Shot noise in multitracer constraints on fNL and relativistic projections: Power spectrum

Multiple tracers of the same surveyed volume can enhance the signal-to-noise on a measurement of local primordial non-Gaussianity and the relativistic projections. Increasing the number of tracers comparably increases the number of shot noise terms required to describe the stochasticity of the data. Although the shot noise is white on large scales, it is desirable to investigate the extent to which it can degrade constraints on the parameters of interest. In a multitracer analysis of the power spectrum, a marginalization over shot noise does not degrade the constraints on f(NL) by more than similar to 30 per cent so long as haloes of mass M less than or similar to 10(12) M-circle dot are resolved. However, ignoring cross shot noise terms induces large systematics on a measurement of f(NL) at redshift z < 1 when small mass haloes are resolved. These effects are less severe for the relativistic projections, especially for the dipole term. In the case of a low and high mass tracer, the optimal sample division maximizes the signal-to-noise on f(NL) and the projection effects simultaneously, reducing the errors to the level of similar to 10 consecutive mass bins of equal number density. We also emphasize that the non-Poissonian noise corrections that arise from small-scale clustering effects cannot be measured with random dilutions of the data. Therefore, they must either be properly modelled or marginalized over.