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Limits on primordial non-Gaussianities from BOSS galaxy-clustering data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-04-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze the power spectrum and the bispectrum of BOSS galaxy-clustering data using the prediction from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure at one-loop order for both\textit{both} the power spectrum and\textit{and} the bispectrum. With Λ\LambdaCDM parameters fixed to Planck preferred values, we set limits on three templates of non-Gaussianities predicted by many inflationary models: the equilateral, the orthogonal, and the local shapes. After validating our analysis against simulations, we find fNLequil.=207±292,fNLorth.=68±73,fNLloc.=52±34f_{\rm NL}^{\rm equil.}= 207 \pm 292\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth.}= -68 \pm 73\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc.}= 52 \pm 34, at 68%68\% confidence level. These bispectrum-based constraints from Large-Scale Structure, not far from the ones of WMAP, suggest promising results from upcoming surveys.

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@article{arxiv.2201.11518,
  title  = {Limits on primordial non-Gaussianities from BOSS galaxy-clustering data},
  author = {Guido D'Amico and Matthew Lewandowski and Leonardo Senatore and Pierre Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.11518},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18+19 pages, 8 figures; v3, PRD accepted version, improved pipeline and presentation, results not significantly changed

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