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We describe a fast and accurate method for estimation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy angular power spectrum --- Monte Carlo Apodised Spherical Transform EstimatoR. Originally devised for use in the interpretation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-11 E. Hivon , K. M. Gorski , C. B. Netterfield , B. P. Crill , S. Prunet , F. Hansen

A recently proposed mechanism for large-scale structure in string cosmology --based on massless axionic seeds-- is further analyzed and extended to the acoustic-peak region. Existence, structure, and normalization of the peaks turn out to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Melchiorri , F. Vernizzi , R. Durrer , G. Veneziano

We use the currently available cosmic observations to probe and constrain an imperfect dark energy fluid which is characterized by a constant equation of state $w$ and a constant speed of viscosity $c^2_{vis}$. The model parameter space was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Baorong Chang , Lixin Xu

The Kolmogorov stochasticity parameter (KSP) as a sensitive descriptor of the degree of randomness of signals was used to analyze the properties of the NANOGrav pulsar timing data associated with a stochastic gravitational wave background.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 N. Galikyan , A. A. Kocharyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

In this paper a computationally efficient approach is suggested for the stochastic modeling of an inhomogeneous reluctivity of magnetic materials. These materials can be part of electrical machines, such as a single phase transformer (a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Radoslav Jankoski , Ulrich Römer , Sebastian Schöps

We review the current status of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, including a brief discussion of some basic theoretical aspects as well as a summary of anisotropy detections and CMB experiments. We focus on the description…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 R. B. Barreiro

To correctly analyse data sets from current microwave detection technology, one is forced to estimate the sky signal and experimental noise simultaneously. Given a time-ordered data set we propose a formalism and method for estimating the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pedro G. Ferreira , Andrew H. Jaffe

A new method for analyzing point patterns produced by the evolution of gravitational clustering is presented. The method is taken from the study of molecular liquids, where it has been introduced for making a statistical description of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Valdarnini

Astrometric measurements provide a unique avenue for constraining the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). In this work, we investigate the application of two neural network architectures, a fully connected network and a graph…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Marienza Caldarola , Gonzalo Morrás , Santiago Jaraba , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Savvas Nesseris , Juan García-Bellido

The invited review of own algorithms and software (MAVKA and MCV) for the data analysis of astronomical signals - irregularly spaced, multi-periodic multi-harmonic, periodogram analysis and approximations with taking into account a…

In previous works, we proposed to estimate cosmological parameters with the artificial neural network (ANN) and the mixture density network (MDN). In this work, we propose an improved method called the mixture neural network (MNN) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Guo-Jian Wang , Cheng Cheng , Yin-Zhe Ma , Jun-Qing Xia , Amare Abebe , Aroonkumar Beesham

The direct detection of gravitational waves has provided new opportunities for studying the universe, but also new challenges, such as the detection and characterization of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds at different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Ciarán Conneely , Andrew H. Jaffe , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

Stochastic resonance describes the utility of noise in improving the detectability of weak signals in certain types of systems. It has been observed widely in natural and engineered settings, but its utility in image classification with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Siegfried Ludwig

Line discontinuities in cosmic microwave background anisotropy maps are a distinctive prediction of models with cosmic strings. These signatures are visible in anisotropy maps with good angular resolution and should be identifiable using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Stephen Amsel , Joshua Berger , Robert H. Brandenberger

This article explores the properties (amplitude and shape) of the angular power spectrum of the anisotropies of the astrophysical gravitational wave background (AGWB) focusing on the signatures of the astrophysical models describing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Giulia Cusin , Irina Dvorkin , Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a project to map the microwave background radiation at arcminute angular resolution and high sensitivity in three frequency bands over substantial sky areas. Cosmological signals driving such an experiment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Arthur Kosowsky

Much attention has been given to the problem of estimating cosmological parameters from the $C_l$ measured by future experiments. Many of the approaches which are being used either invoke poorly controlled approximations or are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin D. Wandelt , Eric Hivon , Krzysztof M. Gorski

Polarization induced by cosmological scalar perturbations leads to a typical anisotropy pattern, which can best be analyzed in Fourier domain. This allows one to unambiguously distinguish cosmological signal of polarization from other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Uros Seljak

We summarise the current status of cosmic microwave background spectrum and anisotropy measurements, and their theoretical interpretation. This is the update of the mini-review for the 1997 web-version of the Review of Particle Properties.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George Smoot , Douglas Scott

We establish weak convergence of the empirical process on the spherical harmonics of a Gaussian random field in the presence of an unknown angular power spectrum. This result suggests various Gaussianity tests with an asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Domenico Marinucci , Mauro Piccioni