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Ultralarge-scale limits on primordial non-Gaussinianity

Oct. 29, 2013

CENTRA's researchers Stefano Camera, Mário Santos and Luís Ferramacho have investigated a novel, cheap and feasible way to eventually access such ultralarge scale information. Unresolved maps of the intensity of 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen HI at redshifts z~1-5 are the best hope of accessing the ultralarge-scale information, directly related to the early Universe. A purpose-built HI intensity experiment may be used to detect the large scale effects of primordial non-Gaussianity, placing stringent bounds on different models of inflation. We argue that it may be possible to place tight constraints on the non-Gaussianity parameter f_NL, with an error close to ~1