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We introduce $\sf{CosmoBit}$, a module within the open-source $\sf{GAMBIT}$ software framework for exploring connections between cosmology and particle physics with joint global fits. $\sf{CosmoBit}$ provides a flexible framework for…

The application of Bayesian methods in cosmology and astrophysics has flourished over the past decade, spurred by data sets of increasing size and complexity. In many respects, Bayesian methods have proven to be vastly superior to more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Roberto Trotta

I present CMBAnalysis, a state-of-the-art Python framework designed for high-precision analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation data. This comprehensive package implements parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Srikrishna S Kashyap

Simulation-based inference (SBI) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting cosmological information from galaxy surveys deep into the non-linear regime. Despite its great promise, its application is limited by the computational cost of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Gemma Zhang , Chirag Modi , Oliver H. E. Philcox

We define an optimal basis system into which cosmological observables can be decomposed. The basis system can be optimised for a specific cosmological model or for an ensemble of models, even if based on drastically different physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-21 M. Maturi , C. Mignone

This paper offers a new point of view on component separation, based on a model of additive components which enjoys a much greater flexibility than more traditional linear component models. This flexibility is needed to process the complex…

Recent progress in cosmology has relied on combining different cosmological probes. In earlier work, we implemented an integrated approach to cosmology where the probes are combined into a common framework at the map level. This has the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Andrina Nicola , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

We discuss the problems of applying Maximum Likelihood methods to the CMB and how one can make it both efficient and optimal. The solution is a generalised eigenvalue problem that allows virtually no loss of information about the parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andy Taylor , Alan Heavens , Bill Ballinger , Max Tegmark

CMB anisotropy data could put powerful constraints on theories of the evolution of our Universe. Using the observations of the large number of CMB experiments, many studies have put constraints on cosmological parameters assuming different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marian Douspis

We present a toolkit, CosmoDS, designed to study cosmological models at the background level using dynamical system analysis within the Cobaya framework. Dynamical system analysis is a powerful mathematical approach for studying nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nandan Roy , Prasanta Sahoo

Currently, a method has been developed for the cosmological inflation model with a single scalar field to calculate cosmological parameters such as the power spectrum of scalar and tensor perturbations, their spectral indices, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Katerina Bolshakova , Sergey Chervon

Developing accurate analysis techniques to combine various probes of cosmology is essential to tighten constraints on cosmological parameters and to check for inconsistencies in our model of the Universe. In this paper we develop a joint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause , Peter Schneider , Klaus Honscheid

The detection of the accelerated expansion of the Universe has been one of the major breakthroughs in modern cosmology. Several cosmological probes (CMB, SNe Ia, BAO) have been studied in depth to better understand the nature of the…

The influx of massive amounts of data from current and upcoming cosmological surveys necessitates compression schemes that can efficiently summarize the data with minimal loss of information. We introduce a method that leverages the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Aizhan Akhmetzhanova , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Cora Dvorkin

We introduce a Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation and data analysis package that extends the CMBEASY software. We have taken special care in implementing an adaptive step algorithm for the Markov Chain Monte Carlo in order to improve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Doran , Christian M. Mueller

Cosmological parameter estimation from forthcoming experiments promise to reach much greater precision than current constraints. As statistical errors shrink, the required control over systematic errors increases. Therefore, models or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 José Luis Bernal , Nicola Bellomo , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde

We present cosmo_learn, an open-source python-based software package designed to simulate cosmological data and perform data-driven inference using a range of modern statistical and machine learning techniques. Motivated by the growing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Daniela Grandón , Jackson Levi Said , Víctor H. Cárdenas , Gene Carlo Belinario , Reinabelle Reyes

Several cosmological measurements have attained significant levels of maturity and accuracy over the last decade. Continuing this trend, future observations promise measurements of the statistics of the cosmic mass distribution at an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Brian Williams

The ability to obtain reliable point estimates of model parameters is of crucial importance in many fields of physics. This is often a difficult task given that the observed data can have a very high number of dimensions. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Janis Fluri , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann