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Measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies provide strong evidence for the existence of dark matter and dark energy. They can also test its composition, probing the energy density and particle mass of different…

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Recent analyses combining cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) challenge particle physics constraints on the total neutrino mass, pointing to values smaller than the lower limit from neutrino oscillation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Andrea Cozzumbo , Mattia Atzori Corona , Riccardo Murgia , Maria Archidiacono , Matteo Cadeddu

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) analysis from the first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), when combined with data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), has placed an upper-limit on the sum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Daniel Green , Joel Meyers , Surjeet Rajendran

We present cosmological constraints for the flat $\Lambda$CDM model, including the sum of neutrino masses, by performing a multi-probe analysis of a total of 13 tomographic auto- and cross-angular power spectra. This is achieved by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-11 Raphael Sgier , Christiane Lorenz , Alexandre Refregier , Janis Fluri , Dominik Zürcher , Federica Tarsitano

Since the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) was detected by the BICEP2 experiment and an unexpectedly large tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r=0.20^{+0.07}_{-0.05}$, was found, the base standard cosmology should at least…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-22 Jing-Fei Zhang , Yun-He Li , Xin Zhang

It has been claimed recently that massive sterile neutrinos could bring about a new concordance between observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, and local measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Boris Leistedt , Hiranya V. Peiris , Licia Verde

Measurements of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) hold the promise of yielding unique insights into cosmology at high redshift. Uncertainties due to baryonic effects associated with galaxy formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Eegene Chung , Simon Foreman , Alexander van Engelen

We present a joint analysis of the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) final data releases. A key novelty of our study is the use of a new full-shape (FS) likelihood for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

We investigate the observational constraints on the cosmic neutrino background (CNB) given by the extended $\Lambda$CDM scenario ($\Lambda$CDM $+ N_{\rm eff} + \sum m_{\nu} + c^2_{\rm eff} + c^2_{\rm vis} + \xi_{\nu}$) using the latest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 Rafael C. Nunes , Alexander Bonilla

We explore how local, cosmology-independent measurements of the Hubble constant and the age of the Universe help to provide a powerful consistency check of the currently favored cosmological model (flat LambdaCDM) and model-independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-25 Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez , Stephen Feeney

We measure the sum of the neutrino particle masses using the three-dimensional galaxy power spectrum of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 9 (DR9) CMASS galaxy sample. Combined with the cosmic microwave…

The most precise determination of the sum of neutrino masses from cosmological data, derived from analysis of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic acoustic oscillations (BAO) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-11 Daniel Green , Joel Meyers

We examine the performance of the six-parameter $\Lambda$CDM model and its extensions in light of recent cosmological observations, with particular focus on neutrino properties inferred from cosmology. Using a broad suite of nine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Helena García Escudero , Kevork N. Abazajian

Distortions of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization maps caused by gravitational lensing, observable with high angular resolution and high sensitivity, can be used to measure the neutrino mass. Assuming two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Manoj Kaplinghat , Lloyd Knox , Yong-Seon Song

We present cosmological parameters measurements from the full combination of DESI DR1 galaxy clustering data described with large-scale structure effective field theory. By incorporating additional datasets (photometric galaxies and CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Mikhail M. Ivanov , James M. Sullivan , Shi-Fan Chen , Anton Chudaykin , Mark Maus , Oliver H. E. Philcox

Primordial nucleosynthesis provides a probe of the universal abundance of baryons when the universe was only a few minutes old. Recent observations of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) probe the baryon abundance when the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Steigman , J. P. Kneller , A. Zentner

We show that even the smallest neutrino mass consistent with the Super--Kamiokande data is relevant for cosmological models of structure formation and cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, provided that a relic neutrino asymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 J. Lesgourgues , S. Pastor , S. Prunet

We revisit cosmological neutrino mass bounds when a fraction of dark matter is allowed to decay to massless dark radiation. By compensating the late-time increase in the matter density induced by neutrinos becoming non-relativistic,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Thomas Montandon , Vivian Poulin , Thomas Rink , Thomas Schwetz

We employ robust weak gravitational lensing measurements to improve cosmological constraints from measurements of the galaxy cluster mass function and its evolution, using X-ray selected clusters detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Our…

We demonstrate the impact on forecasted neutrino mass constraints of extending galaxy clustering and CMB lensing predictions from linear to next-to-leading-order power spectra. The redshift-space 1-loop power spectrum model we adopt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Aoife Boyle , Fabian Schmidt