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In universes with significant curvature or cosmological constant, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies are created very recently via the Rees-Sciama or integrated Sachs-Wolfe effects. This causes the CMB anisotropies to become…

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We show that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization data gathered by the BOOMERanG 2003 flight and WMAP provide an opportunity to investigate {\it in-vacuo} birefringence, of a type expected in some quantum pictures of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-24 Giulia Gubitosi , Luca Pagano , Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Alessandro Melchiorri , Asantha Cooray

Detecting dark energy dynamics is the main quest of current dark energy research. Addressing the issue demands a fully consistent analysis of CMB, large scale structure and SN-Ia data with multi-parameter freedom valid for all redshifts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. S. Corasaniti , M. Kunz , D. Parkinson , E. J. Copeland , B. A. Bassett

We study metric-affine gravity (MAG) inspired cosmological models. Those models were statistically estimated using the SNIa data. We also use the cosmic microwave background observations and the big-bang nucleosynthesis analysis to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adam Krawiec , Marek Szydlowski , Wlodzimierz Godlowski

The observational data on the large scale structure (LSS) of the Universe are used to determine cosmological parameters within the class of adiabatic inflationary models. We show that a mixed dark matter model with cosmological constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Novosyadlyj , R. Durrer , S. Apunevych

The cosmic spatial curvature parameter $\Omega_k$ is constrained, primarily by cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, to be very small. Observations of the cosmic distance ladder and the large scale structure can provide independent checks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Haoting Xu , Zhiqi Huang , Zhenjie Liu , Haitao Miao

We analyze the observational constraints on brane-world cosmology whereby the universe is described as a three-brane embedded in a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. In this brane-universe cosmology, the Friedmann equation is modified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Ichiki , M. Yahiro , T. Kajino , M. Orito , G. J. Mathews

Combined analyses of WMAP 3-year and ACBAR Cosmic Microwave Anisotropies angular power spectra have presented evidence for gravitational lensing >3 sigma level. This signal could provide a relevant test for cosmology. After evaluating and…

Constrained measurements of fundamental physical constants using astronomical observational data represent a powerful method for investigating potential new physics. In particular, the dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Shi-Yuan Wang , Jun-Qing Xia

In this paper, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in a multiply-connected compact flat 3-torus model with the cosmological constant is investigated. Using the COBE-DMR 4-year data, a full Bayesian analysis revealed that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kaiki Taro Inoue

The extended Galileon models possess tracker solutions with de Sitter attractors along which the dark energy equation of state is constant during the matter-dominated epoch, i.e. w_DE = -1-s, where s is a positive constant. Even with this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-19 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

The WMAP team has recently highlighted the usefulness of combining the Ly-alpha forest constraints with those from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This combination is particularly powerful as a probe of the primordial shape of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Uros Seljak , Patrick McDonald , Alexey Makarov

We investigate observational constraints on cosmological parameters combining 15 measurements of the transversal BAO scale (obtained free of any fiducial cosmology) with Planck-CMB data to explore the parametric space of some cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-10 Rafael C. Nunes , Santosh K. Yadav , J. F. Jesus , Armando Bernui

We review how the various large-scale data constrain cosmological parameters and, consequently, theories for the origin of large-scale structure in the Universe. We discuss the form of the power spectrum implied by the correlation data of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kashlinsky

We use observational data on the large scale structure (LSS) of the Universe measured over a wide range of scales from sub-galactic up to horizon scale and on the cosmic microwave background anisotropies to determine cosmological parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 R. Durrer , B. Novosyadlyj

We compile a list of $14$ independent measurements of large-scale structure growth rate between redshifts $0.067 \leq z \leq 0.8$ and use this to place constraints on model parameters of constant and time-evolving general-relativistic dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Anatoly Pavlov , Omer Farooq , Bharat Ratra

We constrain deviations from general relativity (GR) including both redshift and scale dependencies in the modified gravity (MG) parameters. In particular, we employ the under-used binning approach and compare the results to functional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-18 Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Mustapha Ishak , Orion Ning

We investigate a spatially flat FLRW cosmological model in the framework of modified gravity described by the function \( f(R, L_m) = \alpha R + L_m^\beta + \gamma \), where \( L_m \) is the matter Lagrangian density. The modified Friedmann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 G. K. Goswami , Anirudh Pradhan , Syamala Krishnannair

Recent observations suggest that there are violations of the isotropy of the universe at large scales, an important part of the cosmological principle. In this paper, we use the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data to search for spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Shek Yeung , Ming-Chung Chu