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We present new constraints on possible features in the primordial inflationary density perturbations power spectrum in light of the recent Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies measurements from the Planck satellite. We found that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Micol Benetti

The latest cosmological data seem to indicate a significant deviation from scale invariance of the primordial power spectrum when parameterized either by a power law or by a spectral index with non-zero "running". This deviation, by itself,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Licia Verde , Hiranya V. Peiris

Using the temperature data from Planck we search for departures from a power-law primordial power spectrum, employing Bayesian model-selection and posterior probabilities. We parametrize the spectrum with $n$ knots located at arbitrary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-28 Grigor Aslanyan , Layne C. Price , Kevork N. Abazajian , Richard Easther

Measuring the deviation from scale invariance of the primordial power spectrum is a critical test of inflation. In this paper we reconstruct the shape of the primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbations from the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 Zong-Kuan Guo , Dominik J. Schwarz , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

We apply our recently developed code to search for resonance features in the Planck CMB temperature data. We search both for log spaced oscillations or linear spaced oscillations and compare our findings with results of our WMAP9 analysis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-22 P. Daniel Meerburg , David N. Spergel , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Reconstructing the shape of the primordial power spectrum in a model independent way from cosmological data is a useful consistency check on what is usually assumed regarding early universe physics. It is also our primary window to unknown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pia Mukherjee , Yun Wang

We perform a Bayesian analysis to study possible features in the primordial inflationary power spectrum of scalar perturbations. In particular, we analyse the possibility of detecting the imprint of these primordial features in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Micol Benetti , Jailson S. Alcaniz

By using the cubic spline interpolation method, we reconstruct the shape of the primordial scalar and tensor power spectra from the recently released {\it Planck} temperature and BICEP2 polarization cosmic microwave background data. We find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-06 Bin Hu , Jian-Wei Hu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai

We develop an accurate and efficient Bayesian method to reconstruct the primordial power spectrum in a model-independent way, and apply it to the latest cosmic microwave background measurement from Planck mission, and the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-28 Xin Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao

We extend to large scales a method proposed in previous work that reconstructs non-parametrically the primordial power spectrum from cosmic microwave background data at high resolution. The improvement is necessary to account for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Domenico Tocchini-Valentini , Yehuda Hoffman , Joseph Silk

With the Planck 2015 Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization data, we search for possible features in the primordial power spectrum (PPS). We revisit the Wiggly Whipped Inflation (WWI) framework and demonstrate how…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-14 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo , George F. Smoot , Alexei A. Starobinsky

The basic cosmological parameters and the primordial power spectrum together completely specify predictions for the cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy and large scale structure. Here we show how we can strongly constrain both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Yun Wang , David N. Spergel , Michael A. Strauss

The current available CMB data show an anomalously low value of the CMB temperature fluctuations at large angular scales (l < 40). This lack of power is not explained by the minimal LCDM model, and one of the possible mechanisms explored in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 Simony Santos da Costa , Micol Benetti , Jailson Alcaniz

The primordial power spectrum is an indirect probe of inflation or other structure-formation mechanisms. We introduce a new method, named \textbf{PRISM}, to estimate this spectrum from the empirical cosmic microwave background (CMB) power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 P. Paykari , F. Lanusse , J. -L. Starck , F. Sureau , J. Bobin

We study features in the bispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation correlated with the reconstructed primordial power spectrum from the observed cosmic microwave background temperature data. We first show how the bispectrum can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-25 Stephen Appleby , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo , Spyros Sypsas

The primordial curvature fluctuation spectrum is reconstructed by the maximum likelihood reconstruction method using the five-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy. We apply…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 Ryo Nagata , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We present three non-parametric Bayesian primordial reconstructions using Planck 2018 polarization data: linear spline primordial power spectrum reconstructions, cubic spline inflationary potential reconstructions and sharp-featured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Will J. Handley , Anthony N. Lasenby , Hiranya V. Peiris , Michael P. Hobson

We update the constraints on possible features in the primordial inflationary density perturbation spectrum by using the latest data from the WMAP7 and ACT Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. The inclusion of new data significantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Micol Benetti , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Erminia Calabrese , Alessandro Melchiorri

Detailed knowledge of the primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbations is essential both in order to elucidate the physical mechanism (`inflation') which generated it, and for estimating the cosmological parameters from observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-17 Paul Hunt , Subir Sarkar

In order to constrain and possibly detect unusual physics during inflation, we allow the power spectrum of primordial matter density fluctuations, P_{in}(k), to be an arbitrary function in the estimation of cosmological parameters from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Pia Mukherjee , Yun Wang