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

The scalar mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background is derived in a spatially closed universe from the Boltzmann equation using the line of sight integral method. The EE and TE multipole coefficients have been extracted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Pedram Niazy , Amir H. Abbassi

Using SPTpol, Planck 2015, and non-CMB data to constrain tilted spatially-flat and untilted non-flat $\Lambda$CDM, XCDM, and $\phi$CDM dark energy inflation cosmologies

We use six tilted spatially-flat and untilted non-flat dark energy cosmological models in analyses of South Pole Telescope polarization (SPTpol) cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, alone and in combination with Planck 2015 CMB data and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-10 Chan-Gyung Park , Bharat Ratra

Exploring Statistical Isotropy in Planck Data Release 4: Angular Clustering and Cosmological Parameter Variations Across the Sky

The origin of small deviations from statistical isotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) - the so-called CMB anomalies - remains an open question in modern cosmology. In this work, we test statistical isotropy in Planck Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 C. Gimeno-Amo , F. K. Hansen , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro , A. J. Banday

Planck 2018 results. VIII. Gravitational lensing

We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using the final $\textit{Planck}$ 2018 temperature and polarization data. We increase the significance of the detection of lensing in the polarization maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Planck Collaboration , N. Aghanim , Y. Akrami , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Carron , A. Challinor , H. C. Chiang , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , B. P. Crill , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , 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. Forastieri , 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 , S. Gratton , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , J. Hamann , W. Handley , F. K. Hansen , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , L. Knox , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , F. Levrier , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , 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 , A. Melchiorri , 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 , G. Patanchon , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , L. Polastri , 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. Sandri , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , C. Sirignano , R. Sunyaev , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , T. Trombetti , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , M. White , S. D. M. White , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Hints of Early Dark Energy in Planck, SPT, and ACT data: new physics or systematics?

We investigate constraints on early dark energy (EDE) using ACT DR4, SPT-3G 2018, Planck polarization, and restricted Planck temperature data (at $\ell<650$), finding a $3.3\sigma$ preference ($\Delta\chi^2=-16.2$ for 3 additional degrees…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Tristan L. Smith , Matteo Lucca , Vivian Poulin , Guillermo F. Abellan , Lennart Balkenhol , Karim Benabed , Silvia Galli , Riccardo Murgia

New limits on Early Dark Energy from the South Pole Telescope

We present new limits on early dark energy (EDE) from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the WMAP satellite on large angular scales and South Pole Telescope (SPT) on small angular scales. We find a strong upper limit on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Christian L. Reichardt , Roland de Putter , Oliver Zahn , Zhen Hou

Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background using DASI

We report the detection of polarized anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI), located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station. Observations in all four Stokes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. Kovac , E. M. Leitch , C. Pryke , J. E. Carlstrom , N. W. Halverson , W. L. Holzapfel

Constraints on the CMB Temperature Evolution using Multi-Band Measurements of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect with the South Pole Telescope

The adiabatic evolution of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a key prediction of standard cosmology. We study deviations from the expected adiabatic evolution of the CMB temperature of the form $T(z)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Saro , J. Liu , J. J. Mohr , K. A. Aird , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bayliss , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , I. Chiu , H. M. Cho , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , K. Dolag , J. P. Dudley , R. J. Foley , D. Gangkofner , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , C. Hennig , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , C. Jones , R. Keisler , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , A. Mantz , D. P. Marrone , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , T. E. Montroy , S. S. Murray , D. Nurgaliev , S. Padin , A. Patej , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

Second Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of the CMB Polarization Power Spectrum at 95 GHz

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) has observed the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 43 and 95GHz. The 43-GHz results have been published in QUIET Collaboration et al. (2011), and here we report the measurement of CMB polarization power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-01 QUIET Collaboration , D. Araujo , C. Bischoff , A. Brizius , I. Buder , Y. Chinone , K. Cleary , R. N. Dumoulin , A. Kusaka , R. Monsalve , S. K. Næss , L. B. Newburgh , R. Reeves , I. K. Wehus , J. T. L. Zwart , L. Bronfman , R. Bustos , S. E. Church , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , T. Gaier , J. O. Gundersen , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , K. M. Huffenberger , K. Ishidoshiro , M. E. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , D. J. Kapner , D. Kubik , C. R. Lawrence , M. Limon , J. J. McMahon , A. D. Miller , M. Nagai , H. Nguyen , G. Nixon , T. J. Pearson , L. Piccirillo , S. J. E. Radford , A. C. S. Readhead , J. L. Richards , D. Samtleben , M. Seiffert , M. C. Shepherd , K. M. Smith , S. T. Staggs , O. Tajima , K. L. Thompson , K. Vanderlinde , R. Williamson

Exploring ${\Lambda}$CDM extensions with SPT-3G and Planck data: 4$\sigma$ evidence for neutrino masses and implications of extended dark energy models for cosmological tensions

We present new cosmological constraints in a set of motivated extensions of the $\Lambda$CDM model using the polarization and gravitational lensing measurements from the South Pole Telescope and the Planck CMB temperature observations at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Anton Chudaykin , Dmitry Gorbunov , Nikita Nedelko

