Observing the Evolution of the Universe
Abstract
How did the universe evolve? The fine angular scale (l>1000) temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB are a Rosetta stone for understanding the evolution of the universe. Through detailed measurements one may address everything from the physics of the birth of the universe to the history of star formation and the process by which galaxies formed. One may in addition track the evolution of the dark energy and discover the net neutrino mass. We are at the dawn of a new era in which hundreds of square degrees of sky can be mapped with arcminute resolution and sensitivities measured in microKelvin. Acquiring these data requires the use of special purpose telescopes such as the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), located in Chile, and the South Pole Telescope (SPT). These new telescopes are outfitted with a new generation of custom mm-wave kilo-pixel arrays. Additional instruments are in the planning stages.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.0902,
title = {Observing the Evolution of the Universe},
author = {James Aguirre and Alexandre Amblard and Amjad Ashoorioon and Carlo Baccigalupi and Amedeo Balbi and James Bartlett and Nicola Bartolo and Dominic Benford and Mark Birkinshaw and Jamie Bock and Dick Bond and Julian Borrill and Franois Bouchet and Michael Bridges and Emory Bunn and Erminia Calabrese and Christopher Cantalupo and Ana Caramete and Carmelita Carbone and Suchetana Chatterjee and Sarah Church and David Chuss and Carlo Contaldi and Asantha Cooray and Sudeep Das and Francesco De Bernardis and Paolo De Bernardis and Gianfranco De Zotti and Jacques Delabrouille and F. -Xavier Dsert and Mark Devlin and Clive Dickinson and Simon Dicker and Matt Dobbs and Scott Dodelson and Olivier Dore and Jessie Dotson and Joanna Dunkley and Maria Cristina Falvella and Dale Fixsen and Pablo Fosalba and Joseph Fowler and Evalyn Gates and Walter Gear and Sunil Golwala and Krzysztof Gorski and Alessandro Gruppuso and Josh Gundersen and Mark Halpern and Shaul Hanany and Masashi Hazumi and Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo and Mark Hertzberg and Gary Hinshaw and Christopher Hirata and Eric Hivon and Warren Holmes and William Holzapfel and Wayne Hu and Johannes Hubmayr and Kevin Huffenberger and Kent Irwin and Mark Jackson and Andrew Jaffe and Bradley Johnson and William Jones and Manoj Kaplinghat and Brian Keating and Reijo Keskitalo and Justin Khoury and Will Kinney and Theodore Kisner and Lloyd Knox and Alan Kogut and Eiichiro Komatsu and Arthur Kosowsky and John Kovac and Lawrence Krauss and Hannu Kurki-Suonio and Susana Landau and Charles Lawrence and Samuel Leach and Adrian Lee and Erik Leitch and Rodrigo Leonardi and Julien Lesgourgues and Andrew Liddle and Eugene Lim and Michele Limon and Marilena Loverde and Philip Lubin and Antonio Magalhaes and Davide Maino and Tobias Marriage and Victoria Martin and Sabino Matarrese and John Mather and Harsh Mathur and Tomotake Matsumura and Pieter Meerburg and Alessandro Melchiorri and Stephan Meyer and Amber Miller and Michael Milligan and Kavilan Moodley and Michael Neimack and Hogan Nguyen and Ian O'Dwyer and Angiola Orlando and Luca Pagano and Lyman Page and Bruce Partridge and Timothy Pearson and Hiranya Peiris and Francesco Piacentini and Lucio Piccirillo and Elena Pierpaoli and Davide Pietrobon and Giampaolo Pisano and Levon Pogosian and Dmitri Pogosyan and Nicolas Ponthieu and Lucia Popa and Clement Pryke and Christoph Raeth and Subharthi Ray and Christian Reichardt and Sara Ricciardi and Paul Richards and Graca Rocha and Lawrence Rudnick and John Ruhl and Benjamin Rusholme and Claudia Scoccola and Douglas Scott and Carolyn Sealfon and Neelima Sehgal and Michael Seiffert and Leonardo Senatore and Paolo Serra and Sarah Shandera and Meir Shimon and Peter Shirron and Jonathan Sievers and Kris Sigurdson and Joe Silk and Robert Silverberg and Eva Silverstein and Suzanne Staggs and Albert Stebbins and Federico Stivoli and Radek Stompor and Naoshi Sugiyama and Daniel Swetz and Andria Tartari and Max Tegmark and Peter Timbie and Matthieu Tristram and Gregory Tucker and Jon Urrestilla and John Vaillancourt and Marcella Veneziani and Licia Verde and Joaquin Vieira and Scott Watson and Benjamin Wandelt and Grant Wilson and Edward Wollack and Mark Wyman and Amit Yadav and Giraud-Heraud Yannick and Olivier Zahn and Matias Zaldarriaga and Michael Zemcov and Jonathan Zwart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0902},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Science White Paper submitted to the US Astro2010 Decadal Survey. Full list of 177 author available at http://cmbpol.uchicago.edu