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The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) is an experiment designed to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization at large angular scales ($\ell>40$). It operated from the ACT site at 5190~m elevation in northern Chile at 145 GHz with a…

Advanced ACTPol is an instrument upgrade for the six-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization with arcminute-scale angular resolution. To achieve its…

We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 2017 to 2021. In combination with BAO measurements (from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Frank J. Qu , Blake D. Sherwin , Niall MacCrann , Yaqiong Li , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , Tommy Alford , Mandana Amiri , Stefania Amodeo , Rui An , Zachary Atkins , Jason E. Austermann , Nicholas Battaglia , Elia Stefano Battistelli , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Emily Biermann , Boris Bolliet , J Richard Bond , Hongbo Cai , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Valentina Capalbo , Felipe Carrero , Anthony Challinor , Grace E. Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Susan E. Clark , Rodrigo Córdova Rosado , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , William Coulton , Kevin T. Crowley , Roohi Dalal , Omar Darwish , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Peter Doze , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Valentina Fanfani , Max Fankhanel , Gerrit Farren , Simone Ferraro , Rodrigo Freundt , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Xavier Garrido , Jahmour Givans , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Yilun Guan , Kirsten R. Hall , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , 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 , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Kent Irwin , Giovanni Isopi , Hidde T. Jense , Ben Keller , Joshua Kim , Kenda Knowles , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Darby Kramer , Aleksandra Kusiak , Adrien La Posta , Alex Lague , Victoria Lakey , Eunseong Lee , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Amanda MacInnis , Diego Maldonado , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Gabriela A. Marques , Jeff McMahon , Yogesh Mehta , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Thomas W. Morris , Tony Mroczkowski , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Scherer , Lyman A. Page , Shivam Pandey , Bruce Partridge , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Federico Radiconi , Naomi Robertson , Felipe Rojas , Tai Sakuma , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Shabbir Shaikh , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristóbal Sifón , Sara Simon , Rita Sonka , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie Storer , Eric R. Switzer , Niklas Tampier , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Cristian Vargas , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Lukas Wenzl , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Fernando Zago , Kaiwen Zheng

Large-scale $B$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a prime target for current and future experiments in search of primordial gravitational waves (PGW). With increasingly sensitive instruments being deployed,…

We present new wide field survey strategies for Chilean Large Aperture Telescopes (LAT) measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which we call Sinusoidal Modulated High Cadence Survey Strategies. The strategies were developed during…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-15 Haruki Ebina , Reijo Keskitalo , Julian Borrill , Steve K. Choi , Theodore Kisner , Sigurd Naess , Michael Niemack , Jason R. Stevens

The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is now firmly established as a fundamental and essential probe of the geometry, constituents, and birth of the Universe. The CMB is a potent observable because it can be measured with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Hanany , M. Niemack , L. Page

Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) is a third generation polarization upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, designed to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB). AdvACT expands on the 90 and 150 GHz transition edge sensor (TES) bolometer…

Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) observations in sky regions selected to be low in foreground confusion have been used to infer limits on arcmin-scale CMB anisotropy in total intensity and polarization. These deep searches have,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ravi Subrahmanyan

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope has measured the angular power spectra of microwave fluctuations to arcminute scales at frequencies of 148 and 218 GHz, from three seasons of data. At small scales the fluctuations in the primordial Cosmic…

We present the tightest cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing constraints to date on the growth of structure by combining CMB lensing measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Frank J. Qu , Fei Ge , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Marius Millea , Zeeshan Ahmed , Ethan Anderes , Adam J. Anderson , Behzad Ansarinejad , Melanie Archipley , Zachary Atkins , Lennart Balkenhol , Nicholas Battaglia , Karim Benabed , Amy N. Bender , Bradford A. Benson , Federico Bianchini , Lindsey. E. Bleem , Boris Bolliet , J Richard Bond , François. R. Bouchet , Lincoln Bryant , Erminia Calabrese , Etienne Camphuis , John E. Carlstrom , Julien Carron , Anthony Challinor , Clarence L. Chang , Prakrut Chaubal , Geoff Chen , Paul M. Chichura , Steve K. Choi , Aman Chokshi , Ti-Lin Chou , Anna Coerver , William Coulton , Thomas M. Crawford , Cail Daley , Omar Darwish , Tijmen de Haan , Mark J. Devlin , Karia R. Dibert , Matthew A. Dobbs , Michael Doohan , Aristide Doussot , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dunner , Daniel Dutcher , Carmen Embil Villagra , Wendy Everett , Gerrit S. Farren , Chang Feng , Simone Ferraro , Kyle R. Ferguson , Kyra Fichman , Emily Finson , Allen Foster , Patricio A. Gallardo , Silvia Galli , Anne E. Gambrel , Rob W. Gardner , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Riccardo Gualtieri , Federica Guidi , Sam Guns , Mark Halpern , Nils W. Halverson , J. Colin Hill , Matt Hilton , Eric Hivon , Gilbert P. Holder , William L. Holzapfel , John C. Hood , Doug Howe , Alec Hryciuk , Nicholas Huang , Johannes Hubmayr , Florian Kéruzoré , Ali R. Khalife , Joshua Kim , Lloyd Knox , Milo Korman , Kayla Kornoelje , Arthur Kosowsky , Chao-Lin Kuo , Hidde T. Jense , Adrien La Posta , Kevin Levy , Amy E. Lowitz , Thibaut Louis , Chunyu Lu , Gabriel P. Lynch , Niall MacCrann , Abhishek Maniyar , Emily S. Martsen , Jeff McMahon , Felipe Menanteau , Joshua Montgomery , Yuka Nakato , Kavilan Moodley , Toshiya Namikawa , Tyler Natoli , Michael D. Niemack , Gavin I. Noble , Yuuki Omori , Aaron Ouellette , Lyman A. Page , Zhaodi Pan , Pascal Paschos , Kedar A. Phadke , Alexander W. Pollak , Karthik Prabhu , Wei Quan , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Mahsa Rahimi , Alexandra Rahlin , Christian L. Reichardt , Dave Riebel , Maclean Rouble , John E. Ruhl , Emmanuel Schaan , Eduardo Schiappucci , Neelima Sehgal , Carlos E. Sierra , Aidan Simpson , Blake D. Sherwin , Cristóbal Sifón , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Joshua A. Sobrin , Antony A. Stark , Judith Stephen , Chris Tandoi , Ben Thorne , Cynthia Trendafilova , Caterina Umilta , Alexander Van Engelen , Joaquin D. Vieira , Aline Vitrier , Yujie Wan , Nathan Whitehorn , Edward J. Wollack , Matthew R. Young , Jessica A. Zebrowski

We correlate the positions of radio galaxies in the FIRST survey with the CMB lensing convergence estimated from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope over 470 square degrees to determine the bias of these galaxies. We remove optically…

We present an estimate of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) detector polarization angle systematic uncertainty from optics perturbation analysis using polarization-sensitive ray tracing in CODE V optical design software. Uncertainties…

We present a new calibration method based on cross-correlations with WMAP and apply it to data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). ACT's observing strategy and map making procedure allows an unbiased reconstruction of the modes in…

We present first results from the Southern Cosmology Survey, a new multiwavelength survey of the southern sky coordinated with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), a recently commissioned ground-based mm-band Cosmic Microwave Background…

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) project is described. This multi-institution collaboration aims to produce arcminute-resolution and micro-Kelvin sensitivity maps of the microwave background temperature over 200 square degrees of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Arthur Kosowsky

Multichroic polarization sensitive detectors enable increased sensitivity and spectral coverage for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). An array optimized for dual frequency detectors can provide 1.7 times gain in…