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Impact of Self-shielding Minihalos on the Ly Forest at High Redshift
Hyunbae Park, Zarija Lukić, Jean Sexton +2
Dense gas in minihalos with masses of can shield themselves from reionization for Myr after being exposed to the UV background. These self-shielded sy…
Data Preservation for Cosmology
Marcelo Alvarez, Stephen Bailey, Deborah Bard +9
We describe the needs and opportunities for preserving cosmology datasets and simulations, and facilitating their joint analysis beyond the lifetime of individual projects. We reco…
Snowmass 2021 CMB-S4 White Paper
Kevork Abazajian, Arwa Abdulghafour, Graeme E. Addison +353
This Snowmass 2021 White Paper describes the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 project CMB-S4, which is designed to cross critical thresholds in our understanding of the origin a…
AMBER: A Semi-numerical Abundance Matching Box for the Epoch of Reionization
Hy Trac, Nianyi Chen, Ian Holst +2
The Abundance Matching Box for the Epoch of Reionization (AMBER) is a semi-numerical code for modeling the cosmic dawn. The new algorithm is not based on the excursion set formalis…
Constraining Cluster Virialization Mechanism and Cosmology using Thermal-SZ-selected clusters from Future CMB Surveys
Srinivasan Raghunathan, Nathan Whitehorn, Marcelo A. Alvarez +7
We forecast the number of galaxy clusters that can be detected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) signals by future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, primarily th…
CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves
S4 Collaboration, Kevork Abazajian, Graeme E. Addison +233
CMB-S4---the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment---is set to significantly advance the sensitivity of CMB measurements and enhance our underst…
Mitigating the optical depth degeneracy using the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with CMB-S4
Marcelo A. Alvarez, Simone Ferraro, J. Colin Hill +2
The epoch of reionization is one of the major phase transitions in the history of the universe, and is a focus of ongoing and upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments…
The Websky Extragalactic CMB Simulations
George Stein, Marcelo A. Alvarez, J. Richard Bond +2
We present a new pipeline for the efficient generation of synthetic observations of the extragalactic microwave sky, tailored to large ground-based CMB experiments such as the Simo…
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…
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…
Tomography of the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Eras with Multiple Tracers
Tzu-Ching Chang, Angus Beane, Olivier Dore +41
The Cosmic Dawn and Reionization epochs remain a fundamental but challenging frontier of astrophysics and cosmology. We advocate a large-scale, multi-tracer approach to develop a c…
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…
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…
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 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.…
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…
The mass-Peak Patch algorithm for fast generation of deep all-sky dark matter halo catalogues and its N-Body validation
George Stein, Marcelo A. Alvarez, J. Richard Bond
We present a detailed description and validation of our massively-parallel update to the mass-Peak Patch method, a fully predictive initial-space algorithm to quickly generate dark…
The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…
Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices III: Bispectrum
Manuel Colavincenzo, Emiliano Sefusatti, Pierluigi Monaco +19
We compare the measurements of the bispectrum and the estimate of its covariance obtained from a set of different methods for the efficient generation of approximate dark matter ha…
Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices II: Power spectrum multipoles
Linda Blot, Martin Crocce, Emiliano Sefusatti +19
We study the accuracy of several approximate methods for gravitational dynamics in terms of halo power spectrum multipoles and their estimated covariance matrix. We propagate the d…
Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices I: correlation function
Martha Lippich, Ariel G. Sánchez, Manuel Colavincenzo +19
This paper is the first in a set that analyses the covariance matrices of clustering statistics obtained from several approximate methods for gravitational structure formation. We…
Density profiles of ultracompact minihalos: Implications for constraining the primordial power spectrum
M. Sten Delos, Adrienne L. Erickcek, Avery P. Bailey +1
Enhanced density fluctuations on small scales would lead to the formation of numerous dark matter minihalos, so limits on the minihalo abundance can place upper bounds on the small…
Are ultracompact minihalos really ultracompact?
M. Sten Delos, Adrienne L. Erickcek, Avery P. Bailey +1
Ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) have emerged as a valuable probe of the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations at small scales. UCMHs are expected to form at early times…
The Impact of baryonic physics on the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
Hyunbae Park, Marcelo A. Alvarez, J. Richard Bond
Poorly understood "baryonic physics" impacts our ability to predict the power spectrum of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. We study this in one sample high resolution s…