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Degree-Scale CMB Polarization Measurements from Three Years of BICEP1 Data

BICEP1 is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed specifically to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at degree angular scales. We present results from an analysis of the data acquired…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 BICEP1 Collaboration , D. Barkats , R. Aikin , C. Bischoff , I. Buder , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , M. Su , P. A. R. Ade , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , H. C. Chiang , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. Filippini , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , T. Matsumura , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , C. Pryke , S. Richter , G. Rocha , C. Sheehy , S. S. Kernasovskiy , Y. D. Takahashi , J. E. Tolan , K. W. Yoon

Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum from Two Years of POLARBEAR Data

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing deflection power spectrum reconstructed with two seasons cosmic microwave background polarization data from the POLARBEAR experiment. Observations were taken at 150 GHz from 2012 to 2014…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Mario Aguilar Faúndez , Kam Arnold , Carlo Baccigalupi , Darcy Barron , Dominic Beck , Shawn Beckman , Federico Bianchini , Julien Carron , Kolen Cheung , Yuji Chinone , Hamza El Bouhargani , Tucker Elleflot , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Chang Feng , Takuro Fujino , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Takaho Hamada , Masaya Hasegawa , Masashi Hazumi , Charles A. Hill , Haruaki Hirose , Oliver Jeong , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Shuhei Kikuchi , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , David Leon , Eric Linder , Lindsay Ng Lowry , Frederick Matsuda , Tomotake Matsumura , Yuto Minami , Martin Navaroli , Haruki Nishino , Anh Thi Phuong Pham , Davide Poletti , Giuseppe Puglisi , Christian L Reichardt , Yuuko Segawa , Blake D Sherwin , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Praween Siritanasak , Radek Stompor , Aritoki Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Sayuri Takatori , Daiki Tanabe , Grant P. Teply , Calvin Tsai

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg$^2$ of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lensing potential is reconstructed with signal-to-noise per mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 W. L. K. Wu , L. M. Mocanu , P. A. R. Ade , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , A. Manzotti , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , C. Sievers , G. Simard , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko

Cosmic Microwave Background Polarisation: foreground contrast and component separation

We evaluate the expected level of foreground contamination to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarised radiation, focusing on the diffuse emission from our own Galaxy. In particular, we perform a first attempt to simulate an all sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Carlo Baccigalupi

Limits on Polarized Dust Spectral Index Variations for CMB Foreground Analysis

Using Planck polarization data, we search for and constrain spatial variations of the polarized dust foreground for cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations, specifically in its spectral index, $\beta_d$. Failure to account for such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Keisuke Osumi , Janet L. Weiland , Graeme E. Addison , Charles L. Bennett

Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

The polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust is the main foreground present in measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at frequencies above 100GHz. We exploit the Planck HFI polarization data from 100…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 Planck Collaboration , R. Adam , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. Arnaud , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , J. G. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , A. Bracco , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , R. -R. Chary , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , F. -X. Désert , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , K. Dolag , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , J. Dunkley , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frejsel , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , T. Ghosh , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Héraud , E. Gjerløw , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , V. Guillet , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. L. Harrison , G. Helou , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , A. H. Jaffe , T. R. Jaffe , J. Jewell , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , L. Knox , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , J. P. Leahy , R. Leonardi , J. Lesgourgues , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , A. Moss , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , N. Ponthieu , L. Popa , G. W. Pratt , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , W. T. Reach , R. Rebolo , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , S. Ricciardi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , D. Santos , M. Savelainen , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. D. Soler , L. D. Spencer , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sudiwala , R. Sunyaev , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , L. Vibert , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , R. Watson , I. K. Wehus , M. White , S. D. M. White , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data

Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) is a bolometric polarimeter designed to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at degree angular scales. During three seasons of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-25 H. C. Chiang , P. A. R. Ade , D. Barkats , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , W. C. Jones , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , T. Matsumura , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , C. Pryke , S. Richter , G. Rocha , C. Sheehy , Y. D. Takahashi , J. E. Tolan , K. W. Yoon

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: B-mode Component Separation

We demonstrate that, for the baseline design of the CORE satellite mission, the polarized foregrounds can be controlled at the level required to allow the detection of the primordial cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Remazeilles , A. J. Banday , C. Baccigalupi , S. Basak , A. Bonaldi , G. De Zotti , J. Delabrouille , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , R. Fernandez-Cobos , U. Fuskeland , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. López-Caniego , E. Martinez-González , M. Roman , P. Vielva , I. Wehus , A. Achucarro , P. Ade , R. Allison , M. Ashdown , M. Ballardini , R. Banerji , N. Bartolo , J. Bartlett , D. Baumann , M. Bersanelli , M. Bonato , J. Borrill , F. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , T. Brinckmann , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , A. Buzzelli , 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 Gasperis , J. -M. Diego , E. Di Valentino , S. Feeney , S. Ferraro , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , S. Galli , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , J. González-Nuevo , S. Grandis , J. Greenslade , S. Hagstotz , S. Hanany , W. Handley , C. Hernandez-Monteagudo , M. Hills , E. Hivon , K. Kiiveri , T. Kisner , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , L. Lamagna , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , J. Lesgourgues , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , V. Lindholm , G. Luzzi , B. Maffei , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Masi , D. McCarthy , J. -B. Melin , A. Melchiorri , D. Molinari , A. Monfardini , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , A. Notari , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , M. Piat , G. Pisano , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , A. Pollo , V. Poulin , M. Quartin , J. -A. Rubino-Martin , L. Salvati , A. Tartari , M. Tomasi , D. Tramonte , N. Trappe , T. Trombetti , C. Tucker , J. Valiviita , R. Van de Weijgaert , B. van Tent , V. Vennin , N. Vittorio , K. Young , M. Zannoni

