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Relieving tensions related to the lensing of CMB temperature power spectra

The angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies reconstructed from Planck data seem to present too much gravitational lensing distortion. This is quantified by the control parameter $A_L$ that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 F. Couchot , S. Henrot-Versillé , O. Perdereau , S. Plaszczynski , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , M. Spinelli , M. Tristram

Health checkup test of the standard cosmological model in view of recent Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies experiments

We present an updated data-analysis comparison of the most recent observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature anisotropies and polarization angular power spectra released by four different experiments: the Planck satellite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-15 Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Silk

Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Are There Cosmic Microwave Background Anomalies?

(Abridged) A simple six-parameter LCDM model provides a successful fit to WMAP data, both when the data are analyzed alone and in combination with other cosmological data. Even so, it is appropriate to search for any hints of deviations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-11 C. L. Bennett , R. S. Hill , G. Hinshaw , D. Larson , K. M. Smith , J. Dunkley , B. Gold , M. Halpern , N. Jarosik , A. Kogut , E. Komatsu , M. Limon , S. S. Meyer , M. R. Nolta , N. Odegard , L. Page , D. N. Spergel , G. S. Tucker , J. L. Weiland , E. Wollack , E. L. Wright

Probing the primordial Universe from the low-multipole CMB data

Since the temperature fluctuations in cosmic microwave background (CMB) on large-angular scales probe length scales that were super-horizon sized at photon decoupling and hence insensitive to microphysical processes, the low-multipole CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-30 Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Damping Tail from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature power spectrum using data from the recently completed South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) survey. This measurement is made from observations of 2540…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. T. Story , C. L. Reichardt , Z. Hou , R. Keisler , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , J. Dudley , B. Follin , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , O. Zahn

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and $\Lambda$CDM Parameters

We present power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in temperature and polarization, measured from the Data Release 6 maps made from Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data. These cover 19,000 deg$^2$ of sky in bands…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Thibaut Louis , Adrien La Posta , Zachary Atkins , Hidde T. Jense , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Graeme E. Addison , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , Tommy Alford , David Alonso , Mandana Amiri , Rui An , Jason E. Austermann , Eleonora Barbavara , Nicholas Battaglia , Elia Stefano Battistelli , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Ali Beheshti , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Emily Biermann , Boris Bolliet , J Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Valentina Capalbo , Felipe Carrero , Shi-Fan Chen , Grace Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Susan E. Clark , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , William Coulton , Devin Crichton , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dunner , Carmen Embil Villagra , Max Fankhanel , Gerrit S. Farren , Simone Ferraro , Allen Foster , Rodrigo Freundt , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Xavier Garrido , Martina Gerbino , Serena Giardiello , Ajay Gill , Jahmour Givans , Vera Gluscevic , Samuel Goldstein , Joseph E. Golec , Yulin Gong , Yilun Guan , Mark Halpern , Ian Harrison , Matthew Hasselfield , Erin Healy , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , John Hood , Erika Hornecker , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Margaret Ikape , Kent Irwin , Giovanni Isopi , Neha Joshi , Ben Keller , Joshua Kim , Kenda Knowles , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Darby Kramer , Aleksandra Kusiak , Alex Lague , Victoria Lakey , Eunseong Lee , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Martine Lokken , Marius Lungu , Niall MacCrann , Amanda MacInnis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Diego Maldonado , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Gabriela A. Marques , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Fiona McCarthy , Jeff McMahon , Yogesh Mehta , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Thomas W. Morris , Tony Mroczkowski , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Simran K. Nerval , Laura Newburgh , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Scherer , Luca Pagano , Lyman A. Page , Shivam Pandey , Bruce Partridge , Karen Perez Sarmiento , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Frank J. Qu , Damien C. Ragavan , Bernardita Ried Guachalla , Keir K. Rogers , Felipe Rojas , Tai Sakuma , Emmanuel Schaan , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Shabbir Shaikh , Blake D. Sherwin , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristóbal Sifón , Sara Simon , Rita Sonka , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie Storer , Kristen Surrao , Eric R. Switzer , Niklas Tampier , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Cristian Vargas , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Lukas Wenzl , Edward J. Wollack , Kaiwen Zheng

Imprints of a hemispherical power asymmetry in the seven-year WMAP data due to non-commutativity of space-time

Non-commutative geometry at inflation can give arise to parity violating modulations of the primordial power spectrum. We develop the statistical tools needed for investigating whether these modulations are evident in the Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-25 N. E. Groeneboom , M. Axelsson , D. F. Mota , T. Koivisto

WMAP 5-year constraints on fnl with wavelets

We present a Gaussianity analysis of the WMAP 5-year Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy data maps. We use several third order estimators based on the spherical Mexican hat wavelet. We impose constraints on the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 A. Curto , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , P. Mukherjee , R. B. Barreiro , F. K. Hansen , M. Liguori , S. Matarrese

Unveiling acoustic physics of the CMB using nonparametric estimation of the temperature angular power spectrum for Planck

