Studying Inflation and Neutrinos with the Cosmic Microwave Background

The parameter-level performance of covariance matrix conditioning in cosmic microwave background data analyses

L Balkenhol, CL Reichardt

2022-03-04

Empirical estimates of the band power covariance matrix are commonly used in cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum anal..

CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves

Kevork Abazajian, Graeme E Addison, Peter Adshead, Zeeshan Ahmed, Daniel Akerib, Aamir Ali, Steven W Allen, David Alonso, Marcelo Alvarez, Mustafa A Amin, Adam Anderson, Kam S Arnold, Peter Ashton, Carlo Baccigalupi, Debbie Bard, Denis Barkats, Darcy Barron, Peter S Barry, James G Bartlett, Ritoban Basu Thakur

2022-02-01

CMB-S4 - the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment - is set to significantly advance the sensi..

Optimal Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Reconstruction and Parameter Estimation with SPTpol Data

M Millea, CM Daley, T-L Chou, E Anderes, PAR Ade, AJ Anderson, JE Austermann, JS Avva, JA Beall, AN Bender, BA Benson, F Bianchini, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, P Chaubal, HC Chiang, R Citron, C Corbett Moran, TM Crawford

2021-12-01

We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian parameter inference and optimal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing of the cosm..

Constraints on Lambda CDM extensions from the SPT-3G 2018 EE and TE power spectra

L Balkenhol, D Dutcher, PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, E Anderes, AJ Anderson, M Archipley, JS Avva, K Aylor, PS Barry, R Basu Thakur, K Benabed, AN Bender, BA Benson, F Bianchini, LE Bleem, FR Bouchet, L Bryant, K Byrum, JE Carlstrom

2021-10-04

We present constraints on extensions to the ΛCDM cosmological model from measurements of the E-mode polarization autopower spectru..

Measurements of the E-mode polarization and temperature-E-mode correlation of the CMB from SPT-3G 2018 data

D Dutcher, L Balkenhol, PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, E Anderes, AJ Anderson, M Archipley, JS Avva, K Aylor, PS Barry, R Basu Thakur, K Benabed, AN Bender, BA Benson, F Bianchini, LE Bleem, FR Bouchet, L Bryant, K Byrum, JE Carlstrom

2021-07-13

We present measurements of the E-mode (EE) polarization power spectrum and temperature-E-mode (TE) cross-power spectrum of the cos..

A demonstration of improved constraints on primordial gravitational waves with delensing

PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, M Amiri, AJ Anderson, JE Austermann, JS Avva, D Barkats, R Basu Thakur, JA Beall, AN Bender, BA Benson, F Bianchini, CA Bischoff, LE Bleem, JJ Bock, H Boenish, E Bullock, V Buza, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang

2021-01-26

We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarizat..

A Measurement of the CMB E-mode Angular Power Spectrum at Subdegree Scales from 670 Square Degrees of POLARBEAR Data

S Adachi, MAO Aguilar Faundez, 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

2020-11-01

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data take..

Searching for anisotropic cosmic birefringence with polarization data from SPTpol

F Bianchini, WLK Wu, PAR Ade, AJ Anderson, JE Austermann, JS Avva, L Balkenhol, E Baxter, JA Beall, AN Bender, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, P Chaubal, HC Chiang, TL Chou, R Citron, C Corbett Moran, TM Crawford

2020-10-15

We present a search for anisotropic cosmic birefringence in 500  deg2 of southern sky observed at 150 GHz with the SPTpol camera o..

Millimeter-wave Point Sources from the 2500 Square Degree SPT-SZ Survey: Catalog and Population Statistics

WB Everett, L Zhang, TM Crawford, JD Vieira, M Aravena, MA Archipley, JE Austermann, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, S Chapman, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs, EM George, NW Halverson, N Harrington, GP Holder, WL Holzapfel

2020-08-31

We present a catalog of emissive point sources detected in the SPT-SZ survey, a contiguous 2530 square degree area surveyed with t..

