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Modern cosmology has now emerged as a testing ground for theories beyond the standard model of particle physics. In this paper, we consider quantum fluctuations of the inflaton scalar field on certain noncommutative spacetimes and look for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-24 Earnest Akofor , A. P. Balachandran , Sang G. Jo , Anosh Joseph , Babar A. Qureshi

The damping of primordial perturbations at small scales gives rise to distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Here, the dependence of the distortion on the different types of cosmological initial conditions is explored,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-18 Jens Chluba , Daniel Grin

We develop and examine the principles governing the formation of distortions in the cosmic microwave background. Distortions in the frequency or spectral distribution of the background probe the thermal history of the universe whereas those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 Wayne Hu

We study the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy due to spherically symmetric nonlinear structures in flat universes with dust and a cosmological constant. By modeling a time-evolving spherical compensated void/lump by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 Nobuyuki Sakai , Kaiki Taro Inoue

I discuss how parameters describing inflation in the very early universe may be related to primordial perturbation spectra. Precision observations of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) such as those provided by the WMAP…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 David Wands

Suggestions have been made that the microwave background observed by COBE and WMAP and dubbed Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) may have an origin within our own Galaxy or Earth. To consider the signal that may be correlated with Earth, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ria Follop , Anais Rassat , Asantha Cooray , Filipe B. Abdalla

In this work we investigate the effects of the primordial magnetic fields on cosmic microwave background anisotropies (CMB). Based on cosmological magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations we calculate the CMB anisotropy spectra and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Naoshi Sugiyama , Robi Banerjee

In the near future, observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies will provide accurate determinations of many fundamental cosmological parameters. In this paper, we analyse degeneracies among cosmological parameters to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Efstathiou , J. R. Bond

Axion-CMB scenario is an interesting possibility to explain the temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by primordial fluctuations of the QCD axion \cite{Iso:2020pzv}. In this scenario, fluctuations of radiations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Satoshi Iso , Kiyoharu Kawana , Kengo Shimada

In the last few decades, advances in observational cosmology have given us a standard model of cosmology. We know the content of the universe to within a few percent. With more ambitious experiments on the way, we hope to move beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-26 Amit P. S. Yadav , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We investigate whether non-adiabatic perturbations from inflation could produce an asymmetric distribution of temperature anisotropies on large angular scales in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We use a generalised non-linear $\delta…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Hooshyar Assadullahi , Hassan Firouzjahi , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , David Wands

Observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), especially of its frequency spectrum and its anisotropies, both in temperature and in polarization, have played a key role in the development of modern cosmology and our understanding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-20 Martin Bucher

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is our richest source of cosmological information; the standard cosmological model was largely established thanks to study of the temperature anisotropies. By the end of the decade, the Planck…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 James G. Bartlett

We estimate the depolarizing effect of a primordial magnetic field upon the cosmic microwave background radiation due to differential Faraday rotation across the last scattering surface. The degree of linear polarization of the CMB is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Diego Harari , Justin Hayward , Matias Zaldarriaga

We present the results of analysis of constraints on cosmological parameters from cosmic microwave background (CMB) alone and in combination with galaxy cluster baryon fraction assuming inflation--generated adiabatic scalar fluctuations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Douspis , A. Blanchard , R. Sadat , J. G. Bartlett , M. Le Dour

Fluctuations in the intensity and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the large-scale distribution of matter in the universe each contain clues about the nature of the earliest moments of time. The next generation of…

Spatially fluctuating primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) inhomogeneously reheat the Universe when they dissipate deep inside the horizon before recombination. Such an energy injection turns into an additional photon temperature perturbation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-28 Shohei Saga , Atsuhisa Ota , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Measurements of CMB anisotropy and, more recently, polarization have played a very important role allowing precise determination of various parameters of the `standard' cosmological model. The expectation of the paradigm of inflation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tarun Souradeep

We constrain the thermal evolution of the universe with a decaying cosmological term by using the method of the analysis for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observation data. The cosmological term is assumed to be a function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Riou Nakamura , Masa-aki Hashimoto , Kiyotomo Ichiki

Anisotropies in distortions to the frequency spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be created through spatially varying heating processes in the early Universe. For instance, the dissipation of small-scale acoustic modes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Jens Chluba , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Mustafa A. Amin , Marc Kamionkowski