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The Cosmological Recombination Radiation (CRR) is one of the guaranteed $\Lambda$CDM Spectral Distortion (SD) signals. Even if very small in amplitude, it provides a direct probe of the three recombination eras, opening the path for testing…

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The inconsistent Hubble constant values derived from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations and from local distance-ladder measurements may suggest new physics beyond the standard $\Lambda$CDM paradigm. It has been found in earlier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 Miaoxin Liu , Zhiqi Huang , Xiaolin Luo , Haitao Miao , Naveen K. Singh , Lu Huang

Machine learning can accelerate cosmological inferences that involve many sequential evaluations of computationally expensive data vectors. Previous works in this series have examined how machine learning architectures impact emulator…

Reconstructing the Gaussian initial conditions at the beginning of the Universe from the survey data in a forward modeling framework is a major challenge in cosmology. This requires solving a high dimensional inverse problem with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Chirag Modi , François Lanusse , Uroš Seljak , David N. Spergel , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

Extensions to the $\Lambda\textrm{CDM}$ model prior to recombination can modify the growth of perturbations around radiation-matter equality, leaving a distinct signature in the matter power spectrum. Upcoming large-scale structure surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Raphaël Kou , Antony Lewis

We introduce an emulator approach to predict the non-linear matter power spectrum for broad classes of beyond-$\Lambda$CDM cosmologies, using only a suite of $\Lambda$CDM $N$-body simulations. By including a range of suitably modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Benjamin Giblin , Matteo Cataneo , Ben Moews , Catherine Heymans

Cosmological measurements over the next decade will enable us to shed light on the content and evolution of the Universe. Complementary measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , David Alonso , Joanna Dunkley

The discovery of cosmic microwave background (CMB) was a paradigm shift in the study and fundamental understanding of the early universe and also the Big Bang phenomenon. Cosmic microwave background is one of the richest and intriguing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Amit Mishra , Pranath Reddy , Rahul Nigam

The unprecedented availability of large-scale datasets in neuroscience has spurred the exploration of artificial deep neural networks (DNNs) both as empirical tools and as models of natural neural systems. Their appeal lies in their ability…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Ahmed ElGazzar , Marcel van Gerven

We examine the Pantheon supernovae distance data compilation in a model independent analysis to test the validity of cosmic history reconstructions beyond the concordance $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Strong deviations are allowed by the data at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-19 Benjamin L'Huillier , Arman Shafieloo , Eric V. Linder , Alex G. Kim

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

We demonstrate the potential of Deep Learning methods for measurements of cosmological parameters from density fields, focusing on the extraction of non-Gaussian information. We consider weak lensing mass maps as our dataset. We aim for our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Jorit Schmelzle , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Thomas Hofmann

Following the pioneering observations with COBE in the early 1990s, studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have focused on temperature and polarization anisotropies. CMB spectral distortions - tiny departures of the CMB energy…

The physical ingredients to describe the epoch of cosmological recombination are amazingly simple and well-understood. This fact allows us to take into account a very large variety of processes, still finding potentially measurable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 R. A. Sunyaev , J. Chluba

The standard Lambda cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) paradigm of the physical Universe suffers from well-known conceptual problems and is challenged by observational data. Alternative models exist in the literature, both phenomenological and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 D. Castelão , I. Tereno

This paper explores a novel application of spherical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect primordial non-Gaussianity in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a key probe of inflationary dynamics. While effective, traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Jorik Melsen , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

In forthcoming years, connections between cosmology and particle physics will be made increasingly important with the advent of a new generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Here, we review a number of these links. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky

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

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is an abundant source of cosmological information. However, this information is encoded in non-trivial ways in a signal that is difficult to observe. The resulting challenges in extracting this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Benjamin D. Wandelt

The physical ingredients to describe the epoch of cosmological recombination are amazingly simple and well-understood. This fact allows us to take into account a very large variety of physical processes, still finding potentially measurable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. A. Sunyaev , J. Chluba