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The presence of light thermally coupled dark matter affects early expansion history and production of light elements during the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. Specifically, dark matter that annihilates into Standard Model particles can modify…

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In universes with significant curvature or cosmological constant, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies are created very recently via the Rees-Sciama or integrated Sachs-Wolfe effects. This causes the CMB anisotropies to become…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. P. Boughn , R. G. Crittenden , N. G. Turok

We show that the new precise measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies made by the Planck satellite significantly improves previous constraints on the cosmic gravitational waves background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-17 Luca Pagano , Laura Salvati , Alessandro Melchiorri

In the first part of this work, I review the theoretical framework of cosmological perturbation theory necessary to understand the generation and evolution of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. Using analytical and numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Roberto Trotta

Through the relationship between dispersion measures (DM) and redshifts, fast radio bursts (FRBs) are considered to be very promising cosmological probes. In this paper, we attempted to use the DM-z relationship of FRBs to study the helium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-10 Liang Jing , Jun-Qing Xia

This work presents a detailed analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation intensity observations. The CMB is a relic of the Big Bang and its study greatly enhances our knowledge of cosmology. This work has led to new values for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henrik P. Nordberg , George F. Smoot

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a relict of the early universe. Its perfect 2.725K blackbody spectrum demonstrates that the universe underwent a hot, ionized early phase; its anisotropy (about 80 \mu K rms) provides strong evidence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi

We report the first detection of the dark matter distribution around Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at high redshift through the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing measurements with the public {\it Planck} PR3 $\kappa$ map. The LBG…

A fundamental assumption inherent in the standard Lambda+CDM Hot Big Bang (HBB) model is that photons lose energy as they are redshifted due to the expansion of the universe. We show that for the Quasi-Static Universe (QSU) model, in which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-30 Robin Booth

Primordial or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three historical strong evidences for the big bang model. The recent results by the Planck satellite mission have slightly changed the estimate of the baryonic density compared to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alain Coc , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Elisabeth Vangioni

We present a new determination of the primordial helium abundance based on new, high-quality Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) observations of 54 metal-poor H II regions. These regions have been observed and analyzed uniformly. We also…

We present a method for calculating large numbers of power spectra C_l and P(k) that accelerates CMBfast by a factor around 10^3 without appreciable loss of accuracy, then apply it to constrain 11 cosmological parameters from current Cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Matias Zaldarriaga , Andrew J. S. Hamilton

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

We study dark matter-helium scattering in the early Universe and its impact on constraints from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. We describe possible theoretical frameworks for dark matter-nucleon interactions via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-09 Kimberly K. Boddy , Gordan Krnjaic , Stacie Moltner

Recent Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) results from the Planck satellite, combined with previous CMB data and Hubble constant measurements from the Hubble Space Telescope, provide a constraint on the effective number of relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena

We present a summary of recent constraints on the value of the fine-structure constant at the epoch of decoupling from the recent observations made by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite. Within the set of models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Rocha , R. Trotta , C. J. A. P. Martins , A. Melchiorri , P. P. Avelino , P. T. P. Viana

Forthcoming cosmic microwave background experiments (CMB) will provide precise new tests of structure-formation theories. The geometry of the Universe may be determined robustly, and the classical cosmological parameters, such as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Kamionkowski

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation provide a unique opportunity for a direct study of the primordial cosmic plasma at redshift z ~1000. The angular power spectra of temperature and polarisation fluctuations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Bersanelli , Davide Maino , Aniello Mennella

One of the main goals of modern cosmic microwave background (CMB) missions is to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ accurately to constrain inflation models. Due to ignorance about the reionization history $X_{e}(z)$, this analysis is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-03 King Lau , Jiayu Tang , M. -C. Chu

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies exhibit a large-scale dipolar power asymmetry. To determine whether this is due to a real, physical modulation or is simply a large statistical fluctuation requires the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 D. Contreras , J. P. Zibin , D. Scott , A. J. Banday , K. M. Górski