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1. BICEP/Keck. XVII. Line-of-sight Distortion Analysis: Estimates of Gravitational Lensing, Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence, Patchy Reionization, and Systematic Errors

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P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, M. Amiri, D. Barkats, R. Basu Thakur, C. A. Bischoff, D. Beck, J. J. Bock, H. Boenish, E. Bullock, V. Buza, J. R. Cheshire IV, J. Connors, J. Cornelison, M. Crumrine, A. Cukierman, E. V. Denison, M. Dierickx, L. Duband, M. Eiben, S. Fatigoni, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, C. Giannakopoulos, N. Goeckner-Wald, D. C. Goldfinger, J. Grayson, P. Grimes, G. Hall, G. Halal, M. Halpern, E. Hand, S. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. R. Hildebrandt, J. Hubmayr, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, J. Kang, K. S. Karkare, E. Karpel, S. Kefeli, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, K. Lau, E. M. Leitch, A. Lennox, K. G. Megerian, L. Minutolo, L. Moncelsi, Y. Nakato, T. Namikawa, H. T. Nguyen, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn IV, S. Palladino, M. Petroff, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, B. Racine, C. D. Reintsema, S. Richter, A. Schillaci, R. Schwarz, B. L. Schmitt, C. D. Sheehy, B. Singari, A. Soliman, T. St. Germaine, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, G. P. Teply, K. L. Thompson, J. E. Tolan, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, C. Umiltà, C. Vergès, A. G. Vieregg, A. Wandui, A. C. Weber, D. V. Wiebe, J. Willmert, C. L. Wong, W. L. K. Wu, H. Yang, K. W. Yoon, E. Young, C. Yu, L. Zeng, C. Zhang, S. Zhang, and BICEP/Keck Collaboration

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Observational cosmology, Cosmic microwave background radiation, Weak gravitational lensing, Primordial magnetic fields, Reionization, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

We present estimates of line-of-sight distortion fields derived from the 95 and 150 GHz data taken by BICEP2, BICEP3, and the Keck Array up to the 2018 observing season, leading to cosmological constraints and a study of instrumental and astrophysical systematics. Cosmological constraints are derived from three of the distortion fields concerning gravitational lensing from large-scale structure, polarization rotation from magnetic fields or an axion-like field, and the screening effect of patchy reionization. We measure an amplitude of the lensing power spectrum ${A}_{L}^{\phi \phi }=0.95\pm 0.20$ . We constrain polarization rotation, expressed as the coupling constant of a Chern–Simons electromagnetic term g _a _γ ≤ 2.6 × 10 ^−2 / H _I , where H _I is the inflationary Hubble parameter, and an amplitude of primordial magnetic fields smoothed over 1 Mpc B _1Mpc ≤ 6.6 nG at 95 GHz. We constrain the rms of optical depth fluctuations in a simple “crinkly surface” model of patchy reionization, finding A ^τ < 0.19 (2 σ ) for the coherence scale of L _c = 100. We show that all of the distortion fields of the 95 and 150 GHz polarization maps are consistent with simulations including lensed ΛCDM, dust, and noise, with no evidence for instrumental systematics. In some cases, the EB and TB quadratic estimators presented here are more sensitive than our previous map-based null tests at identifying and rejecting spurious B -modes that might arise from instrumental effects. Finally, we verify that the standard deprojection filtering in the BICEP/Keck data processing is effective at removing temperature to polarization leakage.

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2023
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2. BICEP/Keck. XVI. Characterizing Dust Polarization through Correlations with Neutral Hydrogen

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P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, M. Amiri, D. Barkats, R. Basu Thakur, C. A. Bischoff, D. Beck, J. J. Bock, H. Boenish, E. Bullock, V. Buza, J. R. Cheshire IV, S. E. Clark, J. Connors, J. Cornelison, M. Crumrine, A. Cukierman, E. V. Denison, M. Dierickx, L. Duband, M. Eiben, S. Fatigoni, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, C. Giannakopoulos, N. Goeckner-Wald, D. C. Goldfinger, J. Grayson, P. Grimes, G. Hall, G. Halal, M. Halpern, E. Hand, S. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. R. Hildebrandt, J. Hubmayr, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, J. Kang, K. S. Karkare, E. Karpel, S. Kefeli, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, K. Lau, E. M. Leitch, A. Lennox, K. G. Megerian, L. Minutolo, L. Moncelsi, Y. Nakato, T. Namikawa, H. T. Nguyen, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn IV, S. Palladino, M. A. Petroff, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, B. Racine, C. D. Reintsema, S. Richter, A. Schillaci, R. Schwarz, B. L. Schmitt, C. D. Sheehy, B. Singari, A. Soliman, T. St. Germaine, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, G. P. Teply, K. L. Thompson, J. E. Tolan, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, C. Umiltà, C. Vergès, A. G. Vieregg, A. Wandui, A. C. Weber, D. V. Wiebe, J. Willmert, C. L. Wong, W. L. K. Wu, H. Yang, K. W. Yoon, E. Young, C. Yu, L. Zeng, C. Zhang, S. Zhang, and BICEP/Keck Collaboration

Subjects
Interstellar dust, Interstellar filaments, Neutral hydrogen clouds, Cosmic microwave background radiation, Interstellar magnetic fields, Interstellar medium, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

We characterize Galactic dust filaments by correlating BICEP/Keck and Planck data with polarization templates based on neutral hydrogen (H i ) observations. Dust polarization is important for both our understanding of astrophysical processes in the interstellar medium (ISM) and the search for primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In the diffuse ISM, H i is strongly correlated with the dust and partly organized into filaments that are aligned with the local magnetic field. We analyze the deep BICEP/Keck data at 95, 150, and 220 GHz, over the low-column-density region of sky where BICEP/Keck has set the best limits on primordial gravitational waves. We separate the H i emission into distinct velocity components and detect dust polarization correlated with the local Galactic H i but not with the H i associated with Magellanic Stream i . We present a robust, multifrequency detection of polarized dust emission correlated with the filamentary H i morphology template down to 95 GHz. For assessing its utility for foreground cleaning, we report that the H i morphology template correlates in B modes at a ∼10%–65% level over the multipole range 20 < ℓ < 200 with the BICEP/Keck maps, which contain contributions from dust, CMB, and noise components. We measure the spectral index of the filamentary dust component spectral energy distribution to be β = 1.54 ± 0.13. We find no evidence for decorrelation in this region between the filaments and the rest of the dust field or from the inclusion of dust associated with the intermediate velocity H i . Finally, we explore the morphological parameter space in the H i -based filamentary model.

