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The scale-dependent galaxy bias generated by primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) can be used to detect and constrain deviations from standard single-field inflation. The strongest signal is expected in the local model for PNG, where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-29 Nina Roth , Cristiano Porciani

Local Primordial non-Gaussianities (PNGs), characterized by $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}$, provide a powerful window into the physics of inflation. Cross-correlating high-redshift tracer samples with the CMB lensing potential offers a particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Constantin Payerne , William d'Assignies , Christophe Yèche , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Dustin Lang , Thomas de Boer , Sébastien Fabbro

Recent work has shown that the local non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL induces a scale-dependent bias, whose amplitude is growing with scale. Here we first rederive this result within the context of peak-background split formalism and show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Anze Slosar , Christopher Hirata , Uros Seljak , Shirley Ho , Nikhil Padmanabhan

The scale-dependent bias effect on the galaxy power spectrum is a very promising probe of the local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) parameter $f_{\rm NL}$, but the amplitude of the effect is proportional to $f_{\rm NL}b_{\phi}$, where…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Alexandre Barreira

Corrections induced by primordial non-Gaussianity to the linear halo bias can be computed from a peak-background split or the widespread local bias model. However, numerical simulations clearly support the prediction of the former, in which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Vincent Desjacques , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Antonio Riotto

We present the strongest robust constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) from currently available galaxy surveys, combining large-scale clustering measurements and their cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 Tommaso Giannantonio , Ashley J. Ross , Will J. Percival , Robert Crittenden , David Bacher , Martin Kilbinger , Robert Nichol , Jochen Weller

Local primordial non-Gaussianity, parameterised as $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm local}$, will be stringently constrained using state-of-the-art methods applied to next-generation galaxy redshift survey data. In this paper, in preparation for the…

Obtaining tight constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a key step in discriminating between different models for cosmic inflation. The constraining power from large-scale structure (LSS) measurements is expected to overtake that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 James Morawetz , Enrique Paillas , Will J. Percival

Characterizing the level of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) in the initial conditions for structure formation is one of the most promising ways to test inflation and differentiate among different scenarios. The scale-dependent imprint of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Anson D'Aloisio , Jun Zhang , Donghui Jeong , Paul R. Shapiro

We investigate nonlocal Lagrangian bias contributions involving gradients of the linear density field, for which we have predictions from the excursion set peak formalism. We begin by writing down a bias expansion which includes all the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-30 Matteo Biagetti , Kwan Chuen Chan , Vincent Desjacques , Aseem Paranjape

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

High-precision constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) will significantly improve our understanding of the physics of the early universe. Among all the subtleties in using large scale structure observables to constrain PNG,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-10 E. Di Dio , H. Perrier , R. Durrer , G. Marozzi , A. Moradinezhad Dizgah , J. Noreña , A. Riotto

The fluctuations produced during cosmic inflation may exhibit non-Gaussian characteristics that are imprinted in the large-scale structure of the Universe. This non-Gaussian imprint is an ultra-large scale signal that can be detected using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Mponeng Kopana , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens

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

Constraints on local primordial non-Gaussianity (LPnG) obtained from galaxy power spectra are limited by the perfect degeneracy between the LPnG parameter $f_{\rm NL}$ and the bias parameter $b_{\phi}$ which encodes the response of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Charuhas Shiveshwarkar , Marilena Loverde , Christopher M. Hirata , Drew Jamieson

Understanding the biasing between the clustering properties of halos and the underlying dark matter distribution is important for extracting cosmological information from ongoing and upcoming galaxy surveys. While on sufficiently larges…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-27 Matteo Biagetti , Vincent Desjacques , Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

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 develop the halo model of large-scale structure as an accurate tool for probing primordial non-Gaussianity. In this study we focus on understanding the matter clustering at several redshifts. The primordial non-Gaussianity is modeled as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-09 Robert E. Smith , Vincent Desjacques , Laura Marian

Next-generation galaxy and 21cm intensity mapping surveys will rely on a combination of the power spectrum and bispectrum for high-precision measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity. In turn, these measurements will allow us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Roy Maartens , Sheean Jolicoeur , Obinna Umeh , Eline M. De Weerd , Chris Clarkson

Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) in Large Scale Structures is obfuscated by the many additional sources of non-linearity. Within the Effective Field Theory approach to Standard Perturbation Theory, we show that matter non-linearities in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yvette Welling , Drian van der Woude , Enrico Pajer