Keita Minato | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Probing dipolar power asymmetry with galaxy clustering and intrinsic alignments

We investigate the prospects for probing large-scale statistical anisotropy through galaxy clustering and intrinsic alignments (IA) in Stage IV galaxy surveys. Specifically, we consider a dipolar modulation in the primordial power spectrum and evaluate the Fisher information matrix using the two-point statistics of both the galaxy clustering and IA. Our analysis reveals that while IA alone provides limited improvement in constraining the anisotropy amplitude, the cross-spectrum between galaxy density and IA can contribute up to half the constraining power of galaxy clustering, especially for surveys with low galaxy bias and high number density of galaxies, such as Euclid. This demonstrates the potential of IA-clustering cross-correlations as a robust consistency check against systematics, and highlights the complementary roles of galaxy clustering and IA in constraining cosmic statistical anisotropy. We also show that marginalizing over galaxy bias and IA bias parameters has a negligible impact on the final constraint on the anisotropy amplitude.

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arXiv2026

Constraining Primordial Power Asymmetry from Galaxy Clustering and Peculiar Velocity Information

Primordial power asymmetry would probe departures from statistical isotropy, offering a clue to the physics of the primordial Universe. We investigate how such asymmetries can be tested with galaxy surveys and quantify how peculiar-velocity information can improve these tests. We develop a unified bipolar spherical harmonic (BipoSH) analysis of the auto- and cross-power spectra of galaxy density and line-of-sight peculiar velocity, and perform Fisher forecasts combining a Euclid-like spectroscopic galaxy survey with peculiar velocities reconstructed from Simons Observatory-like CMB maps through the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. For dipolar asymmetry, we consider both scale-independent and scale-dependent modulations proportional to $k^{-0.5}$. Galaxy clustering provides most of the constraining power in both cases, while peculiar velocities add only modest information. For quadrupolar asymmetry, we account for the recently identified anisotropic galaxy-bias response and marginalize over its amplitude. We find that galaxy clustering alone suffers from a degeneracy between the primordial quadrupolar modulation and anisotropic galaxy bias. This degeneracy can be substantially broken by adding peculiar-velocity information: the density-velocity cross-spectrum provides complementary information to the galaxy auto-spectrum, while the velocity auto-spectrum constrains the primordial modulation independently of anisotropic galaxy bias. The velocity information becomes increasingly effective for more negative scale dependence, yielding constraints tighter than those from BOSS for scale dependences proportional to $k^{-1}$ and $k^{-2}$. Our results demonstrate that peculiar-velocity information provides a complementary avenue for testing primordial power asymmetry with large-scale structure, particularly for quadrupolar asymmetry in the presence of anisotropic galaxy bias.

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