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2023
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3. BICEP/Keck XII: Constraints on axionlike polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background

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P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, M. Amiri, D. Barkats, R. Basu Thakur, C. A. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, H. Boenish, E. Bullock, V. Buza, J. R. Cheshire, J. Connors, J. Cornelison, M. Crumrine, A. Cukierman, M. Dierickx, L. Duband, S. Fatigoni, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, N. Goeckner-Wald, J. Grayson, G. Hall, M. Halpern, S. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. R. Hildebrandt, G. C. Hilton, J. Hubmayr, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, J. Kang, K. S. Karkare, E. Karpel, B. G. Keating, S. Kefeli, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, K. Lau, E. M. Leitch, K. G. Megerian, L. Moncelsi, T. Namikawa, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn, S. Palladino, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, B. Racine, C. D. Reintsema, S. Richter, A. Schillaci, B. L. Schmitt, R. Schwarz, C. D. Sheehy, A. Soliman, T. St. Germaine, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, G. Teply, K. L. Thompson, J. E. Tolan, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, C. Umilta, A. G. Vieregg, A. Wandui, A. C. Weber, D. V. Wiebe, J. Willmert, C. L. Wong, W. L. K. Wu, H. Yang, K. W. Yoon, E. Young, C. Yu, L. Zeng, and C. Zhang

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2021
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4. A demonstration of improved constraints on primordial gravitational waves with delensing

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P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, M. Amiri, A. J. Anderson, J. E. Austermann, J. S. Avva, D. Barkats, R. Basu Thakur, J. A. Beall, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, F. Bianchini, C. A. Bischoff, L. E. Bleem, J. J. Bock, H. Boenish, E. Bullock, V. Buza, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, J. R. Cheshire, H. C. Chiang, T-L. Chou, R. Citron, J. Connors, C. Corbett Moran, J. Cornelison, T. M. Crawford, A. T. Crites, M. Crumrine, A. Cukierman, T. de Haan, M. Dierickx, M. A. Dobbs, L. Duband, W. Everett, S. Fatigoni, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, J. Gallicchio, E. M. George, T. St. Germaine, N. Goeckner-Wald, D. C. Goldfinger, J. Grayson, N. Gupta, G. Hall, M. Halpern, N. W. Halverson, S. Harrison, S. Henderson, J. W. Henning, S. R. Hildebrandt, G. C. Hilton, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, J. D. Hrubes, N. Huang, J. Hubmayr, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, J. Kang, K. S. Karkare, E. Karpel, S. Kefeli, S. A. Kernasovskiy, L. Knox, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, K. Lau, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, D. Li, A. Lowitz, A. Manzotti, J. J. McMahon, K. G. Megerian, S. S. Meyer, M. Millea, L. M. Mocanu, L. Moncelsi, J. Montgomery, A. Nadolski, T. Namikawa, T. Natoli, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, J. P. Nibarger, G. Noble, V. Novosad, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn, Y. Omori, S. Padin, S. Palladino, S. Patil, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, B. Racine, C. L. Reichardt, C. D. Reintsema, S. Richter, J. E. Ruhl, B. R. Saliwanchik, K. K. Schaffer, A. Schillaci, B. L. Schmitt, R. Schwarz, C. D. Sheehy, C. Sievers, G. Smecher, A. Soliman, A. A. Stark, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, G. P. Teply, K. L. Thompson, J. E. Tolan, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, C. Umiltà, T. Veach, J. D. Vieira, A. G. Vieregg, A. Wandui, G. Wang, A. C. Weber, N. Whitehorn, D. V. Wiebe, J. Willmert, C. L. Wong, W. L. K. Wu, H. Yang, V. Yefremenko, K. W. Yoon, E. Young, C. Yu, L. Zeng, and C. Zhang

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2021
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5. A Constraint on Primordial B-modes from the First Flight of the Spider Balloon-borne Telescope

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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, and E. Y. Young

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2022
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6. In-Flight Gain Monitoring of SPIDER’s Transition-Edge Sensor Arrays

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J. P. Filippini, A. E. Gambrel, A. S. Rahlin, E. Y. Young, 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, A. A. Fraisse, K. Freese, M. Galloway, 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, 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, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)

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Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, General Materials Science, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Transition edge sensor, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cosmic microwave background
Abstract

Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain variations with minimal loss of observing time. We propose a sensitive and non-intrusive method for monitoring variations in TES responsivity using small square waves applied to the TES bias. We construct an estimator for a TES's small-signal power response from its electrical response that is exact in the limit of strong electrothermal feedback. We discuss the application and validation of this method using flight data from SPIDER, a balloon-borne telescope that observes the polarization of the cosmic microwave background with more than 2000 TESs. This method may prove useful for future balloon- and space-based instruments, where observing time and ground control bandwidth are limited., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures; Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD19); Minor updates to match published version

Published
2022

7. Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves Using Planck , WMAP, and New BICEP2/ Keck Observations through the 2015 Season

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P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, R. W. Aikin, K. D. Alexander, D. Barkats, S. J. Benton, C. A. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, R. Bowens-Rubin, J. A. Brevik, I. Buder, E. Bullock, V. Buza, J. Connors, J. Cornelison, B. P. Crill, M. Crumrine, M. Dierickx, L. Duband, C. Dvorkin, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, J. Grayson, G. Hall, M. Halpern, S. Harrison, S. R. Hildebrandt, G. C. Hilton, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, J. Kang, K. S. Karkare, E. Karpel, J. P. Kaufman, B. G. Keating, S. Kefeli, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, N. A. Larsen, K. Lau, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, K. G. Megerian, L. Moncelsi, T. Namikawa, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn, S. Palladino, C. Pryke, B. Racine, S. Richter, A. Schillaci, R. Schwarz, C. D. Sheehy, A. Soliman, T. St. Germaine, Z. K. Staniszewski, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, G. P. Teply, K. L. Thompson, J. E. Tolan, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, C. Umiltà, A. G. Vieregg, A. Wandui, A. C. Weber, D. V. Wiebe, J. Willmert, C. L. Wong, W. L. K. Wu, H. Yang, K. W. Yoon, and C. Zhang

