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SKAO surveys can push primordial non-Gaussianity and inflation running to the precision needed to discriminate inflation models.

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load-bearing objection Solid AA4-updated review of SKAO early-universe forecasts; multi-tracer σ(f_NL)≲1 is the headline number, still hanging on foreground recovery. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.08593 v1 pith:DK3XU6TY submitted 2026-07-09 astro-ph.CO

Beyond {Λ}CDM with the SKA Observatory -- II: Unveiling the Secrets of the Early Universe

Jos\'e Fonseca , Benedict Bahr-Kalus , Mario Ballardini , Matilde Barberi-Squarotti , Steven Cunnington , S\^ecloka L. Guedezounme , Dionysios Karagiannis , Samantha J. Rossiter
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Ziad Sakr Cora Uhlemann Stefano Camera Bikash R. Dinda Cl\'audio Gomes Roy Maartens M\'ario G. Santos
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classification astro-ph.CO PACS 98.80.Cq98.80.Es95.35.+d98.65.Dx
keywords primordial non-Gaussianityspectral index runningHI intensity mappingmulti-tracerSKAOscale-dependent biasinflationlarge-scale structure
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This chapter argues that SKAO's wide continuum and HI intensity-mapping surveys, especially when combined with optical photometric or spectroscopic samples, can measure the running of the scalar spectral index and the amplitude of primordial non-Gaussianity at levels that start to distinguish single-field slow-roll inflation from more complex early-universe scenarios. The key target is local-type non-Gaussianity: multi-tracer analyses that cancel cosmic variance can reach uncertainties of order unity on f_local_NL while also detecting relativistic light-cone effects such as lensing and Doppler. Joint power-spectrum and bispectrum forecasts further constrain equilateral and orthogonal shapes, and the same large-volume data tighten bounds on the running of the primordial power spectrum when combined with next-generation CMB experiments. The practical path to these gains requires that foreground cleaning recover the ultra-large-scale modes that carry the signal and that relativistic projection effects be modelled rather than ignored. If those conditions hold, SKAO becomes a decisive probe of the physics that set the initial conditions of the cosmos.

Core claim

Multi-tracer combinations of SKAO Band-1 HI intensity mapping with Euclid-like or LSST-like photometric surveys can reach σ(f_local_NL) ≲ 1 while simultaneously detecting lensing and Doppler GR effects; the same surveys, alone or with CMB data, also tighten the running of the spectral index and constrain non-local PNG shapes via the HI bispectrum.

What carries the argument

Scale-dependent bias induced by local primordial non-Gaussianity (the k^{-2} correction to the linear tracer bias) together with multi-tracer cancellation of cosmic variance on the largest modes.

Load-bearing premise

That foreground cleaning plus transfer-function reconstruction can recover the ultra-large-scale modes well enough that residual signal loss, after marginalisation, does not bias f_NL by more than about one sigma.

What would settle it

If realistic end-to-end simulations of SKAO Band-1 HI maps with blind PCA cleaning and transfer-function reconstruction still leave a residual large-scale power deficit that, after marginalising over nuisance amplitudes, shifts the recovered f_local_NL by more than ~1σ, the claimed σ(f_NL)<1 multi-tracer forecasts fail.

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If this is right

  • SKAO+CMB combinations can reduce the uncertainty on the running α_s by ~13% relative to CMB alone and help resolve the mild tension between Planck and ACT+DESI values of n_s and α_s.
  • Multi-tracer analyses with photometric surveys can detect the Doppler and lensing GR contributions at high significance while keeping σ(f_local_NL) below unity.
  • Joint HI power spectrum + bispectrum measurements supply competitive bounds on equilateral and orthogonal f_NL that are inaccessible from the power spectrum alone.
  • Synergies that extend redshift coverage to z~4 (extended Euclid-like or DESI-like samples) can break the f_NL–n_s degeneracy and reach σ(f_local_NL)≈0.9.
  • Primordial feature searches in the HI power spectrum and bispectrum become competitive even without CMB data because of SKAO's large sky fraction and high-redshift reach.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the multi-tracer σ(f_local_NL)<1 target is met, a non-detection would strongly favour single-field slow-roll over multi-field or higher-derivative inflation scenarios that generically produce |f_NL|~O(1).
  • The same ultra-large-scale modes that carry the PNG signal also host the strongest GR light-cone corrections; success in PNG therefore automatically delivers a high-significance measurement of relativistic projection effects that can be used as a consistency test of general relativity on cosmological scales.
  • Foreground-transfer-function methods developed for HI intensity mapping may become a template for recovering large-scale modes in other intensity-mapping or continuum surveys that face similar spectral-smooth contaminants.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 6 minor

Summary. This chapter reviews how SKAO continuum and HI intensity-mapping surveys can constrain early-universe physics beyond the simplest single-field slow-roll picture. It updates forecasts for the running of the spectral index αs (Fig. 1), local/equilateral/orthogonal primordial non-Gaussianity via multi-tracer power spectra and joint power-spectrum + bispectrum analyses (Tables 1–2, Figs. 2–3), and primordial features in the power spectrum. The central numerical claim is that multi-tracer combinations of SKAO Band-1 HI IM with Euclid-like or LSST-like photometric samples can reach σ(f_local_NL) ≲ 1 while detecting lensing and Doppler GR effects, and that joint P+B analyses further constrain non-local shapes. Section 3 discusses foreground signal loss and relativistic light-cone degeneracies as the main observational and theoretical challenges.

