The Void Abundance with Non-Gaussian Primordial Perturbations

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2008-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/0809.0506v1

JCAP (2008) 01 010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to JCAP

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10.1088/1475-7516/2009/01/010

We use a Press-Schechter-like calculation to study how the abundance of voids changes in models with non-Gaussian initial conditions. While a positive skewness increases the cluster abundance, a negative skewness does the same for the void abundance. We determine the dependence of the void abundance on the non-Gaussianity parameter fnl for the local-model bispectrum-which approximates the bispectrum in some multi-field inflation models-and for the equilateral bispectrum, which approximates the bispectrum in e.g. string-inspired DBI models of inflation. We show that the void abundance in large-scale-structure surveys currently being considered should probe values as small as fnl < 10 and fnl^eq < 30, over distance scales ~10 Mpc.

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