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The measurements of the statistical properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) fluctuations enable us to probe the physics of the very early Universe especially at the epoch of inflation. A particular interest lays on the detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 S. Pires , S. Plaszczynski , A. Lavabre

Enormous information about interactions is contained in the non-Gaussianities of the primordial curvature perturbations, which are essential to break the degeneracy of inflationary models. We study the primordial bispectra for G-inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Fengge Zhang , Yungui Gong , Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu , Zhu Yi

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

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

In this paper, inflationary cosmology is reviewed, paying particular attention to its observational signatures associated with large-scale density perturbations generated from quantum fluctuations. In the most general scalar-tensor theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-13 Shinji Tsujikawa

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature bispectrum is currently the most precise tool for constraining primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). The Planck temperature data tightly constrain the amplitude of local-type NG: $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 J. Colin Hill

Primordial non-Gaussianity has set strong constraints on models of the early universe. Studies have shown that Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), which is an attempt to extend inflationary scenario to planck scales, leads to a strongly scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Roshna K , V. Sreenath

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

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

We study non-Gaussian signatures on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation predicted within inflationary models with non-vacuum initial states for cosmological perturbations. The model incorporates a privileged scale, which implies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alejandro Gangui , Jerome Martin , Mairi Sakellariadou

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

Investigation of primordial non-Gaussianity holds immense importance in testing the inflation paradigm and shedding light on the physics of the early Universe. In this study, we conduct the complete analysis of scalar-induced gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Kazunori Kohri

We study the covariance in the angular power spectrum estimates of CMB fluctuations when the primordial fluctuations are non-Gaussian. The non-Gaussian covariance comes from a nonzero connected four-point correlation function -- or the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-07 Saroj Adhikari , Dragan Huterer

Although cosmological observations suggest that the fluctuations of seed fields are almost Gaussian, the possibility of a small deviation of their fields from Gaussianity is widely discussed. Theoretically, there exist numerous inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Maresuke Shiraishi

The stochastic gravitational-wave background originating from cosmic sources contains vital information about the early universe. In this work, we comprehensively study the cross-correlations between the energy-density anisotropies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Sai Wang , Jun-Peng Li , Kazunori Kohri

Cosmic inflation may have led to non-Gaussian initial conditions that cannot be fully parametrised by 3- and/or 4-point functions. In this work, we discuss various strategies to search for primordial non-Gaussianity beyond polyspectra with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-03 Gonzalo A. Palma , Bruno Scheihing Hitschfeld , Spyros Sypsas

We consider contributions to non-Gaussianity of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from remnants of post-inflationary phase transitions in the very early universe. Such signatures can optimistically be used to discover evidence of new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-11 Alessandra Silvestri , Mark Trodden

We investigate the degree to which the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) can be used to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity coming from the presence of spinning particles coupled to the inflaton. We compute the $\langle TTT \rangle$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-09 Lorenzo Bordin , Giovanni Cabass

An inflationary model can be constrained by non-gaussian statistics as a parameter in the LSS (Large Scale Structure) distribution, and in the radiation of CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) fluctuating temperature. Data on the CMB from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 A. Agung , U. Sambiri , G. Hikmawan , F. P. Zen

Two different predictions for the primordial curvature fluctuation bispectrum are compared through their effects on the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature fluctuations. The first has a local form described by a single parameter f_{NL}.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ian G Moss , Chris M Graham