Non-Gaussianity and constraints for the variance of perturbations in the curvaton model

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2006-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610001v1

Contribution to the proceedings of the 40th Rencontres de Moriond, "Contents and structures of the universe", 2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

Recently, the primordial non-Gaussianity in the curvaton model has been predicted assuming sudden decay of the curvaton. We extend the calculation to non-instantaneous decay by employing delta N -formalism. The difference between the sudden-decay approximation and our numerical result is larger than 1% only if the non-linearity parameter is small, -1.16 < f_NL < 60. Thus it is safe to use the sudden-decay approximation when deriving constraints for the curvaton model from WMAP3 (f_NL < 114), but with the Planck forecast |f_NL| <5 one should employ the fully numerical result. Often, the curvaton perturbations $\delta\sigma$ have been assumed to be small compared to the background value of the curvaton field $\sigma_0$. Consequently, the variance $\Delta^2 = <\delta\sigma^2> / \sigma_0^2$ has been assumed to be negligible. However, the measurements of CMB or large-scale structure perturbation amplitude do not constrain the variance if the main contribution to it comes from the ultraviolet (UV) scales, i.e., from smaller than observable scales. We discuss how, even in this case, observational constraints on non-Gaussianity set an upper bound to the small scale variance, Delta^2_UV < 90.

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