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Using $N$-body simulations of cosmological large-scale structure formation, for the first time, we show that the anisotropic primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) causes a scale-dependent modification, given by $1/k^2$ at small $k$ limit, in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Toshiki Kurita , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada , Satoshi Tanaka

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

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

We study constraints on primordial mode-coupling from the power spectrum, squeezed-limit bispectrum and collapsed trispectrum of matter and halos. We describe these statistics in terms of long-wavelength $2$-point functions involving the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-20 Roland de Putter

While large scale primordial non-Gaussianity is strongly constrained by present-day data, there are no such constraints at Mpc scales. Here we investigate the effect of significant small-scale primordial non-Gaussianity on structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Clément Stahl , Thomas Montandon , Benoit Famaey , Oliver Hahn , Rodrigo Ibata

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

We present measurements of the bispectrum of dark matter halos in numerical simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions of the local type. We show, in the first place, that the overall effect of primordial non-Gaussianity on the halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Emiliano Sefusatti , Martin Crocce , Vincent Desjacques

We study the large-scale bias parameter of cosmic voids with primordial non-Gaussian (PNG) initial conditions of the local type. In this scenario, the dark matter halo bias exhibits a characteristic scale dependence on large scales, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Kwan Chuen Chan , Nico Hamaus , Matteo Biagetti

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

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Simone Ferraro

Primordial non-Gaussianity has emerged as one of the most promising probes of the inflationary epoch. While the cosmic microwave background and large-scale halo bias currently provide the most stringent constraints on the non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marilena LoVerde , Kendrick M. Smith

Primordial non-Gaussianity is a sensitive probe of the inflationary era, with a number of important theoretical targets living an order of magnitude beyond the reach of current CMB constraints. Maps of the large-scale structure of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Daniel Baumann , Daniel Green

We present N-body simulations for generic non-Gaussian initial conditions with the aim of exploring and modelling the scale-dependent halo bias. This effect is evident at very large scales requiring large simulation boxes. In addition, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Christian Wagner , Licia Verde

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

We study the effect of primordial non-Gaussianity on the development of large-scale cosmic structure using high-resolution N-body simulations. In particular, we focus on the topological properties of the "cosmic web", quantitatively…

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

Persistent homology naturally addresses the multi-scale topological characteristics of the large-scale structure as a distribution of clusters, loops, and voids. We apply this tool to the dark matter halo catalogs from the Quijote…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Jacky H. T. Yip , Matteo Biagetti , Alex Cole , Karthik Viswanathan , Gary Shiu

Building upon [2308.02636], we investigate the constraining power of persistent homology on cosmological parameters and primordial non-Gaussianity in a likelihood-free inference pipeline utilizing machine learning. We evaluate the ability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Juan Calles , Jacky H. T. Yip , Gabriella Contardo , Jorge Noreña , Adam Rouhiainen , Gary Shiu

With the advent of large scale galaxy surveys, constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) are expected to reach ${\cal O}(f_\text{NL}) \sim 1$. In order to fully exploit the potential of these future surveys, a deep theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-16 Matteo Biagetti , Vincent Desjacques

We perform a Fisher matrix analysis to forecast the capability of ongoing and future Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster surveys in constraining the deviations from Gaussian distribution of primordial density perturbations. We use the constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Daisy S. Y. Mak , Elena Pierpaoli

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