A Measurement of the Degree-scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR

S Adachi, MAO Aguilar Faundez, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, S Beckman, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill, J Carron, S Chapman, K Cheung, Y Chinone, K Crowley, A Cukierman, M Dobbs, H El Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard

2020-07-01

The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present a measurement of the B-mode polarization power spectrum of the ..

Measurements of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background from 500 square degrees of SPTpol data

JT Sayre, CL Reichardt, JW Henning, PAR Ade, AJ Anderson, JE Austermann, JS Avva, JA Beall, AN Bender, BA Benson, F Bianchini, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, P Chauba, HC Chiang, R Citron, C Corbett Moran, TM Crawford, AT Crites

2020-06-15

We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made..

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

M Aguilar Faundez, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, S Beckman, F Bianchini, J Carron, K Cheung, Y Chinone, H El Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, T Fujino, N Goeckner-Wald, T Hamada, M Hasegawa, M Hazumi

2020-04-17

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing deflection power spectrum reconstructed with two seasons of cosmic microwave..

Internal Delensing of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization B-Modes with the POLARBEAR Experiment

S Adachi, MAO Aguilar Faundez, Y Akiba, A Ali, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, F Bianchini, J Borrill, J Carron, K Cheung, Y Chinone, K Crowley, H El Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, T Fujino

2020-04-01

Using only cosmic microwave background polarization data from the polarbear experiment, we measure B-mode polarization delensing o..

Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the 500 deg(2) SPTPOL Lensing Power Spectrum

F Bianchini, WLK Wu, PAR Ade, AJ Anderson, JE Austermann, JS Avva, JA Beall, AN Bender, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, P Chaubal, HC Chiang, R Citron, C Corbett Moran, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs

2020-01-16

We present cosmological constraints based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential power spectrum measurement fr..

Cross-correlation of CMB Polarization Lensing with High-z Submillimeter Herschel-ATLAS Galaxies

M Aguilar Faúndez, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill, J Carron, K Cheung, Y Chinone, H El Bouhargani, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, N Galitzki, N Goeckner-Wald, M Hasegawa, M Hazumi

2019-11-20

We report a 4.8σ measurement of the cross-correlation signal between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence rec..

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg2 of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

WLK Wu, LM Mocanu, PAR Ade, AJ Anderson, JE Austermann, JS Avva, JA Beall, AN Bender, BA Benson, F Bianchini, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, HC Chiang, R Citron, C Corbett Moran, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs

2019-10-10

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg2 of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol..

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

T Namikawa, Y Chinone, H Miyatake, M Oguri, R Takahashi, A Kusaka, N Katayama, S Adachi, M Aguilar, H Aihara, A Ali, R Armstrong, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, S Beckman, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill

2019-09-01

We present the first measurement of cross-correlation between the lensing potential, reconstructed from cosmic microwave backgroun..

Measurements of the Cross-spectra of the Cosmic Infrared and Microwave Backgrounds from 95 to 1200 GHz

MP Viero, CL Reichardt, BA Benson, LE Bleem, J Bock, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, H-M Cho, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs, WB Everett, EM George, NW Halverson, NL Harrington, G Holder, WL Holzapfel, Z Hou, JD Hrubes

2019-08-20

We present measurements of the power spectra of cosmic infrared background (CIB) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuation..

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-correlation between Dark Energy Survey Y1 galaxy weak lensing and South Pole Telescope plus Planck CMB weak lensing

Y Omori, EJ Baxter, C Chang, D Kirk, A Alarcon, GM Bernstein, LE Bleem, R Cawthon, A Choi, R Chown, TM Crawford, C Davis, J De Vicente, J DeRose, S Dodelson, TF Eifler, P Fosalba, O Friedrich, M Gatti, E Gaztanaga

2019-08-12

We cross-correlate galaxy weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year-one data with a cosmic microwave backgr..

Extreme digitization for ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments

L Balkenhol, CL Reichardt

2019-08-11

The large size of the time ordered data of cosmic microwave background experiments presents challenges for mission planning and da..

