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1. Revisiting cosmological constraints on supersymmetric SuperWIMPs

Author: Meera Deshpande, Jan Hamann, Dipan Sengupta, Martin White, Anthony G. Williams, and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract SuperWIMPs are extremely weakly interacting massive particles that inherit their relic abundance from late decays of frozen-out parent particles. Within supersymmetric models, gravitinos and axinos represent two of the most well motivated superWIMPs. In this paper we revisit constraints on these scenarios from a variety of cosmological observations that probe their production mechanisms as well as the superWIMP kinematic properties in the early Universe. We consider in particular observables of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Cosmic Microwave Background (spectral distortion and anisotropies), which limit the fractional energy injection from the late decays, as well as warm and mixed dark matter constraints derived from the Lyman- $$\alpha $$ α forest and other small-scale structure observables. We discuss complementary constraints from collider experiments, and argue that cosmological considerations rule out a significant part of the gravitino and the axino superWIMP parameter space.
Published: 2024
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2. deep delensing assisted likelihood-free inference from CMB polarization maps

Author: Kai Yi, Yanan Fan, Jan Hamann, Pietro Liò, and Yu Guang Wang
Subjects: cosmic microwave background (CMB), likelihood-free inference, deep learning, tensor-to-scalar ratio, Computer engineering. Computer hardware, TK7885-7895, Electronic computers. Computer science, QA75.5-76.95
Abstract: The existence of a cosmic background of primordial gravitational waves is a robust prediction of inflationary cosmology, but it has so far evaded discovery. The most promising avenue of its detection is via measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) B -polarization. However, this is not straightforward due to (a) the fact that CMB maps are distorted by gravitational lensing and (b) the high-dimensional nature of CMB data, which renders likelihood-based analysis methods computationally extremely expensive. In this paper, we introduce an efficient likelihood-free, end-to-end inference method to directly infer the posterior distribution of the tensor-to-scalar ratio r from lensed maps of the Stokes Q and U polarization parameters. Our method employs a generative model to delense the maps and utilizes the approximate Bayesian computation algorithm to sample r . We demonstrate that our method yields unbiased estimates of r with well-calibrated uncertainty quantification.
Published: 2024
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3. Somatosensory evoked potentials and their relation to microstructural damage in patients with multiple sclerosis—A whole brain DTI study

Author: Jan Hamann, Barbara Ettrich, Karl Titus Hoffman, Florian Then Bergh, and Donald Lobsien
Subjects: diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), MRI, somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP), multiple sclerosis, sensible tract, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429
Abstract: IntroductionSomatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) play a pivotal role in the diagnosis and disease monitoring of multiple sclerosis (MS). Delayed latencies are a surrogate for demyelination along the sensory afference. This study aimed to evaluate if SSEP latencies are representative of demyelination of the brain overall, by correlating with cerebral microstructural integrity as measured by Magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Analysis was performed in a hypothesis-free whole brain approach using tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS).Material and methodsA total of 46 patients with MS or clinically isolated syndrome were included in the study. Bilateral SSEPs of the median nerve measuring mean N20 latencies (mN20) and Central Conduction Time (CCT), were acquired. MRI scans were performed at 3T. DTI acquisition was done with a single-shot echoplanar imaging technique with 80 diffusion directions. The FSL software package was used to process the DTI datasets and to calculate maps of fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD). These maps were then further analyzed using the TBSS module. The mean N20 and CCT and the right- and left-sided N20 and CCT were separately correlated to FA, AD, and RD, controlled for age, gender, and EDSS as variables of non-interest.ResultsWidespread negative correlations of SSEP latencies with FA (p = 0.0005) and positive correlations with RD (p = 0.0003) were measured in distinct white matter tracts, especially the optic tracts, corpus callosum, and posterior corona radiata. No correlation with AD was found in any white matter tract.ConclusionHighly significant correlations of FA and RD to SSEPs suggest that their latency is representative of widespread microstructural change, and especially demyelination in patients suffering from MS, reaching beyond the classic somatosensory regions. This points to the usefulness of SSEPs as a non-invasive tool in the evaluation of microstructural damage to the brain.
Published: 2022
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4. Removing the Mask - Reconstructing a Real-Valued Field on the Sphere from a Masked Field by Spherical Fourier Analysis.

Author: Jan Hamann, Quoc Thong Le Gia, Ian H. Sloan, and Robert S. Womersley
Published: 2024
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5. APPROXIMATE EQUIVARIANCE SO(3) NEEDLET CONVOLUTION.

Author: Kai Yi, Jialin Chen, Yu Guang Wang 0001, Bingxin Zhou, Pietro Liò, Yanan Fan, and Jan Hamann
Published: 2022

6. Removing the mask - reconstructing a scalar field on the sphere from a masked field.

Author: Jan Hamann, Quoc Thong Le Gia, Ian H. Sloan, and Robert S. Womersley
Published: 2023
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7. Cosmo VAE: Variational Autoencoder for CMB Image Inpainting.

Author: Kai Yi, Yi Guo, Yanan Fan, Jan Hamann, and Yu Guang Wang 0001
Published: 2020
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8. CosmoVAE: Variational Autoencoder for CMB Image Inpainting.

Author: Kai Yi, Yi Guo, Yanan Fan, Jan Hamann, and Yuguang Wang 0001
Published: 2020

9. Die Wiederherstellung des Borwinbrunnens in Güstrow – Eine anspruchsvolle ingenieurtechnische und restauratorische Aufgabe

Author: Boris Frohberg and Jan Hamann
Published: 2023
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10. Constraining primordial tensor features with the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Author: Jan Hamann and Ameek Malhotra
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: It is commonly assumed that the stochastic background of gravitational waves on cosmological scales follows an almost scale-independent power spectrum, as generically predicted by the inflationary paradigm. However, it is not inconceivable that the spectrum could have strongly scale-dependent features, generated, e.g., via transient dynamics of spectator axion-gauge fields during inflation. Using the temperature and polarisation maps from the \textit{Planck} and BICEP/Keck datasets, we search for such features, taking the example of a log-normal bump in the primordial tensor spectrum at CMB scales. We do not find any evidence for the existence of bump-like tensor features at present, but demonstrate that future CMB experiments such as LiteBIRD and CMB-S4 will greatly improve our prospects of determining the amplitude, location and width of such a bump. We also highlight the role of delensing in constraining these features at angular scales $\ell\gtrsim 100$., Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures. Version accepted at JCAP
Published: 2022
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11. Planck 2018 results

Author: Antony Lewis, X. Dupac, James R. Fergusson, François R. Bouchet, Diego Molinari, E. Martínez-González, Jean-François Cardoso, L. Salvati, Jörg P. Rachen, Krzysztof M. Gorski, K. Ganga, A. Marcos-Caballero, C. Combet, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, E. Di Valentino, Jose M. Diego, L. Montier, Jan Hamann, J. F. Macías-Pérez, E. Franceschi, Charles R. Lawrence, M. Douspis, Erminia Calabrese, E. P. S. Shellard, Frederico Arroja, M. Le Jeune, P. Vielva, Andrea Zacchei, Graca Rocha, Martina Gerbino, Zhiqi Huang, Davide Maino, Adam Moss, Ricardo Genova-Santos, D. Tavagnacco, M. López-Caniego, A. A. Fraisse, M. Tenti, F. Piacentini, J.-P. Bernard, P. de Bernardis, Tiziana Trombetti, L. Toffolatti, Soumen Basak, F. Elsner, J.-L. Puget, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Julian Borrill, R. B. Barreiro, Gabriel Jung, Michele Liguori, S. Galeotta, Will Handley, F. Cuttaia, G. Polenta, R. C. Butler, K. Kiiveri, Anthony Lasenby, Alessandro Melchiorri, Reijo Keskitalo, A. J. Banday, M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, A. Renzi, P. Bielewicz, F. Oppizzi, Yashar Akrami, Anthony Challinor, B. Casaponsa, E. Keihänen, Gianmarco Maggio, B. P. Crill, Nicola Bartolo, B. Van Tent, Fabrizio Villa, Francesca Perrotta, F. K. Hansen, J. B. Kim, G. Sirri, Andrei V. Frolov, Michele Maris, J. A. Tauber, M. Savelainen, D. Herranz, A.-S. Suur-Uski, Yabebal Fantaye, Sabino Matarrese, M. Migliaccio, M. Tomasi, M. Bucher, Nicola Vittorio, J. Valiviita, V. Lindholm, W. C. Jones, Douglas Scott, R. Fernandez-Cobos, D. Paoletti, Marco Bersanelli, Torsten A. Enßlin, A. Moneti, M. Frailis, Carlo Baccigalupi, V. Pettorino, François Levrier, E. Hivon, J. Aumont, B. Racine, A. Mennella, G. Patanchon, Alessandro Gruppuso, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, M. Reinecke, J.-M. Delouis, P. D. Meerburg, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, N. Mandolesi, Chiara Sirignano, Kendrick M. Smith, Andrew H. Jaffe, Peter Meinhold, J.-M. Lamarre, A. de Rosa, G. de Zotti, B. Partridge, J. González-Nuevo, A. Ducout, Locke D. Spencer, M. 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Akrami, F. Arroja, M. Ashdown, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, M. Ballardini, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, N. Bartolo, S. Basak, K. Benabed, J. -P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, P. Bielewicz, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, F. R. Bouchet, M. Bucher, C. Burigana, R. C. Butler, E. Calabrese, J. -F. Cardoso, B. Casaponsa, A. Challinor, H. C. Chiang, L. P. L. Colombo, C. Combet, B. P. Crill, F. Cuttaia, P. de Bernardi, A. de Rosa, G. de Zotti, J. Delabrouille, J. -M. Deloui, E. Di Valentino, J. M. Diego, O. Doré, M. Douspi, A. Ducout, X. Dupac, S. Dusini, G. Efstathiou, F. Elsner, T. A. Enßlin, H. K. Eriksen, Y. Fantaye, J. Fergusson, R. Fernandez-Cobo, F. Finelli, M. Fraili, A. A. Fraisse, E. Franceschi, A. Frolov, S. Galeotta, K. Ganga, R. T. Génova-Santo, M. Gerbino, J. González-Nuevo, K. M. Górski, S. Gratton, A. Gruppuso, J. E. Gudmundsson, J. Hamann, W. Handley, F. K. Hansen, D. Herranz, E. Hivon, Z. Huang, A. H. Jaffe, W. C. Jone, G. Jung, E. Keihänen, R. Keskitalo, K. Kiiveri, J. Kim, N. 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Toffolatti, M. Tomasi, T. Trombetti, J. Valiviita, B. Van Tent, P. Vielva, F. Villa, N. Vittorio, B. D. Wandelt, I. K. Wehu, A. Zacchei, A. Zonca, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory, cosmological model, Astronomy, Cosmic microwave background, POLARIZATION ANISOTROPIES, cosmic background radiation: polarization, Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, Cosmic background radiation, Early Universe, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, expansion: multipole, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), cosmology: theory, 3-POINT CORRELATION-FUNCTION, observations [Cosmology], data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, TEMPERATURE, Physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], hep-th, formation, hep-ph, early Universe, CMB cold spot, inflation: model, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, scale dependence, non-Gaussianity, symbols, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], astro-ph.CO, Trispectrum, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Particle physics, data analysis method, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), satellite: Planck, gr-qc, FOS: Physical sciences, PREDICTIONS, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect, Separable space, NO, isocurvature, symbols.namesake, trispectrum, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, parity: violation, gravitation: lens, statistical analysis, theory [Cosmology], Non-Gaussianity, 0103 physical sciences, BISPECTRUM, INFRARED BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES, structure, bispectrum: scale dependence, Planck, cosmic background radiation: bispectrum, inflation, FAST ESTIMATOR, numerical calculations, non-Gaussianity: primordial, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ISOCURVATURE PERTURBATIONS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, stability, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Inflation, methods: data analysis, boundary condition, cosmic background radiation: temperature, Cosmology: observations, Cosmology: theory, Methods: data analysis, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, axion, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], cosmology: observations, Cosmic background radiation, Cosmology: observations, Cosmology: theory, Early Universe, Inflation, Methods: data analysis, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Bispectrum
Abstract: Planck Collaboration: et al., arXiv:1905.05697v1, We analyse the Planck full-mission cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and E-mode polarization maps to obtain constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (NG). We compare estimates obtained from separable template-fitting, binned, and optimal modal bispectrum estimators, finding consistent values for the local, equilateral, and orthogonal bispectrum amplitudes. Our combined temperature and polarization analysis produces the following final results: fNLlocal = −0.9 ± 5.1; fNLequil = −26 ± 47; and fNLortho = −38 ± 24 (68% CL, statistical). These results include low-multipole (4 ≤ ℓ < 40) polarization data that are not included in our previous analysis. The results also pass an extensive battery of tests (with additional tests regarding foreground residuals compared to 2015), and they are stable with respect to our 2015 measurements (with small fluctuations, at the level of a fraction of a standard deviation, which is consistent with changes in data processing). Polarization-only bispectra display a significant improvement in robustness; they can now be used independently to set primordial NG constraints with a sensitivity comparable to WMAP temperature-based results and they give excellent agreement. In addition to the analysis of the standard local, equilateral, and orthogonal bispectrum shapes, we consider a large number of additional cases, such as scale-dependent feature and resonance bispectra, isocurvature primordial NG, and parity-breaking models, where we also place tight constraints but do not detect any signal. The non-primordial lensing bispectrum is, however, detected with an improved significance compared to 2015, excluding the null hypothesis at 3.5σ. Beyond estimates of individual shape amplitudes, we also present model-independent reconstructions and analyses of the Planck CMB bispectrum. Our final constraint on the local primordial trispectrum shape is gNLlocal = (−5.8 ± 6.5) × 104 (68% CL, statistical), while constraints for other trispectrum shapes are also determined. Exploiting the tight limits on various bispectrum and trispectrum shapes, we constrain the parameter space of different early-Universe scenarios that generate primordial NG, including general single-field models of inflation, multi-field models (e.g. curvaton models), models of inflation with axion fields producing parity-violation bispectra in the tensor sector, and inflationary models involving vector-like fields with directionally-dependent bispectra. Our results provide a high-precision test for structure-formation scenarios, showing complete agreement with the basic picture of the ΛCDM cosmology regarding the statistics of the initial conditions, with cosmic structures arising from adiabatic, passive, Gaussian, and primordial seed perturbations., The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF, and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); and ERC and PRACE (EU).
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12. Using Virtual Reality to Validate Autonomous Driving Functions

