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Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Inflation

We forecast the scientific capabilities to improve our understanding of cosmic inflation of CORE, a proposed CMB space satellite submitted in response to the ESA fifth call for a medium-size mission opportunity. The CORE satellite will map…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 CORE Collaboration , Fabio Finelli , Martin Bucher , Ana Achúcarro , Mario Ballardini , Nicola Bartolo , Daniel Baumann , Sébastien Clesse , Josquin Errard , Will Handley , Mark Hindmarsh , Kimmo Kiiveri , Martin Kunz , Anthony Lasenby , Michele Liguori , Daniela Paoletti , Christophe Ringeval , Jussi Väliviita , Bartjan van Tent , Vincent Vennin , Rupert Allison , Frederico Arroja , Marc Ashdown , A. J. Banday , Ranajoy Banerji , James G. Bartlett , Soumen Basak , Jochem Baselmans , Paolo de Bernardis , Marco Bersanelli , Anna Bonaldi , Julian Borril , François R. Bouchet , François Boulanger , Thejs Brinckmann , Carlo Burigana , Alessandro Buzzelli , Zhen-Yi Cai , Martino Calvo , Carla Sofia Carvalho , Gabriella Castellano , Anthony Challinor , Jens Chluba , Ivan Colantoni , Martin Crook , Giuseppe D'Alessandro , Guido D'Amico , Jacques Delabrouille , Vincent Desjacques , Gianfranco De Zotti , Jose Maria Diego , Eleonora Di Valentino , Stephen Feeney , James R. Fergusson , Raul Fernandez-Cobos , Simone Ferraro , Francesco Forastieri , Silvia Galli , Juan García-Bellido , Giancarlo de Gasperis , Ricardo T. Génova-Santos , Martina Gerbino , Joaquin González-Nuevo , Sebastian Grandis , Josh Greenslade , Steffen Hagstotz , Shaul Hanany , Dhiraj K. Hazra , Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo , Carlos Hervias-Caimapo , Matthew Hills , Eric Hivon , Bin Hu , Ted Kisner , Thomas Kitching , Ely D. Kovetz , Hannu Kurki-Suonio , Luca Lamagna , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Julien Lesgourgues , Antony Lewis , Valtteri Lindholm , Joanes Lizarraga , Marcos López-Caniego , Gemma Luzzi , Bruno Maffei , Nazzareno Mandolesi , Enrique Martínez-González , Carlos J. A. P. Martins , Silvia Masi , Darragh McCarthy , Sabino Matarrese , Alessandro Melchiorri , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Diego Molinari , Alessandro Monfardini , Paolo Natoli , Mattia Negrello , Alessio Notari , Filippo Oppizzi , Alessandro Paiella , Enrico Pajer , Guillaume Patanchon , Subodh P. Patil , Michael Piat , Giampaolo Pisano , Linda Polastri , Gianluca Polenta , Agnieszka Pollo , Vivian Poulin , Miguel Quartin , Andrea Ravenni , Mathieu Remazeilles , Alessandro Renzi , Diederik Roest , Matthieu Roman , Jose Alberto Rubiño-Martin , Laura Salvati , Alexei A. Starobinsky , Andrea Tartari , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Maurizio Tomasi , Jesús Torrado , Neil Trappe , Tiziana Trombetti , Carole Tucker , Marco Tucci , Jon Urrestilla , Rien van de Weygaert , Patricio Vielva , Nicola Vittorio , Karl Young

A New approach for a Galactic Synchrotron Polarized Emission Template in the Microwave Range

We present a new approach in modelling the polarized Galactic synchrotron emission in the microwave range (20-100 GHz), where this radiation is expected to play the leading role in contaminating the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , R. Fabbri , C. Sbarra , S. Poppi , S. Cortiglioni

CMB Polarization Measurements

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation carries essential information on early stages of the Universe such as the cosmic inflation, forming cosmological structures through gravitational lensing, and the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 E. Carretti , C. Baccigalupi

Optimal CMB Lensing Reconstruction and Parameter Estimation with SPTpol Data

We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian parameter inference and optimal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using 100 deg$^2$ of polarization observations from the SPTpol receiver on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 M. Millea , C. M. Daley , T-L. Chou , E. Anderes , 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 , P. Chaubal , 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 , N. Goeckner-Wald , S. Guns , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. Montgomery , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , B. Thorne , C. Tucker , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko

Optical Characterization of the BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

BICEP3 is a small-aperture refracting cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescope designed to make sensitive polarization maps in pursuit of a potential B-mode signal from inflationary gravitational waves. It is the latest in the BICEP/Keck…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 K. S. Karkare , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , K. D. Alexander , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , R. Bowens-Rubin , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , J. P. Filippini , S. T. Fliescher , J. A. Grayson , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , G. C. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. H. Kang , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , V. Monticue , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , M. T. St. Germaine , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. Weber , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , K. W. Yoon