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg$^2$ of the 2013-2016 survey, which covers $>$15000 deg$^2$ at 98 and 150 GHz. For this analysis we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Steve K. Choi , Matthew Hasselfield , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Brian Koopman , Marius Lungu , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Graeme E. Addison , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , David Alonso , Mandana Amiri , Stefania Amodeo , Elio Angile , Jason E. Austermann , Taylor Baildon , Nick Battaglia , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Daniel T. Becker , J Richard Bond , Sarah Marie Bruno , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Luis E. Campusano , Felipe Carrero , Grace E. Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Susan E. Clark , Nicholas F. Cothard , Devin Crichton , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Rahul Datta , Edward V. Denison , Mark J. Devlin , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Max Fankhanel , Simone Ferraro , Anna E. Fox , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Yilun Guan , Kirsten Hall , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Leopoldo Infante , Kent Irwin , Rebecca Jackson , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Arthur Kosowsky , Victoria Lakey , Dale Li , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Amanda MacInnis , Mathew Madhavacheril , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Danica Marsden , Loïc Maurin , Jeff McMahon , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Tim Morton , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , John P. Nibarger , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Sherer , Lyman A. Page , Christine G. Pappas , Bruce Partridge , Phumlani Phakathi , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Frank J. Qu , Jesus Rivera , Naomi Robertson , Felipe Rojas , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason Stevens , Emilie Storer , Dhaneshwar D. Sunder , Eric R. Switzer , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Carole Tucker , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Jonathan T. Ward , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Fernando Zago , Ningfeng Zhu

Scientific optimization of a ground-based CMB polarization experiment

We investigate the science goals achievable with the upcoming generation of ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background polarization experiments and calculate the optimal sky coverage for such an experiment including the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bowden , A. N. Taylor , K. M. Ganga , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , G. Cahill , J. E. Carlstrom , S. E. Church , W. K. Gear , J. R. Hinderks , W. Hu , B. G. Keating , J. Kovac , A . E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , O. E. Mallie , S. J. Melhuish , J. A. Murphy , L. Piccirillo , C. Pryke , B. A. Rusholme , C. O'Sullivan , K. Thompson

B-Mode contamination by synchrotron emission from 3-years WMAP data

We study the contamination of the B-mode of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (CMBP) by Galactic synchrotron in the lowest emission regions of the sky. The 22.8-GHz polarization map of the 3-years WMAP data release is used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 E. Carretti , G. Bernardi , S. Cortiglioni

Measuring the tensor to scalar ratio from CMB B-modes in presence of foregrounds

Abreg: We investigate the impact of polarized foreground emission on the performances of future CMB experiments in measuring the tensor-to-scalar ratio r. We design a component separation pipeline, based on the Smica method, aimed at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marc Betoule , E. Pierpaoli , J. Delabrouille , M. Le Jeune , Jean-François Cardoso

Joint Bayesian estimation of tensor and lensing B-modes in the power spectrum of CMB polarization data

We investigate the performance of a simple Bayesian fitting approach to correct the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization for gravitational lensing effects in the recovered probability distribution of the tensor-to-scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-28 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , I. K. Wehus

Confirmation of the detection of B-modes in the Planck polarization maps

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

Sensitivity and foreground modelling for large-scale CMB B-mode polarization satellite missions

The measurement of the large-scale B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a fundamental goal of future CMB experiments. However, because of unprecedented sensitivity, future CMB experiments will be much more…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 M. Remazeilles , C. Dickinson , H. K. K. Eriksen , I. K. Wehus

CMB lensing reconstruction in the presence of diffuse polarized foregrounds

The measurement and characterization of the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is key goal of the current and next generation of CMB experiments. We perform a case study of a three-channel balloon-borne CMB experiment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Yabebal Fantaye , Carlo Baccigalupi , Samuel Leach , Amit P. S. Yadav

Implications of the Cosmic Background Imager Polarization Data

We present new measurements of the power spectra of the E-mode of CMB polarization, the temperature T, the cross-correlation of E and T, and upper limits on the B-mode from 2.5 years of dedicated Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) observations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. L. Sievers , C. Achermann , J. R. Bond , L. Bronfman , R. Bustos , C. R. Contaldi , C. Dickinson , P. G. Ferreira , M. E. Jones , A. M. Lewis , B. S. Mason , J. May , S. T. Myers , S. Padin , T. J. Pearson , M. Pospieszalski , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , A. C. Taylor , S. Torres

Astrophysical foregrounds and primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio constraints from CMB B-mode polarization observations

We study the effects of astrophysical foregrounds on the ability of CMB B-mode polarization experiments to constrain the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio, r. To clean the foreground contributions we use parametric, maximum likelihood…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-20 Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

Improved measurements of the temperature and polarization of the CMB from QUaD

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 The QUaD collaboration , M. L. Brown , P. Ade , J. Bock , M. Bowden , G. Cahill , P. G. Castro , S. Church , T. Culverhouse , R. B. Friedman , K. Ganga , W. K. Gear , S. Gupta , J. Hinderks , J. Kovac , A. E. Lange , E. Leitch , S. J. Melhuish , Y. Memari , J. A. Murphy , A. Orlando , C. O'Sullivan , L. Piccirillo , C. Pryke , N. Rajguru , B. Rusholme , R. Schwarz , A. N. Taylor , K. L. Thompson , A. H. Turner , E. Y. S. Wu , M. Zemcov

Polarized CMB Foregrounds: What do we know and how bad is it?

Polarized foregrounds are going to be a serious challenge for detecting CMB cosmological B-modes. Both diffuse Galactic emission and extragalactic sources contribute significantly to the power spectrum on large angular scales. At low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-17 Clive Dickinson