A quick note to inform regular readers that my Week 40 reviews will likely be cancelled (or in the best case delayed), since this week/weekend will be very busy due to several projects I’m leading finally converging together. “See” you soon!
Top arXiv papers from Week 39, 2020
Top arXiv papers from Week 38, 2020
This week I cover a proposal to confirm the possible Dirac nature of neutrinos exploiting a subtle correlation between cosmological and terrestrial measurements, how to determine the sound horizon and H0 from BAO independently of the details of recombination, and a possible interpretation of the recent detection of the stochastic gravitational wave background at nHz frequencies by NANOGrav as being due to cosmic strings. Enjoy and have a nice weekend!
Top arXiv papers from Week 37, 2020
After a much needed 3-week break in Spain and 2 weeks “at” the Cosmology from Home conference (great talks, great format, great work by the organizers, 5+ stars from my side), the weekly arXiv synopses return! This week I cover the first constraints on small-scale non-Gaussianity from the UV galaxy luminosity function, astrophysical signatures of black holes carrying magnetic charge, and the HMCODE-2020 code for modelling the non-linear matter power spectrum. Enjoy!
Top arXiv papers from Week 31, 2020
End-of-the-week synopses looking at the possibility of directly detecting dark energy fluctuations using anisotropies in gravitational wave luminosity distances, constraints on baryonic effects from the DES Y1 data, and revisiting constraints on the CMB temperature and whether the latter might have some bearings on the H0 tension. A heads-up that this will be the last entry for the next 5 weeks, as I’m going on holiday. Enjoy, and see you again here in mid-September!
Away note 3
As all ordinary mortals, I too need to take holidays, especially this year with all the stuff that’s been going on. Therefore this note is to inform my regular readers that I will be gone for the next 5 weeks, the first 3 of which I plan on spending enjoying the nice playa you see above,* and the next 2 of which I will spend on the Cosmology from Home conference (so virtually away). During these 5 weeks I will take a much needed break from work and from my blog, so my Week 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 arXiv summaries will not appear. I plan to return for Week 37 around September 13, so stay tuned! Until then, happy holidays to those of you who also plan on taking holidays, and if not, enjoy your time and stay safe wherever you are!
