What can we learn by combining the skew spectrum and the power spectrum?

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/08/007zbMATH Open1492.85011arXiv2002.09904OpenAlexW3106226520MaRDI QIDQ5070313FDOQ5070313

Authors: Ji-Ping Dai, Licia Verde, Jun-Qing Xia 

Publication date: 11 April 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Clustering of the large scale structure provides complementary information to the measurements of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies through power spectrum and bispectrum of density perturbations. Extracting the bispectrum information, however, is more challenging than it is from the power spectrum due to the complex models and the computational cost to measure the signal and its covariance. To overcome these problems, we adopt a proxy statistic, skew spectrum which is a cross-spectrum of the density field and its quadratic field. By applying a large smoothing filter to the density field, we show the theory fits the simulations very well. With the spectra and their full covariance estimated from $N$-body simulations as our "mock" Universe, we perform a global fits for the cosmological parameters. The results show that adding skew spectrum to power spectrum the $1sigma$ marginalized errors for parameters $b_1^2{A}_s,n_s$ and $f_{mNL}^{mloc}$ are reduced by $31\mathrm{\%},22\mathrm{\%},44\mathrm{\%}$, respectively. This is the answer to the question posed in the title and indicates that the skew spectrum will be a fast and effective method to access complementary information to that enclosed in the power spectrum measurements, especially for the forthcoming generation of wide-field galaxy surveys.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09904

zbMATH Keywords

non-Gaussianitypower spectrumgalaxy clusterscosmological parameters from LSS

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Set functions and measures and integrals in infinite-dimensional spaces (Wiener measure, Gaussian measure, etc.) (28C20) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Cluster sets, prime ends, boundary behavior (30D40) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10)

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• Large-scale structure of the universe and cosmological perturbation theory
• Large-scale galaxy bias
• Capturing non-Gaussianity of the large-scale structure with weighted skew-spectra

Cited In (3)

• Skewing the CMB \(\times\) LSS: a fast method for bispectrum analysis
• Galaxy skew-spectra in redshift-space
• Primordial non-Gaussianity from biased tracers: likelihood analysis of real-space power spectrum and bispectrum

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