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Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a long-standing prediction of the standard cosmolgical model, is ultimately expected to be an important source of cosmological information, but first detection has not been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Kendrick M. Smith , Oliver Zahn , Olivier Dore

We study the prospects to measure the cosmic radio dipole by means of continuum surveys with the Square Kilometre Array. Such a measurement will allow a critical test of the cosmological principle. It will test whether the cosmic rest frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Dominik J. Schwarz , Carlos A. P. Bengaly , Roy Maartens , Thilo M. Siewert

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from clusters of galaxies should yield a significant signal in cosmic microwave background(CMB) experiments at small angular scales ($\ell \ga 1000$). Experiments with sufficient frequency coverage should…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gilbert P. Holder , John E. Carlstrom

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…

We describe our methodology for comparing the WMAP measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and other complementary data sets to theoretical models. The unprecedented quality of the WMAP data, and the tight constraints on…

The last years have been an exciting period for the field of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) research. With recent CMB balloon-borne and ground-based experiments we are entering a new era of 'precision' cosmology that enables us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Melchiorri

Detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization is one of the final frontiers of modern observational cosmology. The inherently faint signal makes it susceptible to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Aishrila Mazumder , Abhirup Datta , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Arnab Chakraborty , Saurabh Singh , Anshuman Tripathi , Madhurima Choudhury

The Square Kilometer Array will have the sensitivity, spatial resolution, and frequency resolution to provide new scientific knowledge of evolved stars. Four basic areas of scientific exploration are enhanced by the construction of the SKA:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin Marvel

With WMAP putting the phenomenological standard model of cosmology on a strong footing, one can look forward to mining the cosmic microwave background (CMB) for fundamental physics with higher sensitivity and on smaller scales. Future CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Manoj Kaplinghat

We present a map and an angular power spectrum of the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the first flight of MAXIMA. MAXIMA is a balloon-borne experiment with an array of 16 bolometric photometers operated at 100 mK.…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) provides an excellent opportunity for low cost searches for fast radio transients. The increased sensitivity and field of view of the SKA compared with other radio telescopes will make it an ideal instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. M. Colegate , N. Clarke

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned large radio interferometer designed to operate over a wide range of frequencies, and with an order of magnitude greater sensitivity and survey speed than any current radio telescope. The SKA…

This is a solicited whitepaper for the Snowmass 2021 community planning exercise. The paper focuses on measurements and science with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB is foundational to our understanding of modern physics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Clarence L. Chang , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Bradford A. Benson , Federico Bianchini , Jens Chluba , Jacques Delabrouille , Raphael Flauger , Shaul Hanany , William C. Jones , Alan J. Kogut , Jeffrey J. McMahon , Joel Meyers , Neelima Sehgal , Sara M. Simon , Caterina Umilta , Kevork N. Abazajian , Zeeshan Ahmed , Yashar Akrami , Adam J. Anderson , Behzad Ansarinejad , Jason Austermann , Carlo Baccigalupi , Denis Barkats , Darcy Barron , Peter S. Barry , Nicholas Battaglia , Eric Baxter , Dominic Beck , Amy N. Bender , Charles Bennett , Benjamin Beringue , Colin Bischoff , Lindsey Bleem , James Bock , Boris Bolliet , J Richard Bond , Julian Borrill , Thejs Brinckmann , Michael L. Brown , Erminia Calabrese , John Carlstrom , Anthony Challinor , Chihway Chang , Yuji Chinone , Susan E. Clark , William Coulton , Ari Cukierman , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Shannon M. Duff , Cora Dvorkin , Alexander van Engelen , Josquin Errard , Johannes R. Eskilt , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Giulio Fabbian , Chang Feng , Simone Ferraro , Jeffrey Filippini , Katherine Freese , Nicholas Galitzki , Eric Gawiser , Daniel Grin , Daniel Grin , Evan Grohs , Alessandro Gruppuso , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Nils W. Halverson , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Kathleen Harrington , Sophie Henrot-Versillé , Brandon Hensley , J. Colin Hill , Adam D. Hincks , Renee Hlozek , William Holzapfel , Selim C. Hotinli , Howard Hui , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Matthew Johnson , Bradley R. Johnson , Jae Hwan Kang , Kirit S. Karkare , Lloyd Knox , John Kovac , Kenny Lau , Louis Legrand , Marilena Loverde , Philip Lubin , Yin-Zhe Ma , Tony Mroczkowski , Suvodip Mukherjee , Moritz Münchmeyer , Daisuke Nagai , Johanna Nagy , Michael Niemack , Valentine Novosad , Yuuki Omori , Giorgio Orlando , Zhaodi Pan , Laurence Perotto , Matthew A. Petroff , Levon Pogosian , Clem Pryke , Alexandra Rahlin , Marco Raveri , Christian L. Reichardt , Mathieu Remazeilles , Yoel Rephaeli , John Ruhl , Emmanuel Schaan , Sarah Shandera , Meir Shimon , Ahmed Soliman , Antony A. Stark , Glenn D. Starkman , Radek Stompor , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Cynthia Trendafilova , Matthieu Tristram , Pranjal Trivedi , Gregory Tucker , Eleonora Di Valentino , Joaquin Vieira , Abigail Vieregg , Gensheng Wang , Scott Watson , Lukas Wenzl , Edward J. Wollack , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Zhilei Xu , David Zegeye , Cheng Zhang

The low-frequency radio telescope of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is being built by the international radio astronomical community to (i) have orders of magnitude higher sensitivity and (ii) be able to map the sky several hundred times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Agaram Raghunathan , Keerthipriya Satish , Arasi Sathyamurthy , T. Prabu , B. S. Girish , K. S. Srivani , Shiv K. Sethi

The vast collecting area of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), harnessed by sensitive receivers, flexible digital electronics and increased computational capacity, could permit the most sensitive and exhaustive search for…

We propose the implementation of an imaging telescope in combination with an inter-frequency calibrator to measure the spectral shape of the microwave sky by exploiting the differences in the sky intensity between multiple pairs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-25 Suvodip Mukherjee , Joseph Silk , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We analyze the spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in the timescape cosmology: a potentially viable alternative to homogeneous isotropic cosmologies without dark energy. We exploit the fact that the timescape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 M. Ahsan Nazer , David L. Wiltshire

We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope at 148 GHz and 218 GHz, as well as the cross-frequency spectrum between the two channels. Our results clearly show the…