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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…

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

We implement a novel formalism to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type from the large-scale modulation of the small-scale power spectrum. Our approach combines information about primordial non-Gaussianity contained in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Utkarsh Giri , Moritz Münchmeyer , Kendrick M. Smith

The high-mass end of the halo mass function is a sensitive probe of primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). In a recent study [9] we have computed the NG halo mass function in the context of the Excursion Set theory and shown that the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Ixandra E. Achitouv , Pier Stefano Corasaniti

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

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

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

Primordial non-Gaussianities (PNGs) are imprints in the initial density field sourced by the dynamics of inflation. These dynamics can induce scale dependence, oscillations, and other features in the primordial bispectrum. We analyze a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Dhayaa Anbajagane , Hayden Lee

We present the largest full N-body simulation to date with local primordial non-Gaussianities (L-PNG), the \textsc{PNG-UNITsim}. It tracks the evolution of $4096^3$ particles within a periodic box with $L_{\rm box} = 1 \; h^{-1}\,{\rm…

We study the structure and substructure of halos obtained in N-body simulations for a Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmology with non-Gaussian initial conditions (NGICs). The initial statistics are lognormal in the gravitational potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Avila-Reese , P. Colin , G. Piccinelli , C. Firmani

Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a key probe of the origins of primordial fluctuations in the early universe. It has been shown that multi-tracer measurements of large-scale structure can produce high-precision measurements of PNG.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 R. Henry Liu , Patrick C. Breysse

One of the main signatures of primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type is a scale-dependent correction to the bias of large-scale structure tracers such as galaxies or clusters, whose amplitude depends on the bias of the tracers itself.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-11 Nico Hamaus , Uros Seljak , Vincent Desjacques

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

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

The primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) in matter density perturbation is a very powerful probe of the physics of the very early Universe. The local PNG can induce a distinct scale-dependent bias on the large scale structure distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-26 Yan Gong , Xin Wang , Zheng Zheng , Xuelei Chen

We derive robust constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) using the clustering of 800,000 photometric quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the redshift range $0.5<z<3.5$. These measurements rely on the novel technique of {\it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Boris Leistedt , Hiranya V. Peiris , Nina Roth

The statistics of large-scale structure in the Universe can be used to probe non-Gaussianity of the primordial density field, complementary to existing constraints from the cosmic microwave background. In particular, the scale dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gianmassimo Tasinato , Matteo Tellarini , Ashley J. Ross , David Wands

We investigate the possibility to detect primordial non-Gaussianity by analysing the bulk of the probability distribution function (PDF) of late-time cosmic density fluctuations. For this purpose we devise a new method to predict the impact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-02 Oliver Friedrich , Cora Uhlemann , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Tobias Baldauf , Marc Manera , Takahiro Nishimichi

We investigate the statistical power of higher-order statistics and cross-correlation statistics to constrain the primordial non-Gaussianity from the imaging surveys. In particular, we consider the local-type primordial non- Gaussianity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Ichihiko Hashimoto , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiko Matsubara , Toshiya Namikawa , Shuichiro Yokoyama

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…