The Mass Function of Void Groups as a Probe of Primordial Non-Gaussianity

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Jan 2010

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #325.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.421

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The primordial non-Gaussianity signal, if measured accurately, will allow us to distinguish between different candidate models for cosmic inflation. Since the galaxy groups located in void regions are rare events, their abundance may be a sensitive probe of primordial non-Gaussianity. We construct an analytic model for the mass function of void groups in the frame work of the extended Press-Schechter theory with non-Gaussian initial conditions and investigate how it depends on the primordial non-Gaussianity parameter. A feasibility study is conducted by fitting the analytic mass function of void groups to the observational results from the galaxy group catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 by adjusting the primordial non-Gaussianity parameter.

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