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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

[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 …

A measurement of the cosmic microwave background B-mode polarization power spectrum at sub-degree scales with POLARBEAR

PAR Ade, Y Akiba, AE Anthony, K Arnold… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a measurement of the B-mode polarization power spectrum in the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) using the Polarbear experiment in Chile. The faint B-mode …

Bayes in the sky: Bayesian inference and model selection in cosmology

R Trotta - Contemporary Physics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The application of Bayesian methods in cosmology and astrophysics has flourished over the
past decade, spurred by data sets of increasing size and complexity. In many respects …

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 …