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The IAC-Bartol Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment: Results of the 1994 Campaign

We present the results of a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy ground-based millimetric experiment sensitive to fluctuations on angular scales of $\sim 2\degg$. Four independent bands centered at 3.3, 2.1, 1.3 and 1.1 mm collected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Femenia , R. Rebolo , C. M. Gutierrez , M. Limon , L. Piccirillo

The Cosmic Background Radiation, Snowmass Workshop

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave background have provided many of the most powerful constraints we have on cosmology and events in the early universe. The spectrum and isotropy of CBR have long been a pillar of Big Bang models. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 George F. Smoot

Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation

(Abridged) The 7-year WMAP data and improved astrophysical data rigorously test the standard cosmological model and its extensions. By combining WMAP with the latest distance measurements from BAO and H0 measurement, we determine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 E. Komatsu , K. M. Smith , J. Dunkley , C. L. Bennett , B. Gold , G. Hinshaw , N. Jarosik , D. Larson , M. R. Nolta , L. Page , D. N. Spergel , M. Halpern , R. S. Hill , A. Kogut , M. Limon , S. S. Meyer , N. Odegard , G. S. Tucker , J. L. Weiland , E. Wollack , E. L. Wright

Preliminary results and perspectives in the Archeops experiment

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature fluctuations are a powerful tool for testing theories of the early Universe and for measuring cosmological parameters. We present basics of CMB physics, review some of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Christophe Hamilton

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT): Beam Profiles and First SZ Cluster Maps

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is currently observing the cosmic microwave background with arcminute resolution at 148 GHz, 218 GHz, and 277 GHz. In this paper, we present ACT's first results. Data have been analyzed using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 A. D. Hincks , V. Acquaviva , P. 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. Dicker , W. B. Doriese , J. Dunkley , R. Dünner , T. Essinger-Hileman , R. P. Fisher , J. W. Fowler , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , G. C. Hilton , M. Hilton , R. Hlozek , K. Huffenberger , D. 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. 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 , O. Stryzak , D. Swetz , E. Switzer , R. Thornton , H. Trac , C. Tucker , L. Verde , R. Warne , G. Wilson , E. Wollack , Y. Zhao

First results from the BOOMERanG experiment

We report the first results from the BOOMERanG experiment, which mapped at 90, 150, 240 and 410 GHz a wide (3%) region of the microwave sky with minimal local contamination. From the data of the best 150 GHz detector we find evidence for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. de Bernardis , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , K. Coble , B. P. Crill , G. De Gasperis , G. De Troia , P. C. Farese , P. G. Ferreira , K. Ganga , M. Giacometti , E. Hivon , V. V. Hristov , A. Iacoangeli , A. H. Jaffe , A. E. Lange , L. Martinis , S. Masi , P. Mason , P. D. Mauskopf , A. Melchiorri , L. Miglio , T. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , F. Piacentini , D. Pogosyan , F. Pongetti , S. Prunet , S. Rao , G. Romeo , J. E. Ruhl , F. Scaramuzzi , D. Sforna , N. Vittorio

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at the power spectrum level alone. To date, nearly all map-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , J. Colin Hill , Sigurd Naess , Graeme E. Addison , Simone Aiola , Taylor Baildon , Nicholas Battaglia , Rachel Bean , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Steve K. Choi , Omar Darwish , Mark J. Devlin , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Simone Ferraro , Patricio A. Gallardo , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Matthew Hasselfield , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Amanda MacInnis , Loïc Maurin , Jeffrey J. McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Naomi Robertson , Neelima Sehgal , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Blake D. Sherwin , Cristóbal Sifón , Sara M. Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie R. Storer , Alexander van Engelen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

Cosmic Background Anisotropies in CDM Cosmology

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and density fluctuations are calculated for flat cold dark matter (CDM) models with a wide range of parameters, i.e., $\Omega_0, h$ and $\Omega_B$ for both standard recombination and various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Naoshi Sugiyama

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

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor Receiver Design

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor consists of four instruments performing a CMB polarization survey. Currently, the 40 GHz and first 90 GHz instruments are deployed and observing, with the second 90 GHz and a multichroic 150/220…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jeffrey Iuliano , Joseph Eimer , Lucas Parker , Gary Rhoades , Aamir Ali , John W. Appel , Charles Bennett , Michael Brewer , Ricardo Bustos , David Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Jullianna Couto , Sumit Dahal , Kevin Denis , Rolando Dünner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Pedro Fluxa , Mark Halpern , Kathleen Harrington , Kyle Helson , Gene Hilton , Gary Hinshaw , Johannes Hubmayr , John Karakla , Tobias Marriage , Nathan Miller , Jeffrey John McMahon , Carolina Nuñez , Ivan Padilla , Gonzalo Palma , Matthew Petroff , Bastian Pradenas Márquez , Rodrigo Reeves , Carl Reintsema , Karwan Rostem , Deniz Augusto Nunes Valle , Trevor Van Engelhoven , Bingjie Wang , Qinan Wang , Duncan Watts , Jenet Weiland , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ziang Yan , Lingzhen Zeng

Anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background

We review the present status of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy observations and discuss the main related astrophysical issues, instrumental effects and data analysis techniques. We summarise the balloon-borne and ground-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bersanelli , D. Maino , A. Mennella

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect and Its Cosmological Significance

Comptonization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation by hot gas in clusters of galaxies - the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (S-Z) effect - is of great astrophysical and cosmological significance. In recent years observations of the effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoel Rephaeli

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Lensing of CMB Temperature and Polarization Derived from Cosmic Infrared Background Cross-Correlation