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Tomographic cross-correlations between Dark Energy Survey galaxies and CMB lensing from South Pole Telescope plus Planck

Y Omori, T Giannantonio, A Porredon, EJ Baxter, C Chang, M Crocce, P Fosalba, A Alarcon, N Banik, J Blazek, LE Bleem, SL Bridle, R Cawthon, A Choi, R Chown, T Crawford, S Dodelson, A Drlica-Wagner, TF Eifler, J Elvin-Poole

2019-08-01

We measure the cross-correlation between redMaGiC galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year 1 data and gravitationa..

Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Joint analysis of galaxy clustering, galaxy lensing, and CMB lensing two-point functions

TMC Abbott, FB Abdalla, A Alarcon, S Allam, J Annis, S Avila, K Aylor, M Banerji, N Banik, EJ Baxter, K Bechtol, MR Becker, BA Benson, GM Bernstein, E Bertin, F Bianchini, J Blazek, LE Bleem, SL Bridle, D Brooks

2019-07-26

We perform a joint analysis of the auto and cross-correlations between three cosmic fields: the galaxy density field, the galaxy w..

Consistency of cosmic microwave background temperature measurements in three frequency bands in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

LM Mocanu, TM Crawford, K Aylor, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, H-M Cho, R Chown, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs, WB Everett, EM George, NW Halverson, NL Harrington, JW Henning, GP Holder, WL Holzapfel, Z Hou

2019-07-01

We present an internal consistency test of South Pole Telescope (SPT) measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temper..

The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts

Peter Ade, James Aguirre, Zeeshan Ahmed, Simone Aiola, Aamir Ali, David Alonso, Marcelo A Alvarez, Kam Arnold, Peter Ashton, Jason Austermann, Humna Awan, Carlo Baccigalupi, Taylor Baildon, Darcy Barron, Nick Battaglia, Richard Battye, Eric Baxter, Andrew Bazarko, James A Beall, Rachel Bean

2019-02-01

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin obser..

Measurements of Tropospheric Ice Clouds with a Ground-based CMB Polarization Experiment, POLARBEAR

S Takakura, MAO Aguilar-Faundez, Y Akiba, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, D Beck, F Bianchini, D Boettger, J Borrill, K Cheung, Y Chinone, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian, C Feng, N Goeckner-Wald, T Hamada, M Hasegawa, M Hazumi

2019-01-14

The polarization of the atmosphere has been a long-standing concern for ground-based experiments targeting cosmic microwave backgr..

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Methodology and projections for joint analysis of galaxy clustering, galaxy lensing, and CMB lensing two-point functions

EJ Baxter, Y Omori, C Chang, T Giannantonio, D Kirk, E Krause, J Blazek, L Bleem, A Choi, TM Crawford, S Dodelson, TF Eifler, O Friedrich, D Gruen, GP Holder, B Jain, M Jarvis, N MacCrann, A Nicola, S Pandey

2019-01-04

Optical imaging surveys measure both the galaxy density and the gravitational lensing-induced shear fields across the sky. Recentl..

Maps of the Southern Millimeter-wave Sky from Combined 2500 deg(2) SPT-SZ and Planck Temperature Data

R Chown, Y Omori, K Aylor, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, H-M Cho, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs, WB Everett, EM George, JW Henning, NW Halverson, NL Harrington, G Holder, WL Holzapfel, Z Hou

2018-11-01

We present three maps of the millimeter-wave sky created by combining data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Planck sate..

Imprints of gravitational lensing in the Planck cosmic microwave background data at the location of WISE x SCOS galaxies

Srinivasan Raghunathan, Federico Bianchini, Christian L Reichardt

2018-08-06

We detect weak gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background at the location of the WISE×SuperCOSMOS (WISE×SCOS) galaxi..

Constraining Gravity at Large Scales with the 2MASS Photometric Redshift Catalog and Planck Lensing

Federico Bianchini, Christian L Reichardt

2018-07-20

We present a new measurement of structure growth at z ≃ 0.08 obtained by correlating the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing..

Where is Population II ?

J Mould, F Bianchini, Duncan A Forbes, CL Reichardt

2018-03-28

The use of roman numerals for stellar populations represents a classification approach to galaxy formation which is now well behin..