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2018
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8. Bicep/Keck XV: The Bicep3 Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter and the First Three-year Data Set

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P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, M. Amiri, D. Barkats, R. Basu Thakur, C. A. Bischoff, D. Beck, J. J. Bock, H. Boenish, E. Bullock, V. Buza, J. R. Cheshire IV, J. Connors, J. Cornelison, M. Crumrine, A. Cukierman, E. V. Denison, M. Dierickx, L. Duband, M. Eiben, S. Fatigoni, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, N. Goeckner-Wald, D. C. Goldfinger, J. Grayson, P. Grimes, G. Hall, G. Halal, M. Halpern, E. Hand, S. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. R. Hildebrandt, G. C. Hilton, J. Hubmayr, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, J. Kang, K. S. Karkare, E. Karpel, S. Kefeli, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, K. Lau, E. M. Leitch, A. Lennox, K. G. Megerian, L. Minutolo, L. Moncelsi, Y. Nakato, T. Namikawa, H. T. Nguyen, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn IV, S. Palladino, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, B. Racine, C. D. Reintsema, S. Richter, A. Schillaci, R. Schwarz, B. L. Schmitt, C. D. Sheehy, A. Soliman, T. St. Germaine, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, G. P. Teply, K. L. Thompson, J. E. Tolan, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, C. Umiltà, C. Vergès, A. G. Vieregg, A. Wandui, A. C. Weber, D. V. Wiebe, J. Willmert, C. L. Wong, W. L. K. Wu, H. Yang, K. W. Yoon, E. Young, C. Yu, L. Zeng, C. Zhang, S. Zhang, Département des Systèmes Basses Températures (DSBT ), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Bicep/Keck

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polarization, noise, pole, temperature, Astronomy and Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, optics, width, bolometer, Space and Planetary Science, infrared, optical, beam, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], performance
Abstract

We report on the design and performance of the Bicep3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. Bicep3 is a 52 cm aperture refracting telescope designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales at 95 GHz. It started science observation at the South Pole in 2016 with 2400 antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor bolometers. The receiver first demonstrated new technologies such as large-diameter alumina optics, Zotefoam infrared filters, and flux-activated SQUIDs, allowing ∼10× higher optical throughput compared to the Keck design. Bicep3 achieved instrument noise equivalent temperatures of 9.2, 6.8, and 7.1 μ K CMB s and reached Stokes Q and U map depths of 5.9, 4.4, and 4.4 μK arcmin in 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. The combined three-year data set achieved a polarization map depth of 2.8 μK arcmin over an effective area of 585 square degrees, which is the deepest CMB polarization map made to date at 95 GHz.

Published
2022

9. BICEP2 / Keck Array IX: New bounds on anisotropies of CMB polarization rotation and implications for axionlike particles and primordial magnetic fields

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P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, R. W. Aikin, K. D. Alexander, D. Barkats, S. J. Benton, C. A. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, R. Bowens-Rubin, J. A. Brevik, I. Buder, E. Bullock, V. Buza, J. Connors, B. P. Crill, L. Duband, C. Dvorkin, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, T. St. Germaine, T. Ghosh, J. Grayson, S. Harrison, S. R. Hildebrandt, G. C. Hilton, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, J. Kang, K. S. Karkare, E. Karpel, J. P. Kaufman, B. G. Keating, S. Kefeli, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, N. Larson, E. M. Leitch, K. G. Megerian, L. Moncelsi, T. Namikawa, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn, C. Pryke, S. Richter, A. Schillaci, R. Schwarz, C. D. Sheehy, Z. K. Staniszewski, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, G. P. Teply, K. L. Thompson, J. E. Tolan, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, A. G. Vieregg, A. C. Weber, D. V. Wiebe, J. Willmert, C. L. Wong, W. L. K. Wu, and K. W. Yoon

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2017
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10. Optical Characterization of the Keck Array and BICEP3 CMB Polarimeters from 2016 to 2019

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R. Basu Thakur, P. A. R. Ade, Mark Halpern, Sarah M. Harrison, S. Fliescher, Howard Hui, A. D. Turner, E. Bullock, E. Karpel, C. Tucker, B. Racine, Bryan Steinbach, S. A. Kernasovskiy, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Mandana Amiri, Victor Buza, T. St. Germaine, H. T. Nguyen, K. L. Thompson, E. M. Leitch, J. R. Cheshire, Chao Zhang, C. L. Kuo, J. J. Bock, H. Boenish, S. Fatigoni, L. Duband, S. R. Hildebrandt, King Tong Lau, E. Young, Roger O'Brient, John M Kovac, Kirit Karkare, Abigail G. Vieregg, Toshiya Namikawa, Zeeshan Ahmed, D. V. Wiebe, R. Schwarz, C. Pryke, Alessandro Schillaci, C. D. Sheehy, E. Yang, Kent D. Irwin, Stefan Richter, R. V. Sudiwala, S. Kefeli, S. Palladino, W. L. K. Wu, J. Cornelison, A. Wandui, Marion Dierickx, Carl D. Reintsema, C. L. Wong, J. Willmert, J. E. Tolan, G. Hall, K. G. Megerian, Gene C. Hilton, Denis Barkats, C. Yu, A. Cukierman, Jake Connors, R. W. Ogburn, J. A. Grayson, M. Crumrine, K. W. Yoon, C. Umilta, A. C. Weber, Colin A. Bischoff, J. Kang, Calvin B. Netterfield, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Ahmed Soliman, Namikawa, Toshiya [0000-0003-3070-9240], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
Transition-edge sensor, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, BICEP3, Radio spectrum, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Optics, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Gravitational wave, business.industry, Detector, Condensed Matter Physics, Polarization (waves), Inflation, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Refracting telescope, Keck Array, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The BICEP/Keck experiment (BK) is a series of small-aperture refracting telescopes observing degree-scale Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization from the South Pole in search of a primordial $B$-mode signature. This $B$-mode signal arises from primordial gravitational waves interacting with the CMB, and has amplitude parametrized by the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. Since 2016, BICEP3 and the Keck Array have been observing with 4800 total antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor detectors, with frequency bands spanning 95, 150, 220, and 270 GHz. Here we present the optical performance of these receivers from 2016 to 2019, including far-field beams measured in situ with an improved chopped thermal source and instrument spectral response measured with a field-deployable Fourier Transform Spectrometer. As a pair differencing experiment, an important systematic that must be controlled is the differential beam response between the co-located, orthogonally polarized detectors. We generate per-detector far-field beam maps and the corresponding differential beam mismatch that is used to estimate the temperature-to-polarization leakage in our CMB maps and to give feedback on detector and optics fabrication. The differential beam parameters presented here were estimated using improved low-level beam map analysis techniques, including efficient removal of non-Gaussian noise as well as improved spatial masking. These techniques help minimize systematic uncertainty in the beam analysis, with the goal of constraining the bias on $r$ induced by temperature-to-polarization leakage to be subdominant to the statistical uncertainty. This is essential as we progress to higher detector counts in the next generation of CMB experiments., 8 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by the Journal of Low Temperature Physics (Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors)

