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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the 600< ell <8000 Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum at 148 GHz

We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observed at 148 GHz. The measurement uses maps with 1.4' angular resolution made with data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-30 J. W. Fowler , V. Acquaviva , P. A. R. Ade , P. Aguirre , M. Amiri , J. W. Appel , L. F. Barrientos , E. S. Battistelli , J. R. Bond , B. Brown , B. Burger , J. Chervenak , S. Das , M. J. Devlin , S. R. Dicker , W. B. Doriese , J. Dunkley , R. Dünner , T. Essinger-Hileman , R. P. Fisher , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , G. C. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , R. Hlozek , K. M. Huffenberger , D. H. Hughes , J. P. Hughes , L. Infante , K. D. Irwin , R. Jimenez , J. B. Juin , M. Kaul , J. Klein , A. Kosowsky , J. M. Lau , M. Limon , Y. -T. Lin , R. H. Lupton , T. A. Marriage , D. Marsden , K. Martocci , P. Mauskopf , F. Menanteau , K. Moodley , H. Moseley , C. B. Netterfield , M. D. Niemack , M. R. Nolta , L. A. Page , L. Parker , B. Partridge , H. Quintana , B. Reid , N. Sehgal , J. Sievers , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , D. S. Swetz , E. R. Switzer , R. Thornton , H. Trac , C. Tucker , L. Verde , R. Warne , G. Wilson , E. Wollack , Y. Zhao , the ACT Collaboration

Large Angular Scale Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and the Feasibility of its Detection

In addition to its spectrum and temperature anisotropy, the 2.7K Cosmic Microwave Background is also expected to exhibit a low level of polarization. The spatial power spectrum of the polarization can provide details about the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Brian Keating , Peter Timbie , Alexander Polnarev , Julia Steinberger

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales with POLARBEAR

We report a measurement of the B-mode polarization power spectrum in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the POLARBEAR experiment in Chile. The faint B-mode polarization signature carries information about the Universe's entire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , A. E. Anthony , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , D. Barron , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , D. Flanigan , A. Gilbert , W. Grainger , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , J. Howard , P. Hyland , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , E. Linder , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , N. J. Miller , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , E. Quealy , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , I. Schanning , D. E. Schenck , B. D. Sherwin , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , P. Siritanasak , G. Smecher , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , B. Wilson , A. Yadav , O. Zahn

Circular polarization of the CMB: Foregrounds and detection prospects

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is one of the finest probes of cosmology. Its all-sky temperature and linear polarization (LP) fluctuations have been measured precisely at a level of deltaT/TCMB ~10^{-6}. In comparison, circular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Soma King , Philip Lubin

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: CMB Polarization at $200<\ell<9000$

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-11 Sigurd Naess , Matthew Hasselfield , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Graeme E. Addison , Peter A. R. Ade , Rupert Allison , Mandana Amiri , Nick Battaglia , James A. Beall , Francesco de Bernardis , J Richard Bond , Joe Britton , Erminia Calabrese , Hsiao-mei Cho , Kevin Coughlin , Devin Crichton , Sudeep Das , Rahul Datta , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Joseph W. Fowler , Anna E. Fox , Patricio Gallardo , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Shawn Henderson , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hlozek , Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Leopoldo Infante , Kent Irwin , Rebecca Jackson , Simon Muya Kasanda , Jeff Klein , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Dale Li , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Tobias A. Marriage , Loïc Maurin , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Charles Munson , Laura Newburgh , John Nibarger , Michael R. Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Christine Pappas , Bruce Partridge , Felipe Rojas , Benjamin Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Jon Sievers , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eric R. Switzer , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Carole Tucker , Masao Uehara , Alexander Van Engelen , Jon Ward , Edward J. Wollack

A Constraint on Primordial $B$-Modes from the First Flight of the SPIDER Balloon-Borne Telescope

We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of SPIDER, an experiment designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales. Results from these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 SPIDER Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , O. Doré , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , J. S. -Y. Leung , S. Li , D. S. Y. Mak , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , R. O'Brient , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , A. S. Rahlin , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , E. C. Shaw , C. Shiu , J. D. Soler , X. Song , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. F. van der List , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

Design and characterization of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 93 GHz focal plane

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) aims to detect and characterize the primordial B-mode signal and make a sample-variance-limited measurement of the optical depth to reionization. CLASS is a ground-based, multi-frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-12 Sumit Dahal , Aamir Ali , John W. Appel , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Charles Bennett , Michael Brewer , Ricardo Bustos , Manwei Chan , David T. Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Felipe Colazo , Jullianna Couto , Kevin Denis , Rolando Dünner , Joseph Eimer , Trevor Engelhoven , Pedro Fluxa , Mark Halpern , Kathleen Harrington , Kyle Helson , Gene Hilton , Gary Hinshaw , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , Tobias Marriage , Jeffrey McMahon , Nathan Miller , Carolina Nuñez , Ivan Padilla , Gonzalo Palma , Lucas Parker , Matthew Petroff , Bastian Pradenas , Rodrigo Reeves , Carl Reintsema , Karwan Rostem , Marco Sagliocca , Kongpop U-Yen , Deniz Valle , Bingjie Wang , Qinan Wang , Duncan Watts , Janet Weiland , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ziang Yan , Lingzhen Zen

Search for Gravitational Waves in the CMB After WMAP3: Foreground Confusion and The Optimal Frequency Coverage for Foreground Minimization

