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The BICEP3 and BICEP Array polarimeters are small-aperture refracting telescopes located at the South Pole designed to measure primordial gravitational wave signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization, predicted by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 Christos Giannakopoulos , Clara Vergès , P. A. R. Ade , Zeeshan Ahmed , Mandana Amiri , Denis Barkats , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Colin A. Bischoff , Dominic Beck , James J. Bock , Hans Boenish , Victor Buza , James R. Cheshire , Jake Connors , James Cornelison , Michael Crumrine , Ari Jozef Cukierman , Edward Denison , Marion Dierickx , Lionel Duband , Miranda Eiben , Brodi D. Elwood , Sofia Fatigoni , Jeff P. Filippini , Antonio Fortes , Min Gao , Neil Goeckner-Wald , David C. Goldfinger , James A. Grayson , Paul K. Grimes , Grantland Hall , George Halal , Mark Halpern , Emma Hand , Sam A. Harrison , Shawn Henderson , Johannes Hubmayr , Howard Hui , Kent D. Irwin , Jae Hwan Kang , Kirit S. Karkare , Sinan Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , Chao-Lin Kuo , King Lau , Margaret Lautzenhiser , Amber Lennox , Tongtian Liu , Koko G. Megerian , Oliver Miller , Lorenzo Minutolo , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Yuka Nakato , H. T. Nguyen , Roger O'brient , Anika Patel , Matthew A. Petroff , Anna R. Polish , Nathan Precup , Thomas Prouve , Clement Pryke , Carl D. Reintsema , Thibault Romand , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin Schmitt , Baibhav Singari , Ahmed Soliman , Tyler St Germaine , Aaron Steiger , Bryan Steinbach , Rashmi Sudiwala , Keith L. Thompson , Calvin Tsai , Carole Tucker , Anthony D. Turner , Abigail G. Vieregg , Albert Wandui , Alexis C. Weber , Justin Willmert , Wai Ling K. Wu , Hung-I Yang , Cyndia Yu , Lingzhen Zeng , Cheng Zhang , Silvia Zhang

We show that the new precise measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies made by the Planck satellite significantly improves previous constraints on the cosmic gravitational waves background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-17 Luca Pagano , Laura Salvati , Alessandro Melchiorri

We present constraints on the patchy reionization by measuring the trispectrum of the Planck 2015 cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. The patchy reionization leads to anisotropies in the CMB optical depth, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Toshiya Namikawa

Following Philcox et al. (2025), we investigate a scenario with a massive partner to the inflaton ($O(100)$ times the inflationary Hubble scale), in which particles are produced during a narrow time period, leaving characteristic hot- or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Luca H. Abu El-Haj , Oliver H. E. Philcox , J. Colin Hill

Combining the latest Planck, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data, we exploit the recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode power spectra data released by the BICEP2 collaboration to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Fengquan Wu , Yichao Li , Youjun Lu , Xuelei Chen

We estimate the dust polarized emission in our galaxy at high galactic latitudes, which is the dominant foreground for measuring CMB polarization using the high frequency instrument (HFI) aboard Planck surveyor. We compare it with the level…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shiv K. Sethi , Simon Prunet , F. R. Bouchet

The Planck satellite experiment, which was launched the 14th of may 2009, will give an accurate measurement of the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. This measurement is polluted by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-20 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macias-Perez

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

The Hubble tension that the standard $\Lambda$CDM model is suffering from can be resolved with pre-recombination early dark energy. We present the first constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ in corresponding Hubble-tension-free…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gen Ye , Yun-Song Piao

Recently, BICEP2 measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization at degree angular scales has indicated the presence of tensor modes with a high tensor-to-scalar ratio of $r=0.2$ when assuming nearly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng , I-Chin Wang

We make a joint analysis of BICEP2 and recently released Planck HFI 353 GHz dust polarization data, and find that there is no evidence for the primordial gravitational waves and the bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio becomes $r<0.083$ at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-23 Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang , Sai Wang

Inflationary models with power-law potentials are starting to be severely constrained by the recent measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies provided by the Planck Satellite and by the BICEP2 telescope. In particular, models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-03 Mehdi Shokri , Fabrizio Renzi , Alessandro Melchiorri

We present an improved analysis of the final dataset from the QUaD experiment. Using an improved technique to remove ground contamination, we double the effective sky area and hence increase the precision of our CMB power spectrum…

Recently ACTPol has measured the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode and E-mode polarizations and obtained TE, EE, BB, TB and EB power spectra in the multipole range 225-8725. In our previous paper (Ap. J. 792 (2014) 35 [Paper I]), we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-09 Hsien-Hao Mei , Wei-Tou Ni , Wei-Ping Pan , Lixin Xu , Sperello di Serego Alighieri

The Planck survey has quantified polarized Galactic foregrounds and established that they are a main limiting factor in the quest for the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode signal induced by primordial gravitational waves during…

We use Bayesian component estimation methods to examine the prospects for large-scale polarized map and cosmological parameter estimation with simulated Planck data assuming simplified white noise properties. The sky signal is parametrized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Charmaine Armitage-Caplan , Joanna Dunkley , Hans Kristian Eriksen , Clive Dickinson

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…

We present measurements of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) E-mode polarization from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 90 GHz data. Using 115 det-yr of observations collected through 2024 with a variable-delay…

WMAP data when combined with ancillary data on free-free, synchrotron and dust allow an improved understanding of the spectrum of emission from each of these components. Here we examine the sky variation at intermediate and high latitudes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-27 Tuhin Ghosh , A. J. Banday , Tess Jaffe , Clive Dickinson , Rod Davies , Richard Davis , Krzysztof Gorski