Tommaso Giannantonio, Cristiano Porciani, Julien Carron, Adam Amara, Annalisa Pillepich
We study the constraining power on primordial non-Gaussianity of future
surveys of the large-scale structure of the Universe for both near-term surveys
(such as the Dark Energy Survey - DES) as well as longer term projects such as
Euclid and WFIRST. Specifically we perform a Fisher matrix analysis forecast
for such surveys, using DES-like and Euclid-like configurations as examples,
and take account of any expected photometric and spectroscopic data. We focus
on two-point statistics and we consider three observables: the 3D galaxy power
spectrum in redshift space, the angular galaxy power spectrum, and the
projected weak-lensing shear power spectrum. We study the effects of adding a
few extra parameters to the basic LCDM set. We include the two standard
parameters to model the current value for the dark energy equation of state and
its time derivative, w_0, w_a, and we account for the possibility of primordial
non-Gaussianity of the local, equilateral and orthogonal types, of parameter
fNL and, optionally, of spectral index n_fNL. We present forecasted constraints
on these parameters using the different observational probes. We show that
accounting for models that include primordial non-Gaussianity does not degrade
the constraint on the standard LCDM set nor on the dark-energy equation of
state. By combining the weak lensing data and the information on projected
galaxy clustering, consistently including all two-point functions and their
covariance, we find forecasted marginalised errors sigma (fNL) ~ 3, sigma
(n_fNL) ~ 0.12 from a Euclid-like survey for the local shape of primordial
non-Gaussianity, while the orthogonal and equilateral constraints are weakened
for the galaxy clustering case, due to the weaker scale-dependence of the bias.
In the lensing case, the constraints remain instead similar in all
configurations.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0958
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