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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

Primordial non-Gaussianity is one of the most powerful probes of the inflationary epoch. The particle spectrum relevant to inflation, including masses and spins, is encoded in the precise form of statistical correlations of the adiabatic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Eugene Chen , Daniel Green , Vincent S. H. Lee

After calibrating the predictions of the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure against several sets of simulations, as well as implementing a new method to assert the scale cut of the theory without the use of any simulation, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Pierre Zhang , Guido D'Amico , Leonardo Senatore , Cheng Zhao , Yifu Cai

Most of the information on our cosmos stems from either late-time observations or the imprint of early-time inhomogeneities on the cosmic microwave background. We explore to what extent early modifications of gravity, which become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-10 Nelson A. Lima , Vanessa Smer-Barreto , Lucas Lombriser

In this paper, we investigate a quintessence field with an exponential potential motivated by the suggestion of time-varying dark energy from the DESI galaxy survey. Assuming a kination epoch in the early Universe, we analytically derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Naoto Maki , Kazunori Kohri

We reexamine constraints on the spatial size of closed toroidal models with cold dark matter and the cosmological constant from cosmic microwave background. We carry out Bayesian analyses using the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Naoshi Sugiyama

In this paper we implement an improved (error sensitive) Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm on the measured angular power spectrum from the WMAP 3 year data to determine the primordial power spectrum assuming different points in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Arman Shafieloo , Tarun Souradeep

The main aim of this paper is to analyse minimally-coupled scalar-fields -- quintessence and phantom -- as the main candidates to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe and compare its observables to current cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-10 J. Alberto Vázquez , David Tamayo , Anjan A. Sen , Israel Quiros

We present a sound horizon independent measurement of the Hubble parameter using a multiprobe large-scale structure analysis. Removing the dependency on the sound horizon with a rescaling procedure at the matter power spectrum level, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Zhiyu Lu , Théo Simon , Vivian Poulin , Yifu Cai

Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure, which depends both on the expansion rate of the Universe and our theory of gravity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Martin White , Beth Reid , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Jeremy L. Tinker , Cameron K. McBride , Francisco Prada , Lado Samushia

One way of recovering information about the initial conditions of the Universe is by measuring features of the cosmological density field which are preserved during gravitational evolution and galaxy formation. In this paper we study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Rupert A. C. Croft , Enrique Gaztanaga

Spatial curvature is one of the most fundamental parameters in our current concordance flat $\Lambda$CDM model of the Universe. The goal of this work is to investigate how the constraint on the spatial curvature is affected by an assumption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 Jordan Stevens , Hasti Khoraminezhad , Shun Saito

We evaluate the effectiveness of Early Dark Energy (EDE) in addressing the Hubble tension using data from the completed eBOSS survey, focusing on luminous red galaxies (LRGs), quasars (QSOs), and emission line galaxies (ELGs). We perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-22 Rafaela Gsponer , Ruiyang Zhao , Jamie Donald-McCann , David Bacon , Kazuya Koyama , Robert Crittenden , Theo Simon , Eva-Maria Mueller

The primordial matter power spectrum quantifies fluctuations in the distribution of dark matter immediately following inflation. Over cosmic time, over-dense regions of the primordial density field grow and collapse into dark matter halos,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Daniel Gilman , Andrew Benson , Jo Bovy , Simon Birrer , Tommaso Treu , Anna Nierenberg

In this paper, we conduct a statistical analysis of various cosmological models within the framework of f (R) gravity theories, motivated by persistent challenges in modern cosmology, such as the unknown mechanisms driving the late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Francisco Plaza , Lucila Kraiselburd

Upcoming stage 4 surveys, such as the Simons Observatory, LSST, and Euclid, are poised to measure weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and galaxies with unprecedented precision. While the power spectrum is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jonas Frugte , P. Daniel Meerburg

We present new cosmological parameter constraints from the eBOSS Lyman-$\alpha$ forest survey. We use a new theoretical model and likelihood based on the PRIYA simulation suite. PRIYA is the first suite to resolve the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 M. A. Fernandez , Simeon Bird , Ming-Feng Ho

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

We study the predictions of anomalous inflationary models on the abundance of structures in large scale structure observations. The anomalous features encoded in primordial curvature perturbation power spectrum are (a): localized feature in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-30 Shant Baghram , Ali Akbar Abolhasani , Hassan Firouzjahi , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo

We investigate the primordial curvature perturbation by the observation of dark matter substructure. Assuming a bump in the spectrum of the curvature perturbation in the wavenumber of k>1 Mpc^{-1}, we track the evolution of the host halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Shin'ichiro Ando , Nagisa Hiroshima , Koji Ishiwata