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We present three non-parametric Bayesian primordial reconstructions using Planck 2018 polarization data: linear spline primordial power spectrum reconstructions, cubic spline inflationary potential reconstructions and sharp-featured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Will J. Handley , Anthony N. Lasenby , Hiranya V. Peiris , Michael P. Hobson

Potential features in the primordial power spectrum have been searched for in galaxy surveys in recent years since these features can assist in understanding the nature of inflation. The null detection to date suggests that any such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 Yuhao Li , Hong-Ming Zhu , Baojiu Li

The existing degeneracy between different dark energy and modified gravity cosmologies at the background level may be broken by analysing quantities at the perturbative level. In this work, we apply a non-parametric smoothing (NPS) method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 J. E. Gonzalez , J. S. Alcaniz , J. C. Carvalho

We extend to large scales a method proposed in previous work that reconstructs non-parametrically the primordial power spectrum from cosmic microwave background data at high resolution. The improvement is necessary to account for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Domenico Tocchini-Valentini , Yehuda Hoffman , Joseph Silk

Analyses of cosmic shear typically condense weak lensing information over a range of scales to a single cosmological parameter, $S_8$. This paper presents a method to extract more information from Stage-IV cosmic shear measurements by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Calvin Preston , Alexandra Amon , George Efstathiou

We use the modified Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm to reconstruct the Primordial Power Spectrum from the Weak Lensing Power spectrum reconstructed from the CMB anisotropies. This provides an independent window to observe and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 Rajorshi Sushovan Chandra , Tarun Souradeep

We reconstruct the shape of the primordial power spectrum from the latest cosmic microwave background data, including the new results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and large scale structure data from the two degree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. L. Bridle , A. M. Lewis , J. Weller , G. Efstathiou

In order to constrain and possibly detect unusual physics during inflation, we allow the power spectrum of primordial matter density fluctuations, P_{in}(k), to be an arbitrary function in the estimation of cosmological parameters from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Pia Mukherjee , Yun Wang

We have improved further the error sensitive Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm making it applicable directly on the un-binned measured angular power spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background observations to reconstruct the form of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-14 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo , Tarun Souradeep

In this paper we implement an improved (error sensitive) Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm on the measured angular power spectrum from the WMAP 3 year data to determine the primordial power spectrum assuming different points in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Arman Shafieloo , Tarun Souradeep

The primordial curvature fluctuation spectrum is reconstructed by the cosmic inversion method using the five-year WMAP data of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy. We apply the covariance matrix analysis and decompose the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-30 Ryo Nagata , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We reconstruct the primordial spectrum of the curvature perturbation, $P(k)$, from the observational data of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) by the cosmic inversion method developed recently. In contrast to conventional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Noriyuki Kogo , Makoto Matsumiya , Misao Sasaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Different cosmological probes, such as primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, CMB lensing, and cosmic shear, are sensitive to the primordial power spectrum (PPS) over different ranges of wavenumbers. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Ryo Terasawa , Masahiro Takada , Sunao Sugiyama , Toshiki Kurita

Precise measurements of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background enable us to do an accurate study on the form of the primordial power spectrum for a given set of cosmological parameters. In a previous paper (Shafieloo and…

The baryonic features in the galaxy power spectrum offer tight, time-resolved constraints on the expansion history of the Universe but complicate the measurement of the broadband shape of the power spectrum, which also contains precious…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Katayoon Ghaemi , Nils Schöneberg , Licia Verde

Smoothing operation to make continuous density field from observed point-like distribution of galaxies is crucially important for topological or morphological analysis of the large-scale structure, such as, the genus statistics or the area…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Naoki Seto

We develop a new approach toward a high resolution non-parametric reconstruction of the primordial power spectrum using WMAP cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies that we confront with SDSS large-scale structure data in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Domenico Tocchini-Valentini , Marian Douspis , Joseph Silk

The observed angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy, $C_l$, is a convolution of a cosmological radiative transport kernel with an assumed primordial power spectrum of inhomogeneities. Exquisite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arman Shafieloo , Tarun Souradeep

Current results from the Lyman alpha forest assume that the primordial power spectrum of density perturbations follows a simple power law form, with running. We present the first analysis of Lyman alpha data to study the effect of relaxing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-16 Simeon Bird , Hiranya V. Peiris , Matteo Viel , Licia Verde

We perform a cosmological analysis in which we allow the primordial power spectrum of scalar perturbations to assume a shape that is different with respect to the usual power-law, arising from the simplest models of cosmological inflation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Stefano Gariazzo