B-modes of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization can be created by a primordial gravitational wave background. If this background was created by Inflation, then the amplitude of the polarization signal is proportional the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexandre Amblard , Asantha Cooray , Manoj Kaplinghat

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguilar , Y. Akiba , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , A. Ducout , R. Dünner , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. M. Feeney , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , T. Hamada , G. Hall , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , Y. Segawa , B. D. Sherwin , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , N. Whitehorn , A. Zahn

CMB Polarization at Large Angular Scales: Data Analysis of the POLAR Experiment

The coming flood of CMB polarization experiments, spurred by the recent detection of CMB polarization by DASI and WMAP, will be confronted by many new analysis tasks specific to polarization. For the analysis of CMB polarization data sets,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Christopher W. O'Dell , Brian G. Keating , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa , Max Tegmark , Peter T. Timbie

Improved upper limit on degree-scale CMB B-mode polarization power from the 670 square-degree POLARBEAR survey

We report an improved measurement of the degree-scale cosmic microwave background $B$-mode angular-power spectrum over 670 square-degree sky area at 150 GHz with POLARBEAR. In the original analysis of the data, errors in the angle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , S. Adachi , T. Adkins , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. S. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. T. Crowley , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , H. Hirose , L. Howe , J. Ito , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , A. I. Lonappan , L. N. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , M. Murata , H. Nishino , Y. Nishinomiya , D. Poletti , C. L. Reichardt , C. Ross , Y. Segawa , P. Siritanasak , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. Teply , K. Yamada , Y. Zhou

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Gravitational Lensing Potential from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) gravitational lensing potential using data from the first two seasons of observations with SPTpol, the polarization-sensitive receiver currently installed on the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 K. T. Story , D. Hanson , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , 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 , J. Gao , 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 , 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 , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , O. Zahn

CAPMAP: A New Instrument to Measure the E-mode CMB Polarization on Angular Scales of 4 arcmin to 40 arcmin

The CMB polarization is the Everest in the quest to characterize the earliest photons from the Universe. After a long list of ever-decreasing upper limits, a detection of polarization was made in 2002 by the DASI team at ell =~ 500. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Denis Barkats

CMB Lensing Power Spectrum Biases from Galaxies and Clusters using High-angular Resolution Temperature Maps

The lensing power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps will be measured with unprecedented precision with upcoming experiments, including upgrades to ACT and SPT. Achieving significant improvements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. van Engelen , S. Bhattacharya , N. Sehgal , G. P. Holder , O. Zahn , D. Nagai

Galactic Synchrotron Foreground and the CMB Polarization Measurements

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)is a powerful observational tool at hand for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters one cannot obtain using only anisotropy data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

Current Status and Perspectives of Cosmic Microwave Background Observations

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation provide a unique opportunity for a direct study of the primordial cosmic plasma at redshift z ~1000. The angular power spectra of temperature and polarisation fluctuations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Bersanelli , Davide Maino , Aniello Mennella

A measurement of the CMB E-mode angular power spectrum at subdegree scales from 670 square degrees of POLARBEAR data

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. We reach an effective polarization map noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 S. Adachi , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , M. Dobbs , H. El Bouhargani , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , H. Hirose , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , S. Kikuchi , T. Kisner , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. N. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , C. L. Reichardt , Y. Segawa , P. Siritanasak , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , C. Tsai , C. Vergès , B. Westbrook , Y. Zhou

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 38 GHz detector array of bolometric polarimeters

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) experiment aims to map the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at angular scales larger than a few degrees. Operating from Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 John W. Appel , Aamir Ali , Mandana Amiri , Derek Araujo , Charles L. Bennett , Fletcher Boone , Manwei Chan , Hsiao-Mei Cho , David T. Chuss , Felipe Colazo , Erik Crowe , Kevin Denis , Rolando Dunner , Joseph Eimer , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Dominik Gothe , Mark Halpern , Kathleen Harrington , Gene Hilton , Gary F. Hinshaw , Caroline Huang , Kent Irwin , Glenn Jones , John Karakla , Alan J. Kogut , David Larson , Michele Limon , Lindsay Lowry , Tobias Marriage , Nicholas Mehrle , Amber D. Miller , Nathan Miller , Samuel H. Moseleyb , Giles Novakh , Carl Reintsemad , Karwan Rostemab , Thomas Stevensonb , Deborah Towner , Kongpop U-Yen , Emily Wagner , Duncan Watts , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Lingzhen Zeng

Results from the Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) Experiment

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) is an experiment designed to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization at large angular scales ($\ell>40$). It operated from the ACT site at 5190~m elevation in northern Chile at 145 GHz with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Akito Kusaka , John Appel , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , James A. Beall , Luis E. Campusano , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Kevin Crowley , Joseph W. Fowler , Patricio Gallardo , Matthew Hasselfield , Gene Hilton , Shuay-Pwu P. Ho , Kent Irwin , Norman Jarosik , Michael D. Niemack , Glen W. Nixon , Michael Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Gonzalo A. Palma , Lucas Parker , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Carl D. Reintsema , Jonathan Sievers , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Katerina Visnjic , Ki-Won Yoon

Cosmic Microwave Background Science at Commercial Airline Altitudes

Obtaining high-sensitivity measurements of degree-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is the most direct path to detecting primordial gravitational waves. Robustly recovering any primordial signal from the dominant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-20 Stephen M. Feeney , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Hiranya V. Peiris , Licia Verde , Josquin Errard