Published
2020

11. Improved Constraints on Cosmology and Foregrounds from BICEP2 and Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Data with Inclusion of 95 GHz Band

Author

P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, R. W. Aikin, K. D. Alexander, D. Barkats, S. J. Benton, C. A. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, R. Bowens-Rubin, J. A. Brevik, I. Buder, E. Bullock, V. Buza, J. Connors, B. P. Crill, L. Duband, C. Dvorkin, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, J. Grayson, M. Halpern, S. Harrison, G. C. Hilton, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, K. S. Karkare, E. Karpel, J. P. Kaufman, B. G. Keating, S. Kefeli, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, K. G. Megerian, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn, A. Orlando, C. Pryke, S. Richter, R. Schwarz, C. D. Sheehy, Z. K. Staniszewski, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, G. P. Teply, K. L. Thompson, J. E. Tolan, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, A. G. Vieregg, A. C. Weber, D. V. Wiebe, J. Willmert, C. L. Wong, W. L. K. Wu, and K. W. Yoon

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2016
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12. Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck ArrayandPlanckData

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P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, Z. Ahmed, R. W. Aikin, K. D. Alexander, M. Arnaud, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, A. J. Banday, D. Barkats, R. B. Barreiro, J. G. Bartlett, N. Bartolo, E. Battaner, K. Benabed, A. Benoît, A. Benoit-Lévy, S. J. Benton, J.-P. Bernard, M. Bersanelli, P. Bielewicz, C. A. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, A. Bonaldi, L. Bonavera, J. R. Bond, J. Borrill, F. R. Bouchet, F. Boulanger, J. A. Brevik, M. Bucher, I. Buder, E. Bullock, C. Burigana, R. C. Butler, V. Buza, E. Calabrese, J.-F. Cardoso, A. Catalano, A. Challinor, R.-R. Chary, H. C. Chiang, P. R. Christensen, L. P. L. Colombo, C. Combet, J. Connors, F. Couchot, A. Coulais, B. P. Crill, A. Curto, F. Cuttaia, L. Danese, R. D. Davies, R. J. Davis, P. de Bernardis, A. de Rosa, G. de Zotti, J. Delabrouille, J.-M. Delouis, F.-X. Désert, C. Dickinson, J. M. Diego, H. Dole, S. Donzelli, O. Doré, M. Douspis, C. D. Dowell, L. Duband, A. Ducout, J. Dunkley, X. Dupac, C. Dvorkin, G. Efstathiou, F. Elsner, T. A. Enßlin, H. K. Eriksen, E. Falgarone, J. P. Filippini, F. Finelli, S. Fliescher, O. Forni, M. Frailis, A. A. Fraisse, E. Franceschi, A. Frejsel, S. Galeotta, S. Galli, K. Ganga, T. Ghosh, M. Giard, E. Gjerløw, S. R. Golwala, J. González-Nuevo, K. M. Górski, S. Gratton, A. Gregorio, A. Gruppuso, J. E. Gudmundsson, M. Halpern, F. K. Hansen, D. Hanson, D. L. Harrison, M. Hasselfield, G. Helou, S. Henrot-Versillé, D. Herranz, S. R. Hildebrandt, G. C. Hilton, E. Hivon, M. Hobson, W. A. Holmes, W. Hovest, V. V. Hristov, K. M. Huffenberger, H. Hui, G. Hurier, K. D. Irwin, A. H. Jaffe, T. R. Jaffe, J. Jewell, W. C. Jones, M. Juvela, A. Karakci, K. S. Karkare, J. P. Kaufman, B. G. Keating, S. Kefeli, E. Keihänen, S. A. Kernasovskiy, R. Keskitalo, T. S. Kisner, R. Kneissl, J. Knoche, L. Knox, J. M. Kovac, N. Krachmalnicoff, M. Kunz, C. L. Kuo, H. Kurki-Suonio, G. Lagache, A. Lähteenmäki, J.-M. Lamarre, A. Lasenby, M. Lattanzi, C. R. Lawrence, E. M. Leitch, R. Leonardi, F. Levrier, A. Lewis, M. Liguori, P. B. Lilje, M. Linden-Vørnle, M. López-Caniego, P. M. Lubin, M. Lueker, J. F. Macías-Pérez, B. Maffei, D. Maino, N. Mandolesi, A. Mangilli, M. Maris, P. G. Martin, E. Martínez-González, S. Masi, P. Mason, S. Matarrese, K. G. Megerian, P. R. Meinhold, A. Melchiorri, L. Mendes, A. Mennella, M. Migliaccio, S. Mitra, M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, A. Moneti, L. Montier, G. Morgante, D. Mortlock, A. Moss, D. Munshi, J. A. Murphy, P. Naselsky, F. Nati, P. Natoli, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, F. Noviello, D. Novikov, I. Novikov, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn, A. Orlando, L. Pagano, F. Pajot, R. Paladini, D. Paoletti, B. Partridge, F. Pasian, G. Patanchon, T. J. Pearson, O. Perdereau, L. Perotto, V. Pettorino, F. Piacentini, M. Piat, D. Pietrobon, S. Plaszczynski, E. Pointecouteau, G. Polenta, N. Ponthieu, G. W. Pratt, S. Prunet, C. Pryke, J.-L. Puget, J. P. Rachen, W. T. Reach, R. Rebolo, M. Reinecke, M. Remazeilles, C. Renault, A. Renzi, S. Richter, I. Ristorcelli, G. Rocha, M. Rossetti, G. Roudier, M. Rowan-Robinson, J. A. Rubiño-Martín, B. Rusholme, M. Sandri, D. Santos, M. Savelainen, G. Savini, R. Schwarz, D. Scott, M. D. Seiffert, C. D. Sheehy, L. D. Spencer, Z. K. Staniszewski, V. Stolyarov, R. Sudiwala, R. Sunyaev, D. Sutton, A.-S. Suur-Uski, J.-F. Sygnet, J. A. Tauber, G. P. Teply, L. Terenzi, K. L. Thompson, L. Toffolatti, J. E. Tolan, M. Tomasi, M. Tristram, M. Tucci, A. D. Turner, L. Valenziano, J. Valiviita, B. Van Tent, L. Vibert, P. Vielva, A. G. Vieregg, F. Villa, L. A. Wade, B. D. Wandelt, R. Watson, A. C. Weber, I. K. Wehus, M. White, S. D. M. White, J. Willmert, C. L. Wong, K. W. Yoon, D. Yvon, A. Zacchei, and A. Zonca

