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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

Local primordial non-Gaussianity (LPNG) is predicted by many non-minimal models of inflation, and creates a scale-dependent contribution to the power spectrum of large-scale structure (LSS) tracers, whose amplitude is characterized by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 James M Sullivan , Tijan Prijon , Uros Seljak

We use hydrodynamical separate universe simulations with the IllustrisTNG model to predict the local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) bias parameters $b_{\phi}$ and $b_{\phi\delta}$, which enter at leading order in the galaxy power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 Alexandre Barreira

Upcoming galaxy redshift surveys promise to significantly improve current limits on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) through measurements of 2- and 3-point correlation functions in Fourier space. However, realizing the full potential of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Matteo Biagetti , Emiliano Sefusatti , Vincent Desjacques , Jorge Noreña

Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a signature of fundamental physics in the early universe that is probed by cosmological observations. It is well known that the local type of PNG generates a strong signal in the two-point function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 James M. Sullivan , Uros Seljak

A measurement of a primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) signal through late- or early-Universe probes has the potential to transform our understanding of the physics of the primordial Universe. $N$-body simulations, such as the public…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Lehman Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Simone Ferraro

We use separate universe simulations with the IllustrisTNG galaxy formation model to predict the local PNG bias parameters $b_\phi$ and $b_{\phi\delta}$ of atomic neutral hydrogen, ${\rm H_I}$. These parameters and their relation to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Alexandre Barreira

We study the scale-dependence of halo bias in generic (non-local) primordial non-Gaussian (PNG) initial conditions of the type motivated by inflation, parametrized by an arbitrary quadratic kernel. We first show how to generate non-local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Roman Scoccimarro , Lam Hui , Marc Manera , K. C. Chan

Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a common prediction of a wide class of inflationary models. Equilateral-type PNG, generically predicted by single-field inflationary models with higher-derivative interactions, imprints subtle but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Divij Sharma , James M. Sullivan , Kazuyuki Akitsu , Mikhail M. Ivanov

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianities (PNG) is one of the main goals of new-generation large-scale galaxy surveys. It had been proposed that unclustered tracers (with bias $b_1=0$) could be optimal for PNG studies, and that these could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Celia Merino , Santiago Avila , A. G. Adame , A. Anguren , V. Gonzalez-Perez , J. Meneses-Rizo

I compute the effect on the power spectrum of tracers of the large-scale mass-density field (e.g., galaxies) of primordial non-Gaussianity of the form Phi=phi+fNL (phi-<phi^2>)+gNL phi^3+..., where Phi is proportional to the initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-30 Patrick McDonald

The scale-dependent bias in halo and galaxy power spectra is a key signature of local primordial non-Gaussianity (local PNG), with PNG sensitivity scaling as $b_\phi/b_1$ -- the ratio of their responses to long-wavelength primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Nhat-Minh Nguyen , Kazuyuki Akitsu , Atsushi Taruya

We study the impact that large-scale perturbations of (i) the matter density and (ii) the primordial gravitational potential with local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) have on galaxy formation using the IllustrisTNG model. We focus on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Alexandre Barreira , Giovanni Cabass , Fabian Schmidt , Annalisa Pillepich , Dylan Nelson

Local-type primordial non-gaussianity generates a distinctive term in the clustering of tracers of large-scale structure, behaving as $k^{-2}$ at small wavenumbers $k$. In order to use this signal in a sample of galaxies to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Neal Dalal , Will J. Percival

Models of cosmic inflation generically predict a weak but potentially detectable amount of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), which can be used to obtain insights into the degrees of freedom during inflation and their interactions. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

Primordial non-Gaussianity can lead to a scale-dependent bias in the density of collapsed halos relative to the underlying matter density. The galaxy power spectrum already provides constraints on local-type primordial non-Gaussianity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Matteo Tellarini , Ashley J. Ross , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

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

We use redshift-space galaxy clustering data from the BOSS survey to constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity (LPNG). This is of particular importance due to the consistency relations, which imply that a detection of LPNG would rule out…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Giovanni Cabass , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

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…

Primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type induces a strong scale-dependent bias on the clustering of halos in the late-time Universe. This signature is particularly promising to provide constraints on the non-Gaussianity parameter…

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