Astrophysical: Cosmic background radiation

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    Euclid preparation: XLVI. The near-infrared background dipole experiment with Euclid
    Verifying the fully kinematic nature of the long-known cosmic microwave background (CMB) dipole is of fundamental importance in cosmology. In the standard...
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    Evidence for a high-z ISW signal from supervoids in the distribution of eBOSS quasars
    The late-time integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) imprint of $R\gtrsim 100~h^{-1}\, \mathrm{Mpc}$ superstructures is sourced by evolving large-scale potentials due to...
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    Evidence of a truncated spectrum in the angular correlation function of the cosmic microwave background
    Aim. The lack of large-angle correlations in the fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) conflicts with predictions of slow-roll inflation. But...
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    Foreground Contributions to 0.2-2° CMB Anisotropies
    We examine the extent to which galactic and extragalactic foregrounds can hamper the detection of primordial Cosmic Microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. We...
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    Improved CMB anisotropy constraints on primordial magnetic fields from the post-recombination ionization history
    We investigate the impact of a stochastic background of primordial magnetic fields (PMF) generated before recombination on the ionization history of the...
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    MAGIC Discovery of Very High Energy Emission from the FSRQ PKS 1222+21
    Very high energy (VHE) γ-ray emission from the flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) PKS 1222+21 (4C 21.35, z = 0.432) was detected with the MAGIC Cherenkov...
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    MAGIC observations of the February 2014 flare of 1ES 1011+496 and ensuing constraint of the EBL density
    Context. During February-March 2014, the MAGIC telescopes observed the high-frequency peaked BL Lac 1ES 1011+496 (z = 0.212) in flaring state at very-high...
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    Missing large-angle correlations versus even-odd point-parity imbalance in the cosmic microwave background
    Context. The existence of a maximum correlation angle (θ max ≳ 60°) in the two-point angular temperature correlations of cosmic microwave background (CMB)...
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    More out of less: an excess integrated Sachs-Wolfe signal from supervoids mapped out by the Dark Energy Survey
    The largest structures in the cosmic web probe the dynamical nature of dark energy through their integrated Sachs-Wolfe imprints. In the strength of the signal...