Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season

PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, M Amiri, D Barkats, RB Thakur… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2, Keck Array, and
BICEP3 CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2018 observing season. We …

MontePython 3: boosted MCMC sampler and other features

T Brinckmann, J Lesgourgues - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2019 - Elsevier
MontePython is a parameter inference package for cosmology. We present the latest
development of the code over the past couple of years. We explain, in particular, two new …

Primordial backgrounds of relic gravitons

M Giovannini - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
The diffuse backgrounds of relic gravitons with frequencies ranging between the aHz band
and the GHz region encode the ultimate information on the primeval evolution of the plasma …

Planck 2015 results-XI. CMB power spectra, likelihoods, and robustness of parameters

N Aghanim, M Arnaud, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
This paper presents the Planck 2015 likelihoods, statistical descriptions of the 2-point
correlationfunctions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and …

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 …

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) …

Five-year wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe* observations: cosmological interpretation

E Komatsu, J Dunkley, MR Nolta… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 5-year data provide
stringent limits on deviations from the minimal, six-parameter Λ cold dark matter model. We …

MultiNest: an efficient and robust Bayesian inference tool for cosmology and particle physics

F Feroz, MP Hobson, M Bridges - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We present further development and the first public release of our multimodal nested
sampling algorithm, called MultiNest. This Bayesian inference tool calculates the evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Review of particle physics

K Nakamura - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2010 - bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar
This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous
editions, plus 2158 new measurements from 551 papers, we list, evaluate, and average …

Five-year wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe* observations: likelihoods and parameters from the Wmap data

J Dunkley, E Komatsu, MR Nolta… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper focuses on cosmological constraints derived from analysis of WMAP data alone.
A simple ΛCDM cosmological model fits the five-year WMAP temperature and polarization …