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2015
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13. BICEP/Keck XII: Constraints on axionlike polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background

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S. R. Hildebrandt, H. Boenish, D. V. Wiebe, P. A. R. Ade, K. G. Megerian, J. Kang, C. D. Sheehy, Bryan Steinbach, D. Barkats, S. Palladino, J. E. Tolan, J. Cheshire, J. J. Bock, C. L. Kuo, Edward D. Young, C. D. Reintsema, Tyler St. Germaine, Marion Dierickx, C. Yu, Colin A. Bischoff, Stefan Richter, S. Kefeli, A. C. Weber, Jake Connors, Ahmed Soliman, Lorenzo Moncelsi, A. Schillaci, R. W. Ogburn, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Roger O'Brient, M. Crumrine, K. W. Yoon, G. Hall, C. L. Wong, Abigail G. Vieregg, C. Umilta, Brian Keating, S. Henderson, R. Schwarz, Lingzhen Zeng, John M Kovac, Kirit Karkare, Mark Halpern, J. Hubmayr, Kei May Lau, Calvin B. Netterfield, S. Fatigoni, M. Amiri, Kent D. Irwin, A. Cukierman, E. Bullock, J. A. Grayson, Victor Buza, Howard Hui, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Grant Teply, C. Tucker, S. Fliescher, R. V. Sudiwala, W. L. K. Wu, Toshiya Namikawa, H. Yang, J. Cornelison, Z. Ahmed, S. A. Kernasovskiy, B. L. Schmitt, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, B. Racine, H. T. Nguyen, E. M. Leitch, Bicep, Chao Zhang, A. Wandui, A. D. Turner, E. Karpel, L. Duband, K. L. Thompson, Sarah M. Harrison, J. Willmert, Gene C. Hilton, and R. Basu Thakur

Subjects
Coupling constant, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Oscillation, Cosmic microwave background, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Parameter space, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, Amplitude, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Axion
Abstract

We present an improved search for axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with observations from the Keck Array. An all-sky, temporally sinusoidal rotation of CMB polarization, equivalent to a time-variable cosmic birefringence, is an observable manifestation of a local axion field and potentially allows a CMB polarimeter to detect axion-like dark matter directly. We describe improvements to the method presented in previous work, and we demonstrate the updated method with an expanded dataset consisting of the 2012-2015 observing seasons. We set limits on the axion-photon coupling constant for mass $m$ in the range $10^{-23}$-$10^{-18}~\mathrm{eV}$, which corresponds to oscillation periods on the order of hours to years. Our results are consistent with the background model. For periods between $1$ and $30~\mathrm{d}$ ($1.6 \times 10^{-21} \leq m \leq 4.8 \times 10^{-20}~\mathrm{eV}$), the $95\%$-confidence upper limits on rotation amplitude are approximately constant with a median of $0.27^\circ$, which constrains the axion-photon coupling constant to $g_{\phi\gamma} < (4.5 \times 10^{-12}~\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}) m/(10^{-21}~\mathrm{eV}$), if axion-like particles constitute all of the dark matter. More than half of the collected BICEP dataset has yet to be analyzed, and several current and future CMB polarimetry experiments can apply the methods presented here to achieve comparable or superior constraints. In the coming years, oscillation measurements can achieve the sensitivity to rule out unexplored regions of the axion parameter space.

Published
2021

14. Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season

Author

J. J. Bock, M. Amiri, B. Steinbach, Kent D. Irwin, S. Kefeli, B. Racine, E. Hand, J. E. Tolan, Abigail G. Vieregg, C. Tucker, J. Willmert, N. Goeckner-Wald, S. Richter, A. Turner, H. Hui, B. L. Schmitt, T. Namikawa, G. Halal, P. A. R. Ade, K. G. Megerian, L. Zeng, R. Schwarz, Victor Buza, L. Minutolo, T. St. Germaine, C. D. Sheehy, Jake Connors, R. Basu Thakur, S. Fliescher, C. Pryke, M. Crumrine, Bicep, Mark Halpern, C. Umilta, Sarah M. Harrison, H. Yang, Chao-Lin Kuo, Che-Hang Yu, K. Lau, Shengyu Zhang, C. Bischoff, C. Verges, S. R. Hildebrandt, S. Fatigoni, R. O'Brient, Denis Barkats, Chao Zhang, Jeffrey P. Filippini, A. Cukierman, H. Boenish, H. T. Nguyen, D. V. Wiebe, K. S. Karkare, Gene C. Hilton, E. Young, J. Grayson, M. Eiben, Y. Nakato, Z. Ahmed, D. C. Goldfinger, A. C. Weber, J. R. Cheshire, L. Duband, C. D. Reintsema, S. Henderson, T. Prouve, A. Wandui, P. Grimes, K. L. Thompson, G. P. Teply, J. Cornelison, S. Palladino, J. Kang, E. V. Denison, Marion Dierickx, A. Lennox, A. Soliman, R. W. Ogburn, R. V. Sudiwala, E. Bullock, D. Beck, C. L. Wong, A. Schillaci, E. Karpel, J. Hubmayr, G. Hall, W. L. K. Wu, L. Moncelsi, K. W. Yoon, E. M. Leitch, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, Département des Systèmes Basses Températures (DSBT ), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire des Cryoréfrigérateurs et Cryogénie Spatiale (LCCS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), BICEP, and Keck

