Constraints on multifield inflation from the BOSS galaxy survey
Constraints on multifield inflation from the BOSS galaxy survey
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.106.043506
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2022-04
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5
通讯作者:
G. Cabass;M. Ivanov;O. Philcox;Marko Simonovi'c;M. Zaldarriaga
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作者:
G. Cabass;M. Ivanov;O. Philcox;Marko Simonovi'c;M. Zaldarriaga
We use redshift-space galaxy clustering data from the BOSS survey to constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity (LPNG). This is of particular importance due to the consistency relations, which imply that a detection of LPNG would rule out all single-field inflationary models. Our constraints are based on the consistently analyzed redshift-space galaxy power spectra and bispectra, extracted from the public BOSS data with optimal window-free estimators. We use a complete perturbation theory model including all one-loop power spectrum corrections generated by LPNG. Our constraint on the amplitude of the local non-Gaussian shape is f localNL = − 33 ± 28 at 68% CL, yielding no evidence for primordial non-Gaussianity. The addition of the bispectrum tightens the f localNL constraints from BOSS by 20%, and allows breaking of degeneracies with non-Gaussian galaxy bias. These results set the stage for the analysis of future surveys, whose larger volumes will yield significantly tighter constraints on LPNG.