Significance. If the forecasts hold under realistic systematics, SKAO multi-tracer synergies would deliver the first LSS constraints on local PNG at the σ(f_NL) ~ 1 threshold that can discriminate multi-field from single-field inflation, while simultaneously detecting ultra-large-scale GR effects. The chapter usefully consolidates AA4-updated Fisher/MCMC forecasts, makes the GR-amplitude marginalisation explicit (Table 1), and flags the complementarity of power spectrum and bispectrum for different PNG shapes. As a review chapter it does not claim a new measurement; its value is the synthesis of recent SKAO-specific forecasts and the clear identification of the foreground-reconstruction assumption that underpins the σ(f_NL) < 1 claim.

major comments (2)
  1. Section 3 (and the forecasts feeding Tables 1–2): the claim that multi-tracer SKAO × Euclid/LSST can reach σ(f_local_NL) ≲ 1 rests on the assumption that foreground cleaning plus transfer-function reconstruction recovers ultra-large-scale modes (k∥ ≲ 0.01 h Mpc⁻¹) with only modest error inflation and residual bias ≲ 1σ after marginalisation. The text cites Cunnington et al. (2020, 2023) and Fonseca & Liguori (2021) but does not quantify residual bias for the AA4 multi-tracer configurations of Table 1. A short sensitivity test (or explicit statement that the quoted errors assume perfect recovery after marginalisation) is needed so readers can judge how load-bearing this assumption remains.
  2. Section 2.1 / Fig. 1: the continuum non-linear modelling is described as following Finelli et al. (2025) with conservative ℓmax ~ 1000 and kmax ~ 3 h Mpc⁻¹, while HI IM uses Albuquerque et al. (2025) with kmax = 0.15 h Mpc⁻¹. The text asserts agreement between HMCode and NGenHalofit within two percent, but does not show how the αs–ns contours change under a more aggressive or more conservative non-linear cut. Because the claimed factor-of-two improvement and the CMB-SO synergy rest on these cuts, a one-sentence robustness check (or reference to an existing one) would strengthen the result.
minor comments (6)
  1. Introduction: the parenthetical “(citations)” after the horizon/flatness/monopole problems should be replaced by the standard references already used later in the text.
  2. Author affiliations: two consecutive entries are numbered “19” (Van Swinderen Institute and Centro de Física … Porto); renumber for clarity.
  3. Table 1 caption and body: the three Cases are defined in the text but the table header only lists the parameters; a one-line reminder of which ε amplitudes are free in each Case would help the reader.
  4. Table 2: the optimistic/pessimistic k∥,min values are given in the caption; adding them as column sub-headers (or a second row) would make the table self-contained.
  5. Section 2.2, Eq. (4): the factor 1.27 is explained as a CMB-redshift convention; a brief cross-reference to Camera et al. (2015b) already cited would help readers who skip the surrounding paragraph.
  6. Discussion: the closing sentence refers to Camera et al. (2026) and Spinelli et al. (2026) by report number; ensure the arXiv or AASKAII identifiers are consistent with the rest of the volume.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

Review/forecast chapter updates prior multi-tracer and P+B pipelines to AA4 specs; self-citations supply independent numerical forecasts, not definitional reductions or fitted-as-predictions.

specific steps
  1. self citation load bearing [Sec. 2.2 (multi-tracer PNG forecasts) and Table 1; also Sec. 2.2 bispectrum Table 2 citing Karagiannis et al. 2021]
    "Here we will summarise updated results for the AA4 configuration. ... The forecasts presented in Barberi-Squarotti et al. (2024) were updated in order to match the specifics of the AA4 configuration. ... Here we summarize some of the findings of Karagiannis et al. (2021), while we follow their formalism to present forecasts based on the SKAO AA4 specifications"

    Central numerical claims (σ(f_local_NL)≲1 with Euclid/LSST multi-tracer; joint P+B bounds in Table 2) rest on re-running the authors’ own prior Fisher/MCMC pipelines with only AA4 survey parameters changed. The self-citations are load-bearing for the quoted error bars, yet they remain independent numerical forecasts (not uniqueness theorems or definitional identities), so the circularity is minor and does not force the result by construction.

