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We constrain the thermal evolution of the universe with a decaying cosmological term by using the method of the analysis for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observation data. The cosmological term is assumed to be a function…

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It is shown that, in addition to the Thomson scattering, the absorption due to the electron-electron, electron-ion and the electron -atom collisions in a partially ionized cosmic plasma would also contribute to the optical depth of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 V. Krishan

We use large-scale cosmological observations to place constraints on the dark-matter pressure, sound speed and viscosity, and infer a limit on the mass of warm-dark-matter particles. Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Martin Kunz , Savvas Nesseris , Ignacy Sawicki

The current understanding of dark matter comes largely from measurements of the total matter content in the universe, from the distribution of gravitating matter on very large scales, and from rotation curves and velocity dispersions on…

There is a large and growing interest in observations of small-scale structure in dark matter. We propose a new way to probe dark matter structures in the $\sim 10 - 10^8 \, M_\odot$ range. This allows us to constrain the primordial power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-17 Peter W. Graham , Harikrishnan Ramani

The recombination history of the Universe provides a useful tool for constraining the annihilation of dark matter particles. Even a small fraction of dark matter particles annihilated during the cosmic dark age can provide sufficient energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Le Zhang , Xuelei Chen , Yi-An Lei , Zongguo Si

Over the last decade, cosmological observations have attained a level of precision which allows for detailed comparison with theoretical predictions. In this paper, we briefly review some studies of the current and prospected constraints…

Popular Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Monique Signore , Denis Puy

In addition to its spectrum and temperature anisotropy, the 2.7K Cosmic Microwave Background is also expected to exhibit a low level of polarization. The spatial power spectrum of the polarization can provide details about the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Brian Keating , Peter Timbie , Alexander Polnarev , Julia Steinberger

Our tightest upper limit on the sum of neutrino mass eigenvalues $M_\nu$ comes from cosmological observations that will improve substantially in the near future, enabling a detection. The combination of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Zhen Pan , Lloyd Knox

We study matter-wave interferometry in the presence of a stochastic background of gravitational waves. It is shown that if the background has a scale-invariant spectrum over a wide bandwidth (which is expected in a class of inflationary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-28 Andrew M. Steane

Accurate measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies with an angular resolution of a few arcminutes can be used to determine fundamental cosmological parameters such as the densities of baryons, cold and hot dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 J. Richard Bond , George Efstathiou , Max Tegmark

We investigate the accuracy attainable by forthcoming space-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy in constraining the dark energy density parameter $\Oq$ and equation of state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Balbi , C. Baccigalupi , F. Perrotta , S. Matarrese , N. Vittorio

It has been suggested that late-universe dark matter decays can alleviate the tension between measurements of $H_0$ in the local universe and its value inferred from cosmic microwave background fluctuations. It has been suggested that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-07 Steven J. Clark , Kyriakos Vattis , Savvas M. Koushiappas

We study the effects of dark matter annihilation during and after the cosmic recombination epoch on the cosmic microwave background anisotropy, taking into account the detailed energy deposition of the annihilation products. It is found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-06 Toru Kanzaki , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Nakayama

Probing the existence of hypothetical particles beyond the Standard model often deals with extreme parameters: large energies, tiny cross-sections, large time scales, etc. Sometimes laboratory experiments can test required regions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-26 P. Tinyakov , M. S. Pshirkov , S. B. Popov

The work is devoted to the investigations of possible observational manifestations of protoobjects related to "dark ages" epoch (10 < z < 1000), before formation of self-luminous galaxies and stars. These objects can distort the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. N. Shakhvorostova , S. I. Grachev , V. K. Dubrovich

Radio interferometers are well suited to studies of both total intensity and polarized intensity fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and they have been used successfully in measurements of both the primary and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. S. Readhead , T. J. Pearson

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies have and will continue to revolutionize our understanding of cosmology. The recent discovery of the previously predicted acoustic peaks in the power spectrum has established a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Wayne Hu , Scott Dodelson

The precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background power spectrum put a strong constraint on the dark matter annihilation cross section since the electromagnetic energy injection by the dark matter annihilation affects the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Masahiro Kawasaki , Hiromasa Nakatsuka , Kazunori Nakayama , Toyokazu Sekiguchi

In this letter, we report precise and robust observational constraints on dark matter-dark energy scattering cross section, using the latest data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) Planck temperature and polarization, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes