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astro-ph.CO2026

A practical theorem on gravitational-wave background statistics

Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

Inspiralling supermassive black-hole binaries (SMBHBs) are expected to be the main source of the nanohertz gravitational-wave background (GWB) targeted by pulsar timing arrays (PTA…

gr-qc2026

Addressing leakage and mode suppression in angular power spectrum estimation for gravitational-wave backgrounds using pulsar timing arrays

Deepali Agarwal, Joseph D. Romano, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud +1

Mapping gravitational-wave background (GWB) anisotropy with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is affected by harmonic-space mode suppression and mode coupling arising from an array's non…

astro-ph.CO2025

Efficient analytic approximation for small-scale non-cold relic perturbations

Nanoom Lee, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Marc Kamionkowski

We develop a highly accurate analytic approximation for small-scale non-cold relic perturbations by solving the collisionless Boltzmann equation in the quasi-stationary regime. The…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 10 cited

Exact treatment of weak dark matter-baryon scattering for linear-cosmology observables

Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Suroor Seher Gandhi, Tristan L. Smith

Elastic scattering of dark matter (DM) particles with baryons induce cosmological signals that may be detectable with modern or future telescopes. For DM-baryon scattering cross se…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 5 cited

Numerical solution of the exact background collisional Boltzmann equation for dark matter-baryon scattering

Suroor Seher Gandhi, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

Linear cosmological observables can be used to probe elastic scattering of dark matter (DM) with baryons. Availability of high-precision data requires a critical reassessment of an…

hep-ph2022★ 45 cited

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper:Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter

Simeon Bird, Andrea Albert, Will Dawson +13

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are a viable candidate to comprise some or all of the dark matter and provide a unique window into the high-energy physics of the early universe. This…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 87 cited

Cosmology Intertwined IV: The Age of the Universe and its Curvature

Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +88

A precise measurement of the curvature of the Universe is of primeval importance for cosmology since it could not only confirm the paradigm of primordial inflation but also help in…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 454 cited

Cosmology Intertwined III: and

Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +89

The standard Cold Dark Matter cosmological model provides a wonderful fit to current cosmological data, but a few tensions and anomalies became statistically significant with t…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 10 cited

New Horizons in Cosmology with Spectral Distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background

J. Chluba, M. H. Abitbol, N. Aghanim +27

Voyage 2050 White Paper highlighting the unique science opportunities using spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). CMB spectral distortions probe many proce…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 39 cited

Microwave Spectro-Polarimetry of Matter and Radiation across Space and Time

Jacques Delabrouille, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Nabila Aghanim +77

This paper discusses the science case for a sensitive spectro-polarimetric survey of the microwave sky. Such a survey would provide a tomographic and dynamic census of the three-di…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 8 cited

CMB constraints on ultra-light primordial black holes with extended mass distributions

Harry Poulter, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Jan Hamann +2

We examine the effects ultra-light primordial black holes (PBHs) have on the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). PBHs in the mass range of to …

astro-ph.CO2019★ 1 cited

Spectral Distortions of the CMB as a Probe of Inflation, Recombination, Structure Formation and Particle Physics

J. Chluba, A. Kogut, S. P. Patil +98

Following the pioneering observations with COBE in the early 1990s, studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have focused on temperature and polarization anisotropies. CMB…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 6 cited

Astro2020 Science White Paper: Insights Into the Epoch of Reionization with the Highly-Redshifted 21-cm Line

Steven Furlanetto, Chris L. Carilli, Jordan Mirocha +47

The epoch of reionization, when photons from early galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium about a billion years after the Big Bang, is the last major phase transition in the Uni…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 5 cited

Astro2020 Science White Paper: Synergies Between Galaxy Surveys and Reionization Measurements

Steven Furlanetto, Adam Beardsley, Chris L. Carilli +47

The early phases of galaxy formation constitute one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics. It is during this era that the first luminous sources reionize the intergalactic…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 3 cited

Cosmology with the Highly Redshifted 21cm Line

Adrian Liu, James Aguirre, Yacine Ali-Haimoud +47

In addition to being a probe of Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization astrophysics, the 21cm line at is also a powerful way to constrain cosmology. Its power derives from sev…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 4 cited

Astro2020 Science White Paper: First Stars and Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn with Redshifted 21-cm Observations

Jordan Mirocha, Daniel Jacobs, Josh Dillon +39

The "cosmic dawn" refers to the period of the Universe's history when stars and black holes first formed and began heating and ionizing hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM).…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 21 cited

Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Fundamental Cosmology in the Dark Ages with 21-cm Line Fluctuations

Steven Furlanetto, Judd D. Bowman, Jordan Mirocha +43

The Dark Ages are the period between the last scattering of the cosmic microwave background and the appearance of the first luminous sources, spanning approximately 1100 < z < 30.…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 21 cited

Electromagnetic probes of primordial black holes as dark matter

Y. Ali-Haimoud, S. Clesse, J. Garcia-Bellido +91

The LIGO discoveries have rekindled suggestions that primordial black holes (BHs) may constitute part to all of the dark matter (DM) in the Universe. Such suggestions came from 1)…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 6 cited

Mapping Cosmic Dawn and Reionization: Challenges and Synergies

Marcelo A. Alvarez, Anastasia Fialkov, Paul La Plante +47

Cosmic dawn and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are among the least explored observational eras in cosmology: a time at which the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 6 cited

Cosmic Dawn and Reionization: Astrophysics in the Final Frontier

Asantha Cooray, James Aguirre, Yacine Ali-Haimoud +71

The cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization mark the time period in the universe when stars, galaxies, and blackhole seeds first formed and the intergalactic medium changed from neut…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 31 cited

Probing the Fundamental Nature of Dark Matter with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Alex Drlica-Wagner, Yao-Yuan Mao, Susmita Adhikari +97

Astrophysical and cosmological observations currently provide the only robust, empirical measurements of dark matter. Future observations with Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 25 cited

Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck formalism for dark-matter--baryon scattering

Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

Linear-cosmology observables, such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), or the large-scale distribution of matter, have long been used as clean probes of dark matter (DM) inte…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 7 cited

The ultimate frontier of 21cm cosmology

Patrick C. Breysse, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Christopher M. Hirata

We present the most detailed computation to date of the 21-cm global signal and fluctuations at . Our calculations include a highly precise estimate of the Wouthuysen…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 110 cited

The State-of-Play of Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME) Research

Clive Dickinson, Y. Ali-Haïmoud, A. Barr +30

Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME) is a component of diffuse Galactic radiation observed at frequencies in the range -60 GHz. AME was first detected in 1996 and recogni…