Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-07-27
JCAP 10 (2011) 026
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
19 pages, 12 figures; Clarification regarding g_NL/two-leg squeezed shape, minor edits, reference updates (supersedes publishe
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2011/10/026
I review what bispectra and trispectra look like in real space, in terms of the sign of particular shaped triangles and tetrahedrons. Having an equilateral density bispectrum of positive sign corresponds to having concentrated overdensities surrounded by larger weaker underdensities. In 3D these are concentrated density filaments, as expected in large-scale structure. As the shape changes from equilateral to flattened the concentrated overdensities flatten into lines (3D planes). I then focus on squeezed bispectra, which can be thought of as correlations of changes in small-scale power with large-scale fields, and discuss the general non-perturbative form of the squeezed bispectrum and its angular dependence. A general trispectrum has tetrahedral form and I show examples of what this can look like in real space. Squeezed trispectra are of particular interest and come in two forms, corresponding to large-scale variance of small-scale power, and correlated modulations of an equilateral-form bispectrum. Flattened trispectra can be produced by line-like features in 2D, for example from cosmic strings, and randomly located features also give a non-Gaussian signal. There are relationships between the squeezed types of non-Gaussianity, and also a useful interpretation in terms of statistical anisotropy. I discuss the various possible physical origins of cosmological non-Gaussianities, both in terms of primordial perturbations and late-time dynamical and geometric effects.
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