Author: Jan Hamann and Timo Nels
Subjects: Human–computer interaction, Computer science, General Medicine, Virtual reality
Published: 2020
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13. Convergence between public switching and the Internet.

Author: Ulrich Schoen, Jan Hamann, Alfred Jugel, Hendrik Kurzawa, and Christian Schmidt 0013
Published: 1998
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14. Optimising Inflationary Features the Bayesian Way

Author: Jan Hamann and Julius Wons
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Modern cosmological data demand modern data analysis techniques. We introduce BayOp, a new likelihood sampling and maximisation method which is based on the Bayesian Optimisation algorithm and learns a function instead of randomly sampling from it. We apply BayOp to analyse Planck data for traces of inflationary features models with global periodic modulations of the primordial power spectrum. While we do not find any new evidence for features, we demonstrate that BayOp provides an extremely efficient way of sampling likelihoods over low-to-moderate-dimensional parameter spaces, even for very complex likelihood landscapes., Comment: 27 pages, 9 figures, added references and clarifications - matches published version
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15. Planck 2018 results: VI. Cosmological parameters (Corrigendum)

Author: Jose M. Diego, F. Piacentini, Soumen Basak, M. Frailis, Carlo Baccigalupi, M. Ashdown, H. K. Eriksen, François Levrier, E. Hivon, Reijo Keskitalo, L. Pagano, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, A. Renzi, F. Cuttaia, F. R. Bouchet, F. Villa, R. Fernandez-Cobos, L. Montier, Charles R. Lawrence, R. B. Barreiro, Simon D. M. White, Jean-François Cardoso, Tuhin Ghosh, A. Mennella, Nabila Aghanim, Zhiqi Huang, Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen, P. Vielva, R. C. Butler, K. M. Górski, K. Kiiveri, Gianmarco Maggio, P. de Bernardis, Luca Valenziano, Steven Gratton, Lloyd Knox, Andrea Zacchei, Jonathan Aumont, F. K. Hansen, P. Bielewicz, Guilaine Lagache, Jörg P. Rachen, S. R. Hildebrandt, Antony Lewis, M. López-Caniego, D. Herranz, M. Le Jeune, N. Mandolesi, Julien Lesgourgues, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Julian Borrill, Peter G. Martin, Will Handley, L. Vibert, Jens Chluba, Peter Meinhold, Michele Liguori, Jan Hamann, G. Roudier, Diego Molinari, Andrei V. Frolov, J.-M. Delouis, J. González-Nuevo, Aurelien A. Fraisse, M. Sandri, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, M. Tenti, B. P. Crill, J.-L. Puget, L. Salvati, X. Dupac, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Karim Benabed, Locke D. Spencer, Paolo Natoli, Francesco Forastieri, Nicola Bartolo, Erminia Calabrese, J.-P. Bernard, Marzieh Farhang, J. F. Macías-Pérez, Nicola Vittorio, V. Lindholm, A.-S. Suur-Uski, Adam Moss, E. Franceschi, W. C. Jones, P. Lemos, A. Karakci, D. Tavagnacco, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Tiziana Trombetti, B. Van Tent, Alessandro Gruppuso, Marius Millea, Graca Rocha, Sabino Matarrese, Theodore Kisner, Richard A. Battye, M. Martinelli, A. J. Banday, D. Contreras, J.-M. Lamarre, Ken Ganga, B. Partridge, Yabebal Fantaye, Jan Tauber, N. Mauri, J. J. Bock, Martin Kunz, E. Martínez-González, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, A. Ducout, Mathieu Remazeilles, S. Galeotta, Marian Douspis, Chiara Sirignano, O. Doré, Jon E. Gudmundsson, G. de Zotti, Hiranya V. Peiris, Yashar Akrami, Anthony Challinor, Michele Maris, M. Savelainen, Francesca Perrotta, P. B. Lilje, Torsten A. Enßlin, Valeria Pettorino, M. Tomasi, Jacques Delabrouille, Martin Reinecke, Marco Bersanelli, J. B. Kim, G. Sirri, Yin-Zhe Ma, E. P. S. Shellard, Fabio Finelli, S. Dusini, Andrea Zonca, H. C. Chiang, Martin White, M. Bucher, Douglas Scott, A. Mangilli, A. Marcos-Caballero, L. P. L. Colombo, Mario Ballardini, Daniela Paoletti, Jussi Valiviita, George Efstathiou, F. Boulanger, G. Polenta, Julien Carron, L. Toffolatti, Anthony Lasenby, Martina Gerbino, E. Keihänen, Andrew H. Jaffe, Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes, Philip Lubin, Davide Maino, M. Lilley, M. Migliaccio, J. R. Bond, B. Ruiz-Granados, Jason D. McEwen, Carlo Burigana, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, James R. Fergusson, Subhasish Mitra, C. Combet, R. A. Sunyaev, E. Di Valentino, G. Patanchon, L. Polastri, Alessandro Melchiorri, S. Galli, Gianluca Morgante, Franz Elsner, C. Rosset, and Universidad de Cantabria
Subjects: Physics, Numerical error, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Cosmological parameters, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Cosmic background radiation, 01 natural sciences, Upper and lower bounds, Errata, addenda, Combinatorics, symbols.namesake, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Optical depth (astrophysics), symbols, Planck, 010306 general physics
Abstract: Author(s): Aghanim, N; Akrami, Y; Ashdown, M; Aumont, J; Baccigalupi, C; Ballardini, M; Banday, AJ; Barreiro, RB; Bartolo, N; Basak, S; Battye, R; Benabed, K; Bernard, JP; Bersanelli, M; Bielewicz, P; Bock, JJ; Bond, JR; Borrill, J; Bouchet, FR; Boulanger, F; Bucher, M; Burigana, C; Butler, RC; Calabrese, E; Cardoso, JF; Carron, J; Challinor, A; Chiang, HC; Chluba, J; Colombo, LPL; Combet, C; Contreras, D; Crill, BP; Cuttaia, F; De Bernardis, P; De Zotti, G; Delabrouille, J; Delouis, JM; DI Valentino, E; DIego, JM; Dore, O; Douspis, M; Ducout, A; Dupac, X; Dusini, S; Efstathiou, G; Elsner, F; Enslin, TA; Eriksen, HK; Fantaye, Y; Farhang, M; Fergusson, J; Fernandez-Cobos, R; Finelli, F; Forastieri, F; Frailis, M; Fraisse, AA; Franceschi, E; Frolov, A; Galeotta, S; Galli, S; Ganga, K; Genova-Santos, RT; Gerbino, M; Ghosh, T; Gonzalez-Nuevo, J; Gorski, KM; Gratton, S; Gruppuso, A; Gudmundsson, JE; Hamann, J; Handley, W; Hansen, FK; Herranz, D; Hildebrandt, SR; Hivon, E; Huang, Z; Jaffe, AH; Jones, WC; Karakci, A; Keihanen, E; Keskitalo, R; Kiiveri, K; Kim, J; Kisner, TS | Abstract: In the original version, the bounds given in Eqs. (87a) and (87b) on the contribution to the early-time optical depth, (15,30), contained a numerical error in deriving the 95th percentile from the Monte Carlo samples. The corrected 95% upper bounds are: τ(15,30) l 0:018 (lowE, flat τ(15, 30), FlexKnot), (1) τ(15, 30) l 0:023 (lowE, flat knot, FlexKnot): (2) These bounds are a factor of 3 larger than the originally reported results. Consequently, the new bounds do not significantly improve upon previous results from Planck data presented in Millea a Bouchet (2018) as was stated, but are instead comparable. Equations (1) and (2) give results that are now similar to those of Heinrich a Hu (2021), who used the same Planck 2018 data to derive a 95% upper bound of 0.020 using the principal component analysis (PCA) model and uniform priors on the PCA mode amplitudes.
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16. Cosmo VAE: Variational Autoencoder for CMB Image Inpainting

Author: Jan Hamann, Yi Guo, Yanan Fan, Kai Yi, and Yu Guang Wang
Subjects: 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Computer science, business.industry, Deep learning, Cosmic microwave background, Posterior probability, Inpainting, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Latent variable, 01 natural sciences, Convolutional neural network, Autoencoder, Galaxy, Gaussian random field, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Noise (video), Artificial intelligence, Planck, Divergence (statistics), business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Algorithm
Abstract: Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is critical to the understanding of the early universe and precise estimation of cosmological constants. Due to the contamination of thermal dust noise in the galaxy, the CMB map that is an image on the two-dimensional sphere has missing observations, mainly concentrated on the equatorial region. The noise of the CMB map has a significant impact on the estimation precision for cosmological parameters. Inpainting the CMB map can effectively reduce the uncertainty of parametric estimation. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based variational autoencoder — CosmoVAE, to restoring the missing observations of the CMB map. The input and output of CosmoVAE are square images. To generate training, validation, and test data sets, we segment the full-sky CMB map into many small images by Cartesian projection. CosmoVAE assigns physical quantities to the parameters of the VAE network by using Fourier coefficients, which are sampled by the angular power spectrum of the Gaussian random field as latent variables. CosmoVAE adopts a new loss function to improve the learning performance of the model, which consists of l 1 reconstruction loss, Kullback-Leibler divergence between the posterior distribution of encoder network and the prior distribution of latent variables, perceptual loss, and total-variation regularizer. The proposed model achieves state of the art performance for Planck Commander 2018 CMB map inpainting.
Published: 2020
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17. Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters

