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Galaxy bispectrum is a promising probe of inflationary physics in the early universe as a measure of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), whereas its signal-to-noise ratio is significantly affected by the mode coupling due to non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Masato Shirasaki , Naonori S. Sugiyama , Ryuichi Takahashi , Francisco-Shu Kitaura

We use redshift-space galaxy clustering data from the BOSS survey to constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity (LPNG). This is of particular importance due to the consistency relations, which imply that a detection of LPNG would rule out…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Giovanni Cabass , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

A major goal of ongoing and future cosmological surveys of the large-scale structure is to measure local type primordial non-Gaussianity in the galaxy power spectrum through the scale-dependent bias. General relativistic effects have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Chris Addis , Sêcloka L. Guedezounme , Jessie Hammond , Chris Clarkson , Federico Montano , Stefano Camera , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is one of the most powerful probes of the early Universe and measurements of the large scale structure of the Universe have the potential to transform our understanding of this area. However relating…

Local-type primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), predicted by many non-minimal models of inflation, creates a scale-dependent contribution to the power spectrum of large-scale structure (LSS) tracers. Its amplitude is characterized by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Simone Ferraro

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

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

As a major source of cosmological information, galaxy clustering is susceptible to long-wavelength density and tidal fluctuations. These long modes modulate the growth and expansion rate of local structures, shifting them in both amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Yin Li , Marcel Schmittfull , Uroš Seljak

Surveys of cosmological large-scale structure (LSS) are sensitive to the presence of local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), and may be used to constrain models of inflation. Local PNG, characterized by fNL, the amplitude of the quadratic…

We use hydrodynamical separate universe simulations with the IllustrisTNG model to predict the local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) bias parameters $b_{\phi}$ and $b_{\phi\delta}$, which enter at leading order in the galaxy power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 Alexandre Barreira

We study the impact that large-scale perturbations of (i) the matter density and (ii) the primordial gravitational potential with local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) have on galaxy formation using the IllustrisTNG model. We focus on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Alexandre Barreira , Giovanni Cabass , Fabian Schmidt , Annalisa Pillepich , Dylan Nelson

We use cosmological N-body simulations to investigate whether measurements of the moments of large-scale structure can yield constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity. We measure the variance, skewness, and kurtosis of the evolved density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-24 Qingqing Mao , Andreas A. Berlind , Cameron K. McBride , Robert J. Scherrer , Roman Scoccimarro , Marc Manera

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

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…

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Alvise Raccanelli , Olivier Dore , Neal Dalal

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

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

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

Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a key probe of the origins of primordial fluctuations in the early universe. It has been shown that multi-tracer measurements of large-scale structure can produce high-precision measurements of PNG.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 R. Henry Liu , Patrick C. Breysse

We measure the three-dimensional cross-power spectrum of galaxy density and intrinsic alignment (IA) fields for the first time from the spectroscopic and imaging data of SDSS-III BOSS galaxies, for each of the four samples in the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Toshiki Kurita , Masahiro Takada