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astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited
The future of cosmology? A case for CMB spectral distortions
Matteo Lucca
This thesis treats the topic of CMB Spectral Distortions (SDs), which represent any deviation from a pure black body shape of the CMB energy spectrum. As such, they can be used to…
astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited
CRRfast: An emulator for the Cosmological Recombination Radiation with effects from inhomogeneous recombination
Matteo Lucca, Jens Chluba, Aditya Rotti
The Cosmological Recombination Radiation (CRR) is one of the guaranteed CDM Spectral Distortion (SD) signals. Even if very small in amplitude, it provides a direct probe of the…
astro-ph.CO2023★ 28 cited
Quasi-extremal primordial black holes are a viable dark matter candidate
Jose A. de Freitas Pacheco, Elias Kiritsis, Matteo Lucca +1
Black hole evaporation is generally considered inevitable for low-mass black holes, yet there is no confirmation of this remarkable hypothesis. Here, we propose a phenomenological…