Author: M. López-Caniego, Richard A. Battye, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, J. Aumont, Charles R. Lawrence, P. Vielva, E. Martínez-González, François R. Bouchet, L. Montier, K. Ganga, Francesca Perrotta, Lloyd Knox, M. Le Jeune, Jan Hamann, E. Franceschi, M. Tenti, C. Combet, Torsten A. Enßlin, Andrea Zacchei, R. A. Sunyaev, J.-M. Delouis, J. F. Macías-Pérez, Tiziana Trombetti, Zhiqi Huang, Graca Rocha, L. Polastri, Alessandro Melchiorri, A. Mennella, Nabila Aghanim, Sabino Matarrese, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, N. Bartolo, Theodore Kisner, Peter Meinhold, L. Salvati, Jose M. Diego, K. Benabed, J.-P. Bernard, J. González-Nuevo, M. Ashdown, H. K. Eriksen, Erminia Calabrese, Olivier Doré, Serge Gratton, G. de Zotti, L. Vibert, J. R. Bond, Marzieh Farhang, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Julian Borrill, L. Toffolatti, F. Piacentini, Yin-Zhe Ma, Will Handley, S. Galeotta, A. Karakci, A. A. Fraisse, Anthony Lasenby, M. Sandri, X. Dupac, G. Sirri, Adam Moss, B. Ruiz-Granados, D. Contreras, A.-S. Suur-Uski, Mario G. Lattanzi, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Jean-François Cardoso, Marian Douspis, G. Polenta, E. Keihänen, A. J. Banday, M. Migliaccio, R. B. Barreiro, B. P. Crill, J. Valiviita, Yabebal Fantaye, B. Van Tent, Tuhin Ghosh, D. Tavagnacco, A. Renzi, Martin White, M. Bucher, Douglas Scott, Jörg P. Rachen, Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen, Jason D. McEwen, R. C. Butler, Locke D. Spencer, Nicola Vittorio, V. Lindholm, Fabrizio Villa, K. Kiiveri, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, Julien Lesgourgues, Hiranya V. Peiris, Reijo Keskitalo, Krzysztof M. Gorski, S. R. Hildebrandt, E. Di Valentino, A. Marcos-Caballero, G. Patanchon, P. de Bernardis, M. Lilley, Simon D. M. White, C. Sirignano, M. Frailis, Carlo Baccigalupi, Francesco Forastieri, W. C. Jones, P. Lemos, François Levrier, E. Hivon, R. Fernandez-Cobos, Carlo Burigana, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, D. Herranz, Andrei V. Frolov, M. Tomasi, Marius Millea, J.-L. Puget, Paolo Natoli, James R. Fergusson, D. Paoletti, L. Pagano, M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, Julien Carron, Luca Valenziano, F. K. Hansen, S. Dusini, Andrea Zonca, Bruce Partridge, Jens Chluba, S. Basak, H. C. Chiang, Alessandro Gruppuso, Marco Bersanelli, Peter G. Martin, Martin Kunz, Valeria Pettorino, Mathieu Remazeilles, Jacques Delabrouille, Jon E. Gudmundsson, J.-M. Lamarre, P. Bielewicz, F. Cuttaia, Franz Elsner, G. Roudier, S. Galli, Michele Liguori, Gianluca Morgante, A. Ducout, Fabio Finelli, James J. Bock, M. Reinecke, C. Rosset, Yashar Akrami, Anthony Challinor, Subhabrata Mitra, J. A. Tauber, Matteo Martinelli, M. Savelainen, N. Mauri, E. P. S. Shellard, Antony Lewis, Diego Molinari, G. Maggio, P. B. Lilje, Davide Maino, A. Mangilli, L. P. L. Colombo, Mario Ballardini, N. Mandolesi, Andrew H. Jaffe, Philip Lubin, J. Kim, M. Maris, Martina Gerbino, George Efstathiou, F. Boulanger, Guilaine Lagache, Challinor, Anthony [0000-0003-3479-7823], Fergusson, James [0000-0003-4820-171X], Handley, William [0000-0002-5866-0445], Lasenby, Anthony [0000-0002-8208-6332], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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Subjects: cosmological model, Astronomy, Cosmic microwave background, INFLATIONARY PARADIGM, cosmic background radiation: polarization, Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, baryon: oscillation: acoustic, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Omega, Cosmology, OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY, background: geometry, GALAXY REDSHIFT SURVEY, neutrino: mass, dark energy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, matter: density, expansion: adiabatic, Physics, Spectral index, cosmological constant, Hubble constant, Settore FIS/05, Cosmic background radiation, Cosmological parameters, ACCURATE HALO-MODEL, statistical analysis: Bayesian, POWER-SPECTRUM, matter: fluctuation, tension, perturbation: scalar, Physical Sciences, symbols, astro-ph.CO, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Particle physics, data analysis method, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), satellite: Planck, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation: spectrum, dark matter: density, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, NO, symbols.namesake, power spectrum: scalar, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, gravitation: lens, 0103 physical sciences, 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences, Planck, cosmological parameters, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Science & Technology, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, baryon: density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, GROWTH-RATE, stability, 115 Astronomy, Space science, cosmic background radiation: temperature, MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Cosmic background radiation, Cosmological parameters, PROBE WMAP OBSERVATIONS, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], BARYON ACOUSTIC-OSCILLATIONS, Hubble's law, cosmic background radiation: anisotropy
Abstract: Planck Collaboration: et al., arXiv:1807.06209v3, We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, combining information from the temperature and polarization maps and the lensing reconstruction. Compared to the 2015 results, improved measurements of large-scale polarization allow the reionization optical depth to be measured with higher precision, leading to significant gains in the precision of other correlated parameters. Improved modelling of the small-scale polarization leads to more robust constraints on many parameters, with residual modelling uncertainties estimated to affect them only at the 0.5σ level. We find good consistency with the standard spatially-flat 6-parameter ΛCDM cosmology having a power-law spectrum of adiabatic scalar perturbations (denoted “base ΛCDM” in this paper), from polarization, temperature, and lensing, separately and in combination. A combined analysis gives dark matter density Ωch2 = 0.120 ± 0.001, baryon density Ωbh2 = 0.0224 ± 0.0001, scalar spectral index ns = 0.965 ± 0.004, and optical depth τ = 0.054 ± 0.007 (in this abstract we quote 68% confidence regions on measured parameters and 95% on upper limits). The angular acoustic scale is measured to 0.03% precision, with 100θ* = 1.0411 ± 0.0003. These results are only weakly dependent on the cosmological model and remain stable, with somewhat increased errors, in many commonly considered extensions. Assuming the base-ΛCDM cosmology, the inferred (model-dependent) late-Universe parameters are: Hubble constant H0 = (67.4 ± 0.5) km s−1 Mpc−1; matter density parameter Ωm = 0.315 ± 0.007; and matter fluctuation amplitude σ8 = 0.811 ± 0.006. We find no compelling evidence for extensions to the base-ΛCDM model. Combining with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements (and considering single-parameter extensions) we constrain the effective extra relativistic degrees of freedom to be Neff = 2.99 ± 0.17, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction Neff = 3.046, and find that the neutrino mass is tightly constrained to ∑mν < 0.12 eV. The CMB spectra continue to prefer higher lensing amplitudes than predicted in base ΛCDM at over 2σ, which pulls some parameters that affect the lensing amplitude away from the ΛCDM model; however, this is not supported by the lensing reconstruction or (in models that also change the background geometry) BAO data. The joint constraint with BAO measurements on spatial curvature is consistent with a flat universe, ΩK = 0.001 ± 0.002. Also combining with Type Ia supernovae (SNe), the dark-energy equation of state parameter is measured to be w0 = −1.03 ± 0.03, consistent with a cosmological constant. We find no evidence for deviations from a purely power-law primordial spectrum, and combining with data from BAO, BICEP2, and Keck Array data, we place a limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r0.002 < 0.06. Standard big-bang nucleosynthesis predictions for the helium and deuterium abundances for the base-ΛCDM cosmology are in excellent agreement with observations. The Planck base-ΛCDM results are in good agreement with BAO, SNe, and some galaxy lensing observations, but in slight tension with the Dark Energy Survey’s combined-probe results including galaxy clustering (which prefers lower fluctuation amplitudes or matter density parameters), and in significant, 3.6σ, tension with local measurements of the Hubble constant (which prefer a higher value). Simple model extensions that can partially resolve these tensions are not favoured by the Planck data., The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES, and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF, and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); ERC and PRACE (EU).
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18. Planck 2018 results: V. CMB power spectra and likelihoods