Subjects
noise, satellite: Planck, statistical analysis: confidence limit, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, General Physics and Astronomy, cosmic background radiation: polarization, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, gravitation: lens, cosmological model: parameter space, 0103 physical sciences, synchrotron, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, Spectral index, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, gravitational radiation: primordial, cosmological model: dust, Polarization (waves), BICEP, CMB cold spot, Sky, WMAP, symbols, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Noise (radio)
Abstract

International audience; We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2, Keck Array, and BICEP3 CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2018 observing season. We add additional Keck Array observations at 220 GHz and BICEP3 observations at 95 GHz to the previous 95/150/220 GHz dataset. The Q/U maps now reach depths of 2.8, 2.8, and 8.8 μKCMB arcmin at 95, 150, and 220 GHz, respectively, over an effective area of ≈600 square degrees at 95 GHz and ≈400 square degrees at 150 and 220 GHz. The 220 GHz maps now achieve a signal-to-noise ratio on polarized dust emission exceeding that of Planck at 353 GHz. We take auto- and cross-spectra between these maps and publicly available WMAP and Planck maps at frequencies from 23 to 353 GHz and evaluate the joint likelihood of the spectra versus a multicomponent model of lensed ΛCDM+r+dust+synchrotron+noise. The foreground model has seven parameters, and no longer requires a prior on the frequency spectral index of the dust emission taken from measurements on other regions of the sky. This model is an adequate description of the data at the current noise levels. The likelihood analysis yields the constraint r0.05<0.036 at 95% confidence. Running maximum likelihood search on simulations we obtain unbiased results and find that σ(r)=0.009. These are the strongest constraints to date on primordial gravitational waves.

Published
2021

15. A Simulation-Based Method for Correcting Mode Coupling in CMB Angular Power Spectra

Author

J. S.-Y. Leung, J. Hartley, J. M. Nagy, C. B. Netterfield, J. A. Shariff, 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, 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, S. Li, D. S. Y. Mak, P. V. Mason, K. Megerian, L. Moncelsi, T. A. Morford, 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, 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, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Modern CMB analysis pipelines regularly employ complex time-domain filters, beam models, masking, and other techniques during the production of sky maps and their corresponding angular power spectra. However, these processes can generate couplings between multipoles from the same spectrum and from different spectra, in addition to the typical power attenuation. Within the context of pseudo-$C_\ell$ based, MASTER-style analyses, the net effect of the time-domain filtering is commonly approximated by a multiplicative transfer function, $F_{\ell}$, that can fail to capture mode mixing and is dependent on the spectrum of the signal. To address these shortcomings, we have developed a simulation-based spectral correction approach that constructs a two-dimensional transfer matrix, $J_{\ell\ell'}$, which contains information about mode mixing in addition to mode attenuation. We demonstrate the application of this approach on data from the first flight of the SPIDER balloon-borne CMB experiment., Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures; updated to match published version

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2021
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16. Planck 2018 results: VI. Cosmological parameters (Corrigendum)

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Jose M. Diego, F. Piacentini, Soumen Basak, M. Frailis, Carlo Baccigalupi, M. Ashdown, H. K. Eriksen, François Levrier, E. Hivon, Reijo Keskitalo, L. Pagano, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, A. Renzi, F. Cuttaia, F. R. Bouchet, F. Villa, R. Fernandez-Cobos, L. Montier, Charles R. Lawrence, R. B. Barreiro, Simon D. M. White, Jean-François Cardoso, Tuhin Ghosh, A. Mennella, Nabila Aghanim, Zhiqi Huang, Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen, P. Vielva, R. C. Butler, K. M. Górski, K. Kiiveri, Gianmarco Maggio, P. de Bernardis, Luca Valenziano, Steven Gratton, Lloyd Knox, Andrea Zacchei, Jonathan Aumont, F. K. Hansen, P. Bielewicz, Guilaine Lagache, Jörg P. Rachen, S. R. Hildebrandt, Antony Lewis, M. López-Caniego, D. Herranz, M. Le Jeune, N. Mandolesi, Julien Lesgourgues, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Julian Borrill, Peter G. Martin, Will Handley, L. Vibert, Jens Chluba, Peter Meinhold, Michele Liguori, Jan Hamann, G. Roudier, Diego Molinari, Andrei V. Frolov, J.-M. Delouis, J. González-Nuevo, Aurelien A. Fraisse, M. Sandri, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, M. Tenti, B. P. Crill, J.-L. Puget, L. Salvati, X. Dupac, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Karim Benabed, Locke D. Spencer, Paolo Natoli, Francesco Forastieri, Nicola Bartolo, Erminia Calabrese, J.-P. Bernard, Marzieh Farhang, J. F. Macías-Pérez, Nicola Vittorio, V. Lindholm, A.-S. Suur-Uski, Adam Moss, E. Franceschi, W. C. Jones, P. Lemos, A. Karakci, D. Tavagnacco, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Tiziana Trombetti, B. Van Tent, Alessandro Gruppuso, Marius Millea, Graca Rocha, Sabino Matarrese, Theodore Kisner, Richard A. Battye, M. Martinelli, A. J. Banday, D. Contreras, J.-M. Lamarre, Ken Ganga, B. Partridge, Yabebal Fantaye, Jan Tauber, N. Mauri, J. J. Bock, Martin Kunz, E. Martínez-González, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, A. Ducout, Mathieu Remazeilles, S. Galeotta, Marian Douspis, Chiara Sirignano, O. Doré, Jon E. Gudmundsson, G. de Zotti, Hiranya V. Peiris, Yashar Akrami, Anthony Challinor, Michele Maris, M. Savelainen, Francesca Perrotta, P. B. Lilje, Torsten A. Enßlin, Valeria Pettorino, M. Tomasi, Jacques Delabrouille, Martin Reinecke, Marco Bersanelli, J. B. Kim, G. Sirri, Yin-Zhe Ma, E. P. S. Shellard, Fabio Finelli, S. Dusini, Andrea Zonca, H. C. Chiang, Martin White, M. Bucher, Douglas Scott, A. Mangilli, A. Marcos-Caballero, L. P. L. Colombo, Mario Ballardini, Daniela Paoletti, Jussi Valiviita, George Efstathiou, F. Boulanger, G. Polenta, Julien Carron, L. Toffolatti, Anthony Lasenby, Martina Gerbino, E. Keihänen, Andrew H. Jaffe, Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes, Philip Lubin, Davide Maino, M. Lilley, M. Migliaccio, J. R. Bond, B. Ruiz-Granados, Jason D. McEwen, Carlo Burigana, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, James R. Fergusson, Subhasish Mitra, C. Combet, R. A. Sunyaev, E. Di Valentino, G. Patanchon, L. Polastri, Alessandro Melchiorri, S. Galli, Gianluca Morgante, Franz Elsner, C. Rosset, and Universidad de Cantabria