full rationale

The manuscript is a review chapter that summarises and updates Fisher/MCMC forecasts of SKAO constraints on α_s, f_NL (local/equilateral/orthogonal) and primordial features. Fiducial cosmologies, survey specifications (Bacon et al. 2020 AA4), Planck priors and modelling assumptions (scale-dependent bias, GR light-cone terms, foreground k∥ cuts, transfer-function reconstruction) are taken from external design documents or the literature. No equation set reduces by construction to its own inputs; no parameter is fitted to data and then re-presented as a prediction; no uniqueness theorem is imported from the authors to forbid alternatives; no ansatz is smuggled via self-citation. Heavy self-citation of earlier forecast papers by overlapping authors (Fonseca et al., Karagiannis et al., Barberi-Squarotti et al., Cunnington et al., etc.) is present and supplies the numerical pipelines that are merely re-run for AA4, but those pipelines remain externally falsifiable numerical exercises rather than circular definitions. The single weakest modelling assumption (recoverability of ultra-large-scale modes after foreground cleaning) is explicitly flagged in Section 3 and does not create a definitional loop. Score 1 reflects only the minor, non-load-bearing self-citation density typical of a multi-author review; the central claims remain independent forecasts.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

6 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

As a forecast review the paper inherits the standard ΛCDM + inflation parameter space, survey design numbers, and modelling approximations of the cited literature. Free parameters are the usual cosmological and bias parameters plus survey-specific cuts; axioms are the standard slow-roll templates and the assumption that residual systematics can be marginalised; no new physical entities are invented.

free parameters (6)
  • αs (running of spectral index)
    Fiducial value −0.005 used in forecasts; the quantity being constrained, not fitted to new data.
  • f_local_NL, f_equil_NL, f_ortho_NL
    Amplitude parameters of the three PNG templates; forecasts report σ around fiducial zero.
  • k∥,min foreground cut (0.001 or 0.005 h Mpc⁻¹)
    Hard scale cut chosen by hand to mimic residual foreground cleaning; directly controls the quoted fNL errors.
  • per-bin linear bias b_L and non-linear RSD parameters
    Marginalised nuisance parameters in multi-tracer and MCMC analyses; free per redshift bin.
  • ε_Lens, ε_GR, ε_Doppler, … (GR amplitude multipliers)
    Fiducial = 1; free amplitudes introduced to marginalise relativistic projection effects.
  • SKAO AA4 survey specs (area, integration time, system temperature, beam)
    Taken from design documents; treated as fixed inputs that set the noise and volume of the forecasts.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Primordial scalar spectrum is a power law plus optional running and/or localised features; bispectrum templates are the standard local/equilateral/orthogonal shapes.
    Section 2; standard inflationary templates used throughout the forecasts.
  • domain assumption Tree-level perturbation theory plus semi-analytic non-linear RSD/FoG models remain adequate inside the chosen kmax cuts.
    Sections 2.1–2.2; justified by comparison to HMCode/NGenHalofit at the few-percent level.
  • ad hoc to paper Foreground transfer-function reconstruction can unbias the power spectrum with only modest inflation of statistical errors.
    Section 3; optimistic target based on recent simulation work, not yet demonstrated on real SKAO-scale data.
  • domain assumption Relativistic light-cone and wide-angle corrections can be captured by a finite set of amplitude parameters that are marginalised.
    Section 3 and Table 1; standard in the ultra-large-scale literature.

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The origins of the universe remain one of the biggest mysteries in modern cosmology. While the Planck satellite has provided a wealth of information about the early universe, there is still much to be discovered. The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) offers a unique opportunity to probe the universe's infancy, going beyond the current limitations of our knowledge. By measuring the power spectrum of biased tracers of the dark matter distribution on the largest cosmological scales and exploring beyond 2-point statistics, SKAO will enable us to refine our understanding of the primordial universe, including the shape of the inflationary power spectrum and the presence of primordial non-Gaussianity. In this chapter we will review recent works looking at the potential of SKAO's surveys, and how synergies with other surveys can revolutionize our understanding of the origins of the cosmos.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.08593 by Benedict Bahr-Kalus, Bikash R. Dinda, Cl\'audio Gomes, Cora Uhlemann, Dionysios Karagiannis, Jos\'e Fonseca, Mario Ballardini, M\'ario G. Santos, Matilde Barberi-Squarotti, Roy Maartens, Samantha J. Rossiter, S\^ecloka L. Guedezounme, Stefano Camera, Steven Cunnington, Ziad Sakr.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (Left): Forecast 1- and 2-𝜎 contours on the spectral index 𝑛s and its running parameter 𝛼s using SKAO continuum or Hi probes and their combination following the AA4 specifications. (Right): Forecast 1- and 2-𝜎 contours on the same parameters using SKAO probes for the same SKAO configuration combined with a CMB future experiment Simons Observatory-like (CMB-SO) survey in comparison to contours obtained from… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The 1𝜎 (thin) and 2𝜎 (thick) contours for the forecasted marginal errors on 𝑓 local NL and Lensing (left), and GR effects (right) using the multi-tracer technique from Hi intensity mapping with the band 1 wide survey in combination with Euclid-like photometric sample (solid blue line) and LSST-like photometric sample (dashed red line). These forecasts assume Case 2 as presented in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Corner plots showing the results of the MCMC analysis, marginalised over Hi and galaxy bias parameters to highlight the cosmological ones. The left panel compares the SKAO single-tracer result in the redshift range 0.9 < 𝑧 < 4.4 (empty contours) and the multi-tracer result obtained when combining SKAO with an extended Euclid-like spectroscopic sample (filled contours). Similarly, on the right the Hi auto-c… view at source ↗

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