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astro-ph.CO2019★ 102 cited

Characterizing the Cosmological Gravitational Wave Background Anisotropies and non-Gaussianity

N. Bartolo, D. Bertacca, S. Matarrese +4

A future detection of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) with GW experiments is expected to open a new window on early universe cosmology and on the astrophysics o…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 31 cited

Non-Gaussianity Constraints using Future Radio Continuum Surveys and the Multi-Tracer Technique

Zahra Gomes, Stefano Camera, Matt J. Jarvis +2

Tighter constraints on measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity will allow the differentiation of inflationary scenarios. The cosmic microwave background bispectrum-the standard…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 32 cited

Euclid: The reduced shear approximation and magnification bias for Stage IV cosmic shear experiments

A. C. Deshpande, T. D. Kitching, V. F. Cardone +69

Stage IV weak lensing experiments will offer more than an order of magnitude leap in precision. We must therefore ensure that our analyses remain accurate in this new era. Accordin…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 1.2k cited

Science Case for the Einstein Telescope

Michele Maggiore, Chris van den Broeck, Nicola Bartolo +15

The Einstein Telescope (ET), a proposed European ground-based gravitational-wave detector of third-generation, is an evolution of second-generation detectors such as Advanced LIGO,…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 10 cited

Needlet thresholding methods in component separation

F. Oppizzi, A. Renzi, M. Liguori +5

Foreground components in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are sparse in a needlet representation, due to their specific morphological features (anisotropy, non-Gaussianity). T…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 54 cited

Forecasts on Primordial non-Gaussianity from 21 cm Intensity Mapping experiments

Dionysios Karagiannis, Anže Slosar, Michele Liguori

We forecast ability of dedicated 21 cm intensity mapping experiments to constraint primordial non-Gaussianity using power spectrum and bispectrum. We model the signal including the…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 70 cited

Measuring the net circular polarization of the stochastic gravitational wave background with interferometers

Valerie Domcke, Juan Garcia-Bellido, Marco Peloso +4

Parity violating interactions in the early Universe can source a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) with a net circular polarization. In this paper, we study possible…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 89 cited

Gravitational Wave Anisotropies from Primordial Black Holes

N. Bartolo, D. Bertacca, V. De Luca +6

An observable stochastic background of gravitational waves is generated whenever primordial black holes are created in the early universe thanks to a small-scale enhancement of the…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 79 cited

Projection effects on the observed angular spectrum of the astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background

Daniele Bertacca, Angelo Ricciardone, Nicola Bellomo +5

The detection and characterization of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) is one of the main goals of Gravitational Wave (GW) experiments. The observed SGWB will be…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 14 cited

On a possible nonequilibrium imprint in the cosmic background at low frequencies

Marco Baiesi, Carlo Burigana, Livia Conti +4

The cosmic background radiation has been observed to deviate from the Planck law expected from a blackbody at 2.7 K at frequencies below GHz. We discuss the abundan…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 243 cited

A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1186

This paper presents the gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant () using the detections from the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo d…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 100 cited

From Primordial Black Holes Abundance to Primordial Curvature Power Spectrum (and back)

Alba Kalaja, Nicola Bellomo, Nicola Bartolo +5

In the model where Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) form from large primordial curvature (C) perturbations, i.e., CPBHs, constraints on PBH abundance provide in principle constraints…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 126 cited

Anisotropies and non-Gaussianity of the Cosmological Gravitational Wave Background

N. Bartolo, D. Bertacca, S. Matarrese +4

The Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) is expected to be a key observable for Gravitational Wave (GW) interferometry. Its detection will open a new window on early uni…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 227 cited

Testing modified gravity at cosmological distances with LISA standard sirens

E. Belgacem, G. Calcagni, M. Crisostomi +18

Modifications of General Relativity leave their imprint both on the cosmic expansion history through a non-trivial dark energy equation of state, and on the evolution of cosmologic…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 1.1k cited

Planck 2018 results. V. CMB power spectra and likelihoods

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +165

This paper describes the 2018 Planck CMB likelihoods, following a hybrid approach similar to the 2015 one, with different approximations at low and high multipoles, and implementin…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 9 cited

Measuring Bias via the Consistency Relations of the Large Scale Structure

Marco Marinucci, Takahiro Nishimichi, Massimo Pietroni

Consistency Relations (CR) for the Large Scale Structure are exact equalities between correlation functions of different order. These relations descend from the equivalence princip…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 20 cited

Constraints on the growth rate using the observed galaxy power spectrum

José Fonseca, Jan-Albert Viljoen, Roy Maartens

The large-scale structure growth index provides a consistency test of the standard cosmology and is a potential indicator of modified gravity. We investigate the constraints on…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 238 cited

Reconstructing the spectral shape of a stochastic gravitational wave background with LISA

Chiara Caprini, Daniel G. Figueroa, Raphael Flauger +5

We present a set of tools to assess the capabilities of LISA to detect and reconstruct the spectral shape and amplitude of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We fir…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 495 cited

Planck 2018 results. VII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown +147

Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with pre…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 85 cited

The Void Size Function in Dynamical Dark Energy Cosmologies

Giovanni Verza, Alice Pisani, Carmelita Carbone +2

We test a theoretical description of the void size distribution function against direct estimates from halo catalogues of the DEMNUni suite of large cosmological simulations. Besid…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 188 cited

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

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1187

We present an Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo search for sub-solar mass ultracompact objects in data obtained during Advanced LIGO's second observing run. In contrast to a previou…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 263 cited

Acoustic Dark Energy: Potential Conversion of the Hubble Tension

Meng-Xiang Lin, Giampaolo Benevento, Wayne Hu +1

We discuss the ability of a dark fluid becoming relevant around the time of matter radiation equality to significantly relieve the tension between local measurements of the Hubble…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 22 cited

Cosmological constraints and phenomenology of a beyond-Horndeski model

Simone Peirone, Giampaolo Benevento, Noemi Frusciante +1

We study observational constraints on a specific dark energy model in the framework of Gleyzes-Langlois-Piazza-Vernizzi theories, which extends the Galileon ghost condensate (GGC)…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 56 cited

Cosmological data favor Galileon ghost condensate over CDM

Simone Peirone, Giampaolo Benevento, Noemi Frusciante +1

We place observational constraints on the Galileon ghost condensate model, a dark energy proposal in cubic-order Horndeski theories consistent with the gravitational-wave event GW1…