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The power spectrum of mass density fluctuations is evaluated from the Mark III and the SFI catalogs of peculiar velocities by a maximum likelihood analysis, using parametric models for the power spectrum and for the errors. The applications…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Idit Zehavi , Avishai Dekel

In this article, we employ a machine learning (ML) approach for the estimations of four fundamental parameters, namely, the Hubble constant ($H_0$), matter ($\Omega_{0m}$), curvature ($\Omega_{0k}$) and vacuum ($\Omega_{0\Lambda}$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Srikanta Pal , Rajib Saha

We revisit the problem of exact CMB likelihood and power spectrum estimation with the goal of minimizing computational cost through linear compression. This idea was originally proposed for CMB purposes by Tegmark et al.\ (1997), and here…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 E. Gjerløw , L. P. L. Colombo , H. K. Eriksen , K. M. Górski , A. Gruppuso , J. B. Jewell , S. Plaszczynski , I. K. Wehus

We assess the coverage properties of confidence and credible intervals on the CMSSM parameter space inferred from a Bayesian posterior and the profile likelihood based on an ATLAS sensitivity study. In order to make those calculations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-08 M. Bridges , K. Cranmer , F. Feroz , M. Hobson , R. Ruiz de Austri , R. Trotta

Cosmological parameter uncertainties are often stated assuming a particular model, neglecting the model uncertainty, even when Bayesian model selection is unable to identify a conclusive best model. Bayesian model averaging is a method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 David Parkinson , Andrew R. Liddle

We present a novel approach to estimate the value of primordial non-Gaussianity ($f_{\rm NL}$) parameter directly from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps using a convolutional neural network (CNN). While traditional methods rely on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Chandan G. Nagarajappa , Yin-Zhe Ma

We use two subsets of 2000 and 1000 Quijote simulations to build two power spectrum emulators, allowing for fast computations of the non-linear matter power spectrum. The first emulator is built in terms of seven cosmological parameters:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Andrei Lazanu

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques are now widely used for cosmological parameter estimation. Chains are generated to sample the posterior probability distribution obtained following the Bayesian approach. An important issue is how…

In this work, we present a new method to estimate cosmological parameters accurately based on the artificial neural network (ANN), and a code called ECoPANN (Estimating Cosmological Parameters with ANN) is developed to achieve parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-29 Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yao Li , Jun-Qing Xia

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler is widely used for cosmological parameter estimation from CMB and other data. However, due to the intrinsic serial nature of the MCMC sampler, convergence is often very slow. Here we present a fast…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 Santanu Das , Tarun Souradeep

Component separation is the process with which emission sources in astrophysical maps are generally extracted by taking multi-frequency information into account. It is crucial to develop more reliable methods for component separation for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 J. M. Casas , L. Bonavera , J. González-Nuevo , C. Baccigalupi , M. M. Cueli , D. Crespo , E. Goitia , J. D. Santos , M. L. Sánchez , F. J. de Cos

SCYNet (SUSY Calculating Yield Net) is a tool for testing supersymmetric models against LHC data. It uses neural network regression for a fast evaluation of the profile likelihood ratio. Two neural network approaches have been developed:…

We present CosmoPower-JAX, a JAX-based implementation of the CosmoPower framework, which accelerates cosmological inference by building neural emulators of cosmological power spectra. We show how, using the automatic differentiation, batch…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 D. Piras , A. Spurio Mancini

We introduce a novel neural network, SkyReconNet, which combines the expanded receptive fields of dilated convolutional layers along with standard convolutions, to capture both the global and local features for reconstructing the missing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Reyhan D. Lambaga , Vipin Sudevan , Pisin Chen

We introduce a deep generative framework for high-dimensional Bayesian inference that enables efficient posterior sampling. As telescopes and simulations rapidly expand the volume and resolution of astrophysical data, fast simulation-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Hadi Sotoudeh , Pablo Lemos , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

Using a nonparametric function estimation methodology, we present a comparative analysis of the WMAP 1-, 3-, 5-, and 7-year data releases for the CMB angular power spectrum with respect to the following key questions: (a) How well is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-10 Amir Aghamousa , Mihir Arjunwadkar , Tarun Souradeep

We describe the Bayesian-based signal-to-noise eigenmode method for cosmological parameter estimation, show how it can be used to optimally compress large CMB anisotropy data sets to manageable sizes, and apply it to the DMR 4-year, South…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Richard Bond , Andrew H. Jaffe

We present further development and the first public release of our multimodal nested sampling algorithm, called MultiNest. This Bayesian inference tool calculates the evidence, with an associated error estimate, and produces posterior…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-28 F. Feroz , M. P. Hobson , M. Bridges

Modeling of strong gravitational lenses is a necessity for further applications in astrophysics and cosmology. Especially with the large number of detections in current and upcoming surveys such as the Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-30 S. Schuldt , R. Cañameras , Y. Shu , S. H. Suyu , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixé

Szapudi et al (2001) introduced the method of estimating angular power spectrum of the CMB sky via heuristically weighted correlation functions. Part of the new technique is that all (co)variances are evaluated by massive Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Szapudi , S. Prunet , S. Colombi