The Simons Observatory: Project Overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over angular scales between 1 arcminute and tens of degrees using over 60,000 detectors and sampling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-08 Nicholas Galitzki

CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves

CMB-S4---the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment---is set to significantly advance the sensitivity of CMB measurements and enhance our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe, from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 S4 Collaboration , Kevork Abazajian , Graeme E. Addison , Peter Adshead , Zeeshan Ahmed , Daniel Akerib , Aamir Ali , Steven W. Allen , David Alonso , Marcelo Alvarez , Mustafa A. Amin , Adam Anderson , Kam S. Arnold , Peter Ashton , Carlo Baccigalupi , Debbie Bard , Denis Barkats , Darcy Barron , Peter S. Barry , James G. Bartlett , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Bean , Chris Bebek , Amy N. Bender , Bradford A. Benson , Federico Bianchini , Colin A. Bischoff , Lindsey Bleem , James J. Bock , Sebastian Bocquet , Kimberly K. Boddy , J. Richard Bond , Julian Borrill , François R. Bouchet , Thejs Brinckmann , Michael L. Brown , Sean Bryan , Victor Buza , Karen Byrum , Carlos Hervias Caimapo , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Robert Caldwell , John E. Carlstrom , Julien Carron , Thomas Cecil , Anthony Challinor , Clarence L. Chang , Yuji Chinone , Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho , Asantha Cooray , Will Coulton , Thomas M. Crawford , Abigail Crites , Ari Cukierman , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Tijmen de Haan , Jacques Delabrouille , Mark Devlin , Eleonora Di Valentino , Marion Dierickx , Matt Dobbs , Shannon Duff , Jo Dunkley , Cora Dvorkin , Joseph Eimer , Tucker Elleflot , Josquin Errard , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Giulio Fabbian , Chang Feng , Simone Ferraro , Jeffrey P. Filippini , Raphael Flauger , Brenna Flaugher , Aurelien A. Fraisse , Andrei Frolov , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Silvia Galli , Ken Ganga , Martina Gerbino , Vera Gluscevic , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Daniel Green , Daniel Grin , Evan Grohs , Riccardo Gualtieri , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Ian Gullett , Nikhel Gupta , Salman Habib , Mark Halpern , Nils W. Halverson , Shaul Hanany , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Matthew Hasselfield , Masashi Hazumi , Katrin Heitmann , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Charles Hill , J. Colin Hill , Renée Hlozek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Thuong Hoang , Gil Holder , William Holzapfel , John Hood , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Howard Hui , Kent Irwin , Oliver Jeong , Bradley R. Johnson , William C. Jones , Jae Hwan Kang , Kirit S. Karkare , Nobuhiko Katayama , Reijo Keskitalo , Theodore Kisner , Lloyd Knox , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , John Kovac , Ely D. Kovetz , Steve Kuhlmann , Chao-lin Kuo , Akito Kusaka , Anne Lähteenmäki , Charles R. Lawrence , Adrian T. Lee , Antony Lewis , Dale Li , Eric Linder , Marilena Loverde , Amy Lowitz , Phil Lubin , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Adam Mantz , Gabriela Marques , Frederick Matsuda , Philip Mauskopf , Heather McCarrick , Jeffrey McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Felipe Menanteau , Joel Meyers , Marius Millea , Joseph Mohr , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Maria Monzani , Tony Mroczkowski , Suvodip Mukherjee , Johanna Nagy , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Tyler Natoli , Laura Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Haruki Nishino , Brian Nord , Valentine Novosad , Roger O'Brient , Stephen Padin , Steven Palladino , Bruce Partridge , Don Petravick , Elena Pierpaoli , Levon Pogosian , Karthik Prabhu , Clement Pryke , Giuseppe Puglisi , Benjamin Racine , Alexandra Rahlin , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Marco Raveri , Christian L. Reichardt , Mathieu Remazeilles , Graca Rocha , Natalie A. Roe , Anirban Roy , John E. Ruhl , Maria Salatino , Benjamin Saliwanchik , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin Schmitt , Marcel M. Schmittfull , Douglas Scott , Neelima Sehgal , Sarah Shandera , Blake D. Sherwin , Erik Shirokoff , Sara M. Simon , Anze Slosar , David Spergel , Tyler St. Germaine , Suzanne T. Staggs , Antony Stark , Glenn D. Starkman , Radek Stompor , Chris Stoughton , Aritoki Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Grant P. Teply , Keith Thompson , Ben Thorne , Peter Timbie , Maurizio Tomasi , Matthieu Tristram , Gregory Tucker , Caterina Umiltà , Alexander van Engelen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Joaquin D. Vieira , Abigail G. Vieregg , Kasey Wagoner , Benjamin Wallisch , Gensheng Wang , Scott Watson , Ben Westbrook , Nathan Whitehorn , Edward J. Wollack , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Zhilei Xu , H. Y. Eric Yang , Siavash Yasini , Volodymyr G. Yefremenko , Ki Won Yoon , Edward Young , Cyndia Yu , Andrea Zonca

