4 papers
What could an emerging Big Bang Nucleosynthesis discrepancy be hinting at?
Vivian Poulin, Julien Froustey, Cyril Pitrou +1
The latest measurement of the primordial deuterium abundance is in tension with several state-of-the-art predictions of standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), when usi…
The Status of Gravitational Vector Perturbations with Recent CMB Data
Ali Rida Khalife, Cyril Pitrou
We present new constraints on gravitational vector perturbations (-modes) using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, including temperature and -mode polarization…
Fifty shades of grayness: parametrizations of spectral distortions and applications in cosmology
Gabriela Barenboim, Julien Froustey, Cyril Pitrou +1
Thermal distribution functions can only be of the Fermi-Dirac or Bose-Einstein types, whereas distorted spectra encompass any possible deviations from these shapes. It is fruitful…
Primordial neutrinos fade to gray: constraints from cosmological observables
Gabriela Barenboim, Julien Froustey, Cyril Pitrou +1
We investigate the effect of potentially large distortions of the relic neutrino spectra on cosmological observables. To that end, we consider a phenomenological model of "gray" sp…