Author: Francesca Perrotta, A. A. Fraisse, Torsten A. Enßlin, A. J. Banday, M. Sandri, Yabebal Fantaye, L. Toffolatti, Serge Gratton, Jean-François Cardoso, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Martin Kunz, Mathieu Remazeilles, Yin-Zhe Ma, G. de Zotti, E. Martínez-González, Anthony Lasenby, E. Keihänen, Jon E. Gudmundsson, N. Mandolesi, Andrew H. Jaffe, J.-L. Puget, Philip Lubin, J. Kim, M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, M. Lilley, Charles R. Lawrence, M. Le Jeune, François R. Bouchet, F. K. Hansen, Krzysztof M. Gorski, E. Di Valentino, L. Montier, Mario G. Lattanzi, A. Moneti, Erminia Calabrese, Andrea Zacchei, B. P. Crill, N. Bartolo, B. Van Tent, Locke D. Spencer, E. Franceschi, Ted Kisner, M. Maris, Martina Gerbino, D. Herranz, A. Marcos-Caballero, N. Mauri, Adam Moss, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, M. Tomasi, Sabino Matarrese, Davide Maino, Nicola Vittorio, V. Lindholm, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Reijo Keskitalo, C. Sirignano, Zhiqi Huang, P. Bielewicz, Jörg P. Rachen, Julien Carron, Y. Giraud-Héraud, X. Dupac, K. Ganga, D. Tavagnacco, Tuhin Ghosh, L. Pagano, S. Galeotta, Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen, L. Salvati, Marco Bersanelli, B. Partridge, Jose M. Diego, M. Reinecke, A. Renzi, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Julian Borrill, Will Handley, S. Basak, Andrei V. Frolov, Marian Douspis, Rashid Sunyaev, G. Sirri, F. Piacentini, S. Dusini, Andrea Zonca, H. C. Chiang, S. Galli, Guillaume Patanchon, M. Migliaccio, Jan Hamann, P. B. Lilje, M. Bucher, O. Doré, Paolo Natoli, Douglas Scott, R. Fernandez-Cobos, F. Cuttaia, Hiranya V. Peiris, M. Tenti, James J. Bock, Peter G. Martin, Valeria Pettorino, Gianluca Morgante, Tiziana Trombetti, Jacques Delabrouille, E. P. S. Shellard, R. B. Barreiro, Alessandro Melchiorri, Antony Lewis, R. C. Butler, K. Kiiveri, J. F. Macías-Pérez, C. Combet, Fabio Finelli, Diego Molinari, G. Maggio, A. Mangilli, Graca Rocha, Fabrizio Villa, J.-P. Bernard, M. Frailis, Carlo Baccigalupi, W. C. Jones, Nabila Aghanim, François Levrier, L. P. L. Colombo, Marius Millea, Eric Hivon, Mario Ballardini, D. Paoletti, Franz Elsner, George Efstathiou, C. Rosset, G. Roudier, Alessandro Gruppuso, Michele Liguori, A. Mennella, Yashar Akrami, Anthony Challinor, J.-M. Lamarre, A. Ducout, J. A. Tauber, M. Savelainen, F. Boulanger, P. Vielva, Guilaine Lagache, M. López-Caniego, P. de Bernardis, B. Casaponsa, B. Ruiz-Granados, A.-S. Suur-Uski, J. Valiviita, J. Aumont, J.-M. Delouis, M. Ashdown, H. K. Eriksen, G. Polenta, Peter Meinhold, J. González-Nuevo, K. Benabed, J. R. Bond, A. De Rosa, Jason D. 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CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Department of Physics, Helsinki Institute of Physics, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), European Commission, European Research Council, and European Space Agency
Subjects: Cosmological parameter, POLARIZATION, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astronomy, Cosmic microwave background, Cosmological parameters, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Residual, Cosmic background radiation, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Spectral line, NO, symbols.namesake, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Methods: data analysis, 0103 physical sciences, 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences, Cosmology: observations, Statistical physics, MICROWAVE, Planck, observations [Cosmology], data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Reionization, Cosmic background radiation, Cosmological parameters, Cosmology: observations, Methods: data analysis, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Polarization (waves), 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, PROBE WMAP OBSERVATIONS, symbols, astro-ph.CO, SKY, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Smoothing, APPROXIMATION, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Planck Collaboration: et al., We describe the legacy Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) likelihoods derived from the 2018 data release. The overall approach is similar in spirit to the one retained for the 2013 and 2015 data release, with a hybrid method using different approximations at low (ℓ < 30) and high (ℓ ≥ 30) multipoles, implementing several methodological and data-analysis refinements compared to previous releases. With more realistic simulations, and better correction and modelling of systematic effects, we can now make full use of the CMB polarization observed in the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) channels. The low-multipole EE cross-spectra from the 100 GHz and 143 GHz data give a constraint on the ΛCDM reionization optical-depth parameter τ to better than 15% (in combination with the TT low-ℓ data and the high-ℓ temperature and polarization data), tightening constraints on all parameters with posterior distributions correlated with τ. We also update the weaker constraint on τ from the joint TEB likelihood using the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) channels, which was used in 2015 as part of our baseline analysis. At higher multipoles, the CMB temperature spectrum and likelihood are very similar to previous releases. A better model of the temperature-to-polarization leakage and corrections for the effective calibrations of the polarization channels (i.e., the polarization efficiencies) allow us to make full use of polarization spectra, improving the ΛCDM constraints on the parameters θMC, ωc, ωb, and H0 by more than 30%, and ns by more than 20% compared to TT-only constraints. Extensive tests on the robustness of the modelling of the polarization data demonstrate good consistency, with some residual modelling uncertainties. At high multipoles, we are now limited mainly by the accuracy of the polarization efficiency modelling. Using our various tests, simulations, and comparison between different high-multipole likelihood implementations, we estimate the consistency of the results to be better than the 0.5 σ level on the ΛCDM parameters, as well as classical single-parameter extensions for the joint likelihood (to be compared to the 0.3 σ levels we achieved in 2015 for the temperature data alone on ΛCDM only). Minor curiosities already present in the previous releases remain, such as the differences between the best-fit ΛCDM parameters for the ℓ < 800 and ℓ > 800 ranges of the power spectrum, or the preference for more smoothing of the power-spectrum peaks than predicted in ΛCDM fits. These are shown to be driven by the temperature power spectrum and are not significantly modified by the inclusion of the polarization data. Overall, the legacy Planck CMB likelihoods provide a robust tool for constraining the cosmological model and represent a reference for future CMB observations., The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); and ERC and PRACE (EU).
Published: 2020
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19. A new probe of Gaussianity and isotropy with application to cosmic microwave background maps

Author: Q. T. Le Gia, Ian H. Sloan, Robert S. Womersley, Jan Hamann, and Yu Guang Wang
Subjects: Physics, Random field, Field (physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gaussian, Autocorrelation, Isotropy, Cosmic microwave background, General Physics and Astronomy, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 01 natural sciences, Computer Science Applications, symbols.namesake, Computational Theory and Mathematics, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Statistical physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Mathematical Physics, Randomness
Abstract: We introduce a new mathematical tool (a direction-dependent probe) to analyze the randomness of purported isotropic Gaussian random fields on the sphere. If the field is isotropic and Gaussian then the probe coefficients for a given direction should be realizations of uncorrelated scalar Gaussian random variables. To study the randomness of a field, we use the autocorrelation of the sequence of probe coefficients (which are just the Fourier coefficients [Formula: see text] if the [Formula: see text]-axis is taken in the probe direction). We introduce a particular function on the sphere (called the AC discrepancy) that accentuates the departure from Gaussianity and isotropy. We apply the probe to assess the full-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps produced by the Planck collaboration (PR2 2015 and PR3 2018), with special attention to the inpainted maps. We find that for some of the maps, there are many directions for which the departures are significant, especially near the galactic plane. We also look briefly at the noninpainted Planck maps, for which the computed AC discrepancy maps have a very different character, with features that are global rather than local.
Published: 2021
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20. Planck 2018 results. VIII. Gravitational lensing

Author: Charles R. Lawrence, L. Pagano, Andrea Zacchei, J. B. Kim, K. Benabed, E. Martínez-González, Francesco Forastieri, M. Migliaccio, Martin White, M. Bucher, J. R. Bond, B. Ruiz-Granados, Andrea Zonca, N. Mauri, J. J. Bock, Douglas Scott, Davide Maino, H. C. Chiang, Yashar Akrami, Anthony Challinor, M. Tenti, Michele Maris, J. A. Tauber, M. Savelainen, O. Doré, K. Ganga, P. Bielewicz, Tiziana Trombetti, Jose M. Diego, Jean-François Cardoso, Francesca Perrotta, J. Aumont, Torsten A. Enßlin, M. Ashdown, H. K. Eriksen, X. Dupac, P. B. Lilje, Krzysztof M. Gorski, A. Marcos-Caballero, M. Reinecke, A. Mennella, Nabila Aghanim, R. A. Sunyaev, Julien Carron, Paolo Natoli, Franz Elsner, L. Montier, A. Mangilli, F. Cuttaia, Martin Kunz, Mathieu Remazeilles, R. B. Barreiro, F. Piacentini, G. Roudier, J.-L. Puget, K. Kiiveri, Guilaine Lagache, M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, L. Salvati, J. F. Macías-Pérez, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Yin-Zhe Ma, Jason D. McEwen, Zhiqi Huang, M. López-Caniego, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, L. P. L. Colombo, Martina Gerbino, G. Polenta, A. Moneti, F. K. Hansen, S. Galli, Soumen Basak, Mario Ballardini, Graca Rocha, J.-P. Bernard, Carlo Burigana, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Chiara Sirignano, Sabino Matarrese, G. de Zotti, A. Renzi, C. Combet, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Julian Borrill, George Efstathiou, M. Frailis, Carlo Baccigalupi, Andrei V. Frolov, Jörg P. Rachen, Antony Lewis, Valeria Pettorino, François Levrier, E. Hivon, Will Handley, E. Di Valentino, Jacques Delabrouille, N. Mandolesi, Gianluca Morgante, Andrew H. Jaffe, Philip Lubin, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, Diego Molinari, L. Toffolatti, A. J. Banday, Fabio Finelli, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Tuhin Ghosh, P. de Bernardis, R. Fernandez-Cobos, Aurelien A. Fraisse, B. P. Crill, B. Van Tent, P. Vielva, Erminia Calabrese, C. Rosset, Michele Liguori, Fabrizio Villa, Anthony Lasenby, Adam Moss, Ricardo Genova-Santos, E. Keihänen, E. Franceschi, Yabebal Fantaye, D. 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Subjects: Cosmological parameter, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, Astronomy, Cosmic microwave background, Cosmological parameters, Cosmic background radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, NO, symbols.namesake, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, HALO-MODEL, Cosmic background radiation, Cosmological parameters, Cosmology: observations, Gravitational lensing: weak, Large-scale structure of Universe, Gravitational lensing: weak, Cosmic infrared background, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmology: observations, Planck, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QB, Physics, Settore FIS/05, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, POWER SPECTRA, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Redshift, GALAXIES, Gravitational lens, Space and Planetary Science, CROSS-CORRELATION, Dark energy, symbols, astro-ph.CO, DARK ENERGY, weak [Gravitational lensing], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Planck Collaboration: et al., arXiv:1807.06210v2, We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using the final Planck 2018 temperature and polarization data. Using polarization maps filtered to account for the noise anisotropy, we increase the significance of the detection of lensing in the polarization maps from 5σ to 9σ. Combined with temperature, lensing is detected at 40σ. We present an extensive set of tests of the robustness of the lensing-potential power spectrum, and construct a minimum-variance estimator likelihood over lensing multipoles 8 ≤ L ≤ 400 (extending the range to lower L compared to 2015), which we use to constrain cosmological parameters. We find good consistency between lensing constraints and the results from the Planck CMB power spectra within the ΛCDM model. Combined with baryon density and other weak priors, the lensing analysis alone constrains σ8Ωm0.25 = 0.589 ± 0.020 (1σ errors). Also combining with baryon acoustic oscillation data, we find tight individual parameter constraints, σ8 = 0.811 ± 0.019, H0 = 67.9−1.3+1.2 km s−1 Mpc−1, and Ωm = 0.303−0.018+0.016. Combining with Planck CMB power spectrum data, we measure σ8 to better than 1% precision, finding σ8 = 0.811 ± 0.006. CMB lensing reconstruction data are complementary to galaxy lensing data at lower redshift, having a different degeneracy direction in σ8 − Ωm space; we find consistency with the lensing results from the Dark Energy Survey, and give combined lensing-only parameter constraints that are tighter than joint results using galaxy clustering. Using the Planck cosmic infrared background (CIB) maps as an additional tracer of high-redshift matter, we make a combined Planck-only estimate of the lensing potential over 60% of the sky with considerably more small-scale signal. We additionally demonstrate delensing of the Planck power spectra using the joint and individual lensing potential estimates, detecting a maximum removal of 40% of the lensing-induced power in all spectra. The improvement in the sharpening of the acoustic peaks by including both CIB and the quadratic lensing reconstruction is detected at high significance., Support is acknowledged from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. [616170], and from the Science and Technology Facilities Council [grant numbers ST/L000652/1 and ST/N000927/1, respectively]. The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES, and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF, and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); ERC and PRACE (EU).
Published: 2018
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21. A non-parametric consistency test of the $\Lambda$CDM model with Planck CMB data

Author: Amir Aghamousa, Jan Hamann, and Arman Shafieloo
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic microwave background, Nonparametric statistics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Consistency test, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Statistical physics, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Non-parametric reconstruction methods, such as Gaussian process (GP) regression, provide a model-independent way of estimating an underlying function and its uncertainty from noisy data. We demonstrate how GP-reconstruction can be used as a consistency test between a given data set and a specific model by looking for structures in the residuals of the data with respect to the model's best-fit. Applying this formalism to the Planck temperature and polarisation power spectrum measurements, we test their global consistency with the predictions of the base $\Lambda$CDM model. Our results do not show any serious inconsistencies, lending further support to the interpretation of the base $\Lambda$CDM model as cosmology's gold standard., Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures; v2: matches version published in JCAP
Published: 2017

