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The scalar spectral index $n_s$ is a powerful test of inflationary models. The tightest constraint on $n_s$ to date derives from the combination of cosmic microwave background (CMB) data with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data. The…

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Inflation elegantly provides initial conditions for the standard model of cosmology, while solving the horizon, flatness, and magnetic monopole problems. Inflationary models make predictions for the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ and the…

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We analyze the latest cosmic microwave background (CMB) constraints on the scalar spectral index $n_s$ and tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ from Planck 2018, BICEP/Keck 2018, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6 (ACT DR6), and the South…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 John Ellis , Marcos A. G. Garcia , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

The oscillation feature in primordial power spectrum (PPS), a fingerprint of not only a wide class of models of inflation but new physics, is of significant theoretical interest, and can be imprinted on the cosmic microwave background…

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We perform a multiprobe analysis combining cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from Planck and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), ACT CMB lensing, and large-scale structure (LSS) measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

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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

With the increasing number of high-precision astronomical observations, physical quantities that were previously inaccessible to accurate calculations, such as cosmic birefringence, have once again become a focal point of interest. Such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Lu Yin , Guo-Hong Du , Tian-Nuo Li , Xin Zhang

We constrain models of single field inflation with the pre-\textit{Planck} CMB data. The data used here is the 9-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (\textit{WMAP}) data, South Pole Telescope (SPT) data and Atacama Cosmology Telescope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma

Analyses by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration suggest a significant deviation from the $\Lambda$CDM model when their baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements are combined with Planck cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Da-Chun Qiang , Jing-Yi Jia , Hao Wei

In early dark energy (EDE) resolution of Hubble tension, the spectral index $n_s$ of primordial scalar perturbation follows a scaling relation ${\delta n_s}\simeq 0.4\frac{\delta H_0}{H_0}$, where $H_0$ is the Hubble constant. However, this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Ze-Yu Peng , Yun-Song Piao

We report cosmological results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) when combined with recent data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). By jointly analyzing ACT and…

Models of cosmic inflation generically predict a weak but potentially detectable amount of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), which can be used to obtain insights into the degrees of freedom during inflation and their interactions. The…

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We present updated constraints on cosmological parameters in a 12-parameter model, extending the standard six-parameter $\Lambda$CDM by including dynamical dark energy (DE: $w_0$, $w_a$), the sum of neutrino masses ($\sum m_{\nu}$), the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Shouvik Roy Choudhury , Teppei Okumura

In this paper, we investigate the impact of the lensing anomaly in Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data on the nature of dark energy (DE). We constrain the state equation ($w_0,w_a$) of DE with the lensing scaling parameter $A_L=1$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Ze-Yu Peng , Yun-Song Piao

The SPT-3G 2018 TT/TE/EE cosmic microwave background (CMB) data set (temperature and polarization) is used to place constraints on an axion-like model of early dark energy (EDE). These data do not favor axion-like EDE and place an upper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-08 Tristan L. Smith , Vivian Poulin

The DESI year one observations can help probe new physics on cosmological scales. In light of the latest DESI BAO measurements, we constrain five popular cosmological scenarios including inflation, modified gravity, annihilating dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Deng Wang

The recent release of high-precision cosmological data, particularly the small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements from ACT and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data from DESI, has opened a new landscape for probing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Lu Feng , Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We present the first attempt to use a combination of CMB, LIGO, and PPTA data to constrain both the tilt and the running of primordial tensor power spectrum through constraints on the gravitational wave energy density generated in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. Daniel Meerburg , Renée Hložek , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Joel Meyers

Diffusion damping of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum results from imperfect photon-baryon coupling in the pre-recombination plasma. At redshift $5 \times 10^4 < z < 2 \times 10^6$, the plasma acquires an effective…

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