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We present a new blind formulation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) inference problem. The approach relies on a phenomenological model of the multi-frequency microwave sky without the need for physical models of the individual…

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We present cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra from recent numerical simulations of cosmic strings in the Abelian Higgs model and compare them to CMB power spectra measured by Planck. We obtain revised constraints on the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-28 Joanes Lizarraga , Jon Urrestilla , David Daverio , Mark Hindmarsh , Martin Kunz

Accurate estimation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular power spectrum is enticing due to the prospect for precision cosmology it presents. Galactic foreground emissions, however, contaminate the CMB signal and need to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Pallav Chanda , Rajib Saha

We describe an algorithm to generate temperature and polarization maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation containing non-Gaussianity of arbitrary local type. We apply an optimized quadrature scheme that allows us to predict and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

A finite-difference Micromagnetic solver is presented utilizing the C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP). The high speed performance of a single Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is demonstrated compared to a typical CPU-based solver.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-07-07 Ru Zhu

$\texttt{PyCosmo}$ is a Python-based framework for the fast computation of cosmological model predictions. One of its core features is the symbolic representation of the Einstein-Boltzmann system of equations. Efficient $\texttt{C/C++}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-20 Beatrice Moser , Christiane S. Lorenz , Uwe Schmitt , Alexandre Refregier , Janis Fluri , Raphael Sgier , Federica Tarsitano , Lavinia Heisenberg

We present Kosmulator, a modular and vectorised Python framework designed to accelerate the statistical testing of cosmological models. As the theoretical landscape expands beyond standard $\Lambda$CDM, implementing new expansion histories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Renier T. Hough , Robert Rugg , Shambel Sahlu , Amare Abebe

We present a framework for cosmological model selection using Neural Networks (NNs) trained directly on simulated Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarisation maps. By operating at the map level rather than on compressed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Indira Ocampo , Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation provide a unique opportunity for a direct study of the primordial cosmic plasma at redshift z ~1000. The angular power spectra of temperature and polarisation fluctuations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Bersanelli , Davide Maino , Aniello Mennella

In this study, we introduce an innovative Quantum-enhanced Support Vector Machine (QSVM) approach for stellar classification, leveraging the power of quantum computing and GPU acceleration. Our QSVM algorithm significantly surpasses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Kuan-Cheng Chen , Xiaotian Xu , Henry Makhanov , Hui-Hsuan Chung , Chen-Yu Liu

The Poisson-Fermi model is an extension of the classical Poisson-Boltzmann model to include the steric and correlation effects of ions and water treated as nonuniform spheres in aqueous solutions. Poisson-Boltzmann electrostatic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jen-Hao Chen , Ren-Chuen Chen , Jinn-Liang Liu

We use an iterative generalized least squares map-making algorithm, in conjunction with Monte Carlo techniques, to obtain estimates of the angular power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. This is achieved by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Balbi , G. de Gasperis , P. Natoli , N. Vittorio

We present a general method for accelerating by more than an order of magnitude the convolution of pixelated functions on the sphere with a radially-symmetric kernel. Our method splits the kernel into a compact real-space component and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-31 P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Franz Elsner

There exists an increasing interest for using immersed boundary methods (IBMs) (Peskin 2000) to model moving objects in computational fluid dynamics. Indeed, this approach is particularly efficient, because the fluid mesh does not require…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 Joel Beny , Jonas Latt

The Cosmological Microwave Background (CMB) is of premier importance for the cosmologists to study the birth of our universe. Unfortunately, most CMB experiments such as COBE, WMAP or Planck do not provide a direct measure of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Bobin , J. -L. Starck , F. Sureau , S. Basak

Astronomy depends on ever increasing computing power. Processor clock-rates have plateaued, and increased performance is now appearing in the form of additional processor cores on a single chip. This poses significant challenges to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Benjamin R. Barsdell , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

We present a novel method for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) foreground removal based on deep learning techniques. This method employs a Transformer model, referred to as \texttt{TCMB}, which is specifically designed to effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Ye-Peng Yan , Si-Yu Li , Yang Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li

We implement and further refine the recently proposed method (Kashlinsky, Hern\'andez-Monteagudo & Atrio-Barandela, 2001 - KHA) for a time efficient extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela

In order to extract cosmological information from observations of the millimeter and submillimeter sky, foreground components must first be removed to produce an estimate of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We developed a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Matthew A. Petroff , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Janet L. Weiland

The Planck experiment has measured the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular spectrum with unprecedented accuracy, and these results are likely to remain the state-of-the art for a decade or more. Since these measurements are going to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Julia Stadler , Céline Bœhm