The South Pole Telescope

A new 10 meter diameter telescope is being constructed for deployment at the NSF South Pole research station. The telescope is designed for conducting large-area millimeter and sub-millimeter wave surveys of faint, low contrast emission, as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 SPT Collaboration , J. E. Ruhl , P. A. R. Ade , J. E. Carlstrom , H. M. Cho , T. Crawford , M. Dobbs , C. H. Greer , N. W. Halverson , W. L. Holzapfel , T. M. Lantin , A. T. Lee , J. Leong , E. M. Leitch , W. Lu , M. Lueker , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. J. Mohr , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , D. Schwan , M. K. Sharp , M. C. Runyan , H. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark

BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set

We report on the design and performance of the BICEP3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. BICEP3 is a 52cm aperture, refracting telescope designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Keck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , D. Beck , C. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Halal , G. Hall , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. Turner , C. Umilta , C. Verges , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Imaging the first light: experimental challenges and future perspectives in the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) allow high precision observation of the Last Scattering Surface at redshift $z\sim$1100. After the success of the NASA satellite COBE, that in 1992 provided the first detection of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mennella , C. Baccigalupi , A. Balbi , M. Bersanelli , C. Burigana , C. Butler , B. Cappellini , G. De Gasperis , F. Hansen , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , M. Maris , G. Morgante , P. Natoli , F. Pasian , F. Perrotta , P. Platania , L. Valenziano , F. Villa , A. Zacchei

CMB-PAInT: An inpainting tool for the cosmic microwave background

The presence of astrophysical emissions in microwave observations forces us to perform component separation to extract the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) signal. However, even in the most optimistic cases, there are still strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro

Assessing the Importance of Noise from Thermal Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich Signals for CMB Cluster Surveys and Cluster Cosmology

We explore the significance of noise from thermal Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich (tSZ) signals for cluster detection using cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. The noise arises both from neighboring objects and also from haloes below the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Srinivasan Raghunathan

A Foreground-Immune CMB-Cluster Lensing Estimator

Galaxy clusters induce a distinct dipole pattern in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) through the effect of gravitational lensing. Extracting this lensing signal will enable us to constrain cluster masses, even for high redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-14 Kevin Levy , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Kaustuv Basu

Fabrication Development for SPT-SLIM, a Superconducting Spectrometer for Line Intensity Mapping

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) is a new observational technique that uses low-resolution observations of line emission to efficiently trace the large-scale structure of the Universe out to high redshift. Common mm/sub-mm emission lines are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-20 T. Cecil , C. Albert , A. J. Anderson , P. S. Barry , B. Benson , C. Cotter , C. Chang , M. Dobbs , K. Dibert , R. Gualtieri , K. S. Karkare , M. Lisovenko , D. P. Marrone , J. Montgomery , Z. Pan , G. Robson , M. Rouble , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , G. Wang , V. Yefremenko

Designs for next generation CMB survey strategies from Chile

New telescopes are being built to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented sensitivity, including Simons Observatory (SO), CCAT-prime, the BICEP Array, SPT-3G, and CMB Stage-4. We present observing strategies for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-16 Jason R. Stevens , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Reijo Keskitalo , Nialh McCallum , Aamir Ali , Julian Borrill , Michael L. Brown , Yuji Chinone , Patricio A. Gallardo , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman Page , Giuseppe Puglisi , Maria Salatino , Suet Ying D. Mak , Grant Teply , Daniel B. Thomas , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

A Strategy to Minimize Dust Foregrounds in B-mode Searches

The Planck satellite has identified several patches of sky with low polarized dust emission, obvious targets for searches for the cosmic-microwave-background (CMB) B-mode signal from inflationary gravitational waves. Still, given the Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-23 Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski

Maps of the Southern Millimeter-wave Sky from Combined 2500 deg$^2$ SPT-SZ and Planck Temperature Data

We present three maps of the millimeter-wave sky created by combining data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Planck satellite. We use data from the SPT-SZ survey, a survey of 2540 deg$^2$ of the the sky with arcminute resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-15 R. Chown , Y. Omori , K. Aylor , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , T. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. B. Everett , E. M. George , J. W. Henning , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , G. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Luong-Van , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , G. Simard , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , W. L. K. Wu

Tickling the CMB damping tail: scrutinizing the tension between the ACT and SPT experiments

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the South Pole Telescope (SPT) have recently provided new, very precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy damping tail. The values of the cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Eleonora Di Valentino , Silvia Galli , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Alessandro Melchiorri , Paolo Natoli , Luca Pagano , Najla Said

Measurements of B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made using the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Telescope. This work uses 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol data, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 J. T. Sayre , C. L. Reichardt , J. W. Henning , 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 , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko

A New Upper Limit on the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) is an invaluable probe of the conditions of the early universe. Recent measurements of its spatial anisotropy have allowed accurate determinations of several fundamental cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Christopher O'Dell