Local Primordial Non-Gaussianities and super-sample variance

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/10/007zbMATH Open1494.85001arXiv2005.14677OpenAlexW3028642574MaRDI QIDQ5070969FDOQ5070969

Authors: Emanuele Castorina, Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah 

Publication date: 14 April 2022

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

Abstract: Fluctuations with wavelengths larger than the volume of a galaxy survey affect the measurement of the galaxy power spectrum within the survey itself. In the presence of local Primordial Non- Gaussianities (PNG), in addition to the super-sample matter density and tidal fluctuations, the large-scale gravitational potential also induces a modulation of the observed power spectrum. In this work we investigate this modulation by computing for the first time the response of the redshift-space galaxy power spectrum to the presence of a long wavelength gravitational potential, fully accounting for the stochastic contributions. For biased tracers new response functions arise due to couplings between the small-scale fluctuations in the density, velocity and gravitational fields, the latter through scale dependent bias operators, and the large-scale gravitational potential. We study the impact of the super-sample modes on the measurement of the amplitude of the primordial bispectrum of the local-shape, $f_{mNL}^{mloc}$, accounting for modulations of both the signal and the covariance of the galaxy power spectrum by the long modes. Considering DESI-like survey specifications, we show that in most cases super-sample modes cause little or no degradation of the constraints, and could actually reduce the errorbars on $f_{mNL}^{mloc}$ by (10 - 30)%, if external information on the bias parameters is available.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14677

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zbMATH Keywords

power spectrumcosmological parameters from LSS

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Cites Work

• Large-scale galaxy bias
• Responses in large-scale structure
• Galaxy two-point correlation function in general relativity
• Integral constraints in spectroscopic surveys

Cited In (3)

• The observed galaxy power spectrum in General Relativity
• On the impact of galaxy bias uncertainties on primordial non-Gaussianity constraints
• Lagrangian approach to super-sample effects on biased tracers at field level: galaxy density fields and intrinsic alignments

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