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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 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

Features in the primordial power spectrum have been suggested as an explanation for glitches in the angular power spectrum of temperature anisotropies measured by the WMAP satellite. However, these glitches might just as well be artifacts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-28 Jan Hamann , Arman Shafieloo , Tarun Souradeep

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

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

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

Using modified Richardson-Lucy algorithm we reconstruct the primordial power spectrum (PPS) from Planck Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy data. In our analysis we use different combinations of angular power spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo , Tarun Souradeep

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

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

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

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

The basic cosmological parameters and the primordial power spectrum together completely specify predictions for the cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy and large scale structure. Here we show how we can strongly constrain both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Yun Wang , David N. Spergel , Michael A. Strauss

The primordial curvature fluctuation spectrum is reconstructed by the maximum likelihood reconstruction method using the five-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy. We apply…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 Ryo Nagata , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We constrain the form of the primordial power spectrum using Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 3-year cosmic microwave background (CMB) data (+ other high resolution CMB experiments) in addition to complementary large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Bridges , A. N. Lasenby , M. P. Hobson

Measuring the deviation from scale invariance of the primordial power spectrum is a critical test of inflation. In this paper we reconstruct the shape of the primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbations from the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 Zong-Kuan Guo , Dominik J. Schwarz , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

The recent Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements indicate that there is power deficiency of the CMB anisotropies at large scales compared with the $\Lambda$CDM model. We have investigated the possibility of explaining such effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rita Sinha , Tarun Souradeep

Reconstructing the shape of the primordial power spectrum in a model independent way from cosmological data is a useful consistency check on what is usually assumed regarding early universe physics. It is also our primary window to unknown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pia Mukherjee , Yun Wang

We propose an efficient and model independent method for reconstructing the primordial power spectrum from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and large scale structure observations. The algorithm is based on a Monte Carlo principle and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steen Hannestad

The latest cosmological data seem to indicate a significant deviation from scale invariance of the primordial power spectrum when parameterized either by a power law or by a spectral index with non-zero "running". This deviation, by itself,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Licia Verde , Hiranya V. Peiris

We reconstruct the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations by applying a well-validated non-parametric technique employing Tikhonov regularisation to the first data release from the Planck satellite. To improve the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-31 Paul Hunt , Subir Sarkar
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