Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-11-26
JCAP 0804:014,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
43 pages, 9 figures; references added, submitted to JCAP; typo corrected in Table 1, minor changes to the text
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2008/04/014
The detection of primordial non-Gaussianity could provide a powerful means to test various inflationary scenarios. Although scale-invariant non-Gaussianity (often described by the $f_{NL}$ formalism) is currently best constrained by the CMB, single-field models with changing sound speed can have strongly scale-dependent non-Gaussianity. Such models could evade the CMB constraints but still have important effects at scales responsible for the formation of cosmological objects such as clusters and galaxies. We compute the effect of scale-dependent primordial non-Gaussianity on cluster number counts as a function of redshift, using a simple ansatz to model scale-dependent features. We forecast constraints on these models achievable with forthcoming data sets. We also examine consequences for the galaxy bispectrum. Our results are relevant for the Dirac-Born-Infeld model of brane inflation, where the scale-dependence of the non-Gaussianity is directly related to the geometry of the extra dimensions.
LoVerde Marilena
Miller Amber
Shandera Sarah
Verde Licia
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