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We investigate the clustering of halos in cosmological models starting with general local-type non-Gaussian primordial fluctuations. We employ multiple Gaussian fields and add local-type non-Gaussian corrections at arbitrary order to cover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takahiro Nishimichi

Recent work has shown that the local non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL induces a scale-dependent bias, whose amplitude is growing with scale. Here we first rederive this result within the context of peak-background split formalism and show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Anze Slosar , Christopher Hirata , Uros Seljak , Shirley Ho , Nikhil Padmanabhan

We apply a suite of different estimators to the Quijote-PNG halo catalogues to find the best approach to constrain Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) at non-linear cosmological scales, up to $k_{\rm max} = 0.5 \, h\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$. The set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 Gabriel Jung , Andrea Ravenni , Michele Liguori , Marco Baldi , William R. Coulton , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We present a method to estimate non-Gaussian power spectrum covariance matrices by directly measuring the response of the small-scale power spectrum to long-wavelength perturbations via bispectrum and trispectrum estimators. Specifically,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Samuel Goldstein , Kendrick M. Smith , Utkarsh Giri , Moritz Münchmeyer

We investigate the constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity with varied bispectrum shapes that can be derived from the power spectrum of galaxies and clusters of galaxies detected in future wide field optical/near-infrared surveys. Having…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Cosimo Fedeli , Carmelita Carbone , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

We investigate the sensitivity of topological and traditional summary statistics to primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) using two suites of simulations. First, we introduce a new simulation suite for PNG, PNG-pmwd, comprising more than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Juan Calles , Gabriella Contardo , Jorge Noreña , Jacky H. T. Yip , Gary Shiu

One of the main signatures of primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type is a scale-dependent correction to the bias of large-scale structure tracers such as galaxies or clusters, whose amplitude depends on the bias of the tracers itself.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-11 Nico Hamaus , Uros Seljak , Vincent Desjacques

Primordial non-Gaussianity of local type is known to produce a scale-dependent contribution to the galaxy bias. Several classes of multi-field inflationary models predict non-Gaussian bias which is stochastic, in the sense that dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-05 Simone Ferraro , Kendrick M. Smith

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…

In this paper we measure the angular power spectra $C_\ell$ of three high-redshift large-scale structure probes: the radio sources from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS), the quasar catalogue of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Release Six (SDSS DR6…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jun-Qing Xia , Carlo Baccigalupi , Sabino Matarrese , Licia Verde , Matteo Viel

We present a new method to constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity using the large-scale modulation of the local lensing power spectrum. Our work extends our recently proposed $\pi$-field method for primordial non-Gaussianity estimation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Shi-Hui Zang , Moritz Münchmeyer

When applied to the non-linear matter distribution of the universe, neural networks have been shown to be very statistically sensitive probes of cosmological parameters, such as the linear perturbation amplitude $\sigma_8$. However, when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Utkarsh Giri , Moritz Münchmeyer , Kendrick M. Smith

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

We forecast combined future constraints from the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure on the models of primordial non-Gaussianity. We study the generalized local model of non-Gaussianity, where the parameter f_NL is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Adam Becker , Dragan Huterer , Kenji Kadota

Focusing on the local type primordial non-Gaussianities, we study the bispectrum and trispectrum during a non-minimal slow-roll inflation. We use the so-called $\delta N$ formalism to investigate the super-horizon evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Kosar Asadi , Kourosh Nozari

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…

We investigate expected constraints on equilateral-type primordial non-Gaussianities from future/ongoing imaging surveys, making use of the fact that they enhance the halo/galaxy bispectrum on large scales. As model parameters to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Ichihiko Hashimoto , Shuntaro Mizuno , Shuichiro Yokoyama

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

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…

We show how consistency relations can be used to robustly extract the amplitude of local primordial non-Gaussianity ($f_{\rm NL}$) from the squeezed limit of the matter bispectrum, well into the non-linear regime. First, we derive a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Samuel Goldstein , Angelo Esposito , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Lam Hui , J. Colin Hill , Roman Scoccimarro , Maximilian H. Abitbol