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The AMS-02 experiment has observed new properties of primary cosmic rays (CRs) categorized into two groups: He-C-O-Fe and Ne-Mg-Si-S, which are independent of CR propagation. In this study, we investigate the unexpected properties of these…

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We propose a new statistic that has been designed to be used in situations where the intrinsic dispersion of a data set is not well known: The Crossing Statistic. This statistic is in general less sensitive than `chi^2' to the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-22 Arman Shafieloo , Timothy Clifton , Pedro G. Ferreira

There is growing interest in using 3-dimensional neutral hydrogen mapping with the redshifted 21 cm line as a cosmological probe, as it has been argued to have a greater long-term potential than the cosmic microwave background. However, its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi Mao , Max Tegmark , Matthew McQuinn , Matias Zaldarriaga , Oliver Zahn

We forecast the sensitivity of thirty-five different combinations of future Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure data sets to cosmological parameters and to the total neutrino mass. We work under conservative assumptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Thejs Brinckmann , Deanna C. Hooper , Maria Archidiacono , Julien Lesgourgues , Tim Sprenger

The observations of the energy spectra of cosmic-ray have revealed complicated structures. Especially, spectral hardenings in the boron-to-carbon and boron-to-oxygen ratios above $\sim 200$ GV has been revealed by AMS-02 and DAMPE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Dong-Xu Sun , Pei-Pei Zhang , Yi-Qing Guo , Wei Liu , Qiang Yuan

The Millimeter-wave Intensity Mapping Experiment (mmIME) recently reported a detection of excess spatial fluctuations at a wavelength of 3 mm, which can be attributed to unresolved emission of several CO rotational transitions between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Patrick C. Breysse , Shengqi Yang , Rachel S. Somerville , Anthony R. Pullen , Gergö Popping , Abhishek S. Maniyar

A possible hint of dark matter annihilation has been found in Cuoco, Korsmeier and Kr\"amer (2017) from an analysis of recent cosmic-ray antiproton data from AMS-02 and taking into account cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties by fitting at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

We combine the data from PAMELA and FERMI-LAT cosmic ray experiments by introducing a simple sum rule. This allows to investigate whether the lepton excess observed by these experiments is charge symmetric or not. We also show how the data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Isabella Masina

Cosmic rays are nowadays a crucial tool to study the astrophysics of extreme objects in the Universe, the cosmic environmental plasma (both Galactic and extra-galactic), the physics of nuclear interactions or the properties of elementary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Pedro de la Torre Luque

We implemented a quasi time-dependent 2D stochastic model of solar modulation describing the transport of cosmic rays (CR) in the heliosphere. Our code can modulate the Local Interstellar Spectrum (LIS) of a generic charged particle (light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Bobik , M. J. Boschini , C. Consolandi , S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , K. Kudela , S. Pensotti , P. G. Rancoita

Understanding the equation of state (EOS) of pure neutron matter is necessary for interpreting multimessenger observations of neutron stars. Reliable data analyses of these observations require well-quantified uncertainties for the EOS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Cassandra L. Armstrong , Pablo Giuliani , Kyle Godbey , Rahul Somasundaram , Ingo Tews

The standard model of cosmic ray propagation has been very successful in explaining all kinds of the Galactic cosmic ray spectra. However, high precision measurement recently revealed the appreciable discrepancy between data and model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Y. Q. Guo , H. B. Hu , Z. Tian

An enormous amount of observations on Cosmic Microwave Background radiation has been collected in the last decade, and much more data are expected in the near future from planned or operating satellite missions. These datasets are a…

Applications · Statistics 2009-05-15 Paolo Cabella , Domenico Marinucci

We present predictions for cosmological parameter constraints from combined measurements of second- and third-order statistics of cosmic shear. We define the generalized third-order aperture mass statistics <M_ap^3> and show that it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Kilbinger , Peter Schneider

AMS-02 has reached the sensitivity to probe canonical thermal WIMPs by their annihilation into antiprotons. Due to the high precision of the data, uncertainties in the astrophysical background have become the most limiting factor for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Annika Reinert , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

The possibility of determining cosmological parameters on the basis of a wide set of observational data including the Abell-ACO cluster power spectrum and mass function, peculiar velocities of galaxies, the distribution of Ly-$\alpha$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Novosyadlyj , R. Durrer , S. Gottloeber , V. N. Lukash , S. Apunevych

Since its launch, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 (AMS-02) has delivered outstanding quality measurements of the spectra of cosmic-ray (CR) species, $\bar{p}$, $e^{\pm}$, and nuclei (H-Si, Fe), which resulted in a number of…

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an integral component of the interstellar medium, producing broadband emission while interacting with other Galactic matter components like the interstellar gas or magnetic fields. In addition to observations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Julia Thaler , Ralf Kissmann , Olaf Reimer

The statistical properties of estimator using covariance matrix for the account of point-to-point correlations due to systematic errors are analyzed. It is shown that the covariance matrix estimator (CME) is consistent for the realistic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Alekhin Sergey

The precise spectra of Cosmic Ray (CR) electrons and positrons have been published by the measurement of AMS-02. It is reasonable to regard the difference between the electrons and positrons spectra ( $\triangle \Phi= \Phi_{e^-}-\Phi_{e^+}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-17 C. Jin , Y. Q. Guo , H. B. Hu