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Retrieving cosmological information from small-scale CMB foregrounds II. The kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect

Recent results of ground-based telescopes, giving high-quality measurements of the CMB temperature power spectrum on small scales motivate the need for an accurate model of foregrounds, which dominate the primary signal at these multipoles.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Adélie Gorce , Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: The Instrument

We describe a space-borne, multi-band, multi-beam polarimeter aiming at a precise and accurate measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The instrument is optimized to be compatible with the strict budget…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. de Bernardis , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. A. Baselmans , E. S. Battistelli , A. Benoit , M. Bersanelli , A. Bideaud , M. Calvo , F. J. Casas , G. Castellano , A. Catalano , I. Charles , I. Colantoni , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , M. Crook , G. D'Alessandro , M. De Petris , J. Delabrouille , S. Doyle , C. Franceschet , A. Gomez , J. Goupy , S. Hanany , M. Hills , L. Lamagna , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , S. Martin , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , S. Masi , D. McCarthy , A. Mennella , A. Monfardini , F. Noviello , A. Paiella , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , G. Pisano , G. Signorelli , C. Y. Tan , A. Tartari , N. Trappe , S. Triqueneaux , C. Tucker , G. Vermeulen , K. Young , M. Zannoni , A. Achúcarro , R. Allison , M. Ashdown , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. Banerji , J. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , A. Bonaldi , M. Bonato , J. Borrill , F. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , T. Brinckmann , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , A. Buzzelli , Z. Y. Cai , C. S. Carvalho , A. Challinor , J. Chluba , S. Clesse , G. De Gasperis , G. De Zotti , E. Di Valentino , J. M. Diego , J. Errard , S. Feeney , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , S. Galli , R. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , J. González-Nuevo , S. Hagstotz , J. Greenslade , W. Handley , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , C. Hervias-Caimapo , E. Hivon , K. Kiiveri , T. Kisner , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , J. Lesgourgues , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , V. Lindholm , G. Luzzi , C. J. A. P. Martins , A. Melchiorri , J. B. Melin , D. Molinari , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , A. Notari , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , A. Pollo , V. Poulin , M. Quartin , M. Remazeilles , M. Roman , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , L. Salvati , M. Tomasi , D. Tramonte , T. Trombetti , J. Väliviita , R. Van de Weijgaert , B. van Tent , V. Vennin , P. Vielva , N. Vittorio

Millimeter Transient Point Sources in the SPTpol 100 Square Degree Survey

The millimeter transient sky is largely unexplored, with measurements limited to follow-up of objects detected at other wavelengths. High-angular-resolution telescopes designed for measurement of the cosmic microwave background offer the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 N. Whitehorn , T. Natoli , P. A. R. Ade , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , J. P. Nibarger , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , V. Yefremenko

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

Forecasting ground-based sensitivity to the Rayleigh scattering of the CMB in the presence of astrophysical foregrounds

The Rayleigh scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off the neutral hydrogen produced during recombination effectively creates an additional scattering surface after recombination that encodes new cosmological information,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Karia R. Dibert , Adam J. Anderson , Amy N. Bender , Bradford A. Benson , Federico Bianchini , John E. Carlstrom , Thomas M. Crawford , Yuuki Omori , Zhaodi Pan , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Christian L. Reichardt , W. L. Kimmy Wu

Measurements of E-Mode Polarization and Temperature-E-Mode Correlation in the Cosmic Microwave Background from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We present measurements of $E$-mode polarization and temperature-$E$-mode correlation in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the first season of observations with SPTpol, the polarization-sensitive receiver currently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. T. Crites , J. W. Henning , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , T. M. Crawford , T. De Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J Gallicchio , J. Gao , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , D. Hanson , N. Harrington , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , C. Liang , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , O. Zahn

A dual output polarimeter devoted to the study of the Cosmic Microwave Background

We have developed a correlation radiometer at 33 GHz devoted to the search for residual polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The two instruments`s outputs are linear combination of two Stokes Parameters (Q and U or U and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Gervasi , G. Boella , F. Cavaliere , G. Grossetti , A. Passerini , G. Sironi , A. Tartari , M. Zannoni

The End of Easy Phenomenology for CMB Experiments: A Case Study in the Dark Sector

The precision of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, specifically its lensing reconstruction, has reached the limit where non-linear corrections cannot be ignored. Neglecting these corrections results in biased constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Cynthia Trendafilova , Ali Rida Khalife , Silvia Galli

Beyond CMB cosmic variance limits on reionization with the polarized SZ effect

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys will soon make the first detection of the polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, the linear polarization generated by the scattering of CMB photons on the free electrons present in collapsed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-04 Joel Meyers , P. Daniel Meerburg , Alexander van Engelen , Nicholas Battaglia

2022 Upgrade and Improved Low Frequency Camera Sensitivity for CMB Observation at the South Pole

Constraining the Galactic foregrounds with multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations is an essential step towards ultimately reaching the sensitivity to measure primordial gravitational waves (PGWs), the sign of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 A. Soliman , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. I. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kangh , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. Palladino , M. A. Petroff , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , C. Vergès , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Reionization kSZ trispectrum methodology and limits

