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We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collected during the second season of observations (2013-2014) to…

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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…

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Measuring the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation field is one of the main goals in modern cosmology. However, the so called $B$-mode polarisation can be generated by different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-22 Larissa Santos , Wen Zhao

The B-mode polarization spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) may be the smoking gun of not only the primordial tensor mode but also of the primordial vector mode. If there exist nonzero vector-mode metric perturbations in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-03 Shohei Saga , Maresuke Shiraishi , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation lensing is a promising tool to study the physics of early universe. In this work we probe the imprints of deviations from isotropy and scale invariance of primordial curvature perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Farbod Hassani , Shant Baghram , Hassan Firouzjahi

One of the main goals of Cosmology is to search for the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the CMB polarisation field, to probe inflationary theories. One of the obstacles toward the detection of the primordial signal is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 G. Lagache , M. Bethermin , L. Montier , P. Serra , M. Tucci

We forecast how current ({\planck}) and future ({\prism}) cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments constrain the adiabatic mode and its admixtures with primordial isocurvature modes, using measurements of the reconstructed CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Simon Muya Kasanda , Kavilan Moodley

The large-scale CMB B-mode polarization is the direct probe to the low frequency primordial gravitational wave signal. However, unambiguous measurement of this signal requires a precise understanding of the possible contamination. One such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 Suvodip Mukherjee , Sourabh Paul , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

The B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is an excellent information channel for the detection of relic gravitational waves. However, the detection is contaminated by the B-mode polarization generated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 Wen Zhao , Mingzhe Li

It is known that in contrast with the E-mode polarization, the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background cannot be generated by the Compton scattering in the case of scalar mode of metric perturbation. However it is possible to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Rohoollah Mohammadi , Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Mahdi Sadegh , She-Sheng Xue

Next-generation CMB satellite concepts (LiteBIRD, CORE, PIXIE, PICO) are being proposed to detect the primordial CMB B-mode polarization at large angular scales in the sky for tensor-to-scalar ratio values of ${r \lesssim 10^{-3}}$. Yet…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-05 M. Remazeilles

Searches for primordial gravitational waves have resulted in constraints in a large frequency range from a variety of sources. The standard Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) technique is to parameterise the tensor power spectrum in terms of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Thomas J. Clarke , Edmund J. Copeland , Adam Moss

Optimal extraction of cosmological information from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background critically relies on our ability to accurately undo the distortions caused by weak gravitational lensing. In this work, we demonstrate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Thomas Flöss , William R. Coulton , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The detection of Cosmic Microwave Background primordial $B$-mode polarization would constitute a ``smoking gun" signal of primordial gravitational waves. However, this measurement requires accurate removal of polarized Galactic foregrounds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Luca Gomez Bachar , Cora Dvorkin , Alberto Daniel Supanitsky

The recently detected polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) holds the potential for revealing the physics of inflation and gravitationally mapping the large-scale structure of the universe, if so called B-mode signals below…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Wayne Hu , Matthew M. Hedman , Matias Zaldarriaga

Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments will deliver extremely accurate measurements of the E-modes pattern of the CMB polarization field. Given the sharpness of the E-modes transfer functions, such surveys make for a powerful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Matteo Braglia , Xingang Chen , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Lucas Pinol

We investigate the observational signatures of three models of the early Universe in the $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. In addition to the standard single field inflationary model, we also consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Yin-Zhe Ma , Wen Zhao , Michael L. Brown

We introduce the real space correlation function of $B$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as a probe of superhorizon tensor perturbations created by inflation. By causality, any non-inflationary mechanism for…

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