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Bispectrum of galaxies from high-redshift galaxy surveys: Primordial non-Gaussianity and nonlinear galaxy bias

Emiliano Sefusatti*

Eiichiro Komatsu

  • Particle Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510-0500, USA

  • Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, 2511 Speedway, RLM 15.306, Texas 78712, USA

  • *emiliano@fnal.gov
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Phys. Rev. D 76, 083004 – Published 17 October, 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.083004

Abstract

The greatest challenge in the interpretation of galaxy clustering data from any surveys is galaxy bias. Using a simple Fisher matrix analysis, we show that the bispectrum provides an excellent determination of linear and nonlinear bias parameters of intermediate and high-z galaxies, when all measurable triangle configurations down to mildly nonlinear scales, where perturbation theory is still valid, are included. The bispectrum is also a powerful probe of primordial non-Gaussianity. The planned galaxy surveys at z≳2 should yield constraints on non-Gaussian parameters, fNLloc. and fNLeq., that are comparable to, or even better than, those from cosmic microwave background experiments. We study how these constraints improve with volume and redshift range, as well as the number density of galaxies. Finally, we show that a halo occupation distribution may be used to improve these constraints further by lifting degeneracies between gravity, bias, and primordial non-Gaussianity.

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Phys. Rev. D 76, 083004– Published 17 October, 2007
  • Received 21 May 2007

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