Estimation of the angular power spectrum is one of the important steps in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis. Here, we present a nonparametric estimate of the temperature angular power spectrum for the Planck 2013 CMB data. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Amir Aghamousa , Arman Shafieloo , Mihir Arjunwadkar , Tarun Souradeep

Cosmic Microwave Background and Supernova Constraints on Quintessence: Concordance Regions and Target Models

We perform a detailed comparison of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy with the predictions of quintessence cosmological models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert R. Caldwell , Michael Doran

Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Bayesian Estimation of CMB Polarization Maps

We describe a sampling method to estimate the polarized CMB signal from observed maps of the sky. We use a Metropolis-within-Gibbs algorithm to estimate the polarized CMB map, containing Q and U Stokes parameters at each pixel, and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Dunkley , D. N. Spergel , E. Komatsu , G. Hinshaw , D. Larson , M. R. Nolta , N. Odegard , L. Page , C. L. Bennett , B. Gold , R. S. Hill , N. Jarosik , J. L. Weiland , M. Halpern , A. Kogut , M. Limon , S. S. Meyer , G. S. Tucker , E. Wollack , E. L. Wright

Anisotropic power spectrum and the observed low-l power in PLANCK CMB data

In this work, we study a direction dependent power spectrum in anisotropic Finsler space-time. We use this direction dependent power spectrum to address the low-l power observed in WMAP and PLANCK data. The angular power spectrum of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Zhe Chang , Pranati K. Rath , Yu Sang , Dong Zhao

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collected during the second season of observations (2013-2014) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguilar , Y. Akiba , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , A. Ducout , R. Dünner , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. M. Feeney , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , T. Hamada , G. Hall , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , Y. Segawa , B. D. Sherwin , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , N. Whitehorn , A. Zahn

Cleaned Three-Year WMAP CMB Map: Magnitude of the Quadrupole and Alignment of Large Scale Modes

[Abridged] We have produced a cleaned map of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 3-year data using an improved foreground subtraction technique. We perform an internal linear combination (ILC) to subtract the Galactic foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chan-Gyung Park , Changbom Park , J. Richard Gott

Assessing Consistency Between WMAP 9-year and Planck 2015 Temperature Power Spectra

We perform a comparison of WMAP 9-year (WMAP9) and Planck 2015 cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature power spectra across multipoles $30\leq\ell\leq1200$. We generate simulations to estimate the correlation between the two datasets…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-01 Yajing Huang , Graeme E. Addison , Janet L. Weiland , Charles L. Bennett

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg$^2$ of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lensing potential is reconstructed with signal-to-noise per mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 W. L. K. Wu , L. M. Mocanu , P. A. R. Ade , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , A. Manzotti , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , C. Sievers , G. Simard , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko

Planck intermediate results. LI. Features in the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum and shifts in cosmological parameters

The six parameters of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model have best-fit values derived from the Planck temperature power spectrum that are shifted somewhat from the best-fit values derived from WMAP data. These shifts are driven by features in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Planck Collaboration , N. Aghanim , Y. Akrami , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , C. Burigana , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Challinor , H. C. Chiang , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , E. Di Valentino , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , O. Doré , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , Y. Fantaye , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , T. S. Kisner , L. Knox , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , F. Levrier , A. Lewis , P. B. Lilje , M. Lilley , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , Y. -Z. Ma , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , N. Mauri , J. D. McEwen , P. R. Meinhold , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , M. Millea , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , A. Moss , A. Narimani , P. Natoli , C. A. Oxborrow , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , L. Patrizii , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , B. Racine , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Ruiz-Granados , L. Salvati , M. Sandri , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , T. Trombetti , J. Valiviita , F. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , M. White , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Dark Energy Induced Correlation with Radio Sources

The first-year WMAP data, in combination with any one of a number of other cosmic probes, show that we live in a flat \Lambda-dominated CDM universe with \Omega_m ~ 0.27 and \Omega_\Lambda ~ 0.73. In this model the late-time action of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. R. Nolta , E. L. Wright , L. Page , C. L. Bennett , M. Halpern , G. Hinshaw , N. Jarosik , A. Kogut , M. Limon , S. S. Meyer , D. N. Spergel , G. S. Tucker , E. Wollack

Large Scale Plane-Mirroring in the Cosmic Microwave Background WMAP5 Maps

We continue investigation of the hidden plane-mirror symmetry in the distribution of excursion sets in cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy maps, previously noticed in the three-year data of the Wilkinson microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. G. Gurzadyan , A. A. Starobinsky , T. Ghahramanyan , A. L. Kashin , H. Khachatryan , H. Kuloghlian , D. Vetrugno , G. Yegorian

A Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of the Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background

We report on a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background. The anisotropy is measured in 23 different multipole bands from l=54 (~3 deg) to l=404 (~0.45 deg) and in 6 frequency bands from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. B. Netterfield , M. J. Devlin , N. Jarosik , L. Page , E. J. Wollack