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20182026
most citedCMB and BBN constraints on evaporating primordial black holes revisited

93 citations · 359 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Minkowski Functionals of CII Line Intensity Maps: Probing Astrophysics and Primordial Features

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Pravabati Chingangbam

Line intensity mapping aims to measure the total cumulative light of spectral lines from galaxies, without resolving individual sources. In this work, we investigate mock intensity…

astro-ph.CO2026

Probing inflationary features with galaxy ultraviolet luminosity function observables

Sandeep Kumar Acharya

We use the galaxy ultraviolet luminosity function measurements at to constrain modification to standard inflationary power spectrum. These observables are sensitive to the…

astro-ph.HE2025

The role of the galaxy stellar mass function in determining the cosmological distribution of astrophysical transients with applications to fast radio bursts and merging binary black holes

Sandeep Kumar Acharya

The cosmological distribution and formation rate of compact astrophysical objects such as fast radio bursts (FRBs) are typically assumed to be proportional to a linear combination…

astro-ph.HE2025

Persistent radio sources associated with fast radio bursts: Implications from magnetar progenitors

Sk. Minhajur Rahaman, Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Paz Beniamini +1

The rare association of three persistent radio sources (confirmed PRS1 and PRS2, candidate PRS3) with repeating fast radio bursts (FRB 20121102A, 20190520B, 20201124A) offers a uni…

astro-ph.CO2025

Utilizing localized fast radio bursts to constrain their progenitors and the expansion history of the Universe

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Paz Beniamini

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are increasingly being used for cosmological applications such as measuring the Hubble constant and baryon abundance. The increasing number of localized FR…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Features and prospects for kilonova remnant detection with current and future surveys

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Paz Beniamini, Kenta Hotokezaka

We study the observable spectral and temporal properties of kilonova remnants (KNRs) analytically, and point out quantitative differences with respect to supernova remnants. We pro…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

Redshift dependence of FRB host dispersion measures across cosmic epochs

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Paz Beniamini

We constrain the redshift dependence of (rest frame) host galaxy dispersion measures of localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) by assuming it to vary as a simple power law ($\propto (1…

astro-ph.CO2024

Soft Photon Heating: A Semi-Analytic Framework and Applications to cm Cosmology

Bryce Cyr, Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jens Chluba

The presence of an abundant population of low frequency photons at high redshifts (such as a radio background) can source leading order effects on the evolution of the matter and s…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Sunyaev-Zeldovich signatures from non-thermal, relativistic electrons using CMB maps

Sandeep Kumar Acharya

Relativistically energetic, non-thermal population of electrons can give rise to unique CMB spectral distortion signatures which can be significantly different from thermal Sunyaev…

astro-ph.CO2023

Disentangling the primordial nature of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds with CMB spectral distortions

Bryce Cyr, Thomas Kite, Jens Chluba +5

The recent detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nanohertz frequencies by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has sparked a flurry of interest. Beyond the stand…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Constraining broad photon spectrum injections from exotic and astrophysical sources

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Bryce Cyr, Jens Chluba

We study the evolution of photon injections with a power-law type spectrum inserted at various epochs of the universe, and obtain constraints on their parameter space from multiple…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

A cosmic string solution to the radio synchrotron background

Bryce Cyr, Jens Chluba, Sandeep Kumar Acharya

We investigate the low-frequency spectral emission from a network of superconducting cosmic string loops in hopes of explaining the observed radio synchrotron background. After con…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Constraints on the spectral signatures of superconducting cosmic strings

Bryce Cyr, Jens Chluba, Sandeep Kumar Acharya

If they exist, networks of superconducting cosmic strings are capable of injecting copious amounts of electromagnetic energy into the background over a broad range of frequencies.…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 31 cited

The role of soft photon injection and heating in 21 cm cosmology

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Bryce Cyr, Jens Chluba

The ARCADE radio excess and EDGES measurement remain puzzling. A link between the two has been previously considered, however, in this work we highlight an important related effect…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 10 cited

A closer look at dark photon explanations of the excess radio background

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jens Chluba

The observed excess radio background has remained a puzzle for over a decade. A recent new physics solution involves dark matter that decays into dark photons in the presence of a…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 17 cited

Can accreting primordial black holes explain the excess radio background?

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jiten Dhandha, Jens Chluba

The excess radio background seen at has stimulated much scientific debate in the past years. Recently, it was pointed out that the soft photon emission f…

astro-ph.CO2022

Revisiting secondary CMB distortions due to kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from quasar bubbles before reionization

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Subhabrata Majumdar

We discuss the secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy due to kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect from ionized bubbles around individual quasars prior to the rei…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 6 cited

Importance of intracluster scattering and relativistic corrections from tSZ effect with Cosmic Infrared Background

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jens Chluba

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect towards clusters of galaxies has become a standard probe of cosmology. It is caused by the scattering of photons from the cosmic microwave background (…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

The non-thermal secondary CMB anisotropies from a cosmic distribution of radio galaxy lobes

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Subhabrata Majumdar, Biman B. Nath

Current and upcoming high angular resolution and multi-frequency experiments are well poised to explore the rich landscape of secondary CMB anisotropies. In this context, we comput…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 14 cited

CMB spectral distortions from continuous large energy release

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jens Chluba

Accurate computations of spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are required for constraining energy release scenarios at redshifts . The exis…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 8 cited

Comparison of numerical methods for computing the repeated Compton scattering of photons in isotropic media

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Jens Chluba, Abir Sarkar

Repeated Compton scattering of photons with thermal electrons is one of the fundamental processes at work in many astrophysical plasma. Solving the exact evolution equations is har…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 6 cited

Non-thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from radio galaxy lobes

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Subhabrata Majumdar, Biman B. Nath

Energetic electrons in the lobes of radio galaxies make them potential sources for not only radio and X-rays but also Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) distortions in the cosmic microwave bac…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 6 cited

Constraints on of high energy non-thermal neutrino injections upto from CMB spectral distortions and abundance of light elements

Sandeep Kumar Acharya, Rishi Khatri

High energy neutrinos and anti-neutrinos ( 100 GeV) can inject energetic electromagnetic particles into the baryon-photon plasma in the high redshift universe through elec…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 55 cited

Thermalization of large energy release in the early Universe

Jens Chluba, Andrea Ravenni, Sandeep Kumar Acharya

Spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provide a unique tool for learning about the early phases of cosmic history, reaching deep into the primordial Univers…