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Title: Response approach to the squeezed-limit bispectrum: application to the correlation of quasar and Lyman-α forest power spectrum

Abstract

The squeezed-limit bispectrum, which is generated by nonlinear gravitational evolution as well as inflationary physics, measures the correlation of three wavenumbers, in the configuration where one wavenumber is much smaller than the other two. Since the squeezed-limit bispectrum encodes the impact of a large-scale fluctuation on the small-scale power spectrum, it can be understood as how the small-scale power spectrum ''responds'' to the large-scale fluctuation. Viewed in this way, the squeezed-limit bispectrum can be calculated using the response approach even in the cases which do not submit to perturbative treatment. To illustrate this point, we apply this approach to the cross-correlation between the large-scale quasar density field and small-scale Lyman-α forest flux power spectrum. In particular, using separate universe simulations which implement changes in the large-scale density, velocity gradient, and primordial power spectrum amplitude, we measure how the Lyman-α forest flux power spectrum responds to the local, long-wavelength quasar overdensity, and equivalently their squeezed-limit bispectrum. We perform a Fisher forecast for the ability of future experiments to constrain local non-Gaussianity using the bispectrum of quasars and the Lyman-α forest. Combining with quasar and Lyman-α forest power spectra to constrain the biases, we find that for DESI the expected 1−σ constraintmore » is err[ f {sub NL}]∼60. Ability for DESI to measure f {sub NL} through this channel is limited primarily by the aliasing and instrumental noise of the Lyman-α forest flux power spectrum. The combination of response approach and separate universe simulations provides a novel technique to explore the constraints from the squeezed-limit bispectrum between different observables.« less

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  1. C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 (United States)
  2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Blgd 510, Upton, NY 11375 (United States)
  3. Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85741 Garching (Germany)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22676164
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2017; Journal Issue: 06; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; AMPLITUDES; CONFIGURATION; CORRELATIONS; DENSITY; EVOLUTION; FLUCTUATIONS; LYMAN LINES; NOISE; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; QUASARS; SIMULATION; SPECTRA; UNIVERSE; VELOCITY; WAVELENGTHS

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Chiang, Chi-Ting, Cieplak, Agnieszka M., Slosar, Anže, and Schmidt, Fabian. Response approach to the squeezed-limit bispectrum: application to the correlation of quasar and Lyman-α forest power spectrum. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2017/06/022.
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Chiang, Chi-Ting, Cieplak, Agnieszka M., Slosar, Anže, & Schmidt, Fabian. Response approach to the squeezed-limit bispectrum: application to the correlation of quasar and Lyman-α forest power spectrum. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/06/022
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Chiang, Chi-Ting, Cieplak, Agnieszka M., Slosar, Anže, and Schmidt, Fabian. 2017. "Response approach to the squeezed-limit bispectrum: application to the correlation of quasar and Lyman-α forest power spectrum". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/06/022.
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@article{osti_22676164,
title = {Response approach to the squeezed-limit bispectrum: application to the correlation of quasar and Lyman-α forest power spectrum},
author = {Chiang, Chi-Ting and Cieplak, Agnieszka M. and Slosar, Anže and Schmidt, Fabian},
abstractNote = {The squeezed-limit bispectrum, which is generated by nonlinear gravitational evolution as well as inflationary physics, measures the correlation of three wavenumbers, in the configuration where one wavenumber is much smaller than the other two. Since the squeezed-limit bispectrum encodes the impact of a large-scale fluctuation on the small-scale power spectrum, it can be understood as how the small-scale power spectrum ''responds'' to the large-scale fluctuation. Viewed in this way, the squeezed-limit bispectrum can be calculated using the response approach even in the cases which do not submit to perturbative treatment. To illustrate this point, we apply this approach to the cross-correlation between the large-scale quasar density field and small-scale Lyman-α forest flux power spectrum. In particular, using separate universe simulations which implement changes in the large-scale density, velocity gradient, and primordial power spectrum amplitude, we measure how the Lyman-α forest flux power spectrum responds to the local, long-wavelength quasar overdensity, and equivalently their squeezed-limit bispectrum. We perform a Fisher forecast for the ability of future experiments to constrain local non-Gaussianity using the bispectrum of quasars and the Lyman-α forest. Combining with quasar and Lyman-α forest power spectra to constrain the biases, we find that for DESI the expected 1−σ constraint is err[ f {sub NL}]∼60. Ability for DESI to measure f {sub NL} through this channel is limited primarily by the aliasing and instrumental noise of the Lyman-α forest flux power spectrum. The combination of response approach and separate universe simulations provides a novel technique to explore the constraints from the squeezed-limit bispectrum between different observables.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2017/06/022},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22676164}, journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
issn = {1475-7516},
number = 06,
volume = 2017,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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