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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

We investigate the effect of primordial non-Gaussianities on halo number counts using N-body simulations with different values of $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}$. We show how current theoretical models fail to adequately describe the non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Luca Fiorino , Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Ariel G. Sanchez , Marco Baldi , Andrea Fiorilli , Lauro Moscardini

We conducted three-dimensional lattice simulations to study the density perturbation and gravitational waves (GWs) during first-order phase transition (FOPT). We find that for phase transition strength $\alpha > 1$, the forward motion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Jintao Zou , Zhiqing Zhu , Zizhuo Zhao , Ligong Bian

We calculate the bispectrum, B_g(k_1,k_2,k_3), Fourier transform of the three-point function of density peaks (e.g., galaxies), using two different methods: the Matarrese-Lucchin-Bonometto formula and the locality of galaxy bias. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Donghui Jeong , Eiichiro Komatsu

The advent of Stage IV galaxy redshift surveys such as DESI and Euclid marks the beginning of an era of precision cosmology, with one key objective being the detection of primordial non-Gaussianities (PNG), potential signatures of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 M. S. Cagliari , A. Bairagi , B. Wandelt

Stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) consist of a primordial component from early Universe processes and an astrophysical component from compact binary mergers. To detect the primordial stochastic GW background (SGWB), the astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Mingzheng Li , Jiming Yu , Zhen Pan

We present constraints on the amplitude of local Primordial Non-Gaussianities (PNG), $f_{\rm NL}$, using the quasar sample in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 16. We analyze the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Marina S. Cagliari , Emanuele Castorina , Marco Bonici , Davide Bianchi

We develop a machine learning approach to reconstructing the cosmological initial conditions from late-time dark matter halo number density fields in redshift space, with the goal of improving sensitivity to cosmological parameters, and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jelte Bottema , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

Local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a promising observable of the underlying physics of inflation, characterised by $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}$. We present the methodology to measure $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}$ from the Dark Energy Survey (DES)…

In a recently published article, we quantified the impact of primordial non-Gaussianity on the probability of giant-arc formation. In that work, we focused on the local form of non-Gaussianity and found that it can have only a modest effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-06 Anson D'Aloisio , Priyamvada Natarajan

We study the non-Gaussianity and secondary Gravitational Waves (GWs) in the process of the Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) production from inflation. In our work, we focus on the $\alpha$-attractor inflation model in which a tiny bump in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Kazem Rezazadeh , Zeinab Teimoori , Saeid Karimi , Kayoomars Karami

We investigate a framework for extracting parameters of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) with peak-like templates in the millihertz frequency band, and analyzing transient contamination effects on parameter reconstruction. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Heng-Sen Jiao , Hong-Bo Jin , Yun-Long Zhang

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

Motivated by the properties of early universe scenarios that produce observationally large local non-Gaussianity, we perform N-body simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions from a generalized local ansatz. The bispectra are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-18 Sarah Shandera , Neal Dalal , Dragan Huterer

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

Non-Gaussianities of dynamical origin are disentangled from primordial ones using the formalism of large deviation statistics with spherical collapse dynamics. This is achieved by relying on accurate analytical predictions for the one-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Cora Uhlemann , Enrico Pajer , Christophe Pichon , Takahiro Nishimichi , Sandrine Codis , Francis Bernardeau

Although spatio-temporal graph neural networks have achieved great empirical success in handling multiple correlated time series, they may be impractical in some real-world scenarios due to a lack of sufficient high-quality training data.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Chao Pan , Siheng Chen , Antonio Ortega

We present a model-independent investigation of the WMAP data with respect to scale- dependent non-Gaussianities (NGs) by employing the method of constrained randomization. For generating so-called surrogate maps a shuffling scheme is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. Raeth , A. J. Banday , G. Rossmanith , H. Modest , R. Suetterlin , K. M. Gorski , J. Delabrouille , G. E. Morfill

Relativistic and free-streaming particles like neutrinos leave imprints in large scale structures (LSS), providing probes of the effective number of neutrino species $N_{\rm eff}$. In this paper, we use the Fisher formalism to forecast…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Yanlong Shi , Chen Heinrich , Olivier Doré

We test the consistency of estimates of the non-linear coupling constant f_{NL} using non-Gaussian CMB maps generated by the method described in (Liguori, Matarrese and Moscardini 2003). This procedure to obtain non-Gaussian maps differs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Cabella , M. Liguori , F. K. Hansen , D. Marinucci , S. Matarrese , L. Moscardini , N. Vittorio