Testing general relativity in cosmology

M Ishak - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2019 - Springer
We review recent developments and results in testing general relativity (GR) at cosmological
scales. The subject has witnessed rapid growth during the last two decades with the aim of …

Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds

N Christensen - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A stochastic background of gravitational waves could be created by the superposition of a
large number of independent sources. The physical processes occurring at the earliest …

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background power spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

SK Choi, M Hasselfield, SPP Ho… - … of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured
by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg 2 of the 2013–2016 survey …

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 …

Planck 2018 results-VIII. Gravitational lensing

N Aghanim, Y Akrami, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential
using the final Planck 2018 temperature and polarization data. Using polarization maps …

The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts

P Ade, J Aguirre, Z Ahmed, S Aiola, A Ali… - … of Cosmology and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being
built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the …

Detection methods for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds: a unified treatment

JD Romano, NJ Cornish - Living reviews in relativity, 2017 - Springer
We review detection methods that are currently in use or have been proposed to search for a
stochastic background of gravitational radiation. We consider both Bayesian and frequentist …

Beyond ΛCDM: Problems, solutions, and the road ahead

P Bull, Y Akrami, J Adamek, T Baker, E Bellini… - Physics of the Dark …, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite its continued observational successes, there is a persistent (and growing) interest in
extending cosmology beyond the standard model, Λ CDM. This is motivated by a range of …

Planck 2015 results: XV. Gravitational lensing

Planck Collaboration - Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - research.aalto.fi
We present the most significant measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)
lensing potential to date (at a level of 40σ), using temperature and polarization data from the …

Detection of -Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2

PAR Ade, RW Aikin, D Barkats, SJ Benton… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB)
polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gravitational waves …