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Planck 2013 results. XII. Component separation

Planck has produced detailed all-sky observations over nine frequency bands between 30 and 857 GHz. These observations allow robust reconstruction of the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature fluctuations over nearly the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Planck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , C. Armitage-Caplan , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , F. Atrio-Barandela , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. Bobin , J. J. Bock , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bridges , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , R. -R. Chary , X. Chen , L. -Y Chiang , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , S. Church , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , M. Cruz , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , F. -X. Désert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , J. Dunkley , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , K. Ganga , M. Giard , G. Giardino , Y. Giraud-Héraud , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , W. Hovest , G. Huey , K. M. Huffenberger , T. R. Jaffe , A. H. Jaffe , J. Jewell , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , L. Knox , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , A. Lähteenmäki , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , R. J. Laureijs , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , S. Leach , J. P. Leahy , R. Leonardi , J. Lesgourgues , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Marcos-Caballero , M. Maris , D. J. Marshall , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , F. Matthai , P. Mazzotta , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , K. Mikkelsen , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , A. Moss , D. Munshi , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , I. J. O'Dwyer , S. Osborne , C. A. Oxborrow , F. Paci , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , P. Platania , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , L. Popa , T. Poutanen , G. W. Pratt , G. Prézeau , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , W. T. Reach , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , S. Ricciardi , T. Riller , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , M. Rowan-Robinson , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , E. Salerno , M. Sandri , D. Santos , G. Savini , F. Schiavon , D. Scott , M. D. Seiffert , E. P. S. Shellard , L. D. Spencer , J. -L. Starck , R. Stompor , R. Sudiwala , R. Sunyaev , F. Sureau , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , M. Türler , G. Umana , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , J. Varis , M. Viel , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , A. Wilkinson , J. -Q. Xia , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

A Consistent View of Interacting Dark Energy from Multiple CMB Probes

We analyze a cosmological model featuring an interaction between dark energy and dark matter in light of the measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background released by three independent experiments: the most recent data by the Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-13 Yuejia Zhai , William Giarè , Carsten van de Bruck , Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena , Rafael C. Nunes

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Beam Measurements and the Microwave Brightness Temperatures of Uranus and Saturn

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Matthew Hasselfield , Kavilan Moodley , J. Richard Bond , Sudeep Das , Mark J. Devlin , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dunner , Joseph W. Fowler , Patricio Gallardo , Megan B. Gralla , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Adam D. Hincks , Tobias A. Marriage , Danica Marsden , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Jon Sievers , Suzanne T. Staggs , Daniel S. Swetz , Eric R. Switzer , Edward J. Wollack

Cross-correlation of Planck CMB Lensing and CFHTLenS Galaxy Weak Lensing Maps

We cross-correlate cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing and galaxy weak lensing maps using the Planck 2013 and 2015 data and the 154 deg^2 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). This measurement probes large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Jia Liu , J. Colin Hill

A CMB lensing mass map and its correlation with the cosmic infrared background

We use a temperature map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) obtained using the South Pole Telescope at 150 GHz to construct a map of the gravitational convergence to z ~ 1100, revealing the fluctuations in the projected mass density.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. P. Holder , M. P. Viero , O. Zahn , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , S. Bhattacharya , L. E. Bleem , J. Bock , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , A. Conley , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , J. Dudley , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , G. Marsden , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , B. Schulz , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , M. Zemcov

Consistency of cosmic microwave background temperature measurements in three frequency bands in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

We present an internal consistency test of South Pole Telescope (SPT) measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy using three-band data from the SPT-SZ survey. These measurements are made from observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-30 L. M. Mocanu , T. M. Crawford , K. Aylor , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , R. Chown , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. B. Everett , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Luong-Van , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , Y. Omori , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , W. L. K. Wu

ACTPol: A polarization-sensitive receiver for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

The six-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile was built to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at arcminute angular scales. We are building a new polarization sensitive receiver for ACT (ACTPol). ACTPol will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. D. Niemack , P. A. R. Ade , J. Aguirre , F. Barrientos , J. A. Beall , J. R. Bond , J. Britton , H. M. Cho , S. Das , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , J. Dunkley , R. Dunner , J. W. Fowler , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. C. Hilton , M. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , J. P. Hughes , L. Infante , K. D. Irwin , N. Jarosik , J. Klein , A. Kosowsky , T. A. Marriage , J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , K. Moodley , J. P. Nibarger , M. R. Nolta , L. A. Page , B. Partridge , E. D. Reese , J. Sievers , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , R. Thornton , C. Tucker , E. Wollack , K. W. Yoon

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT): Beam Profiles and First SZ Cluster Maps

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is currently observing the cosmic microwave background with arcminute resolution at 148 GHz, 218 GHz, and 277 GHz. In this paper, we present ACT's first results. Data have been analyzed using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 A. D. Hincks , V. Acquaviva , P. Ade , P. Aguirre , M. Amiri , J. W. Appel , L. F. Barrientos , E. S. Battistelli , J. R. Bond , B. Brown , B. Burger , J. Chervenak , S. Das , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , W. B. Doriese , J. Dunkley , R. Dünner , T. Essinger-Hileman , R. P. Fisher , J. W. Fowler , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , G. C. Hilton , M. Hilton , R. Hlozek , K. Huffenberger , D. Hughes , J. P. Hughes , L. Infante , K. D. Irwin , R. Jimenez , J. B. Juin , M. Kaul , J. Klein , A. Kosowsky , J. M. Lau , M. Limon , Y. -T. Lin , R. H. Lupton , T. Marriage , D. Marsden , K. Martocci , P. Mauskopf , F. Menanteau , K. Moodley , H. Moseley , C. B. Netterfield , M. D. Niemack , M. R. Nolta , L. A. Page , L. Parker , B. Partridge , H. Quintana , B. Reid , N. Sehgal , J. Sievers , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , O. Stryzak , D. Swetz , E. Switzer , R. Thornton , H. Trac , C. Tucker , L. Verde , R. Warne , G. Wilson , E. Wollack , Y. Zhao

