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Recent analyses combining cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) challenge particle physics constraints on the total neutrino mass, pointing to values smaller than the lower limit from neutrino oscillation…

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We forecast the ability of future CMB and galaxy lensing surveys to constrain variations of the fine structure constant. We found that lensing data, as those expected from satellite experiments as Euclid could improve the constraint from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Matteo Martinelli , Eloisa Menegoni , Alessandro Melchiorri

We present constraints on the cosmological constant lambda_0 and the density parameter Omega_0 from joint constraints from the analyses of gravitational lensing statistics of the Jodrell Bank-VLA Astrometric Survey (JVAS), optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Macias-Perez , P. Helbig , R. Quast , A. Wilkinson , R. D. Davies

We explore a re-parameterization of the lensing amplitude tension between weak lensing (WL) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and its implications for a joint resolution with the Hubble tension. Specifically, we focus on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Lucas F. Secco , Tanvi Karwal , Wayne Hu , Elisabeth Krause

We review observational tests for the homogeneity of the Universe on large scales. Redshift and peculiar velocity surveys, radio sources, the X-Ray Background, the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest and the Cosmic Microwave Background are used to set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

We reconstruct the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential on the latest Planck CMB PR4 (NPIPE) maps, which include slightly more data than the 2018 PR3 release, and implement quadratic estimators using more optimal filtering.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Julien Carron , Mark Mirmelstein , Antony Lewis

Measurements of weak gravitational lensing using the cosmic microwave background and the shapes of galaxies have refined our understanding of the late-time history of the Universe. While optical surveys have been the primary source for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Alba Kalaja , Ian Harrison , William R Coulton

In this paper, we study the cosmological implications of the 100 square degree Weak Lensing survey (the CFHTLS-Wide, RCS, VIRMOS-DESCART and GaBoDS surveys). We combine these weak lensing data with the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 Hong Li , Jie Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Lei Sun , Zu-Hui Fan , Charling Tao , Andre Tilquin , Xinmin Zhang

Coupled cosmologies can predict values for the cosmological parameters at low redshifts which may differ substantially from the parameters values within non-interacting cosmologies. Therefore, low redshift probes, as the growth of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-08 Francesco De Bernardis , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Asantha Cooray

We use the redshift Hubble parameter $H(z)$ data derived from relative galaxy ages, distant type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) peak, and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) shift parameter data, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Tian Lan , Yan Gong , Hao-Yi Wan , Tong-Jie Zhang

In this paper, we study the cosmological constraints from the measurements of Hubble parameters---$H(z)$ data. Here, we consider two kinds of $H(z)$ data: the direct $H_0$ probe from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of Cepheid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-31 Wei Zheng , Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , You-Ping Wan , Si-Yu Li , Mingzhe Li

We present constraints on the amplitude of matter fluctuations from the clustering of galaxies and their cross-correlation with the gravitational lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), focusing on low redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Andrea Rubiola , Matteo Zennaro , Carlos García-García , David Alonso

We propose to use a simple observable, the fractional area of "hot spots" in weak gravitational lensing mass maps which are detected with high significance, to determine background cosmological parameters. Because these high-convergence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Sheng Wang , Zoltán Haiman , Morgan May

We derive an observational constraint on a spherical inhomogeneity of the void centered at our position from the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background(CMB) and local measurements of the Hubble parameter. The late time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Masato Tokutake , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Chul-Moon Yoo

In this paper, we use a set of observational $H(z)$ data (OHD) to constrain the $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. This data set can be derived from the differential ages of the passively evolving galaxies. Meanwhile, the $\mathcal {A}$-parameter,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Hui Lin , Cheng Hao , Xiao Wang , Qiang Yuan , Ze-Long Yi , Tong-Jie Zhang , Bao-Quan Wang

We present cosmological parameters measurements from the full combination of DESI DR1 galaxy clustering data described with large-scale structure effective field theory. By incorporating additional datasets (photometric galaxies and CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Mikhail M. Ivanov , James M. Sullivan , Shi-Fan Chen , Anton Chudaykin , Mark Maus , Oliver H. E. Philcox

Gravitational lensing distorts the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields and encodes valuable information on distances and growth rates at intermediate redshifts into the lensed power spectra. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kendrick M. Smith , Wayne Hu , Manoj Kaplinghat

Weak lensing observations and supernova observations, combined with CMB observations, can both provide powerful constraints on dark energy properties. Considering statistical errors only, we find luminosity distances inferred from 2000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Knox , A. Albrecht , Y. S. Song

We present a comprehensive study of the observational constraints on spatially flat cosmological models containing a mixture of matter and quintessence --- a time varying, spatially inhomogeneous component of the energy density of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 Limin Wang , R. R. Caldwell , J. P. Ostriker , Paul J. Steinhardt