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Extensions to the $\Lambda\textrm{CDM}$ model prior to recombination can modify the growth of perturbations around radiation-matter equality, leaving a distinct signature in the matter power spectrum. Upcoming large-scale structure surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Raphaël Kou , Antony Lewis

The primordial non-Gaussian parameter fNL has been shown to be scale-dependent in several models of inflation with a variable speed of sound. Starting from a simple ansatz for a scale-dependent amplitude of the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 Emiliano Sefusatti , Michele Liguori , Amit P. S. Yadav , Mark G. Jackson , Enrico Pajer

We study the ability of future weak lensing (WL) surveys to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type. We use a large ensemble of simulated WL maps with survey specifications relevant to Euclid and LSST. The simulations assume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-05 Stefan Hilbert , Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Vincent Desjacques

We study the cosmological information contained in the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) of weak gravitational lensing convergence maps. We show that the MFs provide strong constraints on the local type primordial non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida , Takashi Hamana , Takahiro Nishimichi

Future lensing surveys will be nearly full-sky and reach an unprecedented depth, probing scales closer and closer to the Hubble radius. This motivates the study of the cosmic shear beyond the small-angle approximation and including general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 Francis Bernardeau , Camille Bonvin , Nicolas Van de Rijt , Filippo Vernizzi

In the current era of high-precision CMB experiments, the imprint of gravitational lensing on the CMB temperature is exploited as a source of valuable information. Especially the reconstruction of the lensing potential power spectrum is of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Philipp M. Merkel , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

One of the most powerful cosmological datasets when it comes to constraining neutrino masses is represented by galaxy power spectrum measurements, $P_{gg}(k)$. The constraining power of $P_{gg}(k)$ is however severely limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Elena Giusarma , Sunny Vagnozzi , Shirley Ho , Simone Ferraro , Katherine Freese , Rocky Kamen-Rubio , Kam-Biu Luk

As cosmology rapidly approaches the data-dominated phase of stage IV large scale structure surveys, the modelling of nonlinear scales has become a serious challenge that faces the community, particularly when analysing models beyond $w$CDM.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Sankarshana Srinivasan , Shreya Prabhu , Kai Lehman , Ajiv Krishnan V. , Jochen Weller

We present a new estimation method for mapping the gravitational lensing potential from observed CMB intensity and polarization fields. Our method uses Bayesian techniques to estimate the average curvature of the potential over small local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-23 Ethan Anderes , Lloyd Knox , Alexander van Engelen

Extragalactic foregrounds are known to constitute a limiting systematic in temperature-based CMB lensing with AdvACT, SPT-3G, Simons Observatory and CMB S4. Furthermore, since these foregrounds are emitted at cosmological distances, they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-09 Nishant Mishra , Emmanuel Schaan

Gravitational lensing information from the two and higher point statistics of the CMB temperature and polarization fields are intrinsically correlated because they are lensed by the same realization of structure between last scattering and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy

An optimal method to constrain the non-linearity parameter g_NL of the local-type non-Gaussianity from CMB data is proposed. Our optimal estimator for g_NL is separable and can be efficiently computed in real space. Combining the exact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-03 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Naoshi Sugiyama

Non-Gaussianity of the primordial curvature perturbations may arise from a variety of well motivated early Universe scenarios. In particular, inflationary theories with additional light degrees of freedom can generate a bispectrum that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Peter Adshead , Avery J. Tishue

We analyse the large-scale angular clustering of quasars in the \gaia-\unwise quasar catalog, \quaia, and their cross-correlation with maps of the lensing convergence of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), to constrain the level of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Giulio Fabbian , David Alonso , Kate Storey-Fisher , Thomas Cornish

In this letter we present constraints on the scale-dependent "local" type primordial non-Gaussianity, which is described by non-Gaussianity's spectral index $n_{\rm NG}$, from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey and the quasar catalog of the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ji-Ping Dai , Jun-Qing Xia

We explore the use of galaxy bispectra with multitracer technique as a possible probe of primordial non-Gaussianities. We forecast future constraints on non-linearity parameters, $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm eq}$ and $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth}$, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Daisuke Yamauchi , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Keitaro Takahashi

Upcoming surveys will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing power spectrum in exquisite detail, allowing for strong constraints on the sum of neutrino masses among other cosmological parameters. Standard CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Delon Shen , Emmanuel Schaan , Simone Ferraro

Weak gravitational lensing by the intervening large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe is the leading non-linear effect on the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The integrated line-of-sight mass that causes the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Alba Kalaja , Giorgio Orlando , Aleksandr Bowkis , Anthony Challinor , P. Daniel Meerburg , Toshiya Namikawa

We investigate the cosmological information in higher-order statistics of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence field for a near-term experiment with noise properties similar to the Simons Observatory (SO). Using a fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Shu-Fan Chen , J. Colin Hill , Zoltán Haiman

The rapidly improving precision of measurements of gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) also requires a corresponding increase in the precision of theoretical modeling. A commonly made approximation is to model the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Vanessa Böhm , Marcel Schmittfull , Blake D. Sherwin