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Cosmological parameter estimation is entering a new era. Large collaborations need to coordinate high-stakes analyses using multiple methods; furthermore such analyses have grown in complexity due to sophisticated models of cosmology and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Joe Zuntz , Marc Paterno , Elise Jennings , Douglas Rudd , Alessandro Manzotti , Scott Dodelson , Sarah Bridle , Saba Sehrish , James Kowalkowski

The precision of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, specifically its lensing reconstruction, has reached the limit where non-linear corrections cannot be ignored. Neglecting these corrections results in biased constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Cynthia Trendafilova , Ali Rida Khalife , Silvia Galli

Rapid progress has been made in observations of the temperature anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). These observations have enabled cosmologists to characterize the state of the universe at recombination, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tanmay Vachaspati , Arthur Lue

Several missions following Planck are currently under development, which will provide high-precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. Specifically, measurements of the E modes will become nearly limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Catherine Petretti , Matteo Braglia , Xingang Chen , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Sonia Paban

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters using the power spectrum of galaxy clustering measured from the final two-degree field galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS) and a compilation of measurements of the temperature power spectrum and…

We consider approaches to cosmological parameter estimation in the inflationary cosmology, focussing on the required accuracy of the initial power spectra. Parametrizing the spectra, for example by power-laws, is well suited to testing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Samuel M. Leach , Andrew R. Liddle , Jerome Martin , Dominik J. Schwarz

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

Following the pioneering observations with COBE in the early 1990s, studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have focused on temperature and polarization anisotropies. CMB spectral distortions - tiny departures of the CMB energy…

In this paper we explore the potential effects of DM annihilations on the cosmological recombination spectrum. With this example we want to demonstrate that the cosmological recombination spectrum in principle is sensitive to details…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Chluba

Cosmic Microwave Background satellite missions as the on-going Planck experiment are expected to provide the strongest constraints on a wide set of cosmological parameters. Those constraints, however, could be weakened when the assumption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Matteo Martinelli , Laura Lopez Honorez , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena

Measurements of fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) is one of the most promising methods for measuring the fundamental cosmological parameters. However, in order to infer parameters from precision measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Steen Hannestad

We present a novel approach to test the consistency of the cosmological models with multiband CMB data using a nonparametric approach. In our analysis we calibrate the REACT (Risk Estimation and Adaptation after Coordinate Transformation)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Amir Aghamousa , Arman Shafieloo

Cosmic reionization is driven by the formation of sources of ultraviolet photons, and hence it is an intrinsically asymmetric process, where its earlier stages occur at a slower pace relative to its later stages. Yet most modern cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Yin Li , Marco Barquero-Hernández , Pablo Renard , Yang Wang , Xiao-Dong Li

We present a method for accelerating the calculation of CMB power spectra, matter power spectra and likelihood functions for use in cosmological parameter estimation. The algorithm, called CosmoNet, is based on training a multilayer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Auld , M. Bridges , M. P. Hobson , S. F. Gull

The current paper provides a comprehensive examination of a dark energy cosmological model in the classical regime, in which a generic scalar field is regarded as a dark energy source. Einstein's field equations are solved in model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Ritika Nagpal , Shibesh Kumar Jas Pacif , Abhishek Parida

The standard cosmological model, with its six independent parameters, successfully describes our observable Universe. One of these parameters, the optical depth to reionization $\tau_\mathrm{reio}$, represents the scatterings that Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Yin Li , Miles Cranmer

It has been long recognised that, besides being a formidable experiment to observe the primordial CMB anisotropies, Planck will also have the capability to detect galaxy clusters via their SZ imprint. In this paper constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joern Geisbuesch , Michael Hobson

Recently, BICEP2 collaboration has released their results on the measurements of the CMB polarizations. In the framework of the $\Lambda$CDM with a power law form of the scalar primordial power spectrum, this new measurement on the B-mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Xinmin Zhang

In this work, we reconstruct the H(z) based on observational Hubble data with Artificial Neural Network, then estimate the cosmological parameters and the Hubble constant. The training data we used are covariance matrix and mock H(z), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Jie-feng Chen , Tong-Jie Zhang , Peng He , Tingting Zhang , Jie Zhang

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation offers a unique window into the early Universe, facilitating precise examinations of fundamental cosmological theories. However, the quest for detecting B-modes in the CMB, predicted by…