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The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has mapped the full sky in Stokes I, Q, and U parameters at frequencies 23, 33, 41, 61, and 94 GHz. We detect correlations between the temperature and polarization maps significant at more…

We present a high-significance cross-correlation of CMB lensing maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) with spectroscopically calibrated luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

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

We describe the measurement of the beam profiles and window functions for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), which operated from 2007 to 2010 with kilo-pixel bolometer arrays centered at 148, 218, and 277 GHz. Maps of Saturn are used to…

The overall cosmological parameter tension between the Atacama Cosmology Telescope 2020 (ACT) and Planck 2018 data within the concordance cosmological model is quantified using the suspiciousness statistic to be 2.6$\sigma$. Between ACT and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 Will Handley , Pablo Lemos

We present a new method to estimate three-point correlations in Cosmic Microwave Background maps. Our Fast Fourier Transform based implementation estimates three-point functions using all possible configurations (triangles) at a controlled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gang Chen , Istvan Szapudi

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the South Pole Telescope (SPT) have recently provided new and precise measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy damping tail. This region of the CMB angular spectra, thanks to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-08 Andrea Marchini , Alessandro Melchiorri , Valentina Salvatelli , Luca Pagano

We present an extensive frequentist analysis of the one-point statistics (number, mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis) and two-point correlation functions determined for the local extrema of the cosmic microwave background temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-22 Zhen Hou , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski

Recent results of the ESA Planck satellite have confirmed the existence of some anomalies in the statistical distribution of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. One of the most intriguing anomalies is the Cold Spot, firstly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Fernández-Cobos , P. Vielva , E. Martínez-González , M. Tucci , M. Cruz

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mapped the distribution of temperature and polarization over the entire sky in five microwave frequency bands. These full-sky maps were used to obtain measurements of temperature and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Eiichiro Komatsu , Charles L. Bennett

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background to search for and characterize the polarized signature of inflation. CLASS will operate from the Atacama Desert and observe…

We present a CMB temperature power spectrum measurement at large angular scales from WMAP and Planck maps that were cleaned of foregrounds using a template-based approach described in a companion paper. We recover essentially the full-sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Hayley C. Nofi , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett , Laura Herold , J. L. Weiland

Fluctuating atmospheric emission is a dominant source of noise for ground-based millimeter-wave observations of the CMB temperature anisotropy at angular scales $\gtrsim 0.5^{\circ}$. We present a model of the atmosphere as a discrete set…

We present the two- and three-point real space correlation functions of the five-year WMAP sky maps, and compare the observed functions to simulated LCDM concordance model ensembles. In agreement with previously published results, we find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-23 E. Gjerløw , H. K. Eriksen , A. J. Banday , K. M. Górski , P. B. Lilje

WMAP observations have accurately determined the position of the first two peaks and dips in the CMB temperature power spectrum. These encode information on the ratio of the distance to the last scattering surface to the sound horizon at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Alessandro Melchiorri

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

[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

Using an optimal estimator for the CMB Angular Power Spectrum we compute the temperature two-point correlation function of WMAP 9 year at low resolution. Supported by realistic Monte-Carlo simulations, we evaluate how such observed function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Gruppuso