Inflation: theory and observations

A Achúcarro, M Biagetti, M Braglia, G Cabass… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Cosmic inflation provides a window to the highest energy densities accessible in nature, far
beyond those achievable in any realistic terrestrial experiment. Theoretical insights into the …

The benefits of CMB delensing

SC Hotinli, J Meyers, C Trendafilova… - … of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The effects of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been
measured at high significance with existing data and will be measured even more precisely …

Probing cosmic birefringence with polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich tomography

N Lee, SC Hotinli, M Kamionkowski - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
If the physics behind dark energy and/or dark matter violates the parity symmetry assumed in
the standard cosmological paradigm, the linear polarization of the cosmic microwave …

Cosmology with the moving lens effect

SC Hotinli, KM Smith, MS Madhavacheril… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Velocity fields can be reconstructed at cosmological scales from their influence on the
correlation between the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure. Effects …

Snowmass2021 CMB-HD white paper

S Aiola, Y Akrami, K Basu, M Boylan-Kolchin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
CMB-HD is a proposed millimeter-wave survey over half the sky that would be ultra-deep
(0.5 uK-arcmin) and have unprecedented resolution (15 arcseconds at 150 GHz). Such a …

Cosmic birefringence tomography with polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

T Namikawa, I Obata - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We consider the polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (pSZ) effect for a tomographic probe of
cosmic birefringence, including all relevant terms of the pSZ effect in the cosmic microwave …

Cosmology from the kinetic polarized Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect

SC Hotinli, GP Holder, MC Johnson… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons that scatter off free electrons in the large-
scale structure induce a linear polarization pattern proportional to the remote CMB …

Towards testing CMB anomalies using the kinetic and polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects

JI Cayuso, MC Johnson - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies on
large angular scales have uncovered a number of anomalous features of marginal statistical …

Optimal filters for the moving lens effect

SC Hotinli, MC Johnson, J Meyers - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We assess the prospects for detecting the moving lens effect using cosmological surveys.
The bulk motion of cosmological structure induces a small-scale dipolar temperature …

CMB -mode non-Gaussianity: Optimal bispectrum estimator and Fisher forecasts

AJ Duivenvoorden, PD Meerburg, K Freese - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) data can be used to explore harmonic 3-
point functions that involve the B-mode component of the CMB polarization signal. We focus …