20 papers
The Topology of the Universe
Craig J. Copi, Deyan P. Mihaylov, Anna Negro +14
Is the Universe infinite in all directions? The only way to know is to look. A non-trivial cosmic topology would imprint subtle signatures on the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…
First detection of the moving lens effect with ACT and DESI LS
Selim C. Hotinli, Kendrick M. Smith, Simone Ferraro +4
The moving lens effect is a secondary CMB anisotropy induced by the transverse motion of gravitational potentials. We develop a Fourier-space cross-spectrum estimator that retains…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Test of the Gravitational Force Law on Cosmological Scales Using the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
Patricio A. Gallardo, Kris Pardo, Oliver H. E. Philcox +38
The mean pairwise velocity of massive halos reflects the gravitational force law on cosmic scales. We combine cosmic microwave background intensity maps from the Atacama Cosmology…
Quantum Signatures of Cosmic Topology: How Casimir Backreaction Transmits Isotropy Violation
Anna Negro, Kurt Hinterbichler, Glenn D. Starkman +17
A finite, scheme-independent Casimir contribution to the stress-energy tensor arises naturally for quantum fields in universes with non-trivial spatial topology. We compute this Ca…
Cosmic topology. Part IIc. Detectability with non-standard primordial power spectrum
Joline Noltmann, Andrius Tamosiunas, Deyan P. Mihaylov +13
Non-trivial spatial topology of the Universe can imprint potentially observable signatures on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this study, we investigate how deviations fr…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on Local Non-Gaussianity from the ACT Cluster Catalog
Leonid Sarieddine, J. Richard Bond, Matt Hilton +8
We derive constraints on local-type primordial non-Gaussianity using the ACT DR6 Sunyaev--Zel'dovich cluster catalog. Modeling the redshift- and mass-dependent number counts of 1,2…