Probing cosmic inflation with the LiteBIRD cosmic microwave background polarization survey

LiteBIRD Collaboration, E Allys, K Arnold… - … of Theoretical and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation
from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology …

Nested sampling for physical scientists

G Ashton, N Bernstein, J Buchner, X Chen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract This Primer examines Skilling's nested sampling algorithm for Bayesian inference
and, more broadly, multidimensional integration. The principles of nested sampling are …

Planck 2018 results-I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck

N Aghanim, Y Akrami, F Arroja, M Ashdown… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which was dedicated to studying the early
Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched on 14 May 2009. It scanned the …

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> …

Planck 2018 results-X. Constraints on inflation

Y Akrami, F Arroja, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We report on the implications for cosmic inflation of the 2018 release of the Planck cosmic
microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. The results are fully consistent …

Planck 2018 results-VI. Cosmological parameters

N Aghanim, Y Akrami, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements
of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, combining information from the …

Has JWST already falsified dark-matter-driven galaxy formation?

M Haslbauer, P Kroupa, AH Zonoozi… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered several luminous high-
redshift galaxy candidates with stellar masses of M*≳ 10 9 M⊙ at photometric redshifts z …

The milky way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2

M Cautun, A Benitez-Llambay… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We determine the Milky Way (MW) mass profile inferred from fitting physically
motivated models to the Gaia DR2 Galactic rotation curve and other data. Using various …

Planck 2015 results: XXVI. The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources

Planck Collaboration - Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - research.aalto.fi
Abstract The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources is a list of discrete objects
detected in single-frequency maps from the full duration of the Planck mission and …

Large-scale galaxy bias

V Desjacques, D Jeong, F Schmidt - Physics reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This review presents a comprehensive overview of galaxy bias, that is, the statistical relation
between the distribution of galaxies and matter. We focus on large scales where cosmic …