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Summary of DR4 and DR5 Data Products and Data Access

Two recent large data releases for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), called DR4 and DR5, are available for public access. These data include temperature and polarization maps that cover nearly half the sky at arcminute resolution in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Maya Mallaby-Kay , Zachary Atkins , Simone Aiola , Stefania Amodeo , Jason E. Austermann , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Grace E. Chesmore , Steve K. Choi , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Edwawd V. Denison , Mark J. Devlin , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Simone Ferraro , Kyra Fichman , Patricio A. Gallardo , Joseph E. Golec , Yilun Guan , Dongwon Han , Matthew Hasselfield , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Renee Hlozek , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian J. Koopman , Thibaut Louis , Amanda MacInnis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Jeff McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura B. Newburgh , John P. Nibarger , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Cristobal Sifon , Sara Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie R. Storer , Joel N. Ullom , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Leila R. Vale , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

An analytical approach to the CMB anisotropies in a Spatially Closed background

The scalar mode temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background has been derived in a spatially closed universe from two different methods. First, by following the photon trajectory after the last scattering and then from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 Pedram Niazy , Amir H. Abbassi

The galaxy power spectrum take on spatial curvature and cosmic concordance

The concordance of the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model in light of current observations has been the subject of an intense debate in recent months. The 2018 Planck Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-02 Sunny Vagnozzi , Eleonora Di Valentino , Stefano Gariazzo , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Joseph Silk

The CMB power spectrum at l=30-200 from QMASK

We measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum on angular scales l~30-200 (1-6 degrees) from the QMASK map, which combines the data from the QMAP and Saskatoon experiments. Since the accuracy of recent measurements leftward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Yongzhong Xu , Max Tegmark , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa

The CMB Derivatives of Planck's Beam Asymmetry

We investigate the anisotropy in cosmic microwave background Planck maps due to the coupling between its beam asymmetry and uneven scanning strategy. Introducing a pixel space estimator based on the temperature gradients, we find a highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-17 Ben Rathaus , Ely D. Kovetz

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at the power spectrum level alone. To date, nearly all map-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , J. Colin Hill , Sigurd Naess , Graeme E. Addison , Simone Aiola , Taylor Baildon , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Bean , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Steve K. Choi , Omar Darwish , Mark J. Devlin , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Simone Ferraro , Patricio A. Gallardo , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Matthew Hasselfield , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Amanda MacInnis , Loïc Maurin , Jeffrey J. McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Naomi Robertson , Neelima Sehgal , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Blake D. Sherwin , Cristóbal Sifón , Sara M. Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie R. Storer , Alexander van Engelen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

The Cosmic Microwave Background: Beyond the Power Spectrum

Much recent work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has focussed on the angular power spectrum of temperature anisotropies and particularly on the recovery of cosmological parameters from acoustic peaks in the power spectrum. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Kamionkowski

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Multi-probe cosmology with unWISE galaxies and ACT DR6 CMB lensing

We present a joint analysis of the CMB lensing power spectra measured from the Data Release 6 of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Planck PR4, cross-correlations between the ACT and Planck lensing reconstruction and galaxy clustering from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-24 Gerrit S. Farren , Alex Krolewski , Frank J. Qu , Simone Ferraro , Erminia Calabrese , Jo Dunkley , Carmen Embil Villagra , J. Colin Hill , Joshua Kim , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Kavilan Moodley , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Cristóbal Sifón , Suzanne T. Staggs , Alexander Van Engelen , Edward J. Wollack

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Project: A Progress Report

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a project to map the microwave background radiation at arcminute angular resolution and high sensitivity in three frequency bands over substantial sky areas. Cosmological signals driving such an experiment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Arthur Kosowsky

Test of consistency between Planck and WMAP

Within the context of the concordance model of cosmology we test the consistency of the angular power spectrum data from WMAP and Planck looking for possible systematics. The best fit concordance model to each observation is used as a mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-14 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo

Implications for cosmology from Ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background observations

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy encodes a lot of information about our Universe. In this paper we take the ground-based CMB observations (GCMB), including the South Pole Telescope (SPT), SPTpol and the Atacama Cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Ke Wang , Qing-Guo Huang

Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Temperature Analysis

We present new full-sky temperature maps in five frequency bands from 23 to 94 GHz, based on the first three years of the WMAP sky survey. The new maps, which are consistent with the first-year maps and more sensitive, incorporate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 G. Hinshaw , M. R. Nolta , C. L. Bennett , R. Bean , O. Doré , M. R. Greason , M. Halpern , R. S. Hill , N. Jarosik , A. Kogut , E. Komatsu , M. Limon , N. Odegard , S. S. Meyer , L. Page , H. V. Peiris , D. N. Spergel , G. S. Tucker , L. Verde , J. L. Weiland , E. Wollack , E. L. Wright