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields obtained by cross-correlating the reconstructed convergence signal from the first season of ACTPol data at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Alexander van Engelen , Blake D. Sherwin , Neelima Sehgal , Graeme E. Addison , Rupert Allison , Nick Battaglia , Francesco de Bernardis , Erminia Calabrese , Kevin Coughlin , Devin Crichton , J. Richard Bond , Rahul Datta , Rolando Dunner , Joanna Dunkley , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Amir Hajian , Matthew Hasselfield , Shawn Henderson , J. Colin Hill , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hlozek , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Loic Maurin , Jeff McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Charles Munson , Sigurd Naess , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Mike Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Christine Pappas , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Jonathan L. Sievers , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eric R. Switzer , Jonathan T. Ward , Edward J. Wollack

Measuring cluster masses with CMB lensing: a statistical approach

We present a method for measuring the masses of galaxy clusters using the imprint of their gravitational lensing signal on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. The method first reconstructs the projected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jean-Baptiste Melin , James G. Bartlett

Measurement of the Full Shape of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Power Spectrum from South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

We present a measurement of the full shape of the power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect down to arcminute scales using cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) over roughly 100 ${\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 S. Raghunathan , P. A. R. Ade , D. Anbajagane , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , J. E. Austermann , L. Balkenhol , D. R. Barron , P. S. Barry , J. A. Beall , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. Bock , S. Bocquet , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , M. G. Campitiello , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carron , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , H. C. Chiang , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , R. Citron , A. Coerver , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , N. C. Ferree , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , J. Gallicchio , A. E. Gambrel , A. K. Gao , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , E. M. George , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , A. Y. Q. Ho , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , J. D. Hrubes , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , T. Jhaveri , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , K. Levy , Y. Li , D. Li , A. E. Lowitz , A. Lowitz , C. Lu , G. P. Lynch , T. J. Maccarone , A. S. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , J. J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , A. Ouellette , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , S. Patil , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , C. Pryke , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , E. Schiappucci , C. Sievers , A. C. Silva Oliveira , A. Simpson , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , A. G. Vieregg , M. P. Viero , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski , M. Zemcov

Four-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: On-sky Receiver Performance at 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz Frequency Bands

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) observes the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) over the angular scales of 1$^\circ \lesssim \theta \leq$ 90$^\circ$ with the aim of characterizing primordial gravitational waves…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-10 Sumit Dahal , John W. Appel , Rahul Datta , Michael K. Brewer , Aamir Ali , Charles L. Bennett , Ricardo Bustos , Manwei Chan , David T. Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Jullianna D. Couto , Kevin L. Denis , Rolando Dünner , Joseph Eimer , Francisco Espinoza , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Joseph E. Golec , Kathleen Harrington , Kyle Helson , Jeffrey Iuliano , John Karakla , Yunyang Li , Tobias A. Marriage , Jeffrey J. McMahon , Nathan J. Miller , Sasha Novack , Carolina Núñez , Keisuke Osumi , Ivan L. Padilla , Gonzalo A. Palma , Lucas Parker , Matthew A. Petroff , Rodrigo Reeves , Gary Rhoades , Karwan Rostem , Deniz A. N. Valle , Duncan J. Watts , Janet L. Weiland , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

Health checkup test of the standard cosmological model in view of recent Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies experiments

We present an updated data-analysis comparison of the most recent observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature anisotropies and polarization angular power spectra released by four different experiments: the Planck satellite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-15 Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Silk

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmology from Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

We present constraints on cosmological parameters based on a sample of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected galaxy clusters detected in a millimeter-wave survey by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The cluster sample used in this analysis consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Neelima Sehgal , Hy Trac , Viviana Acquaviva , Peter A. R. Ade , Paula Aguirre , Mandana Amiri , John W. Appel , L. Felipe Barrientos , Elia S. Battistelli , J. Richard Bond , Ben Brown , Bryce Burger , Jay Chervenak , Sudeep Das , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , W. Bertrand Doriese , Joanna Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Ryan P. Fisher , Joseph W. Fowler , Amir Hajian , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hlozek , David Holtz , Kevin M. Huffenberger , David H. Hughes , John P. Hughes , Leopoldo Infante , Kent D. Irwin , Andrew Jones , Jean Baptiste Juin , Jeff Klein , Arthur Kosowsky , Judy M. Lau , Michele Limon , Yen-Ting Lin , Robert H. Lupton , Tobias A. Marriage , Danica Marsden , Krista Martocci , Phil Mauskopf , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Harvey Moseley , Calvin B. Netterfield , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Lucas Parker , Bruce Partridge , Beth Reid , Blake D. Sherwin , Jon Sievers , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Daniel S. Swetz , Eric R. Switzer , Robert Thornton , Carole Tucker , Ryan Warne , Ed Wollack , Yue Zhao

Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Groups and Clusters-III: Constraining Quasar Feedback Models with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array

The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect serves as a direct potential probe of the energetic outflows from quasars that are responsible for heating the intergalactic medium. In this work, we use the GIZMO meshless finite mass hydrodynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-26 Avinanda Chakraborty , Suchetana Chatterjee , Mark Lacy , Soumya Roy , Samrat Roy , Rudrani Kar Chowdhury

Improving cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster number counts with CMB-cluster-lensing data: Results from the SPT-SZ survey and forecasts for the future

We show the improvement to cosmological constraints from galaxy cluster surveys with the addition of CMB-cluster lensing data. We explore the cosmological implications of adding mass information from the 3.1$\sigma$ detection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 P. S. Chaubal , C. L. Reichardt , N. Gupta , B. Ansarinejad , K. Aylor , L. Balkenhol , E. J. Baxter , F. Bianchini , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. B. Everett , B. Floyd , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , S. Padin , C. Pryke , J. E. Ruhl , F. Ruppin , L. Salvati , A. Saro , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson