Features and new physical scales in primordial observables: theory and observation

J Chluba, J Hamann, SP Patil - International Journal of Modern …, 2015 - World Scientific
All cosmological observations to date are consistent with adiabatic, Gaussian and nearly
scale invariant initial conditions. These findings provide strong evidence for a particular …

Planck 2015 results-XX. Constraints on inflation

PAR Ade, N Aghanim, M Arnaud, F Arroja… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
We present the implications for cosmic inflation of the Planck measurements of the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in both temperature and polarization based on …

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 …

polychord: next-generation nested sampling

WJ Handley, MP Hobson… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract polychord is a novel nested sampling algorithm tailored for high-dimensional
parameter spaces. This paper coincides with the release of polychord v1. 6, and provides an …

Planck 2015 results-xiii. cosmological parameters

PAR Ade, N Aghanim, M Arnaud, M Ashdown… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
This paper presents cosmological results based on full-mission Planck observations of
temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) …

Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: Inflation

F Finelli, M Bucher, A Achúcarro… - … of Cosmology and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We forecast the scientific capabilities to improve our understanding of cosmic inflation of
CORE, a proposed CMB space satellite submitted in response to the ESA fifth call for a …

Scratches from the past: inflationary archaeology through features in the power spectrum of primordial fluctuations

A Slosar, X Chen, C Dvorkin, D Green… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Inflation may provide unique insight into the physics at the highest available energy scales
that cannot be replicated in any realistic terrestrial experiment. Features in the primordial …

Model selection applied to reconstructions of the Dark Energy

LA Escamilla, JA Vazquez - The European Physical Journal C, 2023 - Springer
The main aim of this paper is to perform a model comparison for some reconstructions of the
key properties that describe the dark energy of the Universe ie energy density and the …

Bayesian model selection without evidences: application to the dark energy equation-of-state

S Hee, WJ Handley, MP Hobson… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
A method is presented for Bayesian model selection without explicitly computing evidences,
by using a combined likelihood and introducing an integer model selection parameter n so …

Inflation wars: a new hope

RE Keeley, A Shafieloo, DK Hazra… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore a class of primordial power spectra that can fit the observed anisotropies in the
cosmic microwave background well and that predicts a value for the Hubble parameter …