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We introduce ScannerBit, the statistics and sampling module of the public, open-source global fitting framework GAMBIT. ScannerBit provides a standardised interface to different sampling algorithms, enabling the use and comparison of…

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We present comprehensive global fits of supersymmetric (SUSY) models from the Global and Modular Beyond-the-Standard-Model Inference Tool (GAMBIT) collaboration, based on arXiv:1705.07935 and arXiv:1705.07917. We investigate several…

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Understanding how cosmological parameters influence the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra is a central component of modern cosmology education, but interactive exploration is often limited by computational cost or technical…

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Cosmological inflation is a popular paradigm for understanding Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR); however, it faces many conceptual challenges. An alternative mechanism to inflation for generating an almost scale-invariant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 S. Mahesh Chandran , S. Shankaranarayanan

Over the past several decades, unexpected astronomical discoveries have been fueling a new wave of particle model building and are inspiring the next generation of ever-more-sophisticated simulations to reveal the nature of Dark Matter…

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a precious window on fundamental physics at very high energy scales, possibly including quantum gravity, GUTs and supersymmetry. The CMB has already enabled defect-based rivals to inflation to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-11 John Ellis

We present cosmo_learn, an open-source python-based software package designed to simulate cosmological data and perform data-driven inference using a range of modern statistical and machine learning techniques. Motivated by the growing…

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We present a method for ultra-fast confrontation of the WMAP cosmic microwave background observations with theoretical models, implemented as a publicly available software package called CMBfit, useful for anyone wishing to measure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-07 Havard B. Sandvik , Max Tegmark , Xiaomin Wang , Matias Zaldarriaga

The antiproton flux measurements from AMS-02 offer valuable information about the nature of dark matter, but their interpretation is complicated by large uncertainties in the modeling of cosmic ray propagation. In this work we present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-15 Sowmiya Balan , Felix Kahlhoefer , Michael Korsmeier , Silvia Manconi , Kathrin Nippel

Cosmology is living through fascinating times, where new observations from ground and space telescopes are questioning the established paradigm, the so-called Lambda Cold Dark Matter model. The particle nature of Dark Matter is severely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Juan Garcia-Bellido

Developing accurate analysis techniques to combine various probes of cosmology is essential to tighten constraints on cosmological parameters and to check for inconsistencies in our model of the Universe. In this paper we develop a joint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause , Peter Schneider , Klaus Honscheid

With the rapid advance of wide-field surveys it is increasingly important to perform combined cosmological probe analyses. We present a new pipeline for simulation-based multi-probe analyses, which combines tomographic large-scale structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-07 Alexander Reeves , Andrina Nicola , Alexandre Refregier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle

Simulation-based inference (SBI) allows fast Bayesian inference for simulators encoding implicit likelihoods. However, some explicit likelihoods cannot be easily reformulated as simulators, hindering their integration into combined analyses…

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Cosmological observations are becoming increasingly sensitive to the effects of light particles in the form of dark radiation (DR) at the time of recombination. The conventional observable of effective neutrino number, $N_{\rm eff}$, is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Christopher Brust , Yanou Cui , Kris Sigurdson

Cosmological data have provided new constraints on the number of neutrino species and the neutrino mass. However these constraints depend on assumptions related to the underlying cosmology. Since a correlation is expected between the number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Aaron Smith , Maria Archidiacono , Asantha Cooray , Francesco De Bernardis , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Smidt

Several models based on General Relativity and Modified Gravity aim to reproduce the observed universe with precision comparable to the flat-$\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. In this study, we investigate the consistency of some of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Fernanda Oliveira , Bruno Ribeiro , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Felipe Avila , Armando Bernui

We present a further development of a method for accelerating the calculation of CMB power spectra, matter power spectra and likelihood functions for use in cosmological Bayesian inference. The algorithm, called {\sc CosmoNet}, is based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Auld , M. Bridges , M. P. Hobson

We present the first simulation-based inference (SBI) of cosmological parameters from field-level analysis of galaxy clustering. Standard galaxy clustering analyses rely on analyzing summary statistics, such as the power spectrum, $P_\ell$,…

We use the emulation framework CosmoPower to construct and publicly release neural network emulators of cosmological observables, including the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization power spectra, matter power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-06 Boris Bolliet , Alessio Spurio Mancini , J. Colin Hill , Mathew Madhavacheril , Hidde T. Jense , Erminia Calabrese , Jo Dunkley

Simulation-based inference (SBI) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting cosmological information from galaxy surveys deep into the non-linear regime. Despite its great promise, its application is limited by the computational cost of…

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