Novel Probes Project: Tests of gravity on astrophysical scales

T Baker, A Barreira, H Desmond, P Ferreira, B Jain… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
The Novel Probes Project, an initiative to advance the field of astrophysical tests of the dark
sector by creating a forum that connects observers and theorists, is introduced. This review …

Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications from two decades of spectroscopic surveys at the Apache Point …

S Alam, M Aubert, S Avila, C Balland, JE Bautista… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present the cosmological implications from final measurements of clustering using
galaxies, quasars, and Ly α forests from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) …

Strong bound on canonical ultralight axion dark matter from the lyman-alpha forest

KK Rogers, HV Peiris - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We present a new bound on the ultralight axion (ULA) dark matter mass ma, using the
Lyman-alpha forest to look for suppressed cosmic structure growth: a 95% lower limit ma> …

Signatures of gravity in cosmology

N Frusciante - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We investigate the impact on cosmological observables of f (Q)-gravity, a specific class of
modified gravity models in which gravity is described by the nonmetricity scalar, Q. In …

Tests of fundamental quantum mechanics and dark interactions with low-energy neutrons

S Sponar, RIP Sedmik, M Pitschmann, H Abele… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Among the known particles, the neutron is special because it provides experimental access
to all of the four fundamental forces and a wide range of hypothetical interactions. Despite …

Nuclear clocks for testing fundamental physics

E Peik, T Schumm, MS Safronova… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The low-energy, long-lived isomer in 229 Th, first studied in the 1970s as an exotic feature in
nuclear physics, continues to inspire a multidisciplinary community of physicists. It has …

Dynamical dark energy after Planck CMB final release and H0 tension

W Yang, E Di Valentino, S Pan, Y Wu… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In this article we compare a variety of well-known dynamical dark energy models using the
cosmic microwave background measurements from the 2018 Planck legacy and 2015 …

The abundance of satellites around Milky Way-and M31-like galaxies with the TNG50 simulation: a matter of diversity

C Engler, A Pillepich, A Pasquali… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We study the abundance of satellite galaxies around 198 Milky Way-(MW) and M31-like
hosts in TNG50, the final installment in the IllustrisTNG suite of cosmological …

The physical origins and dominant emission mechanisms of Lyman alpha haloes: results from the TNG50 simulation in comparison to MUSE observations

C Byrohl, D Nelson, C Behrens, I Kostyuk… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Extended Lyman alpha emission is now commonly detected around high-redshift galaxies
through stacking and even on individual basis. Despite recent observational advances, the …

deep21: a deep learning method for 21 cm foreground removal

TL Makinen, L Lancaster… - … of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We seek to remove foreground contaminants from 21 cm intensity mapping observations.
We demonstrate that a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) with a UNet architecture …