Observing the Evolution of the Universe (2009)
Aguirre, James, Amblard, Alexandre, Ashoorioon, Amjad, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Balbi, Amedeo, Bartlett, James, ...
How did the universe evolve? The fine angular scale (l>1000) temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB are a Rosetta stone for understanding the evolution of the universe. Through detailed...
CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization (2008)
Baumann, Daniel, Jackson, Mark G, Adshead, Peter, Amblard, Alexandre, Ashoorioon, Amjad, Bartolo, Nicola, ...
We summarize the utility of precise cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization measurements as probes of the physics of inflation. We focus on the prospects for using CMB measurements to...
CMBPol Mission Concept Study: A Mission to Map our Origins (2008)
Baumann, Daniel, Cooray, Asantha, Dodelson, Scott, Dunkley, Joanna, Fraisse, Aurélien A., Jackson, Mark G., ...
Quantum mechanical metric fluctuations during an early inflationary phase of the universe leave a characteristic imprint in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The amplitude of...
CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization (2008)
Baumann, Daniel, Jackson, Mark G., Adshead, Peter, Amblard, Alexandre, Ashoorioon, Amjad, Bartolo, Nicola, ...
We summarize the utility of precise cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization measurements as probes of the physics of inflation. We focus on the prospects for using CMB measurements to...
Constraining Isocurvature Initial Conditions with WMAP 3-year data (2006)
Bean, Rachel, Dunkley, Joanna, Pierpaoli, Elena
We present constraints on the presence of isocurvature modes from the temperature and polarization CMB spectrum data from the WMAP satellite alone, and in combination with other datasets including...
Fast and reliable MCMC for cosmological parameter estimation (2004)
Dunkley, Joanna, Bucher, Martin, Ferreira, Pedro G., Moodley, Kavilan, Skordis, Constantinos
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques are now widely used for cosmological parameter estimation. Chains are generated to sample the posterior probability distribution obtained following the...