The Halo Bispectrum in N-body Simulations with non-Gaussian Initial Conditions

Details The Halo Bispectrum in N-body Simulations with non-Gaussian Initial Conditions The Halo Bispectrum in N-body Simulations with non-Gaussian Initial Conditions

2011-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/1111.6966v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

37 pages, 15 figures

Scientific paper

We present measurements of the bispectrum of dark matter halos in numerical simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions of the local type. We show, in the first place, that the overall effect of primordial non-Gaussianity on the halo bispectrum is larger than on the halo power spectrum when all measurable configurations are taken into account. We then compare our measurements with a tree-level perturbative prediction finding good agreement at large scale when the constant Gaussian bias parameter, both linear and quadratic, and their constant non-Gaussian corrections are fitted for. The best-fit values of the Gaussian bias factors and their non-Gaussian, scale-independent corrections are in qualitative agreement with the peak-background split expectations. In particular, we show that the effect of non-Gaussian initial conditions on squeezed configurations is fairly large (up to 30% for f_NL=100 at redshift z=0.5) and results from contributions of similar amplitude induced by the initial matter bispectrum, scale-dependent bias corrections as well as from nonlinear matter bispectrum corrections. We show, in addition, that effects at second order in f_NL are irrelevant for the range of values allowed by CMB and galaxy power spectrum measurements, at least on the scales probed by our simulations. Finally, we present a Fisher matrix analysis to assess the possibility of constraining primordial non-Gaussianity with future measurements of the galaxy bispectrum. We find that a survey with a volume of about 10 cubic Gpc at mean redshift z ~ 1 could provide an error on f_NL of the order of a few. This shows the relevance of a joint analysis of galaxy power spectrum and bispectrum in future redshift surveys.

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