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We carry out an independent re-analysis of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) public dataset, focusing on extensions to the standard cosmological model, $\Lambda$CDM. Utilizing the dataset and Effective Field Theory (EFT)-based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

We explore interacting dark matter (DM) models that allow DM and baryons to scatter off of each other with a cross section that scales with relative particle velocity. Using the effective field theory of large-scale structure, we perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Adam He , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Rui An , Trey Driskell , Vera Gluscevic

Cosmological parameter constraints from the CMB power spectra alone suffer several well-known degeneracies. These degeneracies can be broken by numerical artefacts and also a variety of physical effects that become quantitatively important…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-23 Cullan Howlett , Antony Lewis , Alex Hall , Anthony Challinor

We revisit the possibility of using cosmological observations to constrain models that involve interactions between neutrinos and dark matter. We show that small-scale measurements of the cosmic microwave background with a few per cent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Philippe Brax , Carsten van de Bruck , Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Sebastian Trojanowski

Our tightest upper limit on the sum of neutrino mass eigenvalues $M_\nu$ comes from cosmological observations that will improve substantially in the near future, enabling a detection. The combination of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Zhen Pan , Lloyd Knox

We use cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large-scale structure data to constrain cosmological models where the primordial perturbations have both an adiabatic and a cold dark matter (CDM) isocurvature component. We allow for a possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-23 Hannu Kurki-Suonio , Vesa Muhonen , Jussi Valiviita

If dark matter decays to electromagnetically-interacting particles, it can inject energy into the baryonic gas and thus affect the processes of recombination and reionization. This leaves an imprint on the cosmic microwave background (CMB):…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Le Zhang , Xuelei Chen , Marc Kamionkowski , Zongguo Si , Zheng Zheng

The Planck experiment will soon provide a very accurate measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies. This will let cosmologists determine most of the cosmological parameters with unprecedented accuracy. Future experiments will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-24 Silvia Galli , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandro Melchiorri , Luca Pagano , Blake D. Sherwin , David N. Spergel

The temperature fluctuations and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are now a well-known probe of the Universe at an infant age of 400,000 years. During the transit to us from the surface of last scattering, the CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-19 Joseph Smidt , Asantha Cooray , Alexandre Amblard , Shahab Joudaki , Dipak Munshi , Mario G. Santos , Paolo Serra

We investigate a cosmological model in which a fraction of the dark matter is atomic dark matter (ADM). This ADM consists of dark versions of the electron and of the proton, interacting with each other and with dark photons just as their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Ellie Hughes , Fei Ge , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Lloyd Knox , Srinivasan Raghunathan

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 update the constraints on the simple decaying cold dark matter (DCDM) model with dark radiation (DR) as decay product. We consider two different regimes of the lifetime, i.e. short-lived and long-lived, and use the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-13 Andreas Nygaard , Thomas Tram , Steen Hannestad

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 the weak lensing effect induced by linear cosmological perturbations on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropies. We find that the amplitude of the lensing peak in the BB mode power spectrum is a faithful…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Viviana Acquaviva , Carlo Baccigalupi

We investigate the potential of using cosmic voids as a probe to constrain cosmological parameters through the gravitational lensing effect of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and make predictions for the next generation surveys. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-19 Teeraparb Chantavat , Utane Sawangwit , P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We constrain two vacuum decay models ($\Lambda(t)$CDM, proposed by the authors of~\cite{Brito:2024bhh}) utilizing the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) data released by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), distance prior from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yupeng Yang , Yicheng Wang , Xinyi Dai

Recent DESI baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements, combined with Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and DESY5 type Ia supernova (SN) data, indicate a significant deviation from $\Lambda$CDM, which seems to suggest that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Yun-He Li , Yichao Li , Jia-Le Ling , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We examine interactions between dark matter and dark energy in light of the latest cosmological observations, focusing on a specific model with coupling proportional to the dark energy density. Our data includes Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-10 Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Sunny Vagnozzi

We present a search for axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with observations from the Keck Array. A local axion field induces an all-sky, temporally sinusoidal rotation of CMB polarization. A CMB…

The damping of primordial perturbations at small scales gives rise to distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Here, the dependence of the distortion on the different types of cosmological initial conditions is explored,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-18 Jens Chluba , Daniel Grin