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A model-independent determination of the primordial power spectrum of matter density fluctuations could uniquely probe physics of the very early universe, and provide powerful constraints on inflationary models. We parametrize the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yun Wang , Grant J. Mathews

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

The current available CMB data show an anomalously low value of the CMB temperature fluctuations at large angular scales (l < 40). This lack of power is not explained by the minimal LCDM model, and one of the possible mechanisms explored in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 Simony Santos da Costa , Micol Benetti , Jailson Alcaniz

Several satellite missions have uncovered a series of potential anomalies in the fluctuation spectrum of the cosmic microwave background temperature, including: (1) an unexpectedly low level of correlation at large angles, manifested via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-04 Fulvio Melia , Qingbo Ma , Jun-Jie Wei , Bo Yu

We discuss the problem of CMB spectrum corruption during Galactic emission removing. A new technique of spatial--frequency data reduction is proposed. The technique gives us a possibility to avoid a spatial harmonics nonorthogonality. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Brukhanov , D. P. Skulachev , I. A. Strukov , T. V. Konkina

Cosmological theories for the origin and evolution of structure in the Universe are highly predictive of the form of the angular power spectrum of cosmic microwave background fluctuations. We present new results from a comprehensive study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Hancock , Graca Rocha

Estimation of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on a small patch of sky is usually plagued by serious spectral leakage, specially when the map has a hard edge. Even on a full sky map, point source masks can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudeep Das , Amir Hajian , David N. Spergel

Forthcoming high-resolution observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation will generate datasets many orders of magnitude larger than have been obtained to date. The size and complexity of such datasets presents a very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Julian Borrill

We investigate the question of how tightly we can constrain the cosmological parameters by using the ``cosmic inversion'' method in which we directly reconstruct the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations, $P(k)$, from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Noriyuki Kogo , Misao Sasaki , 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

We have developed a fast, accurate and generally applicable method for inferring the power spectrum and its uncertainties from maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the presence of inhomogeneous and correlated noise. For maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 O. Doré , L. Knox , A. Peel

We have developed a fast method for predicting the angular power spectrum, C_l, of the cosmic microwave background given cosmological parameters and a primordial power spectrum of perturbations. After pre--computing the radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manoj Kaplinghat , Lloyd Knox , Constantinos Skordis

Although cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data alone cannot constrain simultaneously the spatial curvature and the equation of state of dark energy, CMB data provide a valuable addition to other experimental results. However…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pia Mukherjee , Martin Kunz , David Parkinson , Yun Wang

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation provide a unique opportunity for a direct study of the primordial cosmic plasma at redshift z ~1000. The angular power spectra of temperature and polarisation fluctuations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Bersanelli , Davide Maino , Aniello Mennella

We constrain the shape of the primordial power spectrum using recent measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 7-year data and other high-resolution CMB experiments. We also…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 J. Alberto Vazquez , A. N. Lasenby , M. Bridges , M. P. Hobson

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

We describe an algorithm for the extraction of the angular power spectrum of an intensity field, such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), from interferometer data. This new method, based on the gridding of interferometer visibilities…

Matter inhomogeneities along the line of sight deflect the cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons originating at the last scattering surface at redshift $z \sim 1100$. These distortions modify the pattern of CMB polarization. We identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jacek Guzik , Uros Seljak , Matias Zaldarriaga

We investigate the possibility of reconstructing the initial spectrum of density fluctuations from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. As a first step toward this program, we consider a spatially flat, CDM dominated universe.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Makoto Matsumiya , Misao Sasaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Accurate measurements of angular power spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation has lead to marked improvement in the estimates of different cosmological parameters. This has required removal of foreground contamination as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rajib Saha , Pankaj Jain , Tarun Souradeep