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We demonstrate that the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature-polarization cross-correlation provides accurate and robust constraints on cosmological parameters. We compare them with the results from temperature or polarization and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 F. Couchot , S. Henrot-Versillé , O. Perdereau , S. Plaszczynski , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , M. Spinelli , M. Tristram

The precise characterization and mitigation of systematic effects is one of the biggest roadblocks impeding the detection of the fluctuations of cosmological 21cm signals. Missing data in radio cosmological experiments, often due to radio…

We extend a general maximum likelihood foreground estimation for cosmic microwave background polarization data to include estimation of instrumental systematic effects. We focus on two particular effects: frequency band measurement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 Chaoyun Bao , Carlo Baccigalupi , Ben Gold , Shaul Hanany , Andrew Jaffe , Radek Stompor

When combining cosmological and oscillations results to constrain the neutrino sector, the question of the propagation of systematic uncertainties is often raised. We address this issue in the context of the derivation of an upper bound on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 F. Couchot , S. Henrot-Versillé , O. Perdereau , S. Plaszczynski , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , M. Spinelli , M. Tristram

The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) is an array of pseudo-correlation radiometers on board the Planck satellite, the ESA mission dedicated to precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The LFI covers three bands centred at…

Measurement of cosmic microwave background polarization is today a major goal of observational cosmology. The level of the signal to measure, however, makes it very sensitive to various systematic effects. In the case of Planck, which…

Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with previous studies using the 2013 and 2015 data releases. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Planck Collaboration , Y. Akrami , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , B. Casaponsa , H. C. Chiang , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , D. Contreras , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , E. Di Valentino , J. M. Diego , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , Y. Fantaye , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Finelli , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , T. Ghosh , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , J. Hamann , W. Handley , F. K. Hansen , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , Y. -Z. Ma , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , A. Marcos-Caballero , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , N. Mauri , J. D. McEwen , P. R. Meinhold , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , A. Moss , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , G. Polenta , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Ruiz-Granados , L. Salvati , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , E. P. S. Shellard , C. Sirignano , R. Sunyaev , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , T. Trombetti , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , A. Zacchei , J. P. Zibin , A. Zonca

Aims. To investigate the performance of a deconvolution map-making algorithm for an experiment with a circular scanning strategy, specifically in this case for the analysis of Planck data, and to quantify the effects of making maps using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. L. Harrison , F. van Leeuwen , M. A. J. Ashdown

We present cosmological parameter constraints as estimated using the Bayesian BeyondPlanck (BP) analysis framework. This method supports seamless end-to-end error propagation from raw time-ordered data to final cosmological parameters. As a…

Precision measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization require extreme control of instrumental systematics. In a companion paper we have presented cosmological constraints from observations with the BICEP2 and Keck Array…

In this paper, we study the effects of instrumental systematics on the reconstruction of the deflection angle power spectrum from weak lensing of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization observations. We consider seven…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-30 Meng Su , Amit P. S. Yadav , Matias Zaldarriaga

We present an estimation of the reionization optical depth $\tau$ from an improved analysis of the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) data of Planck satellite. By using an improved version of the HFI map-making code, we greatly reduce the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 L. Pagano , J. -M. Delouis , S. Mottet , J. -L. Puget , L. Vibert

A fundamental requirement in the new generation of high resolution Cosmic Microwave Background imaging experiments is a strict control of systematic errors that must be kept at micro-K level in the final maps. Some of these errors are of…

Cosmic birefringence is a parity-violating effect that might have rotated the plane of linearly polarized light of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by an angle $\beta$ since its emission. This has recently been measured to be non-zero…

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2/Keck CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season. This includes the first Keck Array observations at 220 GHz and additional observations at…

This paper is part of the Prelaunch status LFI papers published on JINST: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.proc5/jinst . This paper describes the impact of the Planck Low Frequency Instrument front end physical temperature…

Every experiment is affected by systematic effects that hamper the data analysis and have the potential to ultimately degrade its performance. In the case of probes of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, a minimal set of issues…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-08 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

One of the main problems for extracting the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from submm/mm observations is to correct for the Galactic components, mainly synchrotron, free - free and thermal dust emission with the required accuracy.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen

The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) is a radiometer array covering the 30-70 GHz spectral range on-board the ESA Planck satellite, launched on May 14th, 2009 to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with unprecedented precision. In…

We present an analysis of the main systematic effects that could impact the measurement of CMB polarization with the proposed CORE space mission. We employ timeline-to-map simulations to verify that the CORE instrumental set-up and scanning…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Natoli , M. Ashdown , R. Banerji , J. Borrill , A. Buzzelli , G. de Gasperis , J. Delabrouille , E. Hivon , D. Molinari , G. Patanchon , L. Polastri , M. Tomasi , F. R. Bouchet , S. Henrot-Versillé , D. T. Hoang , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , T. Kisner , V. Lindholm , D. McCarthy , F. Piacentini , O. Perdereau , G. Polenta , M. Tristram , A. Achucarro , P. Ade , R. Allison , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , J. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , J. Baselmans , D. Baumann , M. Bersanelli , A. Bonaldi , M. Bonato , F. Boulanger , T. Brinckmann , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , Z. -Y. Cai , M. Calvo , C. -S. Carvalho , G. Castellano , A. Challinor , J. Chluba , S. Clesse , I. Colantoni , A. Coppolecchia , M. Crook , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , G. De Zotti , E. Di Valentino , J. -M. Diego , J. Errard , S. Feeney , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , S. Galli , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , S. Grandis , J. Greenslade , A. Gruppuso , S. Hagstotz , S. Hanany , W. Handley , C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , C. Hervias-Caimapo , M. Hills , E. Keihänen , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , L. Lamagna , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , J. Lesgourgues , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , B. Maffei , N. Mandolesi , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Masi , A. Melchiorri , J. -B. Melin , M. Migliaccio , A. Monfardini , M. Negrello , A. Notari , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , M. Piat , G. Pisano , A. Pollo , V. Poulin , M. Quartin , M. Remazeilles , M. Roman , G. Rossi , J. -A. Rubino-Martin , L. Salvati , G. Signorelli , A. Tartari , D. Tramonte , N. Trappe , T. Trombetti , C. Tucker , J. Valiviita , R. Van de Weijgaert , B. van Tent , V. Vennin , P. Vielva , N. Vittorio , C. Wallis , K. Young , M. Zannoni