Subjects
Physics, Numerical error, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Cosmological parameters, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Cosmic background radiation, 01 natural sciences, Upper and lower bounds, Errata, addenda, Combinatorics, symbols.namesake, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Optical depth (astrophysics), symbols, Planck, 010306 general physics
Abstract

Author(s): Aghanim, N; Akrami, Y; Ashdown, M; Aumont, J; Baccigalupi, C; Ballardini, M; Banday, AJ; Barreiro, RB; Bartolo, N; Basak, S; Battye, R; Benabed, K; Bernard, JP; Bersanelli, M; Bielewicz, P; Bock, JJ; Bond, JR; Borrill, J; Bouchet, FR; Boulanger, F; Bucher, M; Burigana, C; Butler, RC; Calabrese, E; Cardoso, JF; Carron, J; Challinor, A; Chiang, HC; Chluba, J; Colombo, LPL; Combet, C; Contreras, D; Crill, BP; Cuttaia, F; De Bernardis, P; De Zotti, G; Delabrouille, J; Delouis, JM; DI Valentino, E; DIego, JM; Dore, O; Douspis, M; Ducout, A; Dupac, X; Dusini, S; Efstathiou, G; Elsner, F; Enslin, TA; Eriksen, HK; Fantaye, Y; Farhang, M; Fergusson, J; Fernandez-Cobos, R; Finelli, F; Forastieri, F; Frailis, M; Fraisse, AA; Franceschi, E; Frolov, A; Galeotta, S; Galli, S; Ganga, K; Genova-Santos, RT; Gerbino, M; Ghosh, T; Gonzalez-Nuevo, J; Gorski, KM; Gratton, S; Gruppuso, A; Gudmundsson, JE; Hamann, J; Handley, W; Hansen, FK; Herranz, D; Hildebrandt, SR; Hivon, E; Huang, Z; Jaffe, AH; Jones, WC; Karakci, A; Keihanen, E; Keskitalo, R; Kiiveri, K; Kim, J; Kisner, TS | Abstract: In the original version, the bounds given in Eqs. (87a) and (87b) on the contribution to the early-time optical depth, (15,30), contained a numerical error in deriving the 95th percentile from the Monte Carlo samples. The corrected 95% upper bounds are: τ(15,30) l 0:018 (lowE, flat τ(15, 30), FlexKnot), (1) τ(15, 30) l 0:023 (lowE, flat knot, FlexKnot): (2) These bounds are a factor of 3 larger than the originally reported results. Consequently, the new bounds do not significantly improve upon previous results from Planck data presented in Millea a Bouchet (2018) as was stated, but are instead comparable. Equations (1) and (2) give results that are now similar to those of Heinrich a Hu (2021), who used the same Planck 2018 data to derive a 95% upper bound of 0.020 using the principal component analysis (PCA) model and uniform priors on the PCA mode amplitudes.

Published
2021

17. Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

Author

K. G. Megerian, L. Minutolo, Y. Nakato, John M Kovac, Kirit Karkare, H. Boenish, D. C. Goldfinger, Roger O'Brient, A. D. Turner, C. D. Sheehy, Stefan Richter, Kent D. Irwin, E. Karpel, E. Bullock, Lingzhen Zeng, K. L. Thompson, S. Fliescher, M. Crumrine, K. W. Yoon, G. Hall, H. Hui, J. Kang, P. A. R. Ade, C. Yu, C. Umilta, S. Henderson, Zeeshan Ahmed, A. Cukierman, J. Hubmayr, B. L. Schmitt, N. Precup, D. V. Wiebe, S. Kefeli, Kei May Lau, E. Young, R. Basu Thakur, A. Wandui, Denis Barkats, Victor Buza, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Paul K. Grimes, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Marion Dierickx, J. J. Bock, Mark Halpern, E. Yang, R. V. Sudiwala, W. L. K. Wu, C. D. Reintsema, S. A. Kernasovkiy, R. Schwarz, C. Tucker, Lorenzo Moncelsi, G. Halal, J. R. Cheshire, J. A. Grayson, Abigail G. Vieregg, S. R. Hildebrandt, Bryan Steinbach, S. Zhang, J. Willmert, Gene C. Hilton, Chao Zhang, Mandana Amiri, A. C. Weber, Toshiya Namikawa, Chao-Lin Kuo, J. Cornelison, S. Fatigoni, S. Palladino, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, Colin A. Bischoff, B. Racine, H. T. Nguyen, E. M. Leitch, E. V. Denison, A. Schillaci, J. E. Tolan, L. Duband, J. Connors, R. W. Ogburn, M. Eiben, C. L. Wong, Ahmed Soliman, Sarah M. Harrison, G. P. Teply, T. St. Germaine, Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), ILL, Service des Basses Températures (SBT ), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Département des Systèmes Basses Températures (DSBT ), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire des Cryoréfrigérateurs et Cryogénie Spatiale (LCCS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Zmuidzinas, Jonas, and Gao, Jian-Rong

