• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.251301
• Corpus ID: 13028047

Clustering fossils from the early universe.

@article{Jeong2012ClusteringFF,
  title={Clustering fossils from the early universe.},
  author={Donghui Jeong and Marc Kamionkowski},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2012},
  volume={108 25},
  pages={
          251301
        }
}

• D. Jeong, M. Kamionkowski
• Published 1 March 2012
• Physics
• Physical review letters

Many inflationary theories introduce new scalar, vector, or tensor degrees of freedom that may then affect the generation of primordial density perturbations. Here we show how to search a galaxy (or 21-cm) survey for the imprint of primordial scalar, vector, and tensor fields. These new fields induce local departures to an otherwise statistically isotropic two-point correlation function, or equivalently, nontrivial four-point correlation functions (or trispectra, in Fourier space), that can be decomposed into scalar, vector, and tensor components. We write down the optimal estimators for these various components and show how the sensitivity to these modes depends on the galaxy-survey parameters. New probes of parity-violating early-Universe physics are also presented.