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Cosmological perturbation theory is a powerful tool to predict the statistics of large-scale structure in the weakly non-linear regime, but even at 1-loop order it results in computationally expensive mode-coupling integrals. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-17 Xiao Fang , Jonathan A. Blazek , Joseph E. McEwen , Christopher M. Hirata

We present simulation-based cosmological $w$CDM inference using Dark Energy Survey Year 3 weak-lensing maps, via neural data compression of weak-lensing map summary statistics: power spectra, peak counts, and direct map-level…

This paper presents the second release of Pico (Parameters for the Impatient COsmologist). Pico is a general purpose machine learning code which we have applied to computing the CMB power spectra and the WMAP likelihood. For this release,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-04 William A. Fendt , Benjamin D. Wandelt

As the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is observed to higher and higher angular resolution the size of the resulting datasets becomes a serious constraint on their analysis. In particular current algorithms to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julian Borrill

$ $Future surveys could obtain tighter constraints on the cosmological parameters with the galaxy power spectrum than with the Cosmic Microwave Background. However, the inclusion of multiple overlapping tracers, redshift bins, and more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Yan Lai , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis

We present Capse.jl, a novel neural network-based emulator designed for rapid and accurate prediction of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature, polarization, and lensing angular power spectra. The emulator computes predictions in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Marco Bonici , Federico Bianchini , Jaime Ruiz-Zapatero

We present a novel Bayesian inference tool that uses a neural network to parameterise efficient Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) proposals. The target distribution is first transformed into a diagonal, unit variance Gaussian by a series of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Adam Moss

To efficiently probe primordial non-Gaussianity using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, we require theoretical predictions that are factorizable, \textit{i.e.}\ those whose kinematic dependence can be separated. This property does not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Kunhao Zhong , Salvatore Samuele Sirletti

We develop a set of machine-learning based cosmological emulators, to obtain fast model predictions for the $C(\ell)$ angular power spectrum coefficients characterising tomographic observations of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Marco Bonici , Luca Biggio , Carmelita Carbone , Luigi Guzzo

We implement and further refine the recently proposed method (Kashlinsky, Hern\'andez-Monteagudo & Atrio-Barandela, 2001 - KHA) for a time efficient extraction of the power spectrum from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela

Standard cosmic microwave background (CMB) analyses constrain cosmological and astrophysical parameters by fitting parametric models to multifrequency power spectra (MFPS). However, such methods do not optimally weight maps in power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Kristen M. Surrao , J. Colin Hill

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provide increasingly accurate information about the structure of the Universe at the recombination epoch. Most of this information is encoded in the angular power spectrum of the CMB.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-01 G. Faÿ , F. Guilloux , M. Betoule , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Delabrouille , M. Le Jeune

We present a coherent, re-usable python framework which further builds on the cosmological emulator code CosmoPower. In the current era of high-precision cosmology, we require high-accuracy calculations of cosmological observables with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 H. T. Jense , I. Harrison , E. Calabrese , A. Spurio Mancini , B. Bolliet , J. Dunkley , J. C. Hill

We revisit the issue of cosmological parameter estimation in light of current and upcoming high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background power spectrum. Physical quantities which determine the power spectrum are reviewed,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arthur Kosowsky , Milos Milosavljevic , Raul Jimenez

The Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (CMSSM) is one of the simplest and most widely-studied supersymmetric extensions to the standard model of particle physics. Nevertheless, current data do not sufficiently constrain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Yashar Akrami , Pat Scott , Joakim Edsjö , Jan Conrad , Lars Bergström

We apply two Bayesian hierarchical inference schemes to infer shear power spectra, shear maps and cosmological parameters from the CFHTLenS weak lensing survey - the first application of this method to data. In the first approach, we sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Justin Alsing , Alan F. Heavens , Andrew H. Jaffe

We introduce a comprehensive, custom-developed neural network, the PUREPath-B, that yields a posterior predictive distribution of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) B-mode signal conditioned on the foreground contaminated CMB data and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Vipin Sudevan , Pisin Chen

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

We present a new technique to compute simultaneously valid confidence intervals for a set of model parameters. We apply our method to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe's (WMAP) Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, exploring a…

Models of weak-scale supersymmetry offer viable dark matter (DM) candidates. Their parameter spaces are however rather large and complex, such that pinning down the actual parameter values from experimental data can depend strongly on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-14 Yashar Akrami , Christopher Savage , Pat Scott , Jan Conrad , Joakim Edsjö