Subjects
Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Optics, law, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmic Microwave Background, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Birefringence, business.industry, Gravitational wave, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polarimeter, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Polarization (waves), Cosmology, Refracting telescope, Calibration, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, business
Abstract

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The experiment measures polarization on the sky by differencing the signal of co-located, orthogonally polarized antennas coupled to Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detectors. We present precise measurements of the absolute polarization response angles and polarization efficiencies for nearly all of BICEP3s $\sim800$ functioning polarization-sensitive detector pairs from calibration data taken in January 2018. Using a Rotating Polarized Source (RPS), we mapped polarization response for each detector over a full 360 degrees of source rotation and at multiple telescope boresight rotations from which per-pair polarization properties were estimated. In future work, these results will be used to constrain signals predicted by exotic physical models such as Cosmic Birefringence., Comment: Proceedings submitted to SPIE 2020 (AS111). 12 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables

Published
2020

18. Analysis of Temperature-to-Polarization Leakage in BICEP3 and Keck CMB Data from 2016 to 2018

Author

Y. Nakato, S. Palladino, J. Kang, H. Boenish, A. D. Turner, E. Karpel, D. C. Goldfinger, K. L. Thompson, C. L. Wong, P. A. R. Ade, E. V. Denison, S. Kefeli, Bicep, Jeffrey P. Filippini, M. Crumrine, K. W. Yoon, J. Hubmayr, G. Hall, A. C. Weber, C. Umilta, A. Wandui, S. Fliescher, A. Cukierman, Victor Buza, Chao Zhang, J. A. Grayson, Lingzhen Zeng, E. Bullock, J. Willmert, Kei May Lau, Gene C. Hilton, Denis Barkats, John M Kovac, C. D. Sheehy, Kirit Karkare, Colin A. Bischoff, K. G. Megerian, Kent D. Irwin, L. Minutolo, P. Grimes, R. V. Sudiwala, C. Yu, W. L. K. Wu, N. Precup, T. Namikawa, Bryan Steinbach, Eui-Hyeok Yang, J. Cheshire, J. J. Bock, Roger O'Brient, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Mark Halpern, R. Schwarz, S. Henderson, Ahmed Soliman, Shengyu Zhang, Abigail G. Vieregg, B. L. Schmitt, C. D. Reintsema, Stefan Richter, Marion Dierickx, Z. Ahmed, S. A. Kernasovskiy, A. Schillaci, S. R. Hildebrandt, Edward D. Young, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, B. Racine, H. T. Nguyen, E. M. Leitch, C. L. Kuo, M. Amiri, D. V. Wiebe, J. E. Tolan, Jake Connors, R. W. Ogburn, Sarah M. Harrison, Grant Teply, L. Duband, T. St. Germaine, M. Eiben, R. Basu Thakur, Howard Hui, Neil Goeckner-Wald, C. Tucker, J. Cornelison, S. Fatigoni, Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), ILL, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), and BICEP/Keck

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation: polarization, 02 engineering and technology, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Residual, 01 natural sciences, B-mode: primordial, 010309 optics, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmic Microwave Background, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], numerical calculations, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Leakage (electronics), media_common, Physics, Gravitational Waves, polarization, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, gravitational radiation, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Polarization (waves), BICEP, Inflation, cosmic background radiation: temperature, B-mode, Sky, Refracting telescope, Keck Array, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Beam (structure), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The BICEP/Keck Array experiment is a series of small-aperture refracting telescopes observing degree-scale Cosmic Microwave Background polarization from the South Pole in search of a primordial $B$-mode signature. As a pair differencing experiment, an important systematic that must be controlled is the differential beam response between the co-located, orthogonally polarized detectors. We use high-fidelity, in-situ measurements of the beam response to estimate the temperature-to-polarization (T $\rightarrow$ P) leakage in our latest data including observations from 2016 through 2018. This includes three years of BICEP3 observing at 95 GHz, and multifrequency data from Keck Array. Here we present band-averaged far-field beam maps, differential beam mismatch, and residual beam power (after filtering out the leading difference modes via deprojection) for these receivers. We show preliminary results of "beam map simulations," which use these beam maps to observe a simulated temperature (no $Q/U$) sky to estimate T $\rightarrow$ P leakage in our real data., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures

Published
2020

19. Design and pre-flight performance of SPIDER 280 GHz receivers

Author

Jeffrey P. Filippini, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, P. A. R. Ade, Peter Mason, Zigmund Kermish, Carlo R. Contaldi, X. Song, M. Galloway, Aurelien A. Fraisse, K. Ganga, I. L. Padilla, J. F. van der List, J. R. Bond, A. E. Gambrel, D. V. Wiebe, Michael R. Vissers, L. M. Fissel, Joel N. Ullom, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Dan Becker, A. D. Turner, S. Akers, Steven J. Benton, Matthew Hasselfield, R. Gualtieri, Marzieh Farhang, J. J. Bock, S. Li, A. Trangsrud, M. R. Nolta, E. Y. Young, A. S. Bergman, O. Doré, Shyang Wen, M. C. Runyan, J. E. Ruhl, Warren Holmes, J. A. Beall, Calvin B. Netterfield, C. Tucker, H. C. Chiang, Carl D. Reintsema, A. C. Weber, C. Shiu, R. S. Tucker, Mandana Amiri, R. S. Domagalski, Susan Redmond, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Kent D. Irwin, K. G. Megerian, J. Austermann, Antoine Kahn, Johannes Hubmayr, J. M. Nagy, Sean Bryan, J. Hartley, Arpi Grigorian, W. C. Jones, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Shannon M. Duff, Natalie N. Gandilo, L. J. Romualdez, Viktor Hristov, Mark Halpern, R. Nie, Katherine Freese, A. Lennox, Gene C. Hilton, H. Thommesen, B. Osherson, E. C. Shaw, J. S.-Y. Leung, Jamil A. Shariff, H. K. Eriksen, Zhi-Feng Huang, T. A. Morford, Juan D. Soler, L. M. Mocanu, C. L. Kuo, Alexandra S. Rahlin, J. Van Lanen, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Science and Technology Facilities Council