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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 396, Issue 1, Pages 85-96Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14721.x
Keywords
gravitation; galaxies: haloes; cosmology: theory; dark matter
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- Swiss National Foundation [200021-116696/1]
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We investigate the effect of primordial non-Gaussianity of the local f(NL) type on the auto- and cross-power spectra of dark matter haloes using simulations of the Lambda cold dark matter cosmology. We perform a series of large N-body simulations of both positive and negative f(NL), spanning the range between 10 and 100. Theoretical models predict a scale-dependent bias correction Delta b(k, f(NL)) that depends on the linear halo bias b(M). We measure the power spectra for a range of halo mass and redshifts covering the relevant range of existing galaxy and quasar populations. We show that auto- and cross-correlation analyses of bias are consistent with each other. We find that for low wavenumbers with k < 0.03 h Mpc(-1) the theory and the simulations agree well with each other for biased haloes with b(M) > 1.5. We show that a scale-independent bias correction improves the comparison between theory and simulations on smaller scales, where the scale-dependent effect rapidly becomes negligible. The current limits on f(NL) from Slosar et al. come mostly from very large scales k < 0.01 h Mpc(-1) and, therefore, remain valid. For the halo samples with b(M) < 1.5 - 2, we find that the scale-dependent bias from non-Gaussianity actually exceeds the theoretical predictions. Our results are consistent with the bias correction scaling linearly with fNL.
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