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We report here the first full sky component separation and CMB power spectrum estimation using a Wiener filtering technique on simulated data from the upcoming MAP experiment, set to launch in early 2001. The simulations included…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Prunet , R. Teyssier , S. T. Scully , F. R. Bouchet , R. Gispert

The Planck mission has conclusively detected lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation from foreground sources to an overall significance of greater than $25\sigma$. The high precision of this measurement motivates the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 S. -C. Su , Eugene A. Lim

We study the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation in the unified description of the effective field theory (EFT) of dark energy that accommodates both scalar-tensor and vector-tensor theories. The boundaries of different classes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Katsuki Aoki , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Takashi Hiramatsu , Shinji Mukohyama , Masroor C. Pookkillath , Kazufumi Takahashi

Unparticle cosmology gives an unconventional outlook on the dark sector of cosmology, increasingly challenging $\Lambda\mbox{CDM}$ by $H_0$-tension. This model derives from a finite temperature broken conformal symmetry of radiation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-31 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Maryam Aghaei Abchouyeh

We present $\it{CosmoPower}$, a suite of neural cosmological power spectrum emulators providing orders-of-magnitude acceleration for parameter estimation from two-point statistics analyses of Large-Scale Structure (LSS) and Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 A. Spurio Mancini , D. Piras , J. Alsing , B. Joachimi , M. P. Hobson

The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is now firmly established as a fundamental and essential probe of the geometry, constituents, and birth of the Universe. The CMB is a potent observable because it can be measured with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Hanany , M. Niemack , L. Page

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing measurements and tomographic galaxy surveys are expected to provide us with high-precision data sets in the coming years, thus paving the way for fruitful cross-correlation analyses. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Priyesh Chakraborty , Shu-Fan Chen , Cora Dvorkin

The era of precision cosmology has allowed us to accurately determine many important cosmological parameters, in particular via the CMB. Confronting Loop Quantum Cosmology with these observations provides us with a powerful test of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-06 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

We present a joint cosmological analysis combining data from the Planck satellite, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, and the South Pole Telescope. We construct a unified likelihood that reproduces the measured temperature and polarisation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 M. Tristram , M. Douspis , A. Gorce , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , S. Ilic , L. McBride , M. Muñoz-Echeverría , E. Pointecouteau , L. Salvati

We compute the imprints left on the CMB by two cosmic reionization models consistent with current observations but characterized by alternative radiative feedback prescriptions (suppression and filtering) resulting in a different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Burigana , L. A. Popa , R. Salvaterra , R. Schneider , T. Roy Choudhury , A. Ferrara

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

We propose a novel bias-free method for reconstructing the power spectrum of the weak lensing deflection field from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. The proposed method is in contrast to the standard method of CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Sudeep Das

We present the first field-theoretic calculations of the contribution made by cosmic strings to the temperature power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Unlike previous work, in which strings were modeled as idealized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Neil Bevis , Mark Hindmarsh , Martin Kunz , Jon Urrestilla

Context: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectrum probes physical processes and astrophysical phenomena occurring at various epochs of the Universe evolution. Current and future CMB absolute temperature experiments are aimed to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Pietro Procopio , Carlo Burigana

I describe a method to estimate response matrices of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing power spectra estimators to the true sky power under realistic conditions. Applicable to all lensing reconstruction pipelines based on quadratic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Julien Carron

The Cosmological Microwave Background (CMB) is of premier importance for the cosmologists to study the birth of our universe. Unfortunately, most CMB experiments such as COBE, WMAP or Planck do not provide a direct measure of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Bobin , J. -L. Starck , F. Sureau , S. Basak

In this paper we compute the CMB bispectrum for bouncing models motivated by Loop Quantum Cosmology. Despite the fact that the primordial bispectrum of these models is decaying exponentially above a large pivot scale, we find that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-12 Paola C. M. Delgado , Ruth Durrer , Nelson Pinto-Neto

We investigate the extent to which foreground cleaned CMB maps can be used to estimate the cosmological parameters at small scales. We use the SMICA method, a blind separation technique which works directly at the spectral level. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 C. Umiltà , J. F. Cardoso , K. Benabed , M. Le Jeune

We evaluate the contribution of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization spectra to cosmological parameter constraints. We produce cosmological parameters using high-quality CMB polarization data from the ground-based QUaD experiment…

We extend the analysis of Gabor transforms on a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature map (Hansen, Gorski and Hivon 2002) to polarisation. We study the temperature and polarisation power spectra on the cut sky, the so-called pseudo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Frode K. Hansen , Krzysztof M. Gorski