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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dick, Jason

Titel

Constraining dark energy and inflation: Parameter estimation with CMB and supernovae

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this dissertation I describe three separate research projects, each of which revolves around a central theme: using Monte Carlo simulations to better understand what the data tell us about certain properties of the universe. The first project involves the development of a novel parameterization of dark energy designed to answer the question as to whether or not dark energy is a constant in a theory-independent manner. The second project is a re-analysis of the 3-year WMAP data using a Blackwell-Rao estimator with Gibbs sampling. The third project consists of simulations of the first year of data from the South Pole Telescope as it relates to constraining the CMB temperature anisotropies.