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Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum from Two Years of POLARBEAR Data

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing deflection power spectrum reconstructed with two seasons cosmic microwave background polarization data from the POLARBEAR experiment. Observations were taken at 150 GHz from 2012 to 2014…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Mario Aguilar Faúndez , Kam Arnold , Carlo Baccigalupi , Darcy Barron , Dominic Beck , Shawn Beckman , Federico Bianchini , Julien Carron , Kolen Cheung , Yuji Chinone , Hamza El Bouhargani , Tucker Elleflot , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Chang Feng , Takuro Fujino , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Takaho Hamada , Masaya Hasegawa , Masashi Hazumi , Charles A. Hill , Haruaki Hirose , Oliver Jeong , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Shuhei Kikuchi , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , David Leon , Eric Linder , Lindsay Ng Lowry , Frederick Matsuda , Tomotake Matsumura , Yuto Minami , Martin Navaroli , Haruki Nishino , Anh Thi Phuong Pham , Davide Poletti , Giuseppe Puglisi , Christian L Reichardt , Yuuko Segawa , Blake D Sherwin , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Praween Siritanasak , Radek Stompor , Aritoki Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Sayuri Takatori , Daiki Tanabe , Grant P. Teply , Calvin Tsai

A needlet ILC analysis of WMAP 9-year polarisation data: CMB polarisation power spectra

We estimate Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation power spectra, and temperature-polarisation cross-spectra, from the 9-year data of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). Foreground cleaning is implemented using minimum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Soumen Basak , Jacques Delabrouille

Power Asymmetries in the Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature and Polarization patterns

We test the asymmetry of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy jointly in temperature and polarization. We study the hemispherical asymmetry, previously found only in the temperature field, with respect to the axis identified by Hansen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-13 F. Paci , A. Gruppuso , F. Finelli , P. Cabella , A. De Rosa , N. Mandolesi , P. Natoli

Measurements of the Temperature and E-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from the Full 500-square-degree SPTpol Dataset

Using the full four-year SPTpol 500 deg$^2$ dataset in both the 95 GHz and 150 GHz frequency bands, we present measurements of the temperature and $E$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), as well as the $E$-mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-05 T. -L. Chou , P. A. R. Ade , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , L. Balkenhol , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , J. J. McMahon , J. Montgomery , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , W. Quan , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , C. Tucker , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , J. A. Zebrowski

Planck 2018 results. VII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB

Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with previous studies using the 2013 and 2015 data releases. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Planck Collaboration , Y. Akrami , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , K. Benabed , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , B. Casaponsa , H. C. Chiang , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , D. Contreras , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , E. Di Valentino , J. M. Diego , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , Y. Fantaye , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Finelli , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , T. Ghosh , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , J. Hamann , W. Handley , F. K. Hansen , D. Herranz , E. Hivon , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , Y. -Z. Ma , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , A. Marcos-Caballero , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , N. Mauri , J. D. McEwen , P. R. Meinhold , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , A. Moss , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , G. Polenta , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Ruiz-Granados , L. Salvati , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , E. P. S. Shellard , C. Sirignano , R. Sunyaev , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , T. Trombetti , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , A. Zacchei , J. P. Zibin , A. Zonca

Microwave Background Polarization as a Probe of Large-Angle Correlations

Two-point correlation functions of cosmic microwave background polarization provide a physically independent probe of the surprising suppression of correlations in the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropies at large angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Amanda Yoho , Simone Aiola , Craig J. Copi , Arthur Kosowsky , Glenn D. Starkman

Measuring the Largest Angular Scale CMB B-mode Polarization with Galactic Foregrounds on a Cut Sky

We consider the effectiveness of foreground cleaning in the recovery of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization sourced by gravitational waves for tensor-to-scalar ratios in the range $0<r<0.1$. Using the planned survey area,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Duncan J. Watts , David Larson , Tobias A. Marriage , Maximilian H. Abitbol , John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , David T. Chuss , Joseph R. Eimer , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Nathan J. Miller , Karwan Rostem , Edward J. Wollack

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

First measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation at small angular scales from CAPMAP

Polarization results from the Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper (CAPMAP) experiment are reported. These are based upon 433 hours, after cuts, observing a 2 square degree patch around the North Celestial Pole (NCP) with four 90 GHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 D. Barkats , C. Bischoff , P. Farese , L. Fitzpatrick , T. Gaier , J. O. Gundersen , M. M. Hedman , L. Hyatt , J. J. McMahon , D. Samtleben , S. T. Staggs , K. Vanderlinde , B. Winstein

