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The epoch of reionization is a milestone of cosmological structure formation, marking the birth of the first objects massive enough to yield large numbers of ionizing photons. The mechanism and timescale of reionization remain largely…

One of the main goals of modern cosmic microwave background (CMB) missions is to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ accurately to constrain inflation models. Due to ignorance about the reionization history $X_{e}(z)$, this analysis is…

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Electron scattering induces a polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal measured in the direction of a galaxy cluster due to the presence of a quadrupole component in the CMB temperature distribution. Measuring the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Y. Sazonov , R. A. Sunyaev

We explore the impact of the reionization history on examining the shape of the power spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The large-scale CMB generated from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 Hanchun Jiang , Toshiya Namikawa

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, whose experimental detection must become the next natural step in the study of the CMB radiation, depends on the dynamics of hydrogen recombination in the Universe, on the relation between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Sazhin , A. V. Toporensky

With a simple power-law approximation of high-redshift ($\gtrsim3.5$) star formation history, i.e., $\dot{\rho}_*(z)\propto [(1+z)/4.5]^{-\alpha}$, we investigate the reionization of intergalactic medium (IGM) and the consequent Thomson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-07 Yun-Wei Yu , K. S. Cheng , M. C. Chu , S. Yeung

The full sky cosmic microwave background polarization field can be decomposed into 'electric' and 'magnetic' components. Working in harmonic space we construct window functions that allow clean separation of the electric and magnetic modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Antony Lewis , Anthony Challinor , Neil Turok

We show that, in the context of patchy reionisation, an accurate description of the angular power spectrum of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect is not possible with simple scaling relations between the amplitude of the spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Adélie Gorce , Stéphane Ilić , Marian Douspis , Dominique Aubert , Mathieu Langer

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation carries essential information on early stages of the Universe such as the cosmic inflation, forming cosmological structures through gravitational lensing, and the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 E. Carretti , C. Baccigalupi

By using N-body hydrodynamical cosmological simulations in which the chemistry of major metals and molecules is consistently solved for, we study the interaction of metallic fine-structure lines with the CMB. Our analysis shows that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-10 Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Umberto Maio , Benedetta Ciardi , Rashid A. Sunyaev

We highlight recent progress in the sophistication and diversification of cosmic dawn and reionization simulations. The application of these modeling tools to current observations has allowed us narrow down the timing of reionization, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Andrei Mesinger

Recent results of ground-based telescopes, giving high-quality measurements of the CMB temperature power spectrum on small scales motivate the need for an accurate model of foregrounds, which dominate the primary signal at these multipoles.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Adélie Gorce , Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati

A new method for removing point radio sources and other non-Gaussian noise is proposed as a means of improving the accuracy of estimates of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The main idea of the method is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anisa T. Bajkova

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) is an invaluable probe of the conditions of the early universe. Recent measurements of its spatial anisotropy have allowed accurate determinations of several fundamental cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Christopher O'Dell

We develop and apply a new framework for reconstructing the ionization history during the epoch of recombination with combinations of cosmic microwave background (CMB), baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and supernova data. We find a wide…

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Sky temperature map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is one of the premier probes of cosmology. To minimize instrumentally induced systematic errors, CMB anisotropy experiments measure temperature differences across the sky using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-30 Hao Liu , Ti-Pei Li

The optical depth to reionization, $\tau$, is the least constrained parameter of the cosmological $\Lambda$CDM model. To date, its most precise value is inferred from large-scale polarized CMB power spectra from the ${\it Planck}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Kevin Wolz , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Luca Pagano

Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) satellite missions aim to use the $B$ mode polarization to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ with a sensitivity of about $10^{-3}$. Achieving this goal will not only require sufficient detector…

We develop an effective perturbation theory (and, equivalently, a bias expansion) for the inhomogeneous 21cm radiation field from reionization. Using large-scale simulations of cosmological reionization, we find that this expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Matthew McQuinn , Anson D'Aloisio

We discuss the secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy due to kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect from ionized bubbles around individual quasars prior to the reionization of the Universe. The bubbles create local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Subhabrata Majumdar