ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 04 07 20 8 v 1 1 0 Ju l 2 00 4 Cosmic microwave background constraints on the strong equivalence principle

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 04 06 67 0 v 1 2 9 Ju n 20 04 Inflation After WMAP

I examine the status of inflationary cosmology in light of the first-year data from the WMAP satellite, focusing on the simplest models of inflation: those driven by a single scalar field. The WMAP observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background is the first unified, self-consistent data set capable of putting meaningful constraints on the inflationary parameter space. WMAP provides significant ...

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 02 12 56 6 v 1 3 0 D ec 2 00 2 Dark Energy : Is it Q or Λ ?

New observations of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies, Su-pernovae luminosity distances and Galaxy Clustering are sharpening our knowledge about dark energy. Here we present the latest constraints.

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 04 10 41 3 v 1 1 8 O ct 2 00 4 Quantum - Gravity phenomenology and high energy particle propagation

Quantum-gravity effects may introduce relevant consequences for the propagation and interaction of high energy cosmic rays particles. Assuming the space-time foamy structure results in an intrinsic uncertainty of energy and momentum of particles, we show how low energy (under GZK) observations can provide strong constraints on the role of the fluctuating space-time structure.

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 04 07 23 2 v 1 1 2 Ju l 2 00 4 B The Saas Fee Lectures on Strong Gravitational Lensing

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 04 10 14 0 v 1 6 O ct 2 00 4 Nonparametric Inference for the Cosmic Microwave Background

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which permeates the entire Universe, is the radiation left over from just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. On very large scales, the CMB radiation field is smooth and isotropic, but the existence of structure in the Universe – stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, . . . – suggests that the field should fluctuate on smaller scales. Recent observations, fr...