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We compare three independent, cosmological linear perturbation theory codes to asses the level of agreement between them and to improve upon it by investigating the sources of discrepancy. By eliminating the major sources of numerical…

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We present ABCMB, a differentiable Einstein-Boltzmann solver for the cosmic microwave background (CMB). ABCMB is a complete code capturing important effects to linear order in $\Lambda{\rm CDM}$ cosmology. It computes the CMB power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Zilu Zhou , Cara Giovanetti , Hongwan Liu

The energy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) allows constraining episodes of energy release in the early Universe. In this paper we revisit and refine the computations of the cosmological thermalization problem. For this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Chluba , R. A. Sunyaev

We present a numerical code to simulate maps of Galactic emission in intensity and polarization at microwave frequencies, aiding in the design of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. This Python code builds on existing efforts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Sigurd Naess

Boltzmann codes are used extensively by several groups for constraining cosmological parameters with Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure data. This activity is computationally expensive, since a typical project requires…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Diego Blas , Julien Lesgourgues , Thomas Tram

Currently, data-intensive scientific applications require vast amounts of compute resources to deliver world-leading science. The climate emergency has made it clear that unlimited use of resources (e.g., energy) for scientific discovery is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 P. Chris Broekema , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

In the era of large time-domain spectro-photometric surveys, surface variations such as starspots, chemical inhomogeneities, pulsations, rotational distortions, and binary interactions can now be directly detected and modelled. Accurately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 M. Jabłońska , T. Różański , L. Casagrande , H. Shah , P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański , M. Rychlicki , Yuan-Sen Ting

Accurate computations of spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are required for constraining energy release scenarios at redshifts $z\gtrsim 10^3$. The existing literature focuses on distortions that are small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Jens Chluba

We introduce a simple yet powerful {\it analytic} method which obtains the structure of cosmic microwave background anisotropies to better than 5-10\% in temperature fluctuations on {\it all} scales. It is applicable to {\it any} model in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 Wayne Hu , Naoshi Sugiyama

Spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been recognized as an important future probe of the early Universe. Existing theoretical studies primarily focused on describing the evolution and creation of average…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Jens Chluba , Thomas Kite , Andrea Ravenni

We compute the spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) created by an exotic process that extracts or injects photons of a particular frequency into the CMB. Such signatures are a natural prediction of a class of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-22 Anoma Ganguly , Rishi Khatri , Tuhin S. Roy

We introduce a publicly available full-sky beam convolution code library intended to inform the design of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) instruments and help current experiments probe potential systematic effects. The code can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Alexandra S. Rahlin

We present BROOM, a new python package for the application of blind, minimum-variance component-separation techniques to microwave observations. The package enables the reconstruction of signals with known spectral energy distributions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Alessandro Carones , Sijil Jose , Aliza Mustafa , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Carlo Baccigalupi

Spectral distortions (SDs) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide a powerful tool for studying particle physics. Here we compute the distortion signals from decaying particles that convert directly into photons at different epochs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Boris Bolliet , Jens Chluba , Richard Battye

First-principles computational spectroscopy is a critical tool for interpreting experiment, performing structure refinement, and developing new physical understanding. Systematically setting up input files for different simulation codes and…

PSpectRe is a C++ program that uses Fourier-space pseudo-spectral methods to evolve interacting scalar fields in an expanding universe. PSpectRe is optimized for the analysis of parametric resonance in the post-inflationary universe, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Richard Easther , Hal Finkel , Nathaniel Roth

As wide-field surveys yield ever more precise measurements, cosmology has entered a phase of high precision requiring highly accurate and fast theoretical predictions. At the heart of most cosmological model predictions is a numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-18 Alexandre Refregier , Lukas Gamper , Adam Amara , Lavinia Heisenberg

Voyage 2050 White Paper highlighting the unique science opportunities using spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). CMB spectral distortions probe many processes throughout the history of the Universe. Precision…

Much of our current understanding of neutral, atomic gas in galaxies comes from radio observations of the nearby Universe. Until the next generation of instruments allow us to push to much higher redshifts, we must rely mostly upon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-02 E. C. Elson , S. L. Blyth , A. J. Baker

Radiative transfer simulations are now at the forefront of numerical astrophysics. They are becoming crucial for an increasing number of astrophysical and cosmological problems; at the same time their computational cost has come to the…

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