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arxiv: 1301.5196 · v1 · submitted 2013-01-22 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

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Revisiting the angular momentum growth of protostructures evolved from non-Gaussian initial conditions

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I adopt a formalism previously developed by Catelan and Theuns (CT) in order to estimate the impact of primordial non-Gaussianity on the quasi-linear spin growth of cold dark matter protostructures. A variety of bispectrum shapes are considered, spanning the currently most popular early Universe models for the occurrence of non-Gaussian density fluctuations. In their original work, CT considered several other shapes, and suggested that only for one of those does the impact of non-Gaussianity seem to be perturbatively tractable. For that model, and on galactic scales, the next-to-linear non-Gaussian contribution to the angular momentum variance has an upper limit of $\sim 10%$ with respect to the linear one. I find that all the new models considered in this work can also be seemingly described via perturbation theory. Considering current bounds on $f_\mathrm{NL}$ for inflationary non-Gaussianity leads to the quasi-linear contribution being $\sim 10-20%$ of the linear one. This result motivates the systematic study of higher-order non-Gaussian corrections, in order to attain a comprehensive picture of how structure gravitational dynamics descends from the physics of the primordial Universe.

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