A Measurement of the CMB <EE> Spectrum from the 2003 Flight of BOOMERANG

We report measurements of the CMB polarization power spectra from the January 2003 Antarctic flight of BOOMERANG. The primary results come from six days of observation of a patch covering 0.22% of the sky centered near R.A. = 82.5 deg.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 T. E. Montroy , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , P. Cabella , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , A. de Oliveira-Costa , G. De Troia , G. di Stefano , E. Hivon , A. H. Jaffe , T. S. Kisner , W. C. Jones , A. E. Lange , S. Masi , P. D. Mauskopf , C. J. MacTavish , A. Melchiorri , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , F. Piacentini , D. Pogosyan , G. Polenta , S. Prunet , S. Ricciardi , G. Romeo , J. E. Ruhl , P. Santini , M. Tegmark , M. Veneziani , N. Vittorio

SPT-3G D1: Axion Early Dark Energy with CMB experiments and DESI

We present the most up-to-date constraints on axion early dark energy (AEDE) from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements. In particular, we assess the impact of data from ground-based CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 A. R. Khalife , L. Balkenhol , E. Camphuis , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , P. S. Barry , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , M. G. Campitiello , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , F. Kéruzoré , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. L. Kuo , K. Levy , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , G. P. Lynch , A. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , Y. Omori , A. Ouellette , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , E. Schiappucci , A. Simpson , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Umilta , J. D. Vieira , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

SPT-3G D1: Compton-$y$ maps using data from the SPT-3G and Planck surveys

We present thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Compton-$y$ parameter maps constructed from two years (2019-2020) of observations with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) third-generation camera, SPT-3G, combined with data from the Planck satellite.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 A. S. Maniyar , F. Bianchini , W. L. K. Wu , S. Raghunathan , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , L. Balkenhol , D. R. Barron , P. S. Barry , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , M. G. Campitiello , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carron , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , N. C. Ferree , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , A. K. Gao , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , A. Y. Q. Ho , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , T. Jhaveri , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , K. Levy , Y. Li , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , G. P. Lynch , T. J. Maccarone , E. S. Martsen , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , Y. Omori , A. Ouellette , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , E. Schiappucci , A. C. Silva Oliveira , A. Simpson , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Umilta , J. D. Vieira , A. G. Vieregg , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , N. Whitehorn , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

Measurement of the Full Shape of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Power Spectrum from South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

We present a measurement of the full shape of the power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect down to arcminute scales using cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) over roughly 100 ${\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 S. Raghunathan , P. A. R. Ade , D. Anbajagane , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , J. E. Austermann , L. Balkenhol , D. R. Barron , P. S. Barry , J. A. Beall , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. Bock , S. Bocquet , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , M. G. Campitiello , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carron , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , H. C. Chiang , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , R. Citron , A. Coerver , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , N. C. Ferree , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , J. Gallicchio , A. E. Gambrel , A. K. Gao , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , E. M. George , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , A. Y. Q. Ho , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , J. D. Hrubes , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , T. Jhaveri , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , K. Levy , Y. Li , D. Li , A. E. Lowitz , A. Lowitz , C. Lu , G. P. Lynch , T. J. Maccarone , A. S. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , J. J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , A. Ouellette , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , S. Patil , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , C. Pryke , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , E. Schiappucci , C. Sievers , A. C. Silva Oliveira , A. Simpson , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , A. G. Vieregg , M. P. Viero , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski , M. Zemcov

Statistical properties of galactic CMB foregrounds: dust and synchrotron

Recent Planck observations have revealed some of the important statistical properties of synchrotron and dust polarisation, namely, the $B$ to $E$ mode power and temperature-$E$ (TE) mode cross-correlation. In this paper, we extend our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 D. Kandel , A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan

Characterization of the polarized synchrotron emission from Planck and WMAP data

The purpose of this work is to characterize the diffuse Galactic polarized synchrotron. We present EE, BB, and EB power spectra estimated cross-correlating Planck and WMAP polarization frequency maps at 23 and 30 GHz, for a set of six sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-15 F. A. Martire , R. B. Barreiro , E. Martínez-González

Statistical Isotropy of the CMB E-mode signal

We test the statistical isotropy (SI) of the $E$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observed by the Planck satellite using two statistics, namely, the contour Minkowski Tensor (CMT) and the Directional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-29 Joby P. Kochappan , Aparajita Sen , Tuhin Ghosh , Pravabati Chingangbam , Soumen Basak

New constraints on cosmic polarization rotation from the ACTPol cosmic microwave background B-Mode polarization observation and the BICEP2 constraint update

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

Nearly Full-Sky Low-Multipole CMB Temperature Anisotropy: II. Angular Power Spectra and Likelihood

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

Testing Parity Symmetry with the Polarized Cosmic Microwave Background

New physics in the early Universe could lead to parity-violation in the late Universe, sourcing statistics whose sign changes under point reflection. The best constraints on such phenomena have come from the Planck temperature fluctuations;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Maresuke Shiraishi