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The effect of primordial non-Gaussianity on the topology of large-scale structure

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posted on 2023-06-08, 14:48 authored by C Hikage, P Coles, M Grossi, L Moscardini, K Dolag, E Branchini, S Matarrese
We study the effect of primordial non-Gaussianity on the development of large-scale cosmic structure using high-resolution N-body simulations. In particular, we focus on the topological properties of the `cosmic web', quantitatively characterized by the Minkowski functionals (MFs), for models with quadratic non-linearities with different values of the usual non-Gaussianity parameter fNL. In the weakly non-linear regime (the amplitude of mass density fluctuations s0 < 0.1), we find that analytic formulae derived from perturbation theory agree with the numerical results within a few per cent of the amplitude of each MF when |fNL| < 1000. In the non-linear regime, the detailed behaviour of the MFs as functions of threshold density deviates more strongly from the analytical curves, while the overall amplitude of the primordial non-Gaussian effect remains comparable to the perturbative prediction. When smaller-scale information is included, the influence of primordial non-Gaussianity becomes increasingly significant statistically due to decreasing sample variance. We find that the effect of the primordial non-Gaussianity with |fNL| = 50 is comparable to the sample variance of mass density fields with a volume of 0.125(h-1 Gpc)3 when they are smoothed by Gaussian filter at a scale of 5h-1Mpc. The detectability of this effect in actual galaxy surveys will strongly depend on residual uncertainties in cosmological parameters and galaxy biasing.

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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0035-8711

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Wiley-Blackwell

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3

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385

Page range

1613-1620

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2013-04-29

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2013-04-29

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2013-04-29

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