Patchy reionization generates kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large-scale velocity perturbations along the line of sight modulate the small-scale kSZ power spectrum, leading to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Niall MacCrann , Frank J. Qu , Toshiya Namikawa , Boris Bolliet , Hongbo Cai , Erminia Calabrese , Steve K. Choi , Omar Darwish , Simone Ferraro , Yilun Guan , J. Colin Hill , Matt Hilton , Renée Hložek , Darby Kramer , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Kavilan Moodley , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Cristóbal Sifón , Suzanne T. Staggs , Hy Trac , Alexander Van Engelen , Eve M. Vavagiakis

Cosmic Microwave Background Observations in the Post-Planck Era

The Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Planck missions will provide low noise maps of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These maps will allow measurement of the power spectrum of the CMB with measurement noise below…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. B. Peterson , J. E. Carlstrom , E. S. Cheng , M. Kamionkowski , A. E. Lange , M. Seiffert , D. N. Spergel , A. Stebbins

PSZSPT: a joint Planck and SPT-SZ cluster catalog

We present the first cluster catalog extracted from combined space-based (Planck) and ground-based (South Pole Telescope; SPT-SZ) millimeter data. We developed and applied a matched multi-filter (MMF) capable of dealing with the different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 J. -B. Melin , J. G. Bartlett , P. Tarrío , G. W. Pratt

Foreground Mitigation for CMB Lensing with the Global Minimum Variance Quadratic Estimator

Weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a powerful probe of cosmology, providing insight into structure formation and the evolution of the universe. Current and upcoming CMB experiments such as SPT-3G and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yuka Nakato , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Ana Carolina Silva Oliveira , Yuuki Omori , Abhishek S. Maniyar

Conceptual Design of the Modular Detector and Readout System for the CMB-S4 survey experiment

We present the conceptual design of the modular detector and readout system for the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4) ground-based survey experiment. CMB-S4 will map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the millimeter-wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-05 D. R. Barron , Z. Ahmed , J. Aguilar , A. J. Anderson , C. F. Baker , P. S. Barry , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , R. W. Besuner , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , S. C. Chapman , G. E. Chesmore , G. Derylo , W. B. Doriese , S. M. Duff , T. Elleflot , J. P. Filippini , B. Flaugher , J. G. Gomez , P. K. Grimes , R. Gualtieri , I. Gullett , G. Haller , S. W. Henderson , D. Henke , R. Herbst , A. I. Huber , J. Hubmayr , M. Jonas , J. Joseph , C. L. King , J. M. Kovac , D. Kubik , M. Lisovenko , J. J. McMahon , L. Moncelsi , J. M. Nagy , B. Osherson , B. Reese , J. E. Ruhl , L. Sapozhnikov , A. Schillaci , S. M. Simon , A. Suzuki , G. Wang , B. Westbrook , V. Yefremenko , J. Zhang

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

Spectral distortion and polarization of the cosmic microwave background: Measurement, challenges and perspectives

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a fundamental observational tool in modern cosmology. The linear polarization of the CMB provides a crucial observational tool for exploring new physics, including the inflationary paradigm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Vyoma Muralidhara

Performance of Al-Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G

SPT-3G is a polarization-sensitive receiver, installed on the South Pole Telescope, that measures the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from degree to arcminute scales. The receiver consists of ten 150~mm-diameter detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. J. Anderson , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , J. S. Avva , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , J. F. Cliche , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , K. R. Ferguson , A. Foster , J. Fu , J. Gallicchio , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , A. Gilbert , J. C. Groh , S. Guns , R. Guyser , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , T. S. Khaire , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. E. Lowitz , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , W. Quan , A. Rahlin , D. Riebel , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young

Extragalactic CO emission lines in the CMB experiments: a forgotten signal and a foreground

High resolution cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments have allowed us to precisely measure the CMB temperature power spectrum down to very small scales (multipole $\ell \sim 3000$). Such measurements at multiple frequencies enable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Abhishek S. Maniyar , Athanasia Gkogkou , William R. Coulton , Zack Li , Guilaine Lagache , Anthony R. Pullen

Feedhorn-coupled TES polarimeter camera modules at 150 GHz for CMB polarization measurements with SPTpol

The SPTpol camera is a dichroic polarimetric receiver at 90 and 150 GHz. Deployed in January 2012 on the South Pole Telescope (SPT), SPTpol is looking for faint polarization signals in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The camera…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 J. W. Henning , P. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , D. Becker , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. Britton , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , A. Datesman , T. de Haan , M A. Dobbs , W. Everett , A. Ewall-Wice , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , M. Karfunkle , R. Keisler , J. Kennedy , A. T. Lee , E. Leitch , D. Li , M. Lueker , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. Montgomery , T. E. Montroy , J. Nagy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , M. D. Niemack , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , K. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , R. Williamson , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , E. Young