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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

We present a method for fast optimal estimation of the temperature angular power spectrum from observations of the cosmic microwave background. We employ a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampler to obtain samples from the posterior…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. F. Taylor , M. A. J. Ashdown , M. P. Hobson

We introduce a new method to propagate uncertainties in the beam shapes used to measure the cosmic microwave background to cosmological parameters determined from those measurements. The method, which we call Markov Chain Beam…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Rocha , L. Pagano , K. M. Górski , K. M. Huffenberger , C. R. Lawrence , A. E. Lange

We present a simple way of coding and compressing the data on board the Planck instruments (HFI and LFI) to address the problem of the on board data reduction. This is a critical issue in the Planck mission. The total information that can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Gaztanaga , A. Romeo , J. Barriga , E. Elizalde

Traditional Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods suffer from low acceptance rate, slow mixing and low efficiency in high dimensions. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo resolves this issue by avoiding the random walk. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amir Hajian

We describe the Bayesian-based signal-to-noise eigenmode method for cosmological parameter estimation, show how it can be used to optimally compress large CMB anisotropy data sets to manageable sizes, and apply it to the DMR 4-year, South…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Richard Bond , Andrew H. Jaffe

For several decades now, Bayesian inference techniques have been applied to theories of particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics to obtain the probability density functions of their free parameters. In this study, we review and compare…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Joshua Albert , Csaba Balazs , Andrew Fowlie , Will Handley , Nicholas Hunt-Smith , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Martin White

Bayesian statistics and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms have found their place in the field of Cosmology. They have become important mathematical and numerical tools, especially in parameter estimation and model comparison. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-02 Luis E. Padilla , Luis O. Tellez , Luis A. Escamilla , J. Alberto Vazquez

We use an iterative generalized least squares map-making algorithm, in conjunction with Monte Carlo techniques, to obtain estimates of the angular power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. This is achieved by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Balbi , G. de Gasperis , P. Natoli , N. Vittorio

We present a coherent, re-usable python framework which further builds on the cosmological emulator code CosmoPower. In the current era of high-precision cosmology, we require high-accuracy calculations of cosmological observables with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 H. T. Jense , I. Harrison , E. Calabrese , A. Spurio Mancini , B. Bolliet , J. Dunkley , J. C. Hill

We implement and further refine the recently proposed method (Kashlinsky, Hern\'andez-Monteagudo & Atrio-Barandela, 2001 - KHA) for a time efficient extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela

We assess the computational feasibility of end-to-end Bayesian analysis of the JAXA-led LiteBIRD experiment by analysing simulated time ordered data (TOD) for a subset of detectors through the Cosmoglobe and Commander3 framework. The data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 R. Aurvik , M. Galloway , E. Gjerløw , U. Fuskeland , A. Basyrov , M. Bortolami , M. Brilenkov , P. Campeti , H. K. Eriksen , L. T. Hergt , D. Herman , M. Monelli , L. Pagano , G. Puglisi , N. Raffuzzi , N. -O. Stutzer , R. M. Sullivan , H. Thommesen , D. J. Watts , I. K. Wehus , D. Adak , E. Allys , A. Anand , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , A. Besnard , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , E. Carinos , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , M. Citran , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , P. Dal Bo , P. de Bernardis , E. de la Hoz , M. De Lucia , S. Della Torre , P. Diego-Palazuelos , T. Essinger-Hileman , C. Franceschet , G. Galloni , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , R. T. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , A. Gruppuso , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , T. Lari , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , F. Levrier , A. I. Lonappan , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , L. Montier , G. Morgante , L. Mousset , R. Nagata , A. Novelli , I. Obata , A. Occhiuzzi , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Pascual-Cisneros , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , M. Ruiz-Granda , J. Sanghavi , V. Sauvage , M. Shiraishi , S. L. Stever , Y. Takase , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , B. van Tent , P. Vielva , G. Weymann-Despres , E. J. Wollack , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

To efficiently probe primordial non-Gaussianity using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, we require theoretical predictions that are factorizable, \textit{i.e.}\ those whose kinematic dependence can be separated. This property does not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Kunhao Zhong , Salvatore Samuele Sirletti

Cosmological analyses can be accelerated by approximating slow calculations using a training set, which is either precomputed or generated dynamically. However, this approach is only safe if the approximations are well understood and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-03 Grigor Aslanyan , Richard Easther , Layne C. Price

In this work, we present a new method to estimate cosmological parameters accurately based on the artificial neural network (ANN), and a code called ECoPANN (Estimating Cosmological Parameters with ANN) is developed to achieve parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-29 Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yao Li , Jun-Qing Xia

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

We analyse CMB data in a manner which is as model-independent as possible. We encode the effects of late-time cosmology into a single parameter which determines the distance to the last scattering surface. We exclude low multipoles…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Marc Vonlanthen , Syksy Rasanen , Ruth Durrer

We introduce a new Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach designed for efficient sampling of highly correlated and multimodal posteriors. Parallel tempering, though effective, is a costly technique for sampling such posteriors. Our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 Benjamin Farr , Vicky Kalogera , Erik Luijten

The standard cosmological model, with its six independent parameters, successfully describes our observable Universe. One of these parameters, the optical depth to reionization $\tau_\mathrm{reio}$, represents the scatterings that Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Yin Li , Miles Cranmer

Obtaining the set of cosmological parameters consistent with observational data is an important exercise in current cosmological research. It involves finding the global maximum of the likelihood function in the multi-dimensional parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-03 Jayanti Prasad , Tarun Souradeep