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The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) encodes information on the origin and evolution of the universe, buried in a fractional anisotropy of one part in 100,000 on angular scales from arcminutes to tens of degrees. We await the coming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Richard Bond , Robert G. Crittenden , Andrew H. Jaffe , Lloyd Knox

In universes with significant curvature or cosmological constant, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies are created very recently via the Rees-Sciama or integrated Sachs-Wolfe effects. This causes the CMB anisotropies to become…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. P. Boughn , R. G. Crittenden , N. G. Turok

Several cosmological measurements have attained significant levels of maturity and accuracy over the last decade. Continuing this trend, future observations promise measurements of the statistics of the cosmic mass distribution at an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Brian Williams

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are discussed, with particular emphasis on current ground-based experiments and on future satellite, balloon and interferometer experiments. Observational techniques and the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. N. Lasenby , A. W. Jones , Y. Dabrowski

We describe the implications of cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations and galaxy and cluster surveys of large scale structure (LSS) for theories of cosmic structure formation, especially emphasizing the recent Boomerang and Maxima…

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the distribution of galaxies has been widely studied as an excellent standard ruler for probing cosmic distances and expansion history, and hence dark energy. In contrast, the amplitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Will Sutherland , Lukasz Mularczyk

In forthcoming years, connections between cosmology and particle physics will be made increasingly important with the advent of a new generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Here, we review a number of these links. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) determinations of the baryon-to-photon ratio $\eta \propto \Omega_{\rm baryon} h^2$ will remove the last free parameter from (standard) big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) calculations. This will make BBN a much…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard H. Cyburt , Brian D. Fields , Keith A. Olive

The anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide our best laboratory for testing models of the formation and evolution of large-scale structure. The rich features in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy spectrum, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhen Pan , Lloyd Knox , Martin White

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a relict of the early universe. Its perfect 2.725K blackbody spectrum demonstrates that the universe underwent a hot, ionized early phase; its anisotropy (about 80 \mu K rms) provides strong evidence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi

Recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements over a large range of angular scales have become sensitive enough to provide interesting constraints on cosmological parameters within a restricted class of models. We use the CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Charles H. Lineweaver , Domingos Barbosa

Cosmological measurements over the next decade will enable us to shed light on the content and evolution of the Universe. Complementary measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , David Alonso , Joanna Dunkley

We present results from the analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB), large scale structure (galaxy redshift survey) and X-ray galaxy cluster (baryon fraction and X-ray luminosity function) data, assuming a geometrically flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. W. Allen , R. W. Schmidt , S. L. Bridle

In recent years, upper limits on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies combined with predictions made by theories of galaxy formation, have been extremely powerful in ruling out purely baryonic dark matter (BDM) universes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Louise M Griffiths , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Silk

The coupling of photons and baryons by Thomson scattering in the early universe imprints features in both the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and matter power spectra. The former have been used to constrain a host of cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin White

We study the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in the scenario with late-decaying scalar condensations which arise in many class of cosmological scenarios based on supersymmetric models. With such a scalar condensation \phi, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Takeo Moroi , Tomo Takahashi

For decades, the determination of the mean density of matter(Omega_M) has been tied to the distribution of light. This has led to a ``bias,'' perhaps as large as a factor of 2, in determining a key cosmological parameter. Recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Michael S. Turner

The coupling of photons and baryons by Thomson scattering in the early universe imprints features in both the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and matter power spectra. The former have been used to constrain a host of cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Eric Huff , A. E. Schulz , Martin White , David J. Schlegel , Michael S. Warren

This work presents a detailed analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation intensity observations. The CMB is a relic of the Big Bang and its study greatly enhances our knowledge of cosmology. This work has led to new values for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henrik P. Nordberg , George F. Smoot

In this talk, I review some recent work on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in an open universe. I emphasize that the observed CMB anisotropies are still consistent with a low value of $\Omega$, and I address the question of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Kamionkowski