Understanding the Gaussianity of the Primordial Universe

Dear Colleagues,

Assessing the Gaussianity of primordial cosmological perturbations has been an open issue over the last few decades. On the theoretical level, primordial non-Gaussianity is a key feature of most inflationary scenarios, and it has been argued that non-detectability of non-Gaussianity is the only means of falsifying inflation. Currently, the tightest available constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity come from bounds on higher-order correlation functions of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation. However, only non-Gaussianity of the local type is tightly constrained, whereas a vast parameter space for other kinds of non-Gaussianity is still allowed by data. For this reason, future cosmological experiments plan to address this issue with a variety of techniques and carrying out observations all across the electromagnetic spectrum.

This Special Issue of Galaxies is intended to review the development of both our theoretical understanding of non-Gaussianity and the observational effort aimed at its measurement. We would like to call for papers that either enlighten the mechanisms by which non-Gaussianity may arise and manifest in the early Universe, or put bounds on the level of non-Gaussianity allowed by currently available data, or forecast the constraining power of upcoming cosmological experiments. Review papers are also most welcome.

Dr. Stefano Camera
Guest Editor

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