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Unprecedentedly precise cosmic microwave background (CMB) data are expected from ongoing and near-future CMB Stage-III and IV surveys, which will yield reconstructed CMB lensing maps with effective resolution approaching several arcminutes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Jia Liu , J. Colin Hill , Blake D. Sherwin , Andrea Petri , Vanessa Böhm , Zoltán Haiman

We have simulated cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy maps for several COBE-DMR-normalized cold dark matter (CDM) cosmogonies, to make predictions for the upcoming MAP experiment. We have studied the sensitivity of the simulated…

We report on measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and celestial polarization at 146 GHz made with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) in its first three months of observing. Four regions of sky covering a…

Accurate measurements of angular power spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation has lead to marked improvement in the estimates of different cosmological parameters. This has required removal of foreground contamination as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rajib Saha , Pankaj Jain , Tarun Souradeep

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has been measured over a wide range of multipoles. Experiments with arc-minute resolution like the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) have contributed to the measurement of primary and secondary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Felipe Rojas , Loïc Maurin , Rolando Dünner , Karim Pichara

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a project to map the microwave background radiation at arcminute angular resolution and high sensitivity in three frequency bands over substantial sky areas. Cosmological signals driving such an experiment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Arthur Kosowsky

In recent years the goal of estimating different cosmological parameters precisely has set new challenges in the effort to accurately measure the angular power spectrum of CMB. This has required removal of foreground contamination as well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rajib Saha , Simon Prunet , Pankaj Jain , Tarun Souradeep

We present results from the QMAP balloon experiment, which maps the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and probes its angular power spectrum on degree scales. In two separate flights, data were taken in six channels at two frequency bands…

Accurately estimating the statistical properties of noise is important in data analysis for space-based gravitational wave detectors. Noise in different time-delay interferometry channels correlates with each other. Many studies often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Ya-Nan Li , Yi-Ming Hu , En-Kun Li

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum is a powerful probe of the late-time universe, encoding valuable information about cosmological parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and dark energy equation of state.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 Hongbo Cai , Yilun Guan , Toshiya Namikawa , Arthur Kosowsky

We present a high-significance cross-correlation of CMB lensing maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) with spectroscopically calibrated luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

A detailed search has been made for evidence of foreground contributions to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) WMAP, such foregrounds being related to our Galaxy. We find remarkable results. On the largest angular scales we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tadeusz Wibig , Arnold W. Wolfendale

We present a joint cosmological analysis combining data from the Planck satellite, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, and the South Pole Telescope. We construct a unified likelihood that reproduces the measured temperature and polarisation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 M. Tristram , M. Douspis , A. Gorce , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , S. Ilic , L. McBride , M. Muñoz-Echeverría , E. Pointecouteau , L. Salvati

We study the effects of diffuse Galactic, far-infrared extragalactic source, and radio point source emission on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data anticipated from the MAP experiment. We focus on the correlation function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Chan-Gyung Park , Changbom Park , Bharat Ratra

The increasing precision of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations has unveiled significant tensions between different datasets, notably between Planck and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), as well as with the late-Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Matteo Forconi , Eleonora DI Valentino

We revisit the possibility of using cosmological observations to constrain models that involve interactions between neutrinos and dark matter. We show that small-scale measurements of the cosmic microwave background with a few per cent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Philippe Brax , Carsten van de Bruck , Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Sebastian Trojanowski

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) project is described. This multi-institution collaboration aims to produce arcminute-resolution and micro-Kelvin sensitivity maps of the microwave background temperature over 200 square degrees of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Arthur Kosowsky

This paper provides full sky maps of foreground emission in all WMAP channels, with very low residual contamination from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies and controlled level of instrumental noise. Foreground maps are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-25 Tuhin Ghosh , Jacques Delabrouille , Mathieu Remazeilles , Jean-Francois Cardoso , Tarun Souradeep

Large scale structure deflects cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. Since large angular scales in the large scale structure contribute significantly to the gravitational lensing effect, a realistic simulation of CMB lensing requires a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sudeep Das , Paul Bode