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We study the benefits and limits of parallelised Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling in cosmology. MCMC methods are widely used for the estimation of cosmological parameters from a given set of observations and are typically based on…

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We demonstrate the impact on forecasted neutrino mass constraints of extending galaxy clustering and CMB lensing predictions from linear to next-to-leading-order power spectra. The redshift-space 1-loop power spectrum model we adopt…

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The majority of present efforts to constrain cosmological parameters with cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data employ approximate likelihood functions, the time consuming nature of a complete analysis being a major obstacle. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Douspis , J. G. Bartlett , A. Blanchard , M. Le Dour

A simple speed-up cosmology model is proposed to account for the dark energy puzzle. We condense contributions from dark energy and curvature term into one effective parameter in order to reduce parameter degeneracies and to find any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-10 Xin-He Meng , Meng Su , Zheng Wang

We explore the full parameter space of Minimal Supergravity (mSUGRA), allowing all four continuous parameters (the scalar mass m_0, the gaugino mass m_1/2, the trilinear coupling A_0, and the ratio of Higgs vacuum expectation values tan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Edward A. Baltz , Paolo Gondolo

Most cosmological parameter estimations are based on the same set of observations and are therefore not independent. Here, we test the consistency of parameter estimations using a combination of large-scale structure and supernovae data,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Carolina Odman , Mike Hobson , Anthony Lasenby , Alessandro Melchiorri

Cosmological measurements over the next decade will enable us to shed light on the content and evolution of the Universe. Complementary measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , David Alonso , Joanna Dunkley

This study presents an analysis of cosmological parameters, focusing on resolving the Hubble tension and constraining neutrino masses within a coupled quintom model. By utilizing datasets from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Pantheon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Muhammad Yarahmadi , Amin Salehi , Ameneh Tohidi

We present a strategy for a statistically rigorous Bayesian approach to the problem of determining cosmological parameters from the results of observations of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. Our strategy relies on Markov…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Nelson Christensen , Renate Meyer , Lloyd Knox , Ben Luey

Precise estimation of cosmological parameters from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) remains a central goal of modern cosmology and a key test of inflationary physics. However, this task is fundamentally limited by strong foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Larissa Santos , Camila P. Novaes , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Carlo Baccigalupi

We perform a comprehensive exploration of the Constrained MSSM parameters using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique and a Bayesian analysis. We compute superpartner masses and other collider observables as well as a cold dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Roberto Trotta , Leszek Roszkowski

The cosmic curvature density parameter has been constrained in the present work independent of any background cosmological model. The reconstruction is performed adopting the non-parametric Gaussian Processes (GP). The constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Purba Mukherjee , Narayan Banerjee

The cross-correlation between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) fields and matter tracers carries important cosmological information. In this paper, we forecast by a signal-to-noise ratio analysis the information contained in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 José R. Bermejo-Climent , Mario Ballardini , Fabio Finelli , Daniela Paoletti , Roy Maartens , José A. Rubiño-Martin , Luca Valenziano

Cosmological weak lensing by the large scale structure of the Universe, cosmic shear, is coming of age as a powerful probe of the parameters describing the cosmological model and matter power spectrum. It complements CMB studies, by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Simon , Lindsay J. King , Peter Schneider

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

The current enthusiam to measure fluctuations in the CMB power spectrum at angular scales between 0.1 and 1 degree is largely motivated by the expectation that CMB determinations of cosmological parameters will be of unprecedented…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. H. Lineweaver

Covariance matrices are important tools for obtaining reliable parameter constraints. Advancements in cosmological surveys lead to larger data vectors and, consequently, increasingly complex covariance matrices, whose number of elements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Tassia Ferreira , Valerio Marra

Thawing quintessence scalar field models with the various potential forms to explain the late-time cosmic acceleration are compared to the {\Lambda}CDM model in detail by analyzing cosmological parameters with a set of observational data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 Fereshteh Felegary , Kazuharu Bamba

Recovering credible cosmological parameter constraints in a weak lensing shear analysis requires an accurate model that can be used to marginalize over nuisance parameters describing potential sources of systematic uncertainty, such as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-20 Tianqing Zhang , Markus Michael Rau , Rachel Mandelbaum , Xiangchong Li , Ben Moews