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Upcoming galaxy surveys aim to map the Universe with unprecedented precision, depth and sky coverage. The galaxy bispectrum is a prime source of information as it allows us to probe primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), a key factor in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Samantha Rossiter , Stefano Camera , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

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

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

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

We analyze the power spectrum and the bispectrum of BOSS galaxy-clustering data using the prediction from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure at one-loop order for $\textit{both}$ the power spectrum $\textit{and}$ the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Guido D'Amico , Matthew Lewandowski , Leonardo Senatore , Pierre Zhang

We present a generic inference method for inflation models from observational data by the usage of higher-order statistics of the curvature perturbation on uniform density hypersurfaces. This method is based on the calculation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Sebastian Dorn , Erandy Ramirez , Kerstin E. Kunze , Stefan Hofmann , Torsten A. Enßlin

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

We discuss the potential of the multi-tracer technique to improve observational constraints of the local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) parameter $f_{\rm NL}$ from the galaxy power spectrum. For two galaxy samples $A$ and $B$, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Alexandre Barreira , Elisabeth Krause

A major goal of ongoing and future cosmological surveys of the large-scale structure is to measure local type primordial non-Gaussianity in the galaxy power spectrum through the scale-dependent bias. General relativistic effects have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Chris Addis , Sêcloka L. Guedezounme , Jessie Hammond , Chris Clarkson , Federico Montano , Stefano Camera , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

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

Future galaxy surveys promise to probe local primordial non-Gaussianity at unprecedented precision, $\sigma(f_{\rm NL}) \lesssim 1$. We study the implications for multifield inflation by considering spectator models, where inflation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Roland de Putter , Jérôme Gleyzes , Olivier Doré

Fluctuations with wavelengths larger than the volume of a galaxy survey affect the measurement of the galaxy power spectrum within the survey itself. In the presence of local Primordial Non- Gaussianities (PNG), in addition to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Emanuele Castorina , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah

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

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

With future galaxy surveys, a huge number of Fourier modes of the distribution of the large scale structures in the Universe will become available. These modes are complementary to those of the CMB and can be used to set constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Zhiqi Huang , Licia Verde , Filippo Vernizzi

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…

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

Quasi-single field inflation predicts a peculiar momentum dependence in the squeezed limit of the primordial bispectrum which smoothly interpolates between the local and equilateral models. This dependence is directly related to the mass of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Emiliano Sefusatti , James R. Fergusson , Xingang Chen , E. P. S. Shellard

Non-local primordial non-Gaussianity (NLPNG) is a smoking gun of interactions in single-field inflationary models, and can be written as a combination of the equilateral and orthogonal templates. We present the first constraints on these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Giovanni Cabass , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

Next-generation galaxy surveys will be able to measure perturbations on scales beyond the equality scale. On these ultra-large scales, primordial non-Gaussianity leaves signatures that can shed light on the mechanism by which perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Mario Ballardini , William Luke Matthewson , Roy Maartens