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We update the forecasts for the measurement of the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ for various ground-based experiments (AdvACT, CLASS, Keck/BICEP3, Simons Array, SPT-3G), balloons (EBEX 10k and Spider) and satellites (CMBPol, COrE and…

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We demonstrate how to obtain optimal constraints on a primordial gravitational wave component in lensed Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data under ideal conditions. We first derive an estimator of the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, by using…

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Observational constraints on small-scale primordial gravitational waves are considerably weaker than those on large scales. We focus on scenarios with significant primordial gravitational waves and curvature perturbations on small scales,…

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We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization $B$-modes with "delensing," whereby the uncertainty on $r$ contributed by the sample variance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-02 BICEP/Keck , SPTpol Collaborations , : , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , C. A. Bischoff , L. E. Bleem , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , J. R. Cheshire , H. C. Chiang , T-L. Chou , R. Citron , J. Connors , C. Corbett Moran , J. Cornelison , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , M. Dierickx , M. A. Dobbs , L. Duband , W. Everett , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , T. St. Germaine , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , N. Gupta , G. Hall , M. Halpern , N. W. Halverson , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , J. W. Henning , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , L. Knox , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , A. Lowitz , A. Manzotti , J. J. McMahon , K. G. Megerian , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , L. M. Mocanu , L. Moncelsi , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Namikawa , T. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Palladino , S. Patil , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. L. Reichardt , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , A. Soliman , A. A. Stark , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , G. Wang , A. C. Weber , N. Whitehorn , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 Qing-Guo Huang , Sai Wang

Cosmological parameter uncertainties are often stated assuming a particular model, neglecting the model uncertainty, even when Bayesian model selection is unable to identify a conclusive best model. Bayesian model averaging is a method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 David Parkinson , Andrew R. Liddle

Tighter constraints on measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity will allow the differentiation of inflationary scenarios. The cosmic microwave background bispectrum-the standard method of measuring the local non-Gaussianity-is limited by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-15 Zahra Gomes , Stefano Camera , Matt J. Jarvis , Catherine Hale , José Fonseca

We consider the stochastic background of gravitational waves produced during the radiation-dominated hot big bang as a constraint on the primordial density perturbation on comoving length scales much smaller than those directly probed by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Hooshyar Assadullahi , David Wands

Using an optimal quadratic estimator, we measure the large-scale cross-correlation between maps of the stochastic gravitational-wave intensity, constructed from the first three LIGO-Virgo observing runs, and a suite of tomographic samples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 David Alonso , Mehraveh Nikjoo , Arianna I. Renzini , Emilio Bellini , Pedro G. Ferreira

We introduce an exact Bayesian approach to search for non-Gaussianity of local type in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation data. Using simulated CMB temperature maps, the newly developed technique is compared against the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We use a frequentist statistical approach to set confidence intervals on the values of cosmological parameters using the MAXIMA-1 and COBE measurements of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background. We define a $\Delta…

Baryon acoustic oscillation data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) show evidence of a deviation from a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ within a Bayesian analysis. In this work, we validate that frequentist constraints…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Laura Herold , Tanvi Karwal

We present the results of analysis of constraints on cosmological parameters from cosmic microwave background (CMB) alone and in combination with galaxy cluster baryon fraction assuming inflation--generated adiabatic scalar fluctuations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Douspis , A. Blanchard , R. Sadat , J. G. Bartlett , M. Le Dour

We present the strongest robust constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) from currently available galaxy surveys, combining large-scale clustering measurements and their cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 Tommaso Giannantonio , Ashley J. Ross , Will J. Percival , Robert Crittenden , David Bacher , Martin Kilbinger , Robert Nichol , Jochen Weller

Cosmological parameter inference has been dominated by the Bayesian approach for the past two decades, primarily due to its computational efficiency. However, the Bayesian approach involves integration of the posterior probability and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Emil Brinch Holm , Andreas Nygaard , Jeppe Dakin , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

Combining the latest Planck, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data, we exploit the recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode power spectra data released by the BICEP2 collaboration to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Fengquan Wu , Yichao Li , Youjun Lu , Xuelei Chen

As wide-field surveys yield increasingly precise data, multiprobe analyses offer significant advantages. In this work, we use our previously developed framework for jointly analyzing cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Alexander Reeves , Andrina Nicola , Alexandre Refregier

Primordial non-Gaussianity can source $\mu$-distortion anisotropies that are correlated with the large-scale temperature and polarization signals of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). A measurement of $\mu T$ and $\mu E$ correlations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Aditya Rotti , Andrea Ravenni , Jens Chluba

Searches for primordial gravitational waves have resulted in constraints in a large frequency range from a variety of sources. The standard Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) technique is to parameterise the tensor power spectrum in terms of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Thomas J. Clarke , Edmund J. Copeland , Adam Moss

By taking into account the contamination of foreground radiations, we employ the Fisher matrix to forecast the future sensitivity on the tilt of power spectrum of primordial tensor perturbations for several ground-based (AdvACT, CLASS,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Qing-Guo Huang , Sai Wang , Wen Zhao