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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…

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The cosmological recombination radiation (CRR) is one of the inevitable $\Lambda$CDM spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). While it shows a rich spectral structure across dm-mm wavelengths, it is also one of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Luke Hart , Aditya Rotti , Jens Chluba

We present a convolutional neural network to classify distinct cosmological scenarios based on the statistically similar weak-lensing maps they generate. Modified gravity (MG) models that include massive neutrinos can mimic the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Austin Peel , Florian Lalande , Jean-Luc Starck , Valeria Pettorino , Julian Merten , Carlo Giocoli , Massimo Meneghetti , Marco Baldi

Given the persistence of various tensions in the "Cosmic Concordance" -- such as the "Hubble Tension", and possible departures from LambdaCDM time evolution -- seen from combinations of complementary data sets (e.g., Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Brett Bochner , Aiden Jin

Separating galactic foreground emission from maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and quantifying the uncertainty in the CMB maps due to errors in foreground separation are important for avoiding biases in scientific conclusions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 K. Aylor , M. Haq , L. Knox , Y. Hezaveh , L. Perreault-Levasseur

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We develop and apply a new framework for reconstructing the ionization history during the epoch of recombination with combinations of cosmic microwave background (CMB), baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and supernova data. We find a wide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Gabriel P. Lynch , Lloyd Knox , Jens Chluba

We examine cosmic microwave background constraints on variations in the recombination history of the universe. We use a very general extension to the standard model of recombination characterized by two parameters, a and b, which multiply…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Angela M. Linn , Robert J. Scherrer

Extracting cosmological information from microwave sky observations requires accurate estimation of the underlying Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by removing foreground contamination, instrumental noise, and the effects of beam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Obasho M , Shambhavi Jaiswal , Santanu Das , Krishna Mohan Parattu

The precision anticipated from next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys will create opportunities for characteristically new insights into cosmology. Secondary anisotropies of the CMB will have an increased importance in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Eric Guzman , Joel Meyers

Measuring the sum of the three active neutrino masses, $M_\nu$, is one of the most important challenges in modern cosmology. Massive neutrinos imprint characteristic signatures on several cosmological observables in particular on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Elena Giusarma , Mauricio Reyes Hurtado , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Siyu He , Shirley Ho , ChangHoon Hahn

The lensing effect of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful tool for our study of the distribution of matter in the universe. Currently, the quadratic estimator (EQ) method, which is widely used to reconstruct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Yang-Jie Yan , Jun-Qing Xia

The formation of the large-scale structure, the evolution and distribution of galaxies, quasars, and dark matter on cosmological scales, requires numerical simulations. Differentiable simulations provide gradients of the cosmological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yin Li , Libin Lu , Chirag Modi , Drew Jamieson , Yucheng Zhang , Yu Feng , Wenda Zhou , Ngai Pok Kwan , François Lanusse , Leslie Greengard

We propose a novel approach using neural networks (NNs) to differentiate between cosmological models, and implemented LIME as an interpretability approach to identify the key features influencing our model's decisions. We show the potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 Indira Ocampo , George Alestas , Savvas Nesseris , Domenico Sapone

Ever refined cosmological measurements have established the $\Lambda$CDM concordance model, with the key cosmological parameters being determined to percent-level precision today. This allows us to make explicit predictions for the spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-23 Jens Chluba

Component separation is the process of extracting one or more emission sources in astrophysical maps. It is therefore crucial to develop models that can accurately clean the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in current and future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 J. M. Casas , L. Bonavera , J. González-Nuevo , G. Puglisi , C. Baccigalupi

Precision measurement of the cosmological recombination spectrum can provide an entire new window to look at the early universe. We aim to quantify the information hidden in the cosmological recombination spectrum and for this purpose we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Debajyoti Sarkar , Rishi Khatri

The accurate reconstruction of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps and the measurement of its power spectrum are crucial for studying the early universe. In this paper, we implement a convolutional neural network to apply the Wiener…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Belén Costanza , Claudia G. Scóccola , Matías Zaldarriaga

This paper introduces a new approach to reconstruct cosmological functions using artificial neural networks based on observational measurements with minimal theoretical and statistical assumptions. By using neural networks, we can generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-24 Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Medel Esquivel , Ricardo García-Salcedo , J. Alberto Vázquez

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been applied to cosmological fields -- weak lensing mass maps and galaxy maps. However, cosmological maps differ in several ways from the vast majority of images that CNNs have been tested…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Kunhao Zhong , Marco Gatti , Bhuvnesh Jain