We present MultiModeCode, a Fortran 95/2000 package for the numerical exploration of multifield inflation models. This program facilitates efficient Monte Carlo sampling of prior probabilities for inflationary model parameters and initial conditions and is the first pub...

Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures. v3: matches version published in JCAP; formatting changes and single typo correction only. Code available from http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~smf/code.html

Comment: 35 pages + references, 26 figures. Submitted to JCAP. v2: Acknowledgments updates, no other changes

PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) was proposed to ESA in May 2013 as a large-class mission for investigating within the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision program a set of important scientific questions that require high resolution, high sensi...

Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures, small changes to match journal accepted version

Comment: 52 pages, 23 figures. A four page summary of methods and results follows the introduction. Version 2 contains minor clarifications and edits to match the version accepted for publication by JCAP. Version 3 fixes a typo in Eq. 3.10 and a typo in the paragraph af...

Comment: 23 pages, 4 figures. Minor changes to match version published in JCAP

Comment: 35 pages, 17 figures

Even simple inflationary scenarios have many free parameters. Beyond the variables appearing in the inflationary action, these include dynamical initial conditions, the number of fields, and couplings to other sectors. These quantities are often ignored but cosmological...

We use cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the 9-year WMAP release to derive constraints on monodromy inflation, which is characterized by a linear inflaton potential with a periodic modulation. We identify two possible periodic modulations that significantly im...