22. Future cosmological sensitivity for hot dark matter axions

Author: Maria Archidiacono, Tobias Basse, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, Steen Hannestad, Jan Hamann, and Georg G. Raffelt
Subjects: Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, education.field_of_study, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Hot dark matter, Cosmic microwave background, Population, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, Cosmology, symbols.namesake, High Energy Physics::Theory, 13. Climate action, symbols, Planck, Neutrino, education, Axion, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the potential of a future, large-volume photometric survey to constrain the axion mass $m_a$ in the hot dark matter limit. Future surveys such as Euclid will have significantly more constraining power than current observations for hot dark matter. Nonetheless, the lowest accessible axion masses are limited by the fact that axions lighter than $\sim 0.15$ eV decouple before the QCD epoch, assumed here to occur at a temperature $T_{\rm QCD} \sim 170$ MeV; this leaves an axion population of such low density that its late-time cosmological impact is negligible. For larger axion masses, $m_a \gtrsim 0.15$ eV, where axions remain in equilibrium until after the QCD phase transition, we find that a Euclid-like survey combined with Planck CMB data can detect $m_a$ at very high significance. Our conclusions are robust against assumptions about prior knowledge of the neutrino mass. Given that the proposed IAXO solar axion search is sensitive to $m_a\lesssim 0.2$ eV, the axion mass range probed by cosmology is nicely complementary., Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2015
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23. Cosmology seeking friendship with sterile neutrinos

Author: Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, Jan Hamann, Irene Tamborra, Steen Hannestad, and Georg G. Raffelt
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Sterile neutrino, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cosmology, Cosmic neutrino background, MiniBooNE, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Nucleosynthesis, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Mass scale, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Precision cosmology and big-bang nucleosynthesis mildly favor extra radiation in the universe beyond photons and ordinary neutrinos, lending support to the existence of low-mass sterile neutrinos. We use the WMAP 7-year data, small-scale CMB observations from ACBAR, BICEP and QuAD, the SDSS 7th data release, and measurement of the Hubble parameter from HST observations to derive credible regions for the assumed common mass scale m_s and effective number N_s of thermally excited sterile neutrino states. Our results are compatible with the existence of one or perhaps two sterile neutrinos, as suggested by LSND and MiniBooNE, if m_s is in the sub-eV range., Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, matches version published in PRL
Published: 2011
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24. Planck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results

Author: J.-P. Bernard, Niraj Welikala, J. A. Murphy, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Julian Borrill, I. Flores-Cacho, Marc Türler, Pavel Naselsky, R. J. Davis, Jean-Baptiste Melin, Jussi Varis, J. Tuovinen, Olivier Forni, M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, J. Dick, Olivier Doré, Paolo Serra, L. Toffolatti, M. C. Falvella, K. Ganga, S. Leach, Jose M. Diego, Anthony Lasenby, F. K. Hansen, C. Li, E. Keihänen, Alessandro Melchiorri, R. A. Burenin, Alain Benoit, Jens Jasche, Antony Lewis, C. Gauthier, Simon D. M. White, Michael W. Peel, F. Piacentini, O. Fabre, Guilaine Lagache, Soumen Basak, George Helou, A. Mangilli, Ben Rusholme, B. Ruiz-Granados, A.-S. Suur-Uski, R. C. Butler, D. Girard, M. López-Caniego, Hervé Bourdin, Pasquale Mazzotta, C. Renault, E. Falgarone, T. Riller, Diego Molinari, A. Coulais, Pablo Fosalba, A. Moneti, William T. Reach, P. Carvalho, D. Tavagnacco, Anthony R. Pullen, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, A. Renzi, D. Herranz, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, C. Watson, E. Pierpaoli, F. Matthai, F. Schiavon, Roberta Paladini, Jeffrey Jewell, D. L. Harrison, B. Gandolfo, J. Aumont, Rafael Rebolo, G. Maggio, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, M. Tucci, Jussi-Pekka Väliviita, S. Fromenteau, Daniel J. Mortlock, T. J. Pearson, X. Dupac, Jan Hamann, A. Ducout, I. J. O'Dwyer, Michele Liguori, Federico Nati, M. Sandri, Massimiliano Lattanzi, G. Patanchon, J. E. Gallegos, F. Paci, B. Cappellini, Luca Terenzi, R. Carr, Martin White, M. Bucher, Barbara Comis, Jun-Qing Xia, D. Sutton, Mariachiara Rossetti, S. Ricciardi, L. Mendes, C. Combet, Sabino Matarrese, Michael L. Brown, M. Bridges, Douglas Scott, L. Popa, R. Miniscalco, G. de Zotti, F. Cuttaia, Loïc Maurin, I. D. Novikov, B. M. Schaefer, Jörg P. Rachen, J.-M. Delouis, Reijo Keskitalo, Gayoung Chon, E. Franceschi, A. Curto, S. Colombi, Krzysztof M. Gorski, Domenico Marinucci, P. R. Christensen, Eloisa Menegoni, James J. Bock, Paul M. Sutter, G. Prézeau, T. Déchelette, T. Poutanen, Shirley Ho, Jean-François Cardoso, C. J. MacTavish, P. M. McGehee, Richard A. Battye, A. Marcos-Caballero, Anna Bonaldi, Charles R. Lawrence, Peter M. W. Kalberla, Mathieu Langer, Nicolas Ponthieu, S. Donzelli, Marius Millea, O. Perdereau, A. Benoit-Lévy, M. Giard, J. Démoclès, Dmitry Pogosyan, F. Pasian, Davide Pietrobon, Matthieu Roman, Matthias Bartelmann, A. Lavabre, Joanna Dunkley, Magnus Hansen, Erminia Calabrese, B. Racine, J. P. Torre, Marat Gilfanov, I. F. Bikmaev, Xun Chen, B. P. Crill, N. Bartolo, Lung-Yih Chiang, A. Riazuelo, A. Hempel, Alessandro Gruppuso, M. Le Jeune, F. Elsner, C. North, G. Umana, P. de Bernardis, C. Rosset, A. Da Silva, Adam Moss, M. Cruz, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Andrea Zacchei, Anne Lähteenmäki, Luigi Danese, J.-L. Puget, N. Morisset, Tomotake Matsumura, George F. Smoot, Theodore Kisner, Todd Gaier, Calvin B. Netterfield, Emanuele Salerno, Radek Stompor, E. Gjerløw, D. Santos, Giorgio Savini, François R. Bouchet, J. Kerp, S. Osborne, Nicola Vittorio, V. Lindholm, S. Galeotta, M. Tristram, R. Barrena, P. Vielva, Mika Juvela, J.-M. Lamarre, Claude Leroy, R. Kneissl, A. Catalano, Mattia Negrello, Marcella Massardi, G. Polenta, M. Linden-Vørnle, Sarah E. Church, Tarun Souradeep, Rashmikant V. Sudiwala, M. Casale, Ranga-Ram Chary, Jean-Luc Starck, Alexandra S. Rahlin, E. P. S. Shellard, Z. Hou, M. Freschi, F. Couchot, F. Noviello, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, G. Hurier, J. F. Macías-Pérez, G. Castex, Herve Aussel, Kevin M. Huffenberger, David Pearson, Irek Khamitov, L. Vibert, Créidhe O'Sullivan, Francine R. Marleau, James R. Fergusson, Lloyd Knox, Graca Rocha, David L. Clements, Georg Robbers, F. Boulanger, Jochen Weller, S. R. Lowe, J. W. Bowyer, Fabrizio Villa, B. Bertincourt, Marian Douspis, J. P. Zibin, C. Armitage-Caplan, W. A. Holmes, G. Roudier, S. Pandolfi, Hans Böhringer, I. Ristorcelli, Althea Wilkinson, W. C. Jones, M. Rowan-Robinson, M. Ashdown, Hiranya V. Peiris, Matteo Viel, A. B. McDonald, H. K. Eriksen, Silvia Masi, C. Filliard, A. Mennella, Nabila Aghanim, M. 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Physics
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astronomy, Cosmic microwave background, cosmic microwave backgrounds, Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, Surveys, CMB, power spectrum, Cosmic background radiation, 7. Clean energy, european space agency, Cosmology, atacama cosmology telescope, space vehicles: instruments, observations [Cosmology], sunyaev-zeldovich effects, detectors [Instrumentation], QB, pre-launch status, instrumentation, Physics, data release, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Instrumentation: detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, probe wmap observations, microwave background maps, CMB cold spot, Computer Science::Computers and Society, damping tail, component separation, Physics::Space Physics, Physical Sciences, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, symbols, detector [Instrumentation], Baryon acoustic oscillations, Neutrino, hubble-space-telescope, galaxy cluster survey, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmology: observations, Instrumentation: detectors, Space vehicles: instruments, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, education, gravitational lensing, FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, in-flight performance, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Space vehicles: instrument, Computer Science::Digital Libraries, NO, instruments [Space vehicles], [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], symbols.namesake, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, instrument [Space vehicles], systematic uncertainties, Planck, Forschungsgruppe Komplexe Plasmen, extragalactic point sources, Science & Technology, cosmology: observation, instrumentation: detectors, Astronomy and Astrophysic, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Settore MAT/06 - Probabilita' e Statistica Matematica, Gravitational lens, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], cosmology: observations, space vehicles, south-pole telescope, cosmology, Hubble's law
Abstract: The European Space Agency’s Planck satellite, dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched 14 May 2009 and has been scanning the microwave and submillimetre sky continuously since 12 August 2009. In March 2013, ESA and the Planck Collaboration released the initial cosmology products based on the first 15.5 months of Planck data, along with a set of scientific and technical papers and a web-based explanatory supplement. This paper gives an overview of the mission and its performance, the processing, analysis, and characteristics of the data, the scientific results, and the science data products and papers in the release. The science products include maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and diffuse extragalactic foregrounds, a catalogue of compact Galactic and extragalactic sources, and a list of sources detected through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. The likelihood code used to assess cosmological models against the Planck data and a lensing likelihood are described. Scientific results include robust support for the standard six-parameter ΛCDM model of cosmology and improved measurements of its parameters, including a highly significant deviation from scale invariance of the primordial power spectrum. The Planck values for these parameters and others derived from them are significantly different from those previously determined. Several large-scale anomalies in the temperature distribution of the CMB, first detected by WMAP, are confirmed with higher confidence. Planck sets new limits on the number and mass of neutrinos, and has measured gravitational lensing of CMB anisotropies at greater than 25σ. Planck finds no evidence for non-Gaussianity in the CMB. Planck’s results agree well with results from the measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations. Planck finds a lower Hubble constant than found in some more local measures. Some tension is also present between the amplitude of matter fluctuations (σ8) derived from CMB data and that derived from Sunyaev-Zeldovich data. The Planck and WMAP power spectra are offset from each other by an average level of about 2% around the first acoustic peak. Analysis of Planck polarization data is not yet mature, therefore polarization results are not released, although the robust detection of E-mode polarization around CMB hot and cold spots is shown graphically., Centre National D'etudes Spatiales, CNRS/INSU-IN2P3, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Danish Natural Science Research Council, European Space Agency, CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France), Italian National Research Council, Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica (INAF), National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), United States Department of Energy (DOE), Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UKSA (UK), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spanish Government, JA (Spain), Finnish Funding Agency for Technology & Innovation (TEKES), AoF (Finland), CSC (Finland), Helmholtz Association, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Max Planck Society, CSA (Canada), DTU Space (Denmark), SER/SSO (Switzerland), RCN (Norway), Science Foundation Ireland, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, European Union (EU), Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ST/I002006/1 ST/J000388/1 ST/H001239/1 ST/K000977/1 ST/K002805/1 ST/J001368/1 ST/K00333X/1 ST/I005129/1 ST/J005673/1 ST/K003674/1 ST/L000768/1 ST/G003874/1 ST/H008586/1 ST/L001314/1 ST/K004131/1 ST/M007685/1 ST/K000985/1 ST/K001051/1 ST/K00106X/1 ST/I005765/1 ST/K002899/1 ST/J004812/1
Published: 2014
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25. Enhanced 2,3-butanediol production in fed-batch cultures of free and immobilized Bacillus licheniformis DSM 8785

