Local Primordial Non-Gaussianities and super-sample variance

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/10/007MaRDI QIDQ5070969zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emanuele Castorina, Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah

Publication date 14 April 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

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)

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.

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