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Primordial non-Gaussianity: large-scale structure signature in the
perturbative bias model
Primordial non-Gaussianity: large-scale structure signature in the
perturbative bias model
2008-06-06
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arxiv.org/abs/0806.1061v3
Phys.Rev.D78:123519,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pg, 2 fig, v2: added illustrative figure, minor improvements, v3:
added references, version accepted by PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.123519
I compute the effect on the power spectrum of tracers of the large-scale mass-density field (e.g., galaxies) of primordial non-Gaussianity of the form Phi=phi+fNL (phi-)+gNL phi^3+..., where Phi is proportional to the initial potential fluctuations and phi is a Gaussian field, using beyond-linear-order perturbation theory. I find that the need to eliminate large higher-order corrections necessitates the addition of a new term to the bias model, proportional to phi, i.e., delta_g=b_delta delta+b_phi fNL phi+..., with all the consequences this implies for clustering statistics, e.g., P_gg(k)=b_delta^2 P_deltadelta(k)+2 b_delta b_phi fNL P_phidelta(k)+b_phi^2 fNL^2 P_phiphi(k)+... . This result is consistent with calculations based on a model for dark matter halo clustering, showing that the form is quite general, not requiring assumptions about peaks, or the formation or existence of halos. The halo model plays the same role it does in the usual bias picture, giving a prediction for b_phi for galaxies known to sit in a certain type of halo. Previous projections for future constraints based on this effect have been very conservative -- there is enough volume at z<~2 to measure fNL to ~+-1, with much more volume at higher z. As a prelude to the bias calculation, I point out that the beyond-linear (in phi) corrections to the power spectrum of mass-density perturbations are naively infinite, so it is dangerous to assume they are negligible; however, the infinite part can be removed by a renormalization of the fluctuation amplitude, with the residual k-dependent corrections negligible for models allowed by current constraints.
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