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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Jorge Mastache

In this paper, we present the first comprehensive CMB data analysis of cosmological collider physics. New heavy particles during inflation can leave imprints in the primordial correlators which are observable in today's cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Wuhyun Sohn , Dong-Gang Wang , James R. Fergusson , E. P. S. Shellard

We present a new method for time-efficient and accurate extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps based on properties of peaks and troughs of the Gaussian CMB sky. We construct a statistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Kashlinsky , C. Hernández--Monteagudo , F. Atrio--Barandela

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) fluctuations at very small angular scales (less than $10'$) induced by matter sources are computed in a simplified way. The result corrects a previous formula appearing in the literature. The small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Mark Hindmarsh

Since the temperature fluctuations in cosmic microwave background (CMB) on large-angular scales probe length scales that were super-horizon sized at photon decoupling and hence insensitive to microphysical processes, the low-multipole CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-30 Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang

We discuss how one can reconstruct the thermal history of the Universe by combining cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements and gravitational wave (GW) direct detection experiments. Assuming various expansion eras to take place after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-13 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Christophe Ringeval , Tomo Takahashi

A number of theoretically well-motivated additions to the standard cosmological model predict weak signatures in the form of spatially localized sources embedded in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations. We present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-18 Stephen M. Feeney , Matthew C. Johnson , Jason D. McEwen , Daniel J. Mortlock , Hiranya V. Peiris

The question of whether Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization data from Planck favor a spatially closed Universe with curvature parameter $\Omega_K<0$ has been the subject of recent intense discussions. Attempts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-18 Sunny Vagnozzi , Abraham Loeb , Michele Moresco

We introduce a publicly available full-sky beam convolution code library intended to inform the design of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) instruments and help current experiments probe potential systematic effects. The code can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Alexandra S. Rahlin

The ten's of micro-Kelvin variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation across the sky encode a wealth of information about the Universe. The full-sky, high-resolution maps of the CMB that will be made in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin White

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has been a cornerstone in many cosmology experiments and studies since it was discovered back in 1964. Traditional computational models like CAMB that are used for generating CMB temperature anisotropy maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-02 Amit Mishra , Pranath Reddy , Rahul Nigam

We present nanoCMB, a minimal but accurate calculator for the unlensed CMB temperature and polarisation angular power spectra ($C_\ell^{TT}$, $C_\ell^{EE}$, $C_\ell^{TE}$) of flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmologies. Written in $\sim$1400 lines of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Adam Moss

The aim of this project is to recover the CMB anisotropies maps in temperature and polarized intensity by means of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) which, after appropiate training, can remove the foregrounds from Planck and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 A. Quintana-Estellés , B. Ruiz-Granados , P. Ruiz-Lapuente

The study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a rapidly maturing field. In remarkable advances in the past two years, experiments have begun to probe the detailed structure of the CMB angular spectrum thereby providing insight into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lyman Page

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) have cemented the notion that the large-scale Universe is both statistically homogeneous and isotropic. But is it invariant also under reflections? To probe this we require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Oliver H. E. Philcox

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments have reached an era of unprecedented precision and complexity. Aiming to detect the primordial B-mode polarization signal, these experiments will soon be equipped with $10^{4}$ to $10^{5}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Avinash Anand , Giuseppe Puglisi

An enormous amount of observations on Cosmic Microwave Background radiation has been collected in the last decade, and much more data are expected in the near future from planned or operating satellite missions. These datasets are a…

Applications · Statistics 2009-05-15 Paolo Cabella , Domenico Marinucci

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to search for parity-violating processes like that predicted by a Chern-Simons coupling to a light pseudoscalar field. Such an interaction rotates $E$ modes into $B$…

The precision reached by the recent CMB measurements gives new insights into the shape of the primordial power spectra of the cosmological perturbations. In the context of inflationary cosmology, this implies that the CMB data are now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 Christophe Ringeval

This white paper addresses key challenges for the design of next-decade Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, and for assessing their capability to extract cosmological information from CMB polarization. We focus here on the…