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astro-ph.CO2018★ 217 cited

Testing Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter through LISA

N. Bartolo, V. De Luca, G. Franciolini +3

The idea that primordial black holes (PBHs) can comprise most of the dark matter of the universe has recently reacquired a lot of momentum. Observational constraints, however, rule…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 238 cited

The Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter - LISA Serendipity

N. Bartolo, V. De Luca, G. Franciolini +3

There has recently been renewed interest in the possibility that the dark matter in the universe consists of primordial black holes (PBHs). Current observational constraints leave…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 29 cited

BAO reconstruction: a swift numerical action method for massive spectroscopic surveys

E. Sarpa, C. Schimd, E. Branchini +1

A new fully non-linear reconstruction algorithm for the accurate recovery of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale in two-point correlation functions is proposed, based on…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 22 cited

K-mouflage Imprints on Cosmological Observables and Data Constraints

Giampaolo Benevento, Marco Raveri, Andrei Lazanu +4

We investigate cosmological constraints on K-mouflage models of modified gravity. We consider two scenarios: one where the background evolution is free to deviate from CDM (K-mo…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 71 cited

Measuring chiral gravitational waves in Chern-Simons gravity with CMB bispectra

Nicola Bartolo, Giorgio Orlando, Maresuke Shiraishi

Chern-Simons gravity coupled to the scalar sector through a generic coupling function can be tested at the very high energies of the inflationary period. In 1706.04627, we c…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 13 cited

Measuring the Energy Scale of Inflation with Large Scale Structures

Nicola Bellomo, Nicola Bartolo, Raul Jimenez +2

The determination of the inflationary energy scale represents one of the first step towards the understanding of the early Universe physics. The (very mild) non-Gaussian signals th…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 76 cited

GWLSS: Chasing the Progenitors of Merging Binary Black Holes

Giulio Scelfo, Nicola Bellomo, Alvise Raccanelli +2

Are the stellar-mass merging binary black holes, recently detected by their gravitational wave signal, of stellar or primordial origin? Answering this question will have profound i…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 122 cited

Search for sub-solar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO's first observing run

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1135

We present the first Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo search for ultracompact binary systems with component masses between 0.2 - 1.0 using data taken between Se…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 2 cited

CMB spectroscopy at third-order in cosmological perturbations

Atsuhisa Ota, Nicola Bartolo

Early energy injection to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from dissipation of acoustic waves generates deviations from the blackbody spectrum not only at second-order but als…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 380 cited

Planck 2018 results. III. High Frequency Instrument data processing and frequency maps

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +152

This paper presents the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) data processing procedures for the Planck 2018 release. Major improvements in mapmaking have been achieved since the previou…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 2.4k cited

Planck 2018 results. X. Constraints on inflation

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Arroja +173

We report on the implications for cosmic inflation of the 2018 Release of the Planck CMB anisotropy measurements. The results are fully consistent with the two previous Planck cosm…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 745 cited

Planck 2018 results. VIII. Gravitational lensing

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +155

We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using the final 2018 temperature and polarization data. We increase the signifi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 424 cited

Planck 2018 results. IV. Diffuse component separation

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown +150

We present full-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and polarized synchrotron and thermal dust emission, derived from the third set of Planck frequency maps. These pr…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 99 cited

Planck 2018 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Argüeso +148

We present a final description of the data-processing pipeline for the Planck, Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), implemented for the 2018 data release. Several improvements have been…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1.7k cited

Planck 2018 results. I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Arroja +188

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which was dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched on 14 May 2009. It scanned the microwave…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 239 cited

A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from GW170817 without the electromagnetic counterpart

M. Fishbach, R. Gray, I. Magaña Hernandez +316

We perform a statistical standard siren analysis of GW170817. Our analysis does not utilize knowledge of NGC 4993 as the unique host galaxy of the optical counterpart to GW170817.…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 9 cited

Isotropic non-Gaussian -like toy models that reproduce the cosmic microwave background anomalies

F. K. Hansen, T. Trombetti, N. Bartolo +4

Based on recent observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), claims of statistical anomalies in the properties of the CMB fluctuations have been made. Although the statis…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 75 cited

Probing non-Gaussian Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with LISA

Nicola Bartolo, Valerie Domcke, Daniel G. Figueroa +7

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) contains a wealth of information on astrophysical and cosmological processes. A major challenge of upcoming years will be to ext…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 9 cited

Cosmic Degeneracies III: N-body Simulations of Interacting Dark Energy with Non-Gaussian Initial Conditions

M. Hashim, C. Giocoli, M. Baldi +2

We perform for the first time N-body simulations of Interacting Dark Energy assuming non-Gaussian initial conditions, with the aim of investigating possible degeneracies of these t…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 30 cited

The observed galaxy bispectrum from single-field inflation in the squeezed limit

Kazuya Koyama, Obinna Umeh, Roy Maartens +1

Using the consistency relation in Fourier space, we derive the observed galaxy bispectrum from single-field inflation in the squeezed limit, in which one of the three modes has a w…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 13 cited

Exploring compensated isocurvature perturbations with CMB spectral distortion anisotropies

Taku Haga, Keisuke Inomata, Atsuhisa Ota +1

We develop a linear perturbation theory for the spectral -distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The -distortions generated during the recombination epoch are…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 9 cited

Supergravity, -attractors and primordial non-Gaussianity

Nicola Bartolo, Domenico Matteo Bianco, Raul Jimenez +2

We compute in detail how deviations from Einstein gravity at the inflation energy scale could appear as non-Gaussian features in the sky. To illustrate this we use multi-field …

astro-ph.CO2018★ 30 cited

Structure formation beyond shell-crossing: nonperturbative expansions and late-time attractors

Massimo Pietroni

Structure formation in 1+1 dimensions is considered, with emphasis on the effects of shell-crossing. The breakdown of the perturbative expansion beyond shell-crossing is discussed,…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 23 cited

The two and three-loop matter bispectrum in perturbation theories

Andrei Lazanu, Michele Liguori

We evaluate for the first time the dark matter bispectrum of large-scale structure at two loops in the Standard Perturbation Theory and at three loops in the Renormalised Perturbat…