A Comparison of Maps and Power Spectra Determined from South Pole Telescope and Planck Data

Z Hou, K Aylor, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, H-M Cho, R Chown, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs, WB Everett, B Follin, EM George, NW Halverson, NL Harrington, GP Holder, WL Holzapfel, JD Hrubes

2018-01-20

We study the consistency of 150 GHz data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and 143 GHz data from the Planck satellite over the p..

Measurements of the Temperature and E-mode Polarization of the CMB from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

JW Henning, JT Sayre, CL Reichardt, PAR Ade, AJ Anderson, JE Austermann, JA Beall, AN Bender, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, HC Chiang, H-M Cho, R Citron, C Corbett Moran, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs

2018-01-10

We present measurements of the E-mode polarization angular auto-power spectrum (EE) and temperature-E-mode cross-power spectrum (T..

Year two instrument status of the SPT-3G cosmic microwave background receiver

AN Bender, PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, AJ Anderson, JS Avva, K Aylor, PS Barry, R Basu Thakur, BA Benson, LS Bleem, S Bocquet, K Byrum, JE Carlstrom, FW Carter, TW Cecil, CL Chang, H-M Cho, JF Cliche, TM Crawford, A Cukierman

2018-01-01

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed for high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwa..

A Comparison of Cosmological Parameters Determined from CMB Temperature Power Spectra from the South Pole Telescope and the &ITPlanck&IT Satellite

K Aylor, Z Hou, L Knox, KT Story, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, H-M Cho, R Chown, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs, WB Everett, EM George, NW Halverson, NL Harrington, GP Holder, WL Holzapfel

2017-11-20

The Planck cosmic microwave background temperature data are best fit with a ΛCDM model that mildly contradicts constraints from ot..

A 2500 deg(2) CMB Lensing Map from Combined South Pole Telescope and Planck Data

Y Omori, R Chown, G Simard, KT Story, K Aylor, EJ Baxter, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, H-M Cho, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs, WB Everett, EM George, NW Halverson, NL Harrington, GP Holder

2017-11-10

We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing map produced from a linear combination of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Pl..

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Subdegree Scales from Two Years of POLARBEAR Data

PAR 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, R Dunner, M Dobbs, A Ducout, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian

2017-10-20

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background B-mode polarization power spectrum with the Polarbear experim..

Current and Future Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields

Dylan R Sutton, Chang Feng, Christian L Reichardt

2017-09-10

We present new limits on the amplitude of potential primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) using temperature and polarization measureme..

CMB Polarization B-mode Delensing with SPTpol and Herschel

A Manzotti, KT Story, WLK Wu, JE Austermann, JA Beall, AN Bender, BA Benson, LE Bleem, JJ Bock, JE Carlstrom, CL Chang, HC Chiang, H-M Cho, R Citron, A Conley, TM Crawford, AT Crites, T de Haan, MA Dobbs, S Dodelson

2017-09-01

We present a demonstration of delensing the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization anisotropy. This proces..

Performance of a continuously rotating half-wave plate on the POLARBEAR telescope

Satoru Takakura, Mario Aguilar, Yoshiki Akiba, Kam Arnold, Carlo Baccigalupi, Darcy Barron, Shawn Beckman, David Boettger, Julian Borrill, Scott Chapman, Yuji Chinone, Ari Cukierman, Anne Ducout, Tucker Elleflot, Josquin Errard, Giulio Fabbian, Takuro Fujino, Nicholas Galitzki, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Nils W Halverson

2017-05-01

A continuously rotating half-wave plate (CRHWP) is a promising tool to improve the sensitivity to large angular scales in cosmic m..

Making maps of cosmic microwave background polarization for B-mode studies: The POLARBEAR example

D Poletti, G Fabbian, M Le Jeune, J Peloton, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, D Barron, S Beckman, J Borrill, S Chapman, Y Chinone, A Cukierman, A Ducout, T Elleflot, J Errard, S Feeney, N Goeckner-Wald, J Groh, G Hall, M Hasegawa

2017-04-01

Analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) datasets typically requires some filtering of the raw time-ordered data. For instanc..