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The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has been a treasure trove for cosmology. Over the next decade, current and planned CMB experiments are expected to exhaust nearly all primary CMB information. To further constrain cosmological models,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Benjamin Beringue , P. Daniel Meerburg , Joel Meyers , Nicholas Battaglia

See comments. We calculate analytically an effect of the thermal Comptonization on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons when they propagate through galaxy clusters. We estimate a deformation of the CMB spectrum due to multiple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Lev Titarchuk , Galina Lipunova

Observers have demonstrated that it is now feasible to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature at high redshifts. We explore the possible constraints on cosmology which might ultimately be derived from such measurements.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John M. LoSecco , Grant J. Mathews , Yun Wang

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) contains perturbations that are close to Gaussian and isotropic. This means that its information content, in the sense of the ability to constrain cosmological models, is closely related to the number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Douglas Scott , Dagoberto Contreras , Ali Narimani , Yin-Zhe Ma

In this study, we analyzed millimeter-wave data toward the quasar PKS1830-211 observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to obtain absorption spectra of HCN $J$=2-1, $J$=3-2, $J$=4-3, and $J$=5-4 lines at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Tatsuya Kotani , Tomoharu Oka , Rei Enokiya , Kazuki Yanagihara , Miyuki Kaneko , Ryo Ariyama

Since the measurements of COBE/FIRAS in the mid-90's we know that the energy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is extremely close to that of a perfect blackbody at an average temperature T0~2.726K. However, a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-11 Jens Chluba

In 1965, the discovery of a new type of uniform radiation, located between radiowaves and infrared light, was accidental. Known today as Cosmic Microwave background (CMB), this diffuse radiation is commonly interpreted as a fossil light…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud

A cosmological model, in which the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a thermal radiation of intergalactic dust instead of a relic radiation of the Big Bang, is revived and revisited. The model suggests that a virtually transparent local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-30 Vaclav Vavrycuk

We calculate the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum due to inhomogeneous reionization. We calculate all the terms that can contribute to the bispectrum that are products of first order terms on all scales in conformal Newtonian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Rishi Khatri , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) contain a wealth of information about the past history of the universe and the present values of cosmological parameters. I ouline some of the theoretical advances of the last few years.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Dodelson

High-contrast peaks in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy can appear as unresolved sources to observers. We fit simulated CMB maps generated with a cold dark matter model to a set of unresolved features at instrumental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kogut , G. Hinshaw , C. L. Bennett

Spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) offer the possibility of probing processes which occurred during the evolution of our Universe going back up to Z$\simeq 10^7$. Unfortunately all the attempts so far carried out…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Giorgio Sironi

At wavelengths longer than 21 cm, photons from the long-wavelength tail of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have a non-zero probability of being absorbed by distant neutral hydrogen. This provides an additional suppression of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Gilbert Holder , Adrian Liu , Tzu-Ching Chang , David Zegeye

The dimming of Type Ia supernovae could be the result of Hubble-scale inhomogeneity in the matter and spatial curvature, rather than signaling the presence of a dark energy component. A key challenge for such models is to fit the detailed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-22 Chris Clarkson , Marco Regis

We show how observations of temperature fluctuations in cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to extract information related to the large scale structure, including dark matter distribution, pressure and halo velocities involving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asantha Cooray

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) fluctuations at very small angular scales (less than $10'$) induced by matter sources are computed in a simplified way. The result corrects a previous formula appearing in the literature. The small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Mark Hindmarsh

The conventional $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model supplemented by the inflation concept describes the Universe very well. However, there are still a few concerns: new Planck data impose constraints on the shape of the inflaton potential,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-03 Branislav Vlahovic , Maxim Eingorn , Cosmin Ilie

Forthcoming cosmic microwave background experiments (CMB) will provide precise new tests of structure-formation theories. The geometry of the Universe may be determined robustly, and the classical cosmological parameters, such as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Kamionkowski

We study the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy due to spherically symmetric nonlinear structures in flat universes with dust and a cosmological constant. By modeling a time-evolving spherical compensated void/lump by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 Nobuyuki Sakai , Kaiki Taro Inoue

The anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are computed for the half-turn space E_2 which represents a compact flat model of the Universe, i.e. one with finite volume. This model is inhomogeneous in the sense that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Aurich , S. Lustig