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Certain Uncertainties: Methods for Accurate Error Estimation in the ACT DR6 Cosmology Results
Certain Uncertainties: Methods for Accurate Error Estimation in the ACT DR6 Cosmology Results
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105138
- ISBN
- 9798293899418
- DDC
- 523
- 서명/저자
- Certain Uncertainties: Methods for Accurate Error Estimation in the ACT DR6 Cosmology Results
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Princeton University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 296 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-04, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Dunkley, Jo.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Remarkable theoretical and experimental progress has been made within the field of cosmology since the development of General Relativity just over 100 years ago. Measurements of the expanding Universe, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and large-scale structure have led to a concordant theoretical model, Lambda-Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM). However, fundamental questions about ΛCDM remain, notably the dominance of dark energy and dark matter in the Universe today.This thesis focuses on measurements of the CMB made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) as part of its last data release, DR6. Two principal measurements made with DR6 CMB maps are the CMB primary and lensing power spectra. A central aspect of those analyses is understanding the map noise properties, and efficiently and accurately modeling them. We present a rigorous noise modeling framework that can reproduce the nontrivial noise properties induced by the atmosphere and telescope scan strategy. This framework served as the basis for the primary and lensing power spectra covariance matrices.We then focus on the primary power spectrum covariance matrix. We distinguish between the full forward model of the DR6 data, and the simplifications required to construct an approximate, analytic covariance matrix. We find the covariance matrix prescription used in past ACT analyses can be generalized to account for the inhomogeneous noise distribution in the maps, yielding a new prescription similar to that of Planck. We show that our new prescription significantly outperforms the previous one used in ACT, and we develop a new method of using simulations to correct both the new and previous analytic covariance matrices, achieving percent-level accuracy in either case.We conclude by deriving additional contributions to the DR6 power spectrum covariance beyond cosmic variance and noise, including systematics and non-Gaussian foregrounds, paying particular attention to the assumptions necessary to construct these contributions. We present a related development of a new method to parametrically measure residual systematics between subsets of the ACT DR6 data, which helped define the range of angular scales included in the public DR6 power spectra. Finally, we highlight DR6 cosmological results, which tighten constraints on many proposed extensions to ΛCDM.
- 일반주제명
- Astrophysics
- 일반주제명
- Astronomy
- 일반주제명
- Particle physics
- 일반주제명
- Atmospheric sciences
- 키워드
- Cosmology
- 키워드
- Geometry
- 기타저자
- Princeton University Physics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-04B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0181.
■650 4▼aAstrophysics
■650 4▼aAstronomy
■650 4▼aParticle physics
■650 4▼aAtmospheric sciences
■653 ▼aCosmic microwave background
■653 ▼aCosmology
■653 ▼aLambda-Cold Dark Matter
■653 ▼aGeometry
■653 ▼aLensing power spectrum
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