Since linear evolution preserves the statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Babich , Matias Zaldarriaga

We apply the multi-tracer technique to test the possibility of improved constraints on the amplitude of local primordial non-Gaussianity, $f_{\mathrm{NL}}$, in the cosmic large-scale structure. A precise measurement of $f_{\mathrm{NL}}$ is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Matilde Barberi Squarotti , Stefano Camera , Roy Maartens

Detecting and measuring a non-Gaussian signature of primordial origin in the density field is a major science goal of next-generation galaxy surveys. The signal will permit us to determine primordial physics processes and constrain models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Adam Andrews , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Fabian Schmidt

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum is a well-known probe of the non-Gaussianity of primordial perturbations. Just as the intervening large-scale structure modifies the CMB angular power spectrum through weak gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asantha Cooray , Devdeep Sarkar , Paolo Serra

We analyse the large-scale angular clustering of quasars in the \gaia-\unwise quasar catalog, \quaia, and their cross-correlation with maps of the lensing convergence of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), to constrain the level of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Giulio Fabbian , David Alonso , Kate Storey-Fisher , Thomas Cornish

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

Next-generation cosmological surveys will probe ever larger volumes of the Universe, including the largest scales, near and beyond the horizon. On these scales, the galaxy power spectrum carries signatures of local primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-16 José Fonseca , Stefano Camera , Mário G. Santos , Roy Maartens

We outline the expected constraints on non-Gaussianity from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with current and future experiments, focusing on both the third (f_{NL}) and fourth-order (g_{NL} and \tau_{NL}) amplitudes of the local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-27 Joseph Smidt , Alexandre Amblard , Christian T. Byrnes , Asantha Cooray , Alan Heavens , Dipak Munshi

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

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

The search for primordial gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) will soon be limited by our ability to remove the lensing contamination to $B$-mode polarization. The often-used quadratic estimator for lensing is known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Marius Millea , Ethan Anderes , Benjamin D. Wandelt

One of the most powerful cosmological datasets when it comes to constraining neutrino masses is represented by galaxy power spectrum measurements, $P_{gg}(k)$. The constraining power of $P_{gg}(k)$ is however severely limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Elena Giusarma , Sunny Vagnozzi , Shirley Ho , Simone Ferraro , Katherine Freese , Rocky Kamen-Rubio , Kam-Biu Luk

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianities (PNGs) in the large-scale cosmic structure (LSS) is an important step in understanding properties of the early universe, specifically in distinguishing between different inflationary models.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Ethan Vislosky , Zachery Brown , Regina Demina , Edmond Chaussidon

A convincing detection of primordial non-Gaussianity in the cosmic background radiation (CMB) is essential to probe the physics of the early universe. Since a single statistical estimator can hardly be suitable to detect the various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-11 W. Cardona , A Bernui , M. J. Reboucas

This paper explores a novel application of spherical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect primordial non-Gaussianity in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a key probe of inflationary dynamics. While effective, traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Jorik Melsen , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

We present the clustering of galaxy clusters as a useful addition to the common set of cosmological observables. The clustering of clusters probes the large-scale structure of the Universe, extending galaxy clustering analysis to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Annalisa Mana , Tommaso Giannantonio , Jochen Weller , Ben Hoyle , Gert Huetsi , Barbara Sartoris

We propose a new method for extracting the non-Gaussian signatures on the isotemperature statistics in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky, which is induced by the gravitational lensing due to the intervening large-scale structure of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masahiro Takada