Bayesian inference methodology for Primordial Power Spectrum reconstructions from Large Scale Structure

Abstract

We use Bayesian inference and nested sampling to develop a non-parametric method to reconstruct the primordial power spectrum $P_{\mathcal{R}}(k)$ from Large Scale Structure (LSS) data. The performance of the method is studied by applying it to simulations of the clustering of two different object catalogues, low-$z$ (ELGs) and high-$z$ (QSOs), and considering two different photometric errors. These object clusterings are derived from different templates of the primordial power spectrum motivated by models of inflation: the Standard Model power law characterized by the two parameters $A_s$ and $n_s$; a local feature template; and a global oscillatory template. Our reconstruction method involves sampling $N$ knots in the log $\{k,P_{\mathcal{R}}(k)\}$ plane. We use two statistical tests to examine the reconstructions for signs of primordial features: a global test comparing the evidences and a novel local test quantifying the power of the hypothesis test between the power law model and the marginalized probability over $N$ model. The method shows good performance in all scenarios considered. In particular, the tests show no feature detection for the SM. The method is able to detect power spectrum deviations at a level of $\approx 2\%$ for all considered features, combining either the low-$z$ or the high-$z$ redshift bins. Other scenarios with different redshift bins, photometric errors, feature amplitudes and detection levels are also discussed. In addition, we include a first application to real data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Luminous Red Galaxy Data Release 4 (SDSS LRG 04), finding no preference for deviations from the primordial power law. The method is flexible, model independent, and suitable for its application to existing and future LSS catalogues.

39 pages, 21 figures. Major changes. Updated to match the final version published in JCAP

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