Measurements of B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made using the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Telescope. This work uses 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol data, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 J. T. Sayre , C. L. Reichardt , J. W. Henning , P. A. R. Ade , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , R. Citron , C. Corbett Moran , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. Gupta , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Li , A. Lowitz , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. M. Mocanu , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , G. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , S. Patil , C. Pryke , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , C. Sievers , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , T. Veach , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko

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

Constraints on Inflationary Gravitational Waves with Two Years of SPT-3G Data

We present a measurement of the $B$-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies at 32 $\le$ $\ell$ $<$ 502 for three bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz using data from the SPT-3G receiver on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 J. A. Zebrowski , C. L. Reichardt , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , L. Balkenhol , P. Barry , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , K. Levy , Y. Li , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , G. P. Lynch , A. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , Y. Omori , A. Ouellette , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , S. Raghunathan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , A. Simpson , E. Schiappucci , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Umilta , J. D. Vieira , A. G. Vieregg , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , M. R. Young

Three Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Polarization Analysis

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe WMAP has mapped the entire sky in five frequency bands between 23 and 94 GHz with polarization sensitive radiometers. We present three-year full-sky maps of the polarization and analyze them for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Page , G. Hinshaw , E. Komatsu , M. R. Nolta , D. N. Spergel , C. L. Bennett , C. Barnes , R. Bean , O. Doré , J. Dunkley , M. Halpern , R. S. Hill , N. Jarosik , A. Kogut , M. Limon , S. S. Meyer , N. Odegard , H. V. Peiris , G. S. Tucker , L. Verde , J. L. Weiland , E. Wollack , E. L. Wright

Evidence for the Cross-correlation between Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing from POLARBEAR and Cosmic Shear from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

We present the first measurement of cross-correlation between the lensing potential, reconstructed from cosmic microwave background (CMB) {\it polarization} data, and the cosmic shear field from galaxy shapes. This measurement is made using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-14 Toshiya Namikawa , Yuji Chinone , Hironao Miyatake , Masamune Oguri , Ryuichi Takahashi , Akito Kusaka , Nobuhiko Katayama , Shunsuke Adachi , Mario Aguilar , Hiroaki Aihara , Aamir Ali , Robert Armstrong , Kam Arnold , Carlo Baccigalupi , Darcy Barron , Dominic Beck , Shawn Beckman , Federico Bianchini , David Boettger , Julian Borrill , Kolen Cheung , Lance Corbett , Kevin T. Crowley , Hamza El Bouhargani , Tucker Elleflot , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Chang Feng , Nicholas Galitzki , Neil Goeckner-Wald , John Groh , Takaho Hamada , Masaya Hasegawa , Masashi Hazumi , Charles Hill , Logan Howe , Oliver Jeong , Daisuke Kaneko , Brian Keating , Adrian T. Lee , David Leon , Eric Linder , Lindsay Ng Lowry , Aashrita Mangu , Frederick Matsuda , Yuto Minami , Satoshi Miyazaki , Hitoshi Murayama , Martin Navaroli , Haruki Nishino , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Anh Thi Phuong Pham , Davide Poletti , Giuseppe Puglisi , Christian L. Reichardt , Blake D. Sherwin , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Praween Siritanasak , Joshua S. Speagle , Radek Stompor , Aritoki Suzuki , Philip J. Tait , Osamu Tajima , Masahiro Takada , Satoru Takakura , Sayuri Takatori , Daiki Tanabe , Masayuki Tanaka , Grant P. Teply , Calvin Tsai , Clara Verges , Ben Westbrook , Yuyang Zhou , The POLARBEAR Collaboration , the Subaru HSC SSP Collaboration

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 Statistical Isotropy of CMB Anisotropy

The statistical expectation values of the temperature fluctuations and polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) are assumed to be preserved under rotations of the sky. We investigate the statistical isotropy (SI) of the CMB maps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tarun Souradeep , Amir Hajian , Soumen Basak

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

Maximum Likelihood Foreground Cleaning for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeters in the Presence of Systematic Effects

We extend a general maximum likelihood foreground estimation for cosmic microwave background polarization data to include estimation of instrumental systematic effects. We focus on two particular effects: frequency band measurement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 Chaoyun Bao , Carlo Baccigalupi , Ben Gold , Shaul Hanany , Andrew Jaffe , Radek Stompor

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

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