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We study the signature of primordial non-Gaussianity imprinted on the power spectrum of the 21-cm line differential brightness temperature during dark ages.
- Employing the perturbative treatment of gravitational clustering, we quantitatively estimate the effects of the non-Gaussian and one-loop corrections on the 21-cm power spectrum.
- The potential impact of the use of the 21-cm power spectrum for the constraint on local-type primordial non-Gaussianity is investigated based on the Fisher matrix analysis.
- Our results show that the 21-cm power spectrum for an array with a baseline of several tens of kilometers can constrain the primordial non-Gaussianity to a level severer than that from cosmic microwave background measurements and its constraining power is stronger than that of the 21-cm bispectrum, while in the ultimate situation the 21-cm bispectrum eventually becomes more powerful.