Can large-scale structure probe CMB-constrained non-Gaussianity?

Details Can large-scale structure probe CMB-constrained non-Gaussianity? Can large-scale structure probe CMB-constrained non-Gaussianity?

2007-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701131v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.376:343-347,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 Pages, 5 Figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11435.x

The first year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) set quantitative constraints on the amplitude of any primordial non-Gaussianity. We run a series of dark matter-only N-body simulations with the WMAP constraints to investigate the effect of the presence of primordial non-Gaussianity on large scale structures. The model parameters can be constrained using the observations of protoclusters associated with Ly-$\alpha$ emitters at high redshift ($2 \leq z \leq 4$), assuming the galaxy velocity bias can be modelled properly. High redshift structure formation potentially provides a more powerful test of possible primordial non-Gaussianity than does the CMB, albeit on smaller scales. Another constraint is given by the local galaxy density probability distribution function (PDF), as mapped by the 2 degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS). The PDF of 2dFGRS \lstar galaxies is substantially higher than the standard model predictions and requires either a non-negligible bias between galaxy and dark matter on $\sim 12$~\hmpc scales or a stronger non-Gaussianity than allowed by the WMAP year one data. The latter interpretation is preferred since second-order bias corrections are negative. With a lower normalisation of the power spectrum fluctuations, sigma_8=0.74, as favoured by the WMAP 3 year data, the discrepancy between the Gaussian model and the data is even larger.

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