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If primordial scalar or tensor perturbations are enhanced on short scales, it may lead to the production of observable gravitational wave signals. These waves may be sourced by scalar-scalar, scalar-tensor or tensor-tensor interactions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Raphaël Picard , Matthew W. Davies

Future Large Scale Structure surveys are expected to improve over current bounds on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), with a significant impact on our understanding of early Universe physics. The level of such improvements will however…

In this work we study the simultaneous effect of primordial non-Gaussianity and the modification of the gravity in $f(R)$ framework on large scale structure observations. We show that non-Gaussianity and modified gravity introduce a scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-12 Nareg Mirzatuny , Shahram Khosravi , Shant Baghram , Hossein Moshafi

We study the detectability of large-scale velocity effects on galaxy clustering, by simulating galaxy surveys and combining the clustering of different types of tracers of large-scale structure. We employ a set of lognormal mocks that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-03 L. Raul Abramo , Daniele Bertacca

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

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 demonstrate that local, scale-dependent non-Gaussianity can generate cosmic variance uncertainty in the observed spectral index of primordial curvature perturbations. In a universe much larger than our current Hubble volume, locally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Joseph Bramante , Jason Kumar , Elliot Nelson , Sarah Shandera

We present constraints on $f_{\rm NL}$, the parameter quantifying the amplitude of local Primordial Non-Gaussianities (PNG), from a combined analysis of the tree-level power spectrum and bispectrum of Data Release $16$ (DR16) of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Marina S. Cagliari , Matilde Barberi-Squarotti , Kevin Pardede , Emanuele Castorina , Guido D'Amico

Non-gaussianity in the initial conditions of the universe is one of the most powerful mechanisms to discriminate among the competing theories of the early universe. Measurements using bispectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-23 Uros Seljak

We forecast constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity achievable from forthcoming surveys by exploiting the scale-dependent halo bias introduced on large scales by non-Gaussian initial conditions. We explore the performance of exploiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 Carmelita Carbone , Licia Verde , Sabino Matarrese

Non-Gaussianity in the primordial fluctuations that seeded structure formation produces a signal in the galaxy power spectrum on very large scales. This signal contains vital information about the primordial Universe, but it is very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Stefano Camera , Roy Maartens , Mario G. Santos

We investigate the non-Gaussianity of second-order matter density perturbations induced by primordial gravitational waves (GWs). These tensor-induced scalar modes arise from local fluctuations in the GWs energy density, which is quadratic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mariam Abdelaziz , Pritha Bari , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

We probe the statistical nature of the primordial density field by measuring correlations between the power in adjacent Fourier modes. For certain types of non-Gaussian field, these k-space correlations would be expected to be more extended…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 A. J. Stirling , J. A. Peacock

What is the size of the most massive object one expects to find in a survey of a given volume? In this paper, we present a solution to this problem using Extreme-Value Statistics, taking into account primordial non-Gaussianity and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Sirichai Chongchitnan , Joseph Silk

We measure the power spectrum of galaxy clustering in real space from the APM Galaxy Survey. We present an improved technique for the numerical inversion of Limber's equation that relates the angular clustering of galaxies to an integral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. D. Padilla , C. M. Baugh

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

A stochastic gravitational wave background causes the apparent positions of distant sources to fluctuate, with angular deflections of order the characteristic strain amplitude of the gravitational waves. These fluctuations may be detectable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-28 Laura G. Book , Éanna É. Flanagan

A measurement of a primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) signal through late- or early-Universe probes has the potential to transform our understanding of the physics of the primordial Universe. $N$-body simulations, such as the public…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Lehman Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Simone Ferraro

Produced nonlinearly by the enhanced linear cosmological curvature perturbations, the scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) can serve as a potentially powerful probe of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) in the early Universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Kazunori Kohri

The large scale structure catalogs within DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) use nearly 6 million galaxies and quasars as tracers of the large-scale structure of the universe to measure the expansion history with baryon acoustic oscillations and the…