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We reexamine the evidence of the hemispherical power asymmetry, detected in the CMB WMAP data using a new method. At first, we analyze the hemispherical variance ratios and compare these with simulated distributions. Secondly, working…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Bartosz Lew

We present the exact joint likelihood of pseudo-$C_\ell$ power spectrum estimates measured from an arbitrary number of Gaussian cosmological fields. Our method is applicable to both spin-0 fields and spin-2 fields, including a mixture of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-09 Robin E. Upham , Lee Whittaker , Michael L. Brown

In this follow-up work to the High Energy Physics Community Summer Study 2013 (HEP CSS 2013, a.k.a. Snowmass), we explore the scientific capabilities of a future Stage-IV Cosmic Microwave Background polarization experiment (CMB-S4) under…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-11 W. L. K. Wu , J. Errard , C. Dvorkin , C. L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , P. McDonald , A. Slosar , O. Zahn

The Fisher information matrix of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation power spectrum coefficients is a fundamental quantity that specifies the information content of a CMB experiment. In the most general case, its exact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-30 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Accurate parameter estimation from cosmic microwave background data requires reliable likelihood modeling, particularly at large angular scales where angular power spectrum estimators exhibit non-Gaussian statistics. We present a novel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Giacomo Galloni , Paolo Campeti , Luca Pagano , Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Paolo Natoli

We have developed a fast, accurate and generally applicable method for inferring the power spectrum and its uncertainties from maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the presence of inhomogeneous and correlated noise. For maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 O. Doré , L. Knox , A. Peel

Many statistical models in cosmology can be simulated forwards but have intractable likelihood functions. Likelihood-free inference methods allow us to perform Bayesian inference from these models using only forward simulations, free from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Justin Alsing , Benjamin Wandelt , Stephen Feeney

We develop a field-level posterior for cosmological data by marginalizing over initial conditions and noise in a general forward model. While our focus is on large-scale structure data, the results generalize to any weakly non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Massimo Pietroni , Fabian Schmidt

We apply the Karhunen-Lo\'eve methods to cosmic microwave background (CMB) data sets, and show that we can recover the input cosmology and obtain the marginalized likelihoods in $\Lambda$ cold dark matter cosmologies in under a minute, much…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Alan Zablocki , Scott Dodelson

We present a method for ultra-fast confrontation of the WMAP cosmic microwave background observations with theoretical models, implemented as a publicly available software package called CMBfit, useful for anyone wishing to measure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-07 Havard B. Sandvik , Max Tegmark , Xiaomin Wang , Matias Zaldarriaga

We introduce a novel open-source software package QForte, a comprehensive development tool for new quantum simulation algorithms. QForte incorporates functionality for handling molecular Hamiltonians, fermionic encoding, ansatz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Nicholas H. Stair , Francesco A. Evangelista

I present CMBAnalysis, a state-of-the-art Python framework designed for high-precision analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation data. This comprehensive package implements parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Srikrishna S Kashyap

Deep surveys of the CMB polarization have more information on the lensing signal than the quadratic estimators (QE) can capture. We showed in a recent work that a CMB lensing power spectrum built from a single optimized CMB lensing mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

Empirical estimates of the band power covariance matrix are commonly used in cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum analyses. While this approach easily captures correlations in the data, noise in the resulting covariance estimate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 L. Balkenhol , C. L. Reichardt

We propose a new, likelihood-free approach to inferring the primordial matter power spectrum and cosmological parameters from arbitrarily complex forward models of galaxy surveys where all relevant statistics can be determined from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Florent Leclercq , Wolfgang Enzi , Jens Jasche , Alan Heavens

Precise reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background lensing potential can be achieved with deep polarization surveys by iteratively removing lensing-induced $B$ modes. We introduce a lensing spectrum estimator and its likelihood for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

We present a numerically cheap approximation to super-sample covariance (SSC) of large scale structure cosmological probes, first in the case of angular power spectra. It necessitates no new elements besides those used for the prediction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Fabien Lacasa , Julien Grain

We study nonparametric estimation of a probability mass function (PMF) on a large discrete support, where the PMF is multi-modal and heavy-tailed. The core idea is to treat the empirical PMF as a signal on a line graph and apply a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Alex Shtoff

Component separation methods mitigate the cross-contamination between different extragalactic and galactic contributions to cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. This is often done by linearly combining CMB maps from different frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Jack Y. L. Kwok , William R. Coulton , Niall MacCrann , Fiona McCarthy , Boris Bolliet , Blake D. Sherwin