Signature of primordial non-Gaussianity of phi^3-type in the mass function and bias of dark matter haloes

Details Signature of primordial non-Gaussianity of phi^3-type in the mass function and bias of dark matter haloes Signature of primordial non-Gaussianity of phi^3-type in the mass function and bias of dark matter haloes

2009-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2257v3

Phys.Rev.D81:023006,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

21 pages, 11 figures (v2): typo corrected, clarifications+references added (v3): paper somewhat reorganized, added discussion

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.023006

We explore the effect of a cubic correction gnl*phi^3 on the mass function and bias of dark matter haloes extracted from a series of large N-body simulations and compare it to theoretical predictions. Such cubic terms can be motivated in scenarios like the curvaton model, in which a large cubic correction can be produced while simultaneously keeping the quadratic fnl*phi^2 correction small. The deviation from the Gaussian halo mass function is in reasonable agreement with the theoretical predictions. The scale-dependent bias correction Delta b_kappa(k,gnl) measured from the auto- and cross-power spectrum of haloes, is similar to the correction in fnl models, but the amplitude is lower than theoretical expectations. Using the compilation of LSS data in Slosar et al. (2008), we obtain for the first time a limit on gnl of -3.5*10^5 < gnl < +8.2*10^5 (at 95% CL). This limit will improve with the future LSS data by 1-2 orders of magnitude, which should test many of the scenarios of this type.

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