Author: Tim Ortmann, Xiye Zhou, Ulf Prüße, Ileana-Maria Jurchescu, Anja Kuenz, Jan Hamann, and Siegmund Lang
Subjects: biology, Microorganism, Klebsiella oxytoca, Bacillus, General Medicine, Raw material, biology.organism_classification, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Culture Media, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, Biochemistry, Yield (chemistry), Fermentation, 2,3-Butanediol, Bacillus licheniformis, Food science, Butylene Glycols, Bacteria, Biotechnology
Abstract: 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD) is a valuable bulk chemical with particular use in industry. 2,3-BD has a potential as solvent and fuel additive, as carrier for pharmaceuticals, or as feedstock for the production of synthetic rubber. Until now, the highest 2,3-BD concentrations were obtained with risk group 2 microorganisms (e.g., Klebsiella oxytoca). In this study, the nonpathogenic bacterium Bacillus licheniformis DSM 8785 was used for 2,3-BD production from glucose. In batch experiments, a maximum 2,3-BD concentration of 72.6 g/L was reached from 180 g/L glucose after 86 h. The yield was 0.42 g/g glucose and the productivity was 0.86 g/(L h). During fed-batch cultivation, 2,3-BD production could be increased up to 144.7 g/L, with a productivity of 1.14 g/(L h). Additionally, repeated batch/fed-batch experiments were conducted using immobilized B. licheniformis in the form of LentiKats®. Results showed a high activity and stability of the immobilizates even after multiple medium replacements, as well as 2,3-BD concentrations, yields, and productivities similar to those obtained with free cells. To our knowledge, these results show the highest 2,3-BD concentration reported so far using a risk group 1 microorganism in general and B. licheniformis in particular. Furthermore, productivity lies in the same range with data reported from risk group 2 strains, which makes B. licheniformis DSM 8785 a suitable candidate for large-scale fermentation processes.
Published: 2013

26. Measuring neutrino masses with a future galaxy survey

Author: Steen Hannestad, Jan Hamann, and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong
Subjects: Physics, COSMIC cancer database, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, Sigma, Minimum mass, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy, symbols.namesake, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), symbols, Planck, Neutrino, Hubble's law, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We perform a detailed forecast on how well a Euclid-like photometric galaxy and cosmic shear survey will be able to constrain the absolute neutrino mass scale. Adopting conservative assumptions about the survey specifications and assuming complete ignorance of the galaxy bias, we estimate that the minimum mass sum of sum m_nu ~ 0.06 eV in the normal hierarchy can be detected at 1.5 sigma to 2.5 sigma significance, depending on the model complexity, using a combination of galaxy and cosmic shear power spectrum measurements in conjunction with CMB temperature and polarisation observations from Planck. With better knowledge of the galaxy bias, the significance of the detection could potentially reach 5.4 sigma. Interestingly, neither Planck+shear nor Planck+galaxy alone can achieve this level of sensitivity; it is the combined effect of galaxy and cosmic shear power spectrum measurements that breaks the persistent degeneracies between the neutrino mass, the physical matter density, and the Hubble parameter. Notwithstanding this remarkable sensitivity to sum m_nu, Euclid-like shear and galaxy data will not be sensitive to the exact mass spectrum of the neutrino sector; no significant bias (< 1 sigma) in the parameter estimation is induced by fitting inaccurate models of the neutrino mass splittings to the mock data, nor does the goodness-of-fit of these models suffer any significant degradation relative to the true one (Delta chi_eff ^2< 1)., v1: 29 pages, 10 figures. v2: 33 pages, 12 figures; added sections on shape evolution and constraints in more complex models, accepted for publication in JCAP
Published: 2012
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27. Evidence for extra radiation?:Profile likelihood versus Bayesian posterior

Author: Jan Hamann
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics beyond the Standard Model, Bayesian probability, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Confidence interval, Redshift, symbols.namesake, Robustness (computer science), Statistics, symbols, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Hubble's law
Abstract: A number of recent analyses of cosmological data have reported hints for the presence of extra radiation beyond the standard model expectation. In order to test the robustness of these claims under different methods of constructing parameter constraints, we perform a Bayesian posterior-based and a likelihood profile-based analysis of current data. We confirm the presence of a slight discrepancy between posterior- and profile-based constraints, with the marginalised posterior preferring higher values of the effective number of neutrino species N_eff. This can be traced back to a volume effect occurring during the marginalisation process, and we demonstrate that the effect is related to the fact that cosmic microwave background (CMB) data constrain N_eff only indirectly via the redshift of matter-radiation equality. Once present CMB data are combined with external information about, e.g., the Hubble parameter, the difference between the methods becomes small compared to the uncertainty of N_eff. We conclude that the preference of precision cosmological data for excess radiation is "real" and not an artifact of a specific choice of credible/confidence interval construction., Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures; v2: discussion section expanded and references added, version accepted for publication by JCAP
Published: 2012
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28. Evidence for dark matter modulation in CoGeNT?

Author: Jan Hamann, Chiara Arina, Roberto Trotta, and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong
Subjects: Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, EFFICIENT, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bayesian inference, DAMA/LIBRA, PARAMETERS, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle And Plasma Physics, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Prior probability, LIKELIHOOD RATIO, Statistical hypothesis testing, MODEL SELECTION, Physics, Science & Technology, dark matter theory, dark matter experiments, PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS, Sigma, Astronomy and Astrophysics, hep-ph, Nuclear & Particles Physics, HYPOTHESES, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, Modulation, DENSITY, COSMOLOGY, Physical Sciences, astro-ph.CO, MILKY-WAY, Null hypothesis, BAYESIAN-INFERENCE, Free parameter, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate the question of whether the recent modulation signal claimed by CoGeNT is best explained by the dark matter (DM) hypothesis from a Bayesian model comparison perspective. We consider five phenomenological explanations for the data: no modulation signal, modulation due to DM, modulation due to DM compatible with the total CoGeNT rate, and a signal coming from other physics with a free phase but annual period, or with a free phase and a free period. In each scenario, we assign to the free parameters physically motivated priors. We find that while the DM models are weakly preferred to the no modulation model, but when compared to models where the modulation is due to other physics, the DM hypothesis is favoured with odds ranging from 185:1 to 560:1. This result is robust even when astrophysical uncertainties are taken into account and the impact of priors assessed. Interestingly, the odds for the DM model in which the modulation signal is compatible with the total rate against a DM model in which this prior is not implemented is only 5:8, in spite of the former's prediction of a modulation amplitude in the energy range 0.9 to 3.0 keVee that is significantly smaller than the value observed by CoGeNT. Classical hypothesis testing also rules out the null hypothesis of no modulation at the 1.6 sigma to 2.3 sigma level, depending on the details of the alternative. Lastly, we investigate whether anisotropic velocity distributions can help to mitigate the tension between the CoGeNT total and modulated rates, and find encouraging results., 27 pages, 8 figures and 7 tables; corrected numerical error, match the submitted version
Published: 2012
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29. A Bayesian view of the current status of dark matter direct searches

Author: Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, Chiara Arina, and Jan Hamann
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bayesian probability, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Inference, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Markov chain Monte Carlo, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Dark matter halo, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, symbols.namesake, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Invariant mass, Statistical physics, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Bayesian statistical methods offer a simple and consistent framework for incorporating uncertainties into a multi-parameter inference problem. In this work we apply these methods to a selection of current direct dark matter searches. We consider the simplest scenario of spin-independent elastic WIMP scattering, and infer the WIMP mass and cross-section from the experimental data with the essential systematic uncertainties folded into the analysis. We find that when uncertainties in the scintillation efficiency of Xenon100 have been accounted for, the resulting exclusion limit is not sufficiently constraining to rule out the CoGeNT preferred parameter region, contrary to previous claims. In the same vein, we also investigate the impact of astrophysical uncertainties on the preferred WIMP parameters. We find that within the class of smooth and isotropic WIMP velocity distributions, it is difficult to reconcile the DAMA and the CoGeNT preferred regions by tweaking the astrophysics parameters alone. If we demand compatibility between these experiments, then the inference process naturally concludes that a high value for the sodium quenching factor for DAMA is preferred., 37 pages, 14 figures and 7 tables. Replacement for matching the version accepted for publication
Published: 2011
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30. Sterile neutrinos with eV masses in cosmology -- how disfavoured exactly?

Author: Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, Jan Hamann, Georg G. Raffelt, and Steen Hannestad
Subjects: Physics, Sterile neutrino, Cold dark matter, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Hot dark matter, Cosmic microwave background, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Decoupling (cosmology), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Dark energy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study cosmological models that contain sterile neutrinos with eV-range masses as suggested by reactor and short-baseline oscillation data. We confront these models with both precision cosmological data (probing the CMB decoupling epoch) and light-element abundances (probing the BBN epoch). In the minimal LambdaCDM model, such sterile neutrinos are strongly disfavoured by current data because they contribute too much hot dark matter. However, if the cosmological framework is extended to include also additional relativistic degrees of freedom -- beyond the three standard neutrinos and the putative sterile neutrinos, then the hot dark matter constraint on the sterile states is considerably relaxed. A further improvement is achieved by allowing a dark energy equation of state parameter w, Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, v2: minor changes, matches version accepted for publication in JCAP
Published: 2011
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31. Cosmology Favoring Extra Radiation and Sub-eV Mass Sterile Neutrinos as an Option

Author: Jan Hamann, Georg G. Raffelt, Steen Hannestad, Irene Tamborra, and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong
Subjects: Physics, Sterile neutrino, Particle physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Cosmic microwave background, Cosmic background radiation, General Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Massless particle, MiniBooNE, Cosmic neutrino background, Observational cosmology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: Precision cosmology and big-bang nucleosynthesis mildly favor extra radiation in the Universe beyond photons and ordinary neutrinos, lending support to the existence of low-mass sterile neutrinos. We use the WMAP 7-year data, small-scale cosmic microwave background observations from ACBAR, BICEP, and QuAD, the SDSS 7th data release, and measurement of the Hubble parameter from HST observations to derive credible regions for the assumed common mass scale m{sub s} and effective number N{sub s} of thermally excited sterile neutrino states. Our results are compatible with the existence of one or perhaps two sterile neutrinos, as suggested by LSND and MiniBooNE, if m{sub s} is in the sub-eV range.
Published: 2010
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32. Cosmological parameters from large scale structure - geometric versus shape information

Author: Julien Lesgourgues, Jan Hamann, Steen Hannestad, Cornelius Rampf, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTH), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Aarhus], Aarhus University [Aarhus], European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Subjects: Astrophysics and Astronomy, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, cosmological parameters from LSS, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Theoretical physics, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, baryon acoustic oscillations, Matter, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Matter power spectrum, Equation of state (cosmology), [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], Luminous Red Galaxies, cosmological parameters from CMBR, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Decoupling (cosmology), Constraints, Dark energy, symbols, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The matter power spectrum as derived from large scale structure (LSS) surveys contains two important and distinct pieces of information: an overall smooth shape and the imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). We investigate the separate impact of these two types of information on cosmological parameter estimation, and show that for the simplest cosmological models, the broad-band shape information currently contained in the SDSS DR7 halo power spectrum (HPS) is by far superseded by geometric information derived from the baryonic features. An immediate corollary is that contrary to popular beliefs, the upper limit on the neutrino mass m_\nu presently derived from LSS combined with cosmic microwave background (CMB) data does not in fact arise from the possible small-scale power suppression due to neutrino free-streaming, if we limit the model framework to minimal LambdaCDM+m_\nu. However, in more complicated models, such as those extended with extra light degrees of freedom and a dark energy equation of state parameter w differing from -1, shape information becomes crucial for the resolution of parameter degeneracies. This conclusion will remain true even when data from the Planck surveyor become available. In the course of our analysis, we introduce a new dewiggling procedure that allows us to extend consistently the use of the SDSS HPS to models with an arbitrary sound horizon at decoupling. All the cases considered here are compatible with the conservative 95%-bounds \sum m_\nu < 1.16 eV, N_eff = 4.8 \pm 2.0., Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures; v2: references added, matches published version
Published: 2010
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33. Single-field inflation constraints from CMB and SDSS data

Author: S. Leach, Jan Hamann, Fabio Finelli, Julien Lesgourgues, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTH), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Aarhus], Aarhus University [Aarhus], European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Subjects: Digital Sky Survey, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, cosmological parameters from LSS, Third derivative, 01 natural sciences, Large-Scale Structure, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Universe, Power Spectrum, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, inflation, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Natural Inflation, Inflation (cosmology), Physics, Data Set, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Temperature, Spectral density, cosmological parameters from CMBR, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Observable, Inflaton, Probe, CMB cold spot, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Cosmological Recombination, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Halo, gravitational waves and CMBR polarization, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present constraints on canonical single-field inflation derived from WMAP five year, ACBAR, QUAD, BICEP data combined with the halo power spectrum from SDSS LRG7. Models with a non-scale-invariant spectrum and a red tilt n_s < 1 are now preferred over the Harrison-Zel'dovich model (n_s = 1, tensor-to-scalar ratio r = 0) at high significance. Assuming no running of the spectral indices, we derive constraints on the parameters (n_s, r) and compare our results with the predictions of simple inflationary models. The marginalised credible intervals read n_s = 0.962^{+0.028}_{-0.026} and r < 0.17 (at 95% confidence level). Interestingly, the 68% c.l. contours favour mainly models with a convex potential in the observable region, but the quadratic potential model remains inside the 95% c.l. contours. We demonstrate that these results are robust to changes in the datasets considered and in the theoretical assumptions made. We then consider a non-vanishing running of the spectral indices by employing different methods, non-parametric but approximate, or parametric but exact. With our combination of CMB and LSS data, running models are preferred over power-law models only by a Delta chi^2 ~ 5.8, allowing inflationary stages producing a sizable negative running -0.063^{+0.061}_{-0.049} and larger tensor-scalar ratio r < 0.33 at the 95% c.l. This requires large values of the third derivative of the inflaton potential within the observable range. We derive bounds on this derivative under the assumption that the inflaton potential can be approximated as a third order polynomial within the observable range., 32 pages, 7 figures. v2: additional references, some typos corrected, passed to JCAP style. v3: minor changes, matches published version
Published: 2010
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34. Optimising Boltzmann codes for the Planck era

Author: Claudia Quercellini, Julien Lesgourgues, Jan Hamann, Amedeo Balbi, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTH), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata [Roma], Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata (INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Computation, Microwave Background Anisotropies, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Standard deviation, Set (abstract data type), symbols.namesake, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Code (cryptography), Statistical physics, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], cosmological parameters from CMBR, Astronomy and Astrophysics, CMBR theory, Power (physics), Boltzmann constant, symbols, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: High precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies, as can be expected from the Planck satellite, will require high-accuracy theoretical predictions as well. One possible source of theoretical uncertainty is the numerical error in the output of the Boltzmann codes used to calculate angular power spectra. In this work, we carry out an extensive study of the numerical accuracy of the public Boltzmann code CAMB, and identify a set of parameters which determine the error of its output. We show that at the current default settings, the cosmological parameters extracted from data of future experiments like Planck can be biased by several tenths of a standard deviation for the six parameters of the standard Lambda-CDM model, and potentially more seriously for extended models. We perform an optimisation procedure that leads the code to achieve sufficient precision while at the same time keeping the computation time within reasonable limits. Our conclusion is that the contribution of numerical errors to the theoretical uncertainty of model predictions is well under control -- the main challenges for more accurate calculations of CMB spectra will be of an astrophysical nature instead., 13 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2009
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35. Features in the primordial power spectrum? A frequentist analysis

Author: Tarun Souradeep, Arman Shafieloo, Jan Hamann, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTH), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Aarhus], Aarhus University [Aarhus], Department of Physics [Oxford], University of Oxford [Oxford], and Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics [Pune] (IUCAA)
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], Spectrum (functional analysis), Spectral density, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Cosmic variance, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, CMB cold spot, Measure (mathematics), Noise, Frequentist inference, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Statistical hypothesis testing
Abstract: Features in the primordial power spectrum have been suggested as an explanation for glitches in the angular power spectrum of temperature anisotropies measured by the WMAP satellite. However, these glitches might just as well be artifacts of noise or cosmic variance. Using the effective Delta chi^2 between the best-fit power-law spectrum and a deconvolved primordial spectrum as a measure of "featureness" of the data, we perform a full Monte-Carlo analysis to address the question of how significant the recovered features are. We find that in 26% of the simulated data sets the reconstructed spectrum yields a greater improvement in the likelihood than for the actually observed data. While features cannot be categorically ruled out by this analysis, and the possibility remains that simple theoretical models which predict some of the observed features might stand up to rigorous statistical testing, our results suggest that WMAP data are consistent with the assumption of a featureless power-law primordial spectrum., Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures; v2: minor changes, matches published version
Published: 2009
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36. Isocurvature forecast in the anthropic axion window

Author: Jan Hamann, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, Georg G. Raffelt, Steen Hannestad, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTH), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Aarhus], Aarhus University [Aarhus], Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (MPI-P), and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Subjects: Particle physics, axions, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, Cosmic background radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmological constant, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, symbols.namesake, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, Planck, 010306 general physics, Axion, Physics, dark matter theory, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, cosmological parameters from CMBR, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic variance, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], symbols, Hubble's law, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We explore the cosmological sensitivity to the amplitude of isocurvature fluctuations that would be caused by axions in the "anthropic window" where the axion decay constant f_a >> 10^12 GeV and the initial misalignment angle Theta_i << 1. In a minimal Lambda-CDM cosmology extended with subdominant scale-invariant isocurvature fluctuations, existing data constrain the isocurvature fraction to alpha < 0.09 at 95% C.L. If no signal shows up, Planck can improve this constraint to 0.042 while an ultimate CMB probe limited only by cosmic variance in both temperature and E-polarisation can reach 0.017, about a factor of five better than the current limit. In the parameter space of f_a and H_I (Hubble parameter during inflation) we identify a small region where axion detection remains within the reach of realistic cosmological probes., 14 pages, 4 figures; v2: matches published version
Published: 2009
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37. Impact of prior assumptions on Bayesian estimates of inflation parameters and the expected gravitational waves signal from inflation

Author: Wessel Valkenburg, Lawrence M. Krauss, and Jan Hamann
Subjects: Physics, Inflation (cosmology), Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Theoretical physics, Gravitational wave, Bayesian probability, Cosmic microwave background, Prior probability, Statistical physics, Upper and lower bounds, Confidence interval, Free parameter
Abstract: There has been much recent discussion, and some confusion, regarding the use of existing observational data to estimate the likelihood that next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments might detect a nonzero tensor signal, possibly associated with inflation. We examine this issue in detail here in two different ways: (1) first we explore the effect of choice of different parameter priors on the estimation of the tensor-to-scalar ratio r and other parameters describing inflation, and (2) we examine the Bayesian complexity in order to determine how effectively existing data can constrain inflationary parameters. We demonstrate that existing data are not strong enough to render full inflationary parameter estimates in a parametrization- and prior-independent way and that the predicted tensor signal is particularly sensitive to different priors. For parametrizations where the Bayesian complexity is comparable to the number of free parameters we find that a flat prior on the scale of inflation (which is to be distinguished from a flat prior on the tensor-to-scalar ratio) leads us to infer a larger, and in fact slightly nonzero tensor contribution at 68% confidence level. However, no detection is claimed. Our results demonstrate that all that is statistically relevant at the current time ismore » the (slightly enhanced) upper bound on r, and we stress that the data remain consistent with r=0.« less
Published: 2008
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38. Nonlinear corrections to the cosmological matter power spectrum and scale-dependent galaxy bias: implications for parameter estimation

Author: Steen Hannestad, Alessandro Melchiorri, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, and Jan Hamann
Subjects: Physics, Matter power spectrum, Dark matter, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Spectral density, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy, Cosmology, Nonlinear system, Statistical physics, Axion
Abstract: We explore and compare the performances of two nonlinear correction and scale-dependent biasing models for the extraction of cosmological information from galaxy power spectrum data, especially in the context of beyond-LCDM cosmologies. The first model is the well known Q model, first applied in the analysis of 2dFGRS data. The second, the P model, is inspired by the halo model, in which nonlinear evolution and scale-dependent biasing are encapsulated in a single non-Poisson shot noise term. We find that while both models perform equally well in providing adequate correction for a range of galaxy clustering data in standard LCDM cosmology and in extensions with massive neutrinos, the Q model can give unphysical results in cosmologies containing a subdominant free-streaming dark matter whose temperature depends on the particle mass, e.g., relic thermal axions, unless a suitable prior is imposed on the correction parameter. This last case also exposes the danger of analytic marginalisation, a technique sometimes used in the marginalisation of nuisance parameters. In contrast, the P model suffers no undesirable effects, and is the recommended nonlinear correction model also because of its physical transparency., Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures, uses iopart.cls; v2: 22 pages, matches published version
Published: 2008
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39. Observing trans-Planckian ripples in the primordial power spectrum with future large scale structure probes

Author: Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, Martin S. Sloth, Steen Hannestad, and Jan Hamann
Subjects: Inflation (cosmology), Physics, High Energy Physics - Theory, Scale (ratio), gr-qc, hep-th, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Observable, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Upper and lower bounds, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Fast Fourier Transform Telescope, Amplitude, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), astro-ph
Abstract: We revisit the issue of ripples in the primordial power spectra caused by trans-Planckian physics, and the potential for their detection by future cosmological probes. We find that for reasonably large values of the first slow-roll parameter epsilon (> 0.001), a positive detection of trans-Planckian ripples can be made even if the amplitude is as low as 10^-4. Data from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and the proposed future 21 cm survey with the Fast Fourier Transform Telescope (FFTT) will be particularly useful in this regard. If the scale of inflation is close to its present upper bound, a scale of new physics as high as 0.2 M_Planck could lead to observable signatures., 20 pages, 3 figures, uses iopart.cls; v2: 21 pages, added references, to appear in JCAP
Published: 2008
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40. New constraints on oscillations in the primordial spectrum of inflationary perturbations

Author: Anže Slosar, Alessandro Melchiorri, Laura Covi, and Jan Hamann
Subjects: Inflation (cosmology), Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Oscillation, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Spectral density, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Parameter space, Correlation function (astronomy), Galaxy, Baryon, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Theoretical physics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Sky, ddc:530, media_common
Abstract: We revisit the problem of constraining steps in the inflationary potential with cosmological data. We argue that a step in the inflationary potential produces qualitatively similar oscillations in the primordial power spectrum, independently of the details of the inflationary model. We propose a phenomenological description of these oscillations and constrain these features using a selection of cosmological data including the baryonic peak data from the correlation function of luminous red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our results show that degeneracies of the oscillation with standard cosmological parameters are virtually non-existent. The inclusion of new data severely tightens the constraints on the parameter space of oscillation parameters with respect to older work. This confirms that extensions to the simplest inflationary models can be successfully constrained using cosmological data., Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures
Published: 2007
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41. Features and new physical scales in primordial observables: Theory and observation

Author: Subodh P. Patil, Jan Hamann, and Jens Chluba
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Theoretical physics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, Symmetry breaking, Adiabatic process, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Mathematical Physics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Observable, Inflaton, Scale invariance, Universe, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: All cosmological observations to date are consistent with adiabatic, Gaussian and nearly scale invariant initial conditions. These findings provide strong evidence for a particular symmetry breaking pattern in the very early universe (with a close to vanishing order parameter, $\epsilon$), widely accepted as conforming to the predictions of the simplest realizations of the inflationary paradigm. However, given that our observations are only privy to perturbations, in inferring something about the background that gave rise to them, it should be clear that many different underlying constructions project onto the same set of cosmological observables. Features in the primordial correlation functions, if present, would offer a unique and discriminating window onto the parent theory in which the mechanism that generated the initial conditions is embedded. In certain contexts, simple linear response theory allows us to infer new characteristic scales from the presence of features that can break the aforementioned degeneracies among different background models, and in some cases can even offer a limited spectroscopy of the heavier degrees of freedom that couple to the inflaton. In this review, we offer a pedagogical survey of the diverse, theoretically well grounded mechanisms which can imprint features into primordial correlation functions in addition to reviewing the techniques one can employ to probe observations. These observations include cosmic microwave background anisotropies and spectral distortions as well as the matter two and three point functions as inferred from large-scale structure and potentially, 21 cm surveys., Comment: Invited review to IJMPD, 101 pages + 2 appendices, 29 figures, references added, matches journal version
Published: 2015
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42. Getting leverage on inflation with a large photometric redshift survey

Author: Jan Hamann, Tobias Basse, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, and Steen Hannestad
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Spectral index, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, symbols.namesake, symbols, Planck, Galaxy cluster, Weak gravitational lensing, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Photometric redshift
Abstract: We assess the potential of a future large-volume photometric redshift survey to constrain observational inflationary parameters using three large-scale structure observables: the angular shear and galaxy power spectra, and the cluster mass function measured through weak lensing. When used in combination with Planck-like CMB measurements, we find that the spectral index n_s can be constrained to a 1 sigma precision of up to 0.0025. The sensitivity to the running of the spectral index can potentially improve to 0.0017, roughly a factor of five better than the present 1 sigma~constraint from Planck and auxiliary CMB data, allowing us to test the assumptions of the slow-roll scenario with unprecedented accuracy. Interestingly, neither CMB+shear nor CMB+galaxy nor CMB+clusters alone can achieve this level of sensitivity; it is the combined power of all three probes that conspires to break the different parameter degeneracies inherent in each type of observations. We make our forecast software publicly available via download or upon request from the authors., Comment: 22 pages, 6 figures; the forecast software can be downloaded from http://jhamann.web.cern.ch/jhamann/simdata/simdata.tar.gz
Published: 2015
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43. Inflation and WMAP three year data: Features are still present

Author: Laura Covi, Irene Sorbera, Jan Hamann, Anže Slosar, and Alessandro Melchiorri
Subjects: Physics, Inflation (cosmology), Baryon, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, COSMIC cancer database, Standard ruler, Spectral density, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Inflaton, CMB cold spot, Cosmology
Abstract: The new 3 year WMAP data seem to confirm the presence of nonstandard large scale features in the cosmic microwave anisotropy power spectrum. While these features may hint at uncorrected experimental systematics, it is also possible to generate, in a cosmological way, oscillations on large angular scales by introducing a sharp step in the inflaton potential. Using current cosmological data, we derive constraints on the position, magnitude and gradient of a possible step. We show that a step in the inflaton potential, while strongly constrained by current data, is still allowed and may provide an interesting explanation to the currently measured deviations from the standard featureless spectrum. Moreover, we show that inflationary oscillations in the primordial power spectrum can significantly bias parameter estimates from standard ruler methods involving measurements of baryon oscillations.
Published: 2006

44. How robust are inflation model and dark matter constraints from cosmological data?

Author: Jan Hamann, Martin S. Sloth, Steen Hannestad, and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong
Subjects: Physics, Inflation (cosmology), Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Dark matter, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, hep-ph, Supersymmetry, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Universe, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), astro-ph, Dark energy, ddc:530, Neutrino, Eternal inflation, media_common
Abstract: High-precision data from observation of the cosmic microwave background and the large scale structure of the universe provide very tight constraints on the effective parameters that describe cosmological inflation. Indeed, within a constrained class of LambdaCDM models, the simple lambda phi^4 chaotic inflation model already appears to be ruled out by cosmological data. In this paper, we compute constraints on inflationary parameters within a more general framework that includes other physically motivated parameters such as a nonzero neutrino mass. We find that a strong degeneracy between the tensor-to-scalar ratio r and the neutrino mass prevents lambda phi^4 from being excluded by present data. Reversing the argument, if lambda phi^4 is the correct model of inflation, it predicts a sum of neutrino masses at 0.3-0.5 eV, a range compatible with present experimental limits and within the reach of the next generation of neutrino mass measurements. We also discuss the associated constraints on the dark matter density, the dark energy equation of state, and spatial curvature, and show that the allowed regions are significantly altered. Importantly, we find an allowed range of 0.094 < Omega_c h^2 < 0.136 for the dark matter density, a factor of two larger than that reported in previous studies. This expanded parameter space may have implications for constraints on SUSY dark matter models., 9 pages, 9 figures, references updated
Published: 2006
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45. Dark energy properties from large future galaxy surveys

Author: Ole Eggers Bjælde, Jan Hamann, Tobias Basse, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, and Steen Hannestad
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Parameter space, Cosmology, Galaxy, symbols.namesake, symbols, Dark energy, Neutrino, Planck, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We perform a detailed forecast on how well a {\sc Euclid}-like survey will be able to constrain dark energy and neutrino parameters from a combination of its cosmic shear power spectrum, galaxy power spectrum, and cluster mass function measurements. We find that the combination of these three probes vastly improves the survey's potential to measure the time evolution of dark energy. In terms of a dark energy figure-of-merit defined as $(\sigma(w_{\mathrm p}) \sigma(w_a))^{-1}$, we find a value of 690 for {\sc Euclid}-like data combined with {\sc Planck}-like measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in a 10-dimensional cosmological parameter space, assuming a $\Lambda$CDM fiducial cosmology. For the more commonly used 7-parameter model, we find a figure-of-merit of 1900 for the same data combination. We consider also the survey's potential to measure dark energy perturbations in models wherein the dark energy is parameterised as a fluid with a nonstandard non-adiabatic sound speed, and find that in an \emph{optimistic} scenario in which $w_0$ deviates by as much as is currently observationally allowed from $-1$, models with $\hat{c}_\mathrm{s}^2 = 10^{-6}$ and $\hat{c}_\mathrm{s}^2 = 1$ can be distinguished at more than $2\sigma$ significance. We emphasise that constraints on the dark energy sound speed from cluster measurements are strongly dependent on the modelling of the cluster mass function; significantly weaker sensitivities ensue if we modify our model to include fewer features of nonlinear dark energy clustering. Finally, we find that the sum of neutrino masses can be measured with a $1 \sigma$ precision of 0.015~eV, (abridged), Comment: 26 pages, 5 figures, matches JCAP version
Published: 2014
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46. Current and future constraints on neutrino physics from cosmology

Author: Jan Hamann, Steen Hannestad, and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong
Subjects: Physics, History, Particle physics, COSMIC cancer database, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Decoupling (cosmology), Neutrino, Upper and lower bounds, Cosmology, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract: In recent years precision cosmology has become an increasingly powerful probe of particle physics. Perhaps the prime example of this is the very stringent cosmological upper bound on the neutrino mass. However, other aspects of neutrino physics, such as their decoupling history and possible non-standard interactions, can also be probed using observations of cosmic structure. Here, we review the current status of cosmological bounds on neutrino properties and discuss the potential of future observations, for example by the recently approved EUCLID mission, to precisely measure neutrino properties.
Published: 2014
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47. A new life for sterile neutrinos: resolving inconsistencies using hot dark matter

Author: Jan Hamann and Jasper Hasenkamp
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Sterile neutrino, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Hot dark matter, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Galaxy, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, symbols.namesake, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), symbols, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Planck, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Within the standard LCDM model of cosmology, the recent Planck measurements have shown discrepancies with other observations, e.g., measurements of the current expansion rate H_0, the galaxy shear power spectrum and counts of galaxy clusters. We show that if LCDM is extended by a hot dark matter component, which could be interpreted as a sterile neutrino, the data sets can be combined consistently. A combination of Planck data, WMAP-9 polarisation data, measurements of the BAO scale, the HST measurement of H_0, Planck galaxy cluster counts and galaxy shear data from the CFHTLens survey yields Delta N_eff = 0.61 pm 0.30 and m_s^eff = (0.41 pm 0.13) eV at 1 sigma. The former is driven mainly by the large H_0 of the HST measurement, while the latter is driven by cluster data. CFHTLens galaxy shear data prefer Delta N_eff >0 and a non-zero mass. Taken together, we find hints for the presence of a hot dark matter component at 3 sigma. A sterile neutrino motivated by the reactor and gallium anomalies appears rejected at even higher significance and an accelerator anomaly sterile neutrino is found in tension at 2 sigma., 11 pages, 2 figures; v2: 12 pages, 3 figures, references added and discussion slightly expanded, matches version published in JCAP
Published: 2013
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48. Sterile neutrino constraints from cosmology

Author: Steen Hannestad, Irene Tamborra, Yvonne Y. Y. Wong, Jan Hamann, and Georg G. Raffelt
Subjects: Physics, History, Particle physics, Sterile neutrino, Photon, Physics beyond the Standard Model, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Decoupling (cosmology), Cosmology, Computer Science Applications, Education, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, Quantitative Biology::Populations and Evolution, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract: The presence of light particles beyond the standard model's three neutrino species can profoundly impact the physics of decoupling and primordial nucleosynthesis. I review the observational signatures of extra light species, present constraints from recent data, and discuss the implications of possible sterile neutrinos with O(eV)-masses for cosmology. The presence of light particles beyond the standard model's three neutrino species can profoundly impact the physics of decoupling and primordial nucleosynthesis. I review the observational signatures of extra light species, present constraints from recent data, and discuss the implications of possible sterile neutrinos with O(eV)-masses for cosmology.
Published: 2012
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49. The effects of cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature uncertainties on cosmological parameter estimation

Author: Jan Hamann and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong
Subjects: Physics, Dipole, Experimental uncertainty analysis, Estimation theory, Cosmic microwave background, Calibration, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Sensitivity (control systems), Cosmic variance, Astrophysics, Temperature measurement
Abstract: We estimate the effect of the experimental uncertainty in the measurement of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on the extraction of cosmological parameters from future CMB surveys. We find that even for an ideal experiment limited only by cosmic variance up to l = 2500 for both the temperature and polarisation measurements, the projected cosmological parameter errors are remarkably robust against the uncertainty of 1 mK in the FIRAS instrument's CMB temperature monopole measurement. The maximum degradation in sensitivity is 20%, for the baryon density estimate, relative to the case in which the monopole is known infinitely well. While this degradation is acceptable, we note that reducing the uncertainty in the current temperature measurement by a factor of five will bring it down to the per cent level. We also estimate the effect of the uncertainty in the dipole temperature measurement. Assuming the overall calibration of the data to be dominated by the dipole error of 0.2% from FIRAS, the sensitivity degradation is insignificant and does not exceed 10% in any parameter direction.
Published: 2008
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50. Using big bang nucleosynthesis in cosmological parameter extraction from the cosmic microwave background: a forecast for PLANCK

Author: Julien Lesgourgues, Jan Hamann, and Gianpiero Mangano
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Degenerate energy levels, Cosmic microwave background, chemistry.chemical_element, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Baryon, symbols.namesake, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, chemistry, symbols, Neutrino, Planck, Helium, Free parameter
Abstract: Data from future high precision cosmic microwave background measurements will be sensitive to the primordial helium abundance Yp. At the same time, this parameter can be predicted from big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) as a function of the baryon and radiation densities, as well as a neutrino chemical potential. We suggest using this information to impose a self-consistent BBN prior on Yp and determining its impact on parameter inference from simulated planck data. We find that this approach can significantly improve bounds on cosmological parameters compared to an analysis which treats Yp as a free parameter, if the neutrino chemical potential is taken to vanish. We demonstrate that fixing the helium fraction at an arbitrary value can seriously bias parameter estimates. Under the assumption of degenerate BBN (i.e., letting the neutrino chemical potential ξ vary), the BBN prior's constraining power is somewhat weakened, but nevertheless allows us to constrain ξ with an accuracy that rivals that for bounds inferred from present data on light element abundances.
Published: 2008
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