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Cosmological parameter estimation is entering a new era. Large collaborations need to coordinate high-stakes analyses using multiple methods; furthermore such analyses have grown in complexity due to sophisticated models of cosmology and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Joe Zuntz , Marc Paterno , Elise Jennings , Douglas Rudd , Alessandro Manzotti , Scott Dodelson , Sarah Bridle , Saba Sehrish , James Kowalkowski

Useful information can be retrieved by analysing the transit light curve of a planet-hosting star or induced radial velocity oscillations. However, inferring the physical parameters of the planet, such as mass, size, and semi-major axis,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Andrea Bonfanti , Michaël Gillon

We introduce new CosmoEJS modules to improve the investigation of the consequences of constraints on the parameter values of cosmological models. We use CosmoMC to fit dark energy models and modified gravity models to recent data from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Jacob Moldenhauer , Francis Cavanna , William O'toole , William Zimmerman

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

Determination of cosmological parameters is a major goal in cosmology at present. The availability of improved data sets necessitates the development of novel statistical tools to interpret the inference from a cosmological model. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Ranbir Sharma , H K Jassal

This is the user manual for CosmoLattice, a modern package for lattice simulations of the dynamics of interacting scalar and gauge fields in an expanding universe. CosmoLattice incorporates a series of features that makes it very versatile…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Daniel G. Figueroa , Adrien Florio , Francisco Torrenti , Wessel Valkenburg

This lecture is an introduction to cosmological tests with clusters of galaxies. Here I do not intend to provide a complete review of the subject, but rather to describe the basic procedures to set up the fitting machinery to constrain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Tozzi

This article is a tutorial on Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations and their statistical analysis. The theoretical concepts are illustrated through many numerical assignments from the author's book on the subject. Computer code (in Fortran)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Bernd A. Berg

RunMC is an object-oriented framework aimed to generate and to analyse high-energy collisions of elementary particles using Monte Carlo simulations. This package, being based on C++ adopted by CERN as the main programming language for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Chekanov

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a sampling-based method for estimating features of probability distributions. MCMC methods produce a serially correlated, yet representative, sample from the desired distribution. As such it can be…

Computation · Statistics 2019-12-10 Dootika Vats , Nathan Robertson , James M Flegal , Galin L Jones

We present a fast Markov Chain Monte-Carlo exploration of cosmological parameter space. We perform a joint analysis of results from recent CMB experiments and provide parameter constraints, including sigma_8, from the CMB independent of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Antony Lewis , Sarah Bridle

MSstatsQC [3] is an open-source software that provides longitudinal system suitability monitoring tools in the form of control charts for proteomic experiments. It includes simultaneous tools for the mean and dispersion of suitability…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Sara Mohammad Taheri , Omkar Terse , Eralp Dogu , Magy Seif El-Nasr , Olga Vitek

We use cosmography to present constraints on the kinematics of the Universe without postulating any underlying theoretical model a priori. To this end, we use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to perform comparisons to the supernova Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-18 Alejandro Aviles , Christine Gruber , Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

We present the BACCO project, a simulation framework specially designed to provide highly-accurate predictions for the distribution of mass, galaxies, and gas as a function of cosmological parameters. In this paper, we describe our main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Raul E. Angulo , Matteo Zennaro , Sergio Contreras , Giovanni Aricò , Marcos Pellejero-Ibañez , Jens Stücker

Cosmological correlators hold the key to high-energy physics as they probe the earliest moments of our Universe, and conceal hidden mathematical structures. However, even at tree-level, perturbative calculations are limited by technical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 Denis Werth , Lucas Pinol , Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Since the middle of the 1940's scientists have used Monte Carlo (MC) simulations to obtain information about physical processes. This has proved a accurate and and reliable method to obtain this information. Through out resent years…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-02 Thomas Amby Ottosen

Recently PAMELA collaboration published the cosmic nuclei and electron spectra with high precision, together with the cosmic antiproton data updated, and the Fermi-LAT collaboration also updated the measurement of the total $e^+e^-$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 Jie Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

cosmosage is a natural-language assistant intended for a wide audience, from laypersons interested in cosmology to students, teachers, and professional cosmologists. cosmosage provides a novel way to access knowledge and reason about…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Tijmen de Haan

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

This paper introduces a new publicly available numerical library for cosmology, Cosmo++. The library has been designed using object-oriented programming techniques, and fully implemented in C++. Cosmo++ introduces a unified interface for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 Grigor Aslanyan