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We investigate the effect of equilateral-type primordial trispectrum on the halo/galaxy bispectrum. We consider three types of equilateral primordial trispectra which are generated by quartic operators naturally appeared in the effective…

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We investigate the angular power spectrum ($C_\ell)$ and angular correlation function ($w(\theta)$) of galaxy number density field in the presence of the local-type primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), explicitly accounting for the integral…

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Several recent studies have shown how to properly calculate the observed clustering of galaxies in a relativistic context, and uncovered corrections to the Newtonian calculation that become significant on scales near the horizon. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Donghui Jeong , Fabian Schmidt , Christopher M. Hirata

We investigate multi-field signatures of the nonminimally coupled supersymmetric Higgs inflation-type cosmological scenario, focusing on the two-field Higgs-lepton inflation model as a concrete example. This type of inflationary model is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Shinsuke Kawai , Jinsu Kim

We perform an all-sky analysis of the general relativistic galaxy power spectrum using the well-developed spherical Fourier decomposition. Spherical Fourier analysis expresses the observed galaxy fluctuation in terms of the spherical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jaiyul Yoo , Vincent Desjacques

Local primordial non-Gaussianity (LPNG) couples long-wavelength cosmological fluctuations to the short-wavelength behavior of galaxies. This coupling is encoded in bias parameters including $b_{\phi}$ and $b_{\delta\phi}$ at linear and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 James M. Sullivan , Shi-Fan Chen

A major goal of cosmology is to understand the nature of the field(s) which drove primordial Inflation. Through future observations, the statistics of large-scale structure will allow us to probe primordial non-Gaussianity of the curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Dionysios Karagiannis , Roy Maartens , Shun Saito , José Fonseca , Stefano Camera , Chris Clarkson

Non-Gaussian statistics in the distribution of large scale structure, and in temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background, can be used to constrain inflationary models. Data on the cosmic microwave background from Planck…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-06 Nick Woods

Studying the primordial non-Gaussianity of inflationary perturbations is crucial for testing the inflation paradigm of the early universe. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the angular bispectrum and trispectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Jun-Peng Li , Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Kazunori Kohri

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

We compute the three-point correlation function of primordial scalar density perturbations in a general single-field inflationary scenario, where a scalar field phi has a direct coupling with the Ricci scalar R and the Gauss-Bonnet term GB.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-22 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

We characterise the primordial perturbations produced due to both inflaton and curvaton fluctuations in models where the curvaton has a quadratic, cosine or hyperbolic potential, and the inflaton potential is characterised by the usual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 José Fonseca , David Wands

We assess the potential of a future large-volume photometric redshift survey to constrain observational inflationary parameters using three large-scale structure observables: the angular shear and galaxy power spectra, and the cluster mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-12 Tobias Basse , Jan Hamann , Steen Hannestad , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

We analyze the non-Gaussianity for primordial curvature perturbations generated in multi-scalar slow-roll inflation model including the model with non-separable potential by making use of $\delta N$ formalism. Many authors have investigated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Shuichiro Yokoyama , Teruaki Suyama , Takahiro Tanaka

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

SPHEREx is a proposed SMEX mission selected for Phase A. SPHEREx will carry out the first all-sky spectral survey and provide for every 6.2" pixel a spectra between 0.75 and 4.18 $\mu$m [with R$\sim$41.4] and 4.18 and 5.00 $\mu$m [with…

Primordial, non-Gaussian perturbations can generate scale-dependent bias in the galaxy distribution. This in turn will modify correlations between galaxy positions and peculiar velocities at late times, since peculiar velocities reflect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yin-Zhe Ma , James E. Taylor , Douglas Scott

We propose a method to probe higher-order correlators of the primordial density field through the inhomogeneity of local non-Gaussian parameters, such as f_NL, measured within smaller patches of the sky. Correlators between n-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-28 Christian T. Byrnes , Sami Nurmi , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

We study the evolution of non-Gaussianity in multiple-field inflationary models, focusing on three fundamental questions: (a) How is the sign and peak magnitude of the non-linearity parameter fNL related to generic features in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-07 Joseph Elliston , David Mulryne , David Seery , Reza Tavakol

Primordial non-Gaussianity generated by additional fields present during inflation offers a compelling observational target for galaxy surveys. These fields are of significant theoretical interest since they offer a window into particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 Daniel Green , Yi Guo , Jiashu Han , Benjamin Wallisch