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Parametric model checking (PMC) computes algebraic formulae that express key non-functional properties of a system (reliability, performance, etc.) as rational functions of the system and environment parameters. In software engineering, PMC…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xinwei Fang , Radu Calinescu , Simos Gerasimou , Faisal Alhwikem

I calculate a hybrid cross-power spectrum estimator from the WMAP 5-year CMB temperature maps, discuss the goodness of fit, and then constrain cosmological parameters. The spectrum and results are generally consistent with previous results,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-07 Antony Lewis

We present a method for measuring the cosmic matter budget without assumptions about speculative Early Universe physics, and for measuring the primordial power spectrum P*(k) non-parametrically, either by combining CMB and LSS information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Matias Zaldarriaga

Copula-based modeling has seen rapid advances in recent years. However, in big data applications, the lengthy computation time for estimating copula parameters is a major difficulty. Here, we develop a novel method to speed computation time…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-20 Zheng Wei , Daeyoung Kim , Erin Marie Conlon

We present an updated version of the HMcode augmented halo model that can be used to make accurate predictions of the non-linear matter power spectrum over a wide range of cosmologies. Major improvements include modelling of BAO damping in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Alexander Mead , Samuel Brieden , Tilman Tröster , Catherine Heymans

This paper generalises the hybrid power spectrum estimator developed in Efstathiou (2004a) to the estimation of polarization power spectra of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The hybrid power spectrum estimator is unbiased and we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Efstathiou

A maximum-likelihood method is presented for estimating the power spectrum of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from interferometer observations. The method calculates flat band-power estimates in separate bins in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. P. Hobson , Klaus Maisinger

The estimation of cosmological parameters from a given data set requires a construction of a likelihood function which, in general, has a complicated functional form. We adopt a Gaussian copula and constructed a copula likelihood function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-28 Masanori Sato , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

Much attention has been given to the problem of estimating cosmological parameters from the $C_l$ measured by future experiments. Many of the approaches which are being used either invoke poorly controlled approximations or are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin D. Wandelt , Eric Hivon , Krzysztof M. Gorski

We present a new method for fast computation of the realization-dependent bias, a major computational bottleneck in measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum. The method accelerates the bias calculation by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Toshiya Namikawa , Blake D. Sherwin

We develop the XFaster Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy power spectrum and likelihood technique for the Planck CMB satellite mission. We give an overview of this estimator and its current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 G. Rocha , C. R. Contaldi , J. R. Bond , K. M. Gorski

We compute the full-sky angular power spectrum and bispectrum, along with their Fisher matrices, to forecast constraints on cosmological parameters for the BINGO and SKA1-MID Band 2 radio telescopes. This represents the first forecast…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Rodrigo F. Pinheiro , André A. Costa , Yu Sang

Although the broad outlines of the appropriate pipeline for cosmological likelihood analysis with CMB data has been known for several years, only recently have we had to contend with the full, large-scale, computationally challenging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew H. Jaffe , J. R. Bond , P. G. Ferreira , L. E. Knox

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum is a powerful cosmological probe as it entails almost all the statistical information of the CMB perturbations. Having access to only one sky, the CMB power spectrum measured by our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-23 P. Paykari , J. L. Starck , M. J. Fadili

In this article, we introduce an innovative parametric representation of the Hubble parameter, providing a model-independent means to explore the dynamics of an accelerating cosmos. The model's parameters are rigorously constrained through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-16 M. Koussour , N. Myrzakulov , M. K. M. Ali

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are considered as one of the leading technologies employed in the next generations of wireless communication networks (5G), which promise to provide higher spectral efficiency, lower…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Mahsa Salmani , Armaghan Eshaghi , Enxiao Luan , Sreenil Saha

We compare cosmological parameters from different Planck sky maps and likelihood pipelines, assessing robustness of cosmological results with respect to the choice of the latest Planck maps-likelihood combination. We show that, for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Hidde Jense , Marc Viña , Erminia Calabrese , J. Colin Hill

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

We introduce EFTCAMB/EFTCosmoMC as publicly available patches to the commonly used CAMB/CosmoMC codes. We briefly describe the structure of the codes, their applicability and main features. To illustrate the use of these patches, we obtain…

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