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Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy may result from both scalar and tensor perturbations. For a sufficiently narrow range of angular scales, CMB perturbations can be characterized by four parameters. Results from the Cosmic…

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In this paper, the CMB/BAO measurements which cover the 13 redshift data in the regime $0.106 \leq z \leq 2.34$ are given out. The CMB/BAO samples are based on the BAO distance ratios $r_{s}(z_d)/D_{V}(z)$ and the CMB acoustic scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Yi Zhang

We constrain cosmological parameters using combined measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the correlation function of galaxies and Ly-\alpha absorbers that together cover 0.1 < z < 2.4. The BAO position…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Graeme E. Addison , Gary Hinshaw , Mark Halpern

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide precise measurements of the cosmic expansion history through the comoving acoustic scale. The CMB angular scale measurement $\theta_*$ is particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Antony Lewis , Ewan Chamberlain

Inflation predicts a stochastic background of gravitational waves over a broad range of frequencies, from those accessible with cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements, to those accessible directly with gravitational-wave detectors,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tristan L. Smith , Marc Kamionkowski , Asantha Cooray

Within the standard six-parameter Lambda cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model, a $2$-$3\sigma$ tension persists between baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Zhiqi Huang

We outline the expected constraints on non-Gaussianity from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with current and future experiments, focusing on both the third (f_{NL}) and fourth-order (g_{NL} and \tau_{NL}) amplitudes of the local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-27 Joseph Smidt , Alexandre Amblard , Christian T. Byrnes , Asantha Cooray , Alan Heavens , Dipak Munshi

Recent DESI DR2 baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurement shows inconsistency with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation in $\Lambda$CDM. We used the Bayesian suspiciousness and goodness-of-fit tension metrics to quantify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Gen Ye , Shi-Jie Lin

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy (spatial inhomogeneity) data provide the tightest constraints on the Hubble constant, matter density, spatial curvature, and dark energy dynamics. Other data, sensitive to the evolution of only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chan-Gyung Park , Bharat Ratra

Measuring spectral distortions (SDs) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will provide new constraints on previously unexplored scales of the primordial power spectrum, allowing us to extend the probed parameter space by several orders…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-03 Nils Schöneberg , Matteo Lucca , Deanna C. Hooper

The $R^2$ and the single-field-like regime of $R^2$-Higgs inflation are disfavored by the observed high spectral index $n_s$ from the combined cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Tanmoy Modak

We briefly discuss constraints on supersymmetric hybrid inflation models and examine the consistency of brane inflation models. We then address the implications for inflationary scenarios resulting from the strong constraints on the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-28 Mairi Sakellariadou

Recent analyses combining cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) challenge particle physics constraints on the total neutrino mass, pointing to values smaller than the lower limit from neutrino oscillation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Andrea Cozzumbo , Mattia Atzori Corona , Riccardo Murgia , Maria Archidiacono , Matteo Cadeddu

We analyze a class of generalized inflationary models proposed in Ref. [1], known as $\beta$-exponential inflation. We show that this kind of potential can arise in the context of brane cosmology, where the field describing the size of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-15 M. A. Santos , M. Benetti , J. S. Alcaniz , F. A. Brito , R. Silva

Very recent CMB data of WMAP offers an opportunity to test inflation models, in particular, the running of spectral index is quite new and can be used to rule out some models. We show that an noncommutative spacetime inflation model gives a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing Guo Huang , Miao Li

Probing correlations among short and long-wavelength cosmological fluctuations is known to be decisive for deepening the current understanding of inflation at the microphysical level. Spectral distortions of the CMB can be caused by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Razieh Emami

We study the noncommutative inflation with a time-dependent noncommutativity between space and time. From the numerical analysis of power law inflation, there are clues that the CMB spectrum indicates a nonconstant noncommutative inflation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wei Xue , Bin Chen , Yi Wang

The past, present and future of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy research is discussed, with emphasis on the Boomerang and Maxima balloon experiments. These data are combined with large scale structure (LSS) information and high…

We explore extensions to the $\Lambda$CDM cosmology using measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the recent SPT-SZ survey, along with data from WMAP7 and measurements of $H_0$ and BAO. We check for consistency within…

We emphasize that the estimation of cosmological parameters from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data, such as the recent high resolution maps from BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1, requires assumptions about the primordial spectra. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jerome Martin , Alain Riazuelo , Dominik J. Schwarz