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We investigate the amount of primordial information that can be reconstructed from spectroscopic galaxy surveys, as well as what sets the noise in reconstruction at low wavenumbers, by studying a simplified universe in which galaxies are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Matthew McQuinn

[Abridged] We consider how galaxy clustering data, from Mpc to Gpc scales, from upcoming large scale structure surveys, such as Euclid and DESI, can provide discriminating information about the bispectrum shape arising from a variety of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Joyce Byun , Rachel Bean

We study the cosmological information content of the redshift-space galaxy bispectrum monopole at one-loop order in perturbation theory. We incorporate all effects necessary for comparison to data: fourth-order galaxy bias, infrared…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Giovanni Cabass , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga , Takahiro Nishimichi

We present the implementation of a fast estimator for the full dark matter bispectrum of a three-dimensional particle distribution relying on a separable modal expansion of the bispectrum. The computational cost of accurate bispectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 M. M. Schmittfull , D. M. Regan , E. P. S. Shellard

Redshift space distortions in galaxy clustering offer a promising technique for probing the growth rate of structure and testing dark energy properties and gravity. We consider the issue of to what accuracy they need to be modeled in order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-19 Eric V. Linder , Johan Samsing

Nonlinear gravitational evolution induces strong nonlinearities in the observed cosmological density fields, leading to positive off-diagonal correlations in the power spectrum covariance. This has caused the information saturation in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Shi-Hui Zang , Hong-Ming Zhu

Inflationary models predicting abundant primordial black holes (PBHs) and large amplitude of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) often rely on amplified fluctuations over limited scales, typically driven by phase transitions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , Bahar Nikbakht

We reconstruct the dark matter density field from spatially overlapping spectroscopic and photometric redshift catalogs through a forward modelling approach. Instead of directly inferring the underlying density field, we find the best…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Benjamin Horowitz , Peter Melchior

To efficiently probe primordial non-Gaussianity using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, we require theoretical predictions that are factorizable, \textit{i.e.}\ those whose kinematic dependence can be separated. This property does not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Kunhao Zhong , Salvatore Samuele Sirletti

Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) will shed light on the origin of primordial fluctuations and the physics of the early universe. The intensity mapping technique is a promising probe of structure formation on large scales; at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Garrett K. Keating

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

Galaxy formation theories predict that galaxy shapes and angular momenta have non-random alignments with the cosmic web. This leads to so-called intrinsic alignment between pairs of galaxies, which is important to quantify as a nuisance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-13 Benjamin Zhang , Khee-Gan Lee , Alex Krolewski , Jingjing Shi , Benjamin Horowitz , Robin Kooistra

Constraints on cosmological parameters from large-scale structure have traditionally been obtained from two-point statistics. However, non-linear structure formation renders these statistics insufficient in capturing the full information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Alex Hall , Alexander Mead

We approximately compute the bispectrum induced on the CMB temperature by fluctuations in the standard recombination epoch. Of all the second order sources that can induce non-Gaussianity during recombination, we concentrate on those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Leonardo Senatore , Svetlin Tassev , Matias Zaldarriaga

Recent studies have demonstrated that {\em secondary} non-Gaussianity induced by gravity will be detected with a high signal-to-noise (S/N) by future and even by on-going weak lensing surveys. One way to characterise such non-Gaussianity is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , T. D. Kitching , J. D. McEwen , R. Takahashi , F. R. Bouchet , A. Taruya , B. Bose

In this paper we analyze a suite of cosmological simulations of modified gravitational action f(R) models, where cosmic acceleration is induced by a scalar field that acts as a fifth force on all forms of matter. In particular, we focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-23 Héctor Gil-Marín , Fabian Schmidt , Wayne Hu , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde

In [1], a most general higher curvature non-local gravity action was derived that admits a particular $R^2$-like inflationary solution predicting the spectral index of primordial scalar perturbations $n_s(N)\approx 1-\frac{2}{N}$, where $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-18 Alexey S. Koshelev , K. Sravan Kumar , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We compute the bispectrum of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and use it to measure the bias parameter of the galaxies. This parameter quantifies the strength of clustering of the galaxies relative to the mass in the Universe. By…

We introduce the new cosmological simulation project cosmosTNG, a first-of-its-kind suite of constrained galaxy formation simulations for the universe at Cosmic Noon ($z\sim 2$). cosmosTNG simulates a $0.2$ deg$^2$ patch of the COSMOS field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Chris Byrohl , Dylan Nelson , Benjamin Horowitz , Khee-Gan Lee , Annalisa Pillepich

The bispectrum, the three-point function of density fluctuations in Fourier space, is the lowest order statistic that carries information about the spatial coherence of large-scale structures. For Gaussian initial conditions, when the…