BICEP2 / Keck Array VI: Improved Constraints On Cosmology and Foregrounds When Adding 95 GHz Data From Keck Array
Abstract
We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2 & Keck Array CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2014 observing season. This includes the first Keck Array observations at 95 GHz. The maps reach a depth of 50 nK deg in Stokes and in the 150 GHz band and 127 nK deg in the 95 GHz band. We take auto- and cross-spectra between these maps and publicly available maps from WMAP and Planck at frequencies from 23 GHz to 353 GHz. An excess over lensed-LCDM is detected at modest significance in the 95x150 spectrum, and is consistent with the dust contribution expected from our previous work. No significant evidence for synchrotron emission is found in spectra such as 23x95, or for correlation between the dust and synchrotron sky patterns in spectra such as 23x353. We take the likelihood of all the spectra for a multi-component model including lensed-LCDM, dust, synchrotron and a possible contribution from inflationary gravitational waves (as parametrized by the tensor-to-scalar ratio ), using priors on the frequency spectral behaviors of dust and synchrotron emission from previous analyses of WMAP and Planck data in other regions of the sky. This analysis yields an upper limit at 95% confidence, which is robust to variations explored in analysis and priors. Combining these -mode results with the (more model-dependent) constraints from Planck analysis of CMB temperature plus BAO and other data, yields a combined limit at 95% confidence. These are the strongest constraints to date on inflationary gravitational waves.
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@article{arxiv.1510.09217,
title = {BICEP2 / Keck Array VI: Improved Constraints On Cosmology and Foregrounds When Adding 95 GHz Data From Keck Array},
author = {Keck Array and BICEP2 Collaborations and : and P. A. R. Ade and Z. Ahmed and R. W. Aikin and K. D. Alexander and D. Barkats and S. J. Benton and C. A. Bischoff and J. J. Bock and R. Bowens-Rubin and J. A. Brevik and I. Buder and E. Bullock and V. Buza and J. Connors and B. P. Crill and L. Duband and C. Dvorkin and J. P. Filippini and S. Fliescher and J. Grayson and M. Halpern and S. Harrison and G. C. Hilton and H. Hui and K. D. Irwin and K. S. Karkare and E. Karpel and J. P. Kaufman and B. G. Keating and S. Kefeli and S. A. Kernasovskiy and J. M. Kovac and C. L. Kuo and E. M. Leitch and M. Lueker and K. G. Megerian and C. B. Netterfield and H. T. Nguyen and R. O'Brient and R. W. Ogburn and A. Orlando and C. Pryke and S. Richter and R. Schwarz and C. D. Sheehy and Z. K. Staniszewski and B. Steinbach and R. V. Sudiwala and G. P. Teply and K. L. Thompson and J. E. Tolan and C. Tucker and A. D. Turner and A. G. Vieregg and A. C. Weber and D. V. Wiebe and J. Willmert and C. L. Wong and W. L. K. Wu and K. W. Yoon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.09217},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
17 pages, 18 figures, minor updates to reflect accepted version, data and figures available for download at http://bicepkeck.org/