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We present Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy at arcminute resolution over three frequency bands centered on 98, 150 and 220 GHz. The maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Sigurd Naess , Yilun Guan , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Matthew Hasselfield , Yuhan Wang , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Graeme E. Addison , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , Tommy Alford , David Alonso , Mandana Amiri , Rui An , Zachary Atkins , 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 , Stephen Chen , Grace Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Susan E. Clark , Rodrigo Cordova Rosado , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , William Coulton , Devin Crichton , Kevin T. Crowley , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , 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 , Serena Giardiello , Ajay Gill , Jahmour Givans , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Yulin Gong , Mark Halpern , Ian Harrison , 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 , Hidde T. Jense , Neha Joshi , Ben Keller , Joshua Kim , Kenda Knowles , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Darby Kramer , Aleksandra Kusiak , Adrien La Posta , Alex Laguë , Victoria Lakey , Eunseong Lee , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , 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 , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Simran K. Nerval , Laura Newburgh , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Scherer , Lyman A. Page , Shivam Pandey , Bruce Partridge , Karen Perez Sarmiento , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Frank J. Qu , Rodrigo Quiroga , 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 , Lukas Wenzl , Edward J. Wollack , Kaiwen Zheng

We present an improved and extended analysis of the cross-correlation between the map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential derived from the \emph{Planck} mission data and the high-redshift galaxies detected by the…

We measure the amplitude of matter fluctuations over a wide range of redshifts by combining CMB lensing observations from ACT DR6 and $\textit{Planck}$ PR4 with the overdensity of quasars from Quaia, a $\textit{Gaia}$ and $\textit{unWISE}$…

Most analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background spherical harmonic coefficients a_lm has focused on estimating the power spectrum C_l=<|a_lm|^2> rather than the coefficients themselves. We present a minimum-variance method for measuring a_lm…

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

This white paper addresses key challenges for the design of next-decade Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, and for assessing their capability to extract cosmological information from CMB polarization. We focus here on the…

Observation of the CMB is central to observational cosmology, and the Antarctic Plateau is an exceptionally good site for this work. The first attempt at CMB observations from the Plateau was an expedition to the South Pole in December 1986…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-07 Robert W. Wilson , Antony A. Stark

We have made a topological study of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization maps by simulating the AMiBA experiment results. A $\Lambda$CDM CMB sky is adopted to make mock interferometric observations designed for the AMiBA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Chan-Gyung Park , Changbom Park

Low frequency radio observations of galaxy clusters are a useful probe of the non-thermal intracluster medium (ICM), through observations of diffuse radio emission such as radio halos and relics. Current formation theories cannot fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Sinenhlanhla P. Sikhosana , Kenda Knowles , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra , Matt Hilton , Kavilan Moodley , Neeraj Gupta

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Polarization plays an important role in current cosmological studies. CMB B-mode polarization is the most effective probe to primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) and a test of the inflation as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-28 Yong-Ping Li , Yang Liu , Si-Yu Li , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

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

We discuss detectability of the nonlinear growth of the large-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing. Lensing signals involved in CMB anisotropies have been measured from multiple CMB experiments, such as Atacama…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Toshiya Namikawa

We present a method for measuring the masses of galaxy clusters using the imprint of their gravitational lensing signal on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. The method first reconstructs the projected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jean-Baptiste Melin , James G. Bartlett

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation offers a unique window into the early Universe, facilitating precise examinations of fundamental cosmological theories. However, the quest for detecting B-modes in the CMB, predicted by…

When analyzing galaxy clustering in multi-band imaging surveys, there is a trade-off between selecting the largest galaxy samples (to minimize the shot noise) and selecting samples with the best photometric redshift (photo-z) precision,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 Dimitrios Tanoglidis , Chihway Chang , Joshua Frieman

Our motion relative to the cosmic-microwave-background (CMB) rest frame deflects light rays giving rise to shifts as large as L -> L(1+beta), where beta=0.00123 is our velocity (in units of the speed of light) on measurements CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 Donghui Jeong , Jens Chluba , Liang Dai , Marc Kamionkowski , Xin Wang

We describe an off-axis microwave telescope for observations of the anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales between 0.5 deg and 3 deg. The receiver utilizes cryogenic high-electron-mobility transistor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 E. J. Wollack , M. J. Devlin , N. Jarosik , C. B. Netterfield , L. Page , D. Wilkinson

This is a very exciting time for the CMB field. It is widely recognized that precision measurements of the CMB can provide a definitive test of cosmological models and determine their parameters accurately. At present observations give us…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George F. Smoot

We have made an 8.7 GHz image of a sky region with a resolution of 8 arcmin and high brightness sensitivity using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). in an ultra compact configuration. The foreground discrete-source confusion was…