Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-02-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
New results using a scale dependent parameterization of primordial non-Gaussianity, to appear in the proceedings of the 2011 F
Scientific paper
In a recently published article, we quantified the impact of primordial non-Gaussianity on the probability of giant-arc formation. In that work, we focused on the local form of non-Gaussianity and found that it can have only a modest effect given the most recent constraints from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements. Here, we present new calculations using a parameterization of scale-dependent non-Gaussianity in which the primordial bispectrum has the equilateral shape and the effective f_NL parameter depends on scale. We find that non-Gaussianity of this type can yield a larger effect on the giant-arc abundance compared to the local form due to both the scale dependence and the relatively weaker constraints on the equilateral shape from CMB measurements. In contrast to the maximum ~40% effect (within the latest CMB constraints) previously found for the local form, we find that the predicted giant-arc abundance for the scale-dependent equilateral form can differ by a factor of a few with respect to the Gaussian case.
D'Aloisio Anson
Natarajan Priyamvada
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