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The combination of current large scale structure and cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies data can place strong constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses. Here we show that future cosmic shear experiments, in combination with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Francesco De Bernardis , Thomas D. Kitching , Alan Heavens , Alessandro Melchiorri

We investigate how much the constraints on the neutrino properties can be improved by combining the CMB, the photometric and spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys which include the CMB lensing, galaxy lensing tomography, galaxy clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yoshitaka Takeuchi , Kenji Kadota

Cosmology in the near future promises a measurement of the sum of neutrino masses, a fundamental Standard Model parameter, as well as substantially-improved constraints on the dark energy. We use the shape of the BOSS redshift-space galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 Amol Upadhye

Measurements of the 21cm line emission by residual cosmic hydrogen after reionization can be used to trace the power spectrum of density perturbations through a significant fraction of the observable volume of the Universe. We show that a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Abraham Loeb , Stuart Wyithe

Observations of the 21 cm line radiation coming from the epoch of reionization have a great capacity to study the cosmological growth of the Universe. Also, CMB polarization produced by gravitational lensing has a large amount of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Yoshihiko Oyama , Kazunori Kohri , Masashi Hazumi

Model-independent mass limits assess the robustness of current cosmological measurements of the neutrino mass scale. Consistency between high-multipole and low-multiple Cosmic Microwave Background observations measuring such scale further…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Eleonora Di Valentino , Stefano Gariazzo , William Giarè , Olga Mena

Massive neutrinos suppress the growth of cosmic structure on small, non-linear, scales. It is thus often proposed that using statistics beyond the power spectrum can tighten constraints on the neutrino mass by extracting additional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-16 Adrian E. Bayer , Arka Banerjee , Uros Seljak

Thanks to oscillation experiments it is now an established fact that neutrinos are massive particles. Yet, the assessment of neutrinos absolute mass scale is still an outstanding challenge in particle physics and cosmology as oscillation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Andrea Giachero

We examine whether future, nearly all-sky galaxy redshift surveys, in combination with CMB priors, will be able to detect the signature of the cosmic neutrino background and determine the absolute neutrino mass scale. We also consider what…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Carmelita Carbone , Licia Verde , Yun Wang , Andrea Cimatti

There is a renewed interest in constraining the sum of the masses of the three neutrino flavours by using cosmological measurements. Solar, atmospheric, and reactor neutrino experiments have confirmed neutrino oscillations, implying that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Oystein Elgaroy , Ofer Lahav

With low redshift probes reaching unprecedented precision, uncertainty of the CMB optical depth is expected to be the limiting factor for future cosmological neutrino mass constraints. In this paper, we discuss to what extent combinations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-07 Byeonghee Yu , Robert Z Knight , Blake D. Sherwin , Simone Ferraro , Lloyd Knox , Marcel Schmittfull

The high precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Planck survey yielded tight constraints on cosmological parameters and the statistics of the density fluctuations at the time of recombination. This provides the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Hans Boehringer , Gayoung Chon

Massive neutrinos modify the expansion history of the universe and suppress the structure formation below their free streaming scale. Cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations at small angular scales can be used to constrain the total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-15 Gali Shmueli , Debanjan Sarkar , Ely D. Kovetz

Cosmology places the strongest current limits on the sum of neutrino masses. Future observations will further improve the sensitivity and this will require accurate cosmological simulations to quantify possible systematic uncertainties and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Willem Elbers , Carlos S. Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Baojiu Li , Silvia Pascoli

Cosmological probes are steadily reducing the total neutrino mass window, resulting in constraints on the neutrino-mass degeneracy as the most significant outcome. In this work we explore the discovery potential of cosmological probes to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Raul Jimenez , Thomas Kitching , Carlos Pena-Garay , Licia Verde

We present forecast errors on a wide range of cosmological parameters obtained from a photometric cluster catalogue of a future wide-field Euclid-like survey. We focus in particular on the total neutrino mass as constrained by a combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-16 Carmelita Carbone , Cosimo Fedeli , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

We quantify the impact of massive neutrinos on the statistics of low density regions in the intergalactic medium (IGM) as probed by the Lyman-alpha forest at redshifts z=2.2--4. Based on mock but realistic quasar (QSO) spectra extracted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Mark Vogelsberger , Matteo Viel , Abraham Loeb

We quantify the information content of the non-linear matter power spectrum, the halo mass function, and the void size function, using the Quijote $N$-body simulations. We find that these three statistics exhibit very different degeneracies…

Neutrinos can play an important role in the evolution of the Universe, modifying some of the cosmological observables. In this contribution we summarize the main aspects of cosmological relic neutrinos and we describe how the precision of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-27 Julien Lesgourgues , Sergio Pastor

Current measurements of the large-scale structure of galaxies are able to place an $\sim 0.5 ~ \rm eV$ upper limit on the absolute mass scale of neutrinos. An order-of-magnitude improvement in raw sensitivity, together with an insensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. B. Abdalla , S. Rawlings