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 …

Cosmic microwave background anisotropies

W Hu, S Dodelson - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies have and will
continue to revolutionize our understanding of cosmology. The recent discovery of the …

First-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)* observations: determination of cosmological parameters

DN Spergel, L Verde, HV Peiris… - The Astrophysical …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT WMAP precision data enable accurate testing of cosmological models. We find
that the emerging standard model of cosmology, a flat Λ-dominated universe seeded by a …

Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

DJ Eisenstein, I Zehavi, DW Hogg… - The Astrophysical …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of
46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers …

Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: implications for cosmology

DN Spergel, R Bean, O Doré, MR Nolta… - The astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
A simple cosmological model with only six parameters (matter density, Ω mh 2, baryon
density, Ω bh 2, Hubble constant, H 0, amplitude of fluctuations, σ 8, optical depth, τ, and a …

Cosmological parameters from CMB and other data: A Monte Carlo approach

A Lewis, S Bridle - Physical Review D, 2002 - APS
We present a fast Markov chain Monte Carlo exploration of cosmological parameter space.
We perform a joint analysis of results from recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) …

New Hubble space telescope discoveries of type Ia supernovae at z≥ 1: narrowing constraints on the early behavior of dark energy

AG Riess, LG Strolger, S Casertano… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We have discovered 21 new Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with the Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) and have used them to trace the history of cosmic expansion over the last 10 billion yr …

Constraints on the equation of state of dark energy and the Hubble constant from stellar ages and the cosmic microwave background

R Jimenez, L Verde, T Treu, D Stern - The Astrophysical Journal, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We place constraints on the redshift-averaged, effective value of the equation of state of dark
energy, w, using only the absolute ages of Galactic stars and the observed position of the …

Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian data analysis in astronomy

S Sharma - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Markov chain Monte Carlo–based Bayesian data analysis has now become the method of
choice for analyzing and interpreting data in almost all disciplines of science. In astronomy …

JAX-COSMO: An end-to-end differentiable and GPU accelerated cosmology library

JE Campagne, F Lanusse, J Zuntz, A Boucaud… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present jax-cosmo, a library for automatically differentiable cosmological theory
calculations. It uses the JAX library, which has created a new coding ecosystem, especially …