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Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Suvodip Mukherjee, Sourabh Paul
Summary: By comparing predictions of a physical seminumerical model with CMB data, constraints on allowed reionization histories were studied, leading to the determination of tight constraints on parameters such as reionization duration and halo mass. Analysis showed implications for future CMB surveys and 21 cm studies.
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E. Gjerlow, H. T. Ihle, S. Galeotta, K. J. Andersen, R. Aurlien, R. Banerji, M. Bersanelli, S. Bertocco, M. Brilenkov, M. Carbone, L. P. L. Colombo, H. K. Eriksen, M. K. Foss, C. Franceschet, U. Fuskeland, M. Galloway, S. Gerakakis, B. Hensley, D. Herman, M. Iacobellis, M. Ieronymaki, J. B. Jewell, A. Karakci, E. Keihaenen, R. Keskitalo, G. Maggio, D. Maino, M. Maris, S. Paradiso, B. Partridge, M. Reinecke, A. -s. Suur-Uski, T. L. Svalheim, D. Tavagnacco, H. Thommesen, D. J. Watts, I. K. Wehus, A. Zacchei
Summary: We propose a Bayesian calibration algorithm for CMB observations, applied to the Planck LFI data within the BEYONDPLANCK framework. The algorithm decomposes the gain into three components and uses Gibbs sampling to sample each term conditionally. The calibration results show good agreement with previous pipelines and improved inter-frequency consistency.
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M-A Sanchis-Lozano, F. Melia, M. Lopez-Corredoira, N. Sanchis-Gual
Summary: Recent research has found that there is a maximum correlation angle in the two-point angular temperature correlations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, which contradicts the prediction of standard cosmology. The angular power spectrum of the CMB also shows a dominance of odd-over-even parity multipoles. This paper examines the relationship between these features and their impact on the theoretical fit to the Planck 2018 data. The results suggest that considering both the maximum correlation angle and the parity imbalance is crucial for optimizing the fit.
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Zeyang Sun, Ji Yao, Fuyu Dong, Xiaohu Yang, Le Zhang, Pengjie Zhang
Summary: In this study, we measure the cross-correlation between galaxy groups from DESI Legacy Imaging Survey DR8 and Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing. The detections are significant and consistent with the expected signal of the large-scale structure of Universe. We constrain the density bias of groups and find an excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions.
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Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jiten Dhandha, Jens Chluba
Summary: The excess radio background observed at similar to 0.1-10GHz has sparked scientific debate in recent years. A recent hypothesis suggests that the soft photon emission from accreting primordial black holes could explain this signal. However, our study shows that the expected ultraviolet photon emission from these accreting black holes would fully ionize the universe at z > 6, thereby diminishing the 21-cm absorption signature at z similar to 20 and conflicting with the current limits of cosmic microwave background anisotropy and average spectral distortion.
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Tianyue Chen, Mathieu Remazeilles
Summary: Residual foreground contamination by the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect affects the intrinsic cross-correlation between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing and large-scale structure (LSS). Through analysis, we find that the contamination causes biases in the lensing convergence maps, validating earlier theoretical predictions. The results highlight the importance of deprojecting the tSZ effect from CMB maps and using tSZ-free CMB lensing maps for cross-correlations with LSS data.
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P. Vielzeuf, A. Kovacs, U. Demirbozan, P. Fosalba, E. Baxter, N. Hamaus, D. Huterer, R. Miquel, S. Nadathur, G. Pollina, C. Sanchez, L. Whiteway, T. M. C. Abbott, S. Allam, J. Annis, S. Avila, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, R. Cawthon, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, T. F. Eifler, S. Everett, B. Flaugher, J. Frieman, J. Garcia-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. W. Gerdes, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, W. G. Hartley, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, M. Lima, M. A. G. Maia, M. March, J. L. Marshall, P. Melchior, F. Menanteau, A. Palmese, F. Paz-Chinchon, A. A. Plazas, E. Sanchez, V Scarpine, S. Serrano, I Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Smith, E. Suchyta, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, J. Weller, J. Zuntz
Summary: By calibrating their detection strategy using simulated data, the study found consistency between observed lensing signals associated with cosmic voids in Dark Energy Survey data and simulation results. The best measurement strategies based on the calibration process yielded a signal-to-noise ratio of approximately 4 for DES Y1, with the best-fitting amplitude from the data matching expectations from simulations.
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Pratyush Pranav
Summary: We present a topological analysis of temperature fluctuation maps from two datasets of Planck satellite. The analysis reveals that the observations are generally consistent with the simulations for the NPIPE dataset, while there are significant deviations for the FFP10 dataset in some cases. The behavior of topological components and loops show contrasting results between the two datasets. The study provides important insights into understanding the cosmic microwave background radiation.
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Parth Nayak, Rajib Saha
Summary: This article introduces the application of the Genetic Algorithm (GA) to the reconstruction of CMB temperature anisotropy map, and verifies its reliability and flexibility through comparisons with other reconstruction methods.
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William Coulton, Alexander Miranthis, Anthony Challinor
Summary: Our understanding of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is hindered by secondary anisotropies caused by scattering, extragalactic emission, and gravitational processes. Recent studies show that these anisotropies can introduce significant biases to measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG). We conducted extensive examinations using simulations and found that biases from cosmic infrared background (CIB) and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) lensing bispectra are significant for certain templates. Future experiments, such as the Simons Observatory, will also face biases from the correlation between the integrated-Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect and the tSZ and CIB. However, these biases can be effectively suppressed by foreground-cleaning techniques.
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Frode K. Hansen, Ezequiel F. Boero, Heliana E. Luparello, Diego Garcia Lambas
Summary: A new cosmic microwave background (CMB) foreground has been discovered, which interacts with CMB photons around large spiral galaxies. This foreground can significantly impact the CMB fluctuation map and create CMB anomalies. By studying the temperature decrements around these galaxies, a foreground map model was created and found to have a strong correlation with the Planck CMB map. The existence of this foreground component suggests that the largest scales of the CMB may change, and a reliable corrected CMB map can only be achieved through further research and testing.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jens Chluba
Summary: The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect is a widely used probe for studying cosmology through the scattering of photons from the cosmic microwave background by hot cluster electron gas. This study investigates the scattering of other photon backgrounds, specifically the cosmic infrared background (CIB), in cluster medium. The analysis reveals an underestimation of the all-sky CIB distortion due to neglecting the intracluster scattering contribution, and suggests a redshift dependence in the single-cluster CIB scattering signal, which can be utilized in future cosmological studies with CMB experiments.
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R. Aurich, D. Reinhardt
Summary: The study investigates the use of invariant scalar measures derived from first and second order covariant derivatives on the sphere to detect distortions in the observed CMB sky map caused by the aberration effect at high multipoles, providing an independent method for determining our peculiar velocity. The eigenvalues of the Hessian matrix of the temperature field are found to be well suited for this task.
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L. Gelo, C. J. A. P. Martins, N. Quevedo, A. M. M. Vieira
Summary: The redshift dependence of the cosmic microwave background temperature has important implications for fundamental cosmology, and its constraining power is comparable to other background cosmology probes.
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Mario Ballardini, Roy Maartens
Summary: Measuring the total neutrino mass using large-scale clustering in 21 cm intensity mapping and photometric galaxy surveys, with cosmic microwave background information, can dramatically reduce uncertainty to sigma(M-nu) similar or equal to 45 meV. Adding information from Legacy Survey of Space and Time can further improve the forecast to sigma(M-nu) similar or equal to 12 meV.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Aditya Rotti, Jens Chluba
Summary: Researchers demonstrate the potential of measuring monopolar spectral distortion signals using Internal Linear Combination (ILC) and extended moment methods, combining the two approaches to construct MILC, which can recover tiny monopolar spectral distortion signals in the presence of realistic foregrounds and instrumental noise for the first time.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Aditya Rotti, Boris Bolliet, Jens Chluba, Mathieu Remazeilles
Summary: The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect can be analyzed using either cluster number count (CNC) or power spectrum (PS) analysis. In this study, a new method was developed to combine CNC and PS analyses using a survey completeness function, providing a systematic approach to obtain two complementary y-maps. This method allows for better understanding of the SZ effect and the presence of mass-dependent biases.
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Luke Hart, Jens Chluba
Summary: Varying fundamental constants can be constrained by measurements of the cosmic microwave background. A model-independent principal component analysis is performed to obtain new constraints on these variations. No significant departures from the standard model are found. Future improvements are anticipated. However, further research is needed to understand the origin of the Hubble tension.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Elizabeth Lee, Jens Chluba, Gilbert P. Holder
Summary: This paper investigates the radio Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect caused by the cosmological radio background. The authors propose easily calculable kinematic and relativistic temperature corrections to this effect and discuss how it affects the spectrum of the radio SZ effect in different cases. By measuring the SZ signal around the radio null, constraints can be placed on the properties of the cosmological radio background, and combining it with SZ measurements from large cluster samples could help break degeneracies between different contributions.
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Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jens Chluba
Summary: Accurate computations of spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are crucial for understanding energy release scenarios at high redshifts. This paper presents a new approach to compute the distorted CMB spectrum, taking into account non-linear effects, time-dependence of injection process, modifications to the Hubble expansion rate, and relativistic Compton scattering. The study expands our understanding of CMB spectral distortions and offers a more rigorous treatment for various scenarios.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jiten Dhandha, Jens Chluba
Summary: The excess radio background observed at similar to 0.1-10GHz has sparked scientific debate in recent years. A recent hypothesis suggests that the soft photon emission from accreting primordial black holes could explain this signal. However, our study shows that the expected ultraviolet photon emission from these accreting black holes would fully ionize the universe at z > 6, thereby diminishing the 21-cm absorption signature at z similar to 20 and conflicting with the current limits of cosmic microwave background anisotropy and average spectral distortion.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Elizabeth Lee, Dhayaa Anbajagane, Priyanka Singh, Jens Chluba, Daisuke Nagai, Scott T. Kay, Weiguang Cui, Klaus Dolag, Gustavo Yepes
Summary: The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is an important tool in cosmology. This study compares cluster temperatures predicted by different simulations and finds consistent SZ temperatures across the simulations. However, there is a systematic offset between the relativistic SZ (rSZ) temperature and other measures, with rSZ temperature being approximately 20% higher. The study also explores the variations of these measures with halo radius and investigates the effects of different feedback prescriptions and resolutions on the observed temperatures.
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D. Paoletti, J. Chluba, F. Finelli, J. A. Rubino-Martin
Summary: We update and extend the constraints on primordial magnetic fields in the cosmic microwave background through the dissipation effects of ambipolar diffusion and magnetohydrodynamic decaying turbulence. Using the latest data release and map making algorithm, our study achieves tighter constraints on the magnetic field amplitudes.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jens Chluba
Summary: The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect is a widely used probe for studying cosmology through the scattering of photons from the cosmic microwave background by hot cluster electron gas. This study investigates the scattering of other photon backgrounds, specifically the cosmic infrared background (CIB), in cluster medium. The analysis reveals an underestimation of the all-sky CIB distortion due to neglecting the intracluster scattering contribution, and suggests a redshift dependence in the single-cluster CIB scattering signal, which can be utilized in future cosmological studies with CMB experiments.
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Luke Hart, Jens Chluba
Summary: The cosmological recombination radiation (CRR) is a spectral distortion signal from the early Universe that can probe physical phenomena in the pre-recombination era. We study the effects of early dark energy models and varying electromagnetic fundamental constants on CRR. We provide estimates on the sensitivity of future spectrometers to these effects and suggest that a combination with Planck data is promising.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Bryce Cyr, Jens Chluba
Summary: This study reveals the link between CMB spectral distortions and 21 cm cosmology, highlighting the interplay between radio spectral distortions and associated heating. This discovery could hide a significant radio excess before reionization, and significantly impact the constraints from existing and future 21 cm observations on the radio background evolution.
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Inigo Zubeldia, Aditya Rotti, Jens Chluba, Richard Battye
Summary: Multi-frequency matched filters (MMFs) are commonly used to detect galaxy clusters from CMB data, but estimating the cross-frequency power spectra of the noise incorrectly leads to overestimated MMF noise and biases in cosmological inference. We propose an iterative MMF (iMMF) approach that improves the estimates by reestimating the noise power spectra after the first MMF step. Applying the iMMF to Planck-like mock observations suppresses the mentioned effects and leads to more significant detections, a higher number of them, and a cluster observable with the expected theoretical properties.
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Edoardo Altamura, Scott T. Kay, Jens Chluba, Imogen Towler
Summary: The kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect is an important target for studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and cosmology. This study investigates the rotational kSZ effect caused by large-scale motions of cluster medium using hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. The results suggest that the misalignment between dark matter, galaxy and gas spins can affect the estimation of the rotational kSZ effect. More research is needed to refine the modeling and explore the rotational kSZ effect in a wider range of masses and redshifts.
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Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jens Chluba
Summary: The observed excess radio background has puzzled scientists for over a decade. A recent new physics solution involves the decay of dark matter into dark photons which then convert into standard photons in the reionization era. This simple power-law model fits the current data closely, although additional work is needed to address challenges and improve the model.
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Inigo Zubeldia, Jens Chluba, Richard Battye
Summary: Galaxy clusters detected through the tSZ effect can provide constraints on cosmological parameters, but the measured tSZ signal may be contaminated by the CIB emission. This study quantifies the contamination and proposes a spectrally constrained iMMF method (sciMMF) to suppress the CIB-induced bias from the tSZ cluster observables. The sciMMF is robust to modeling uncertainties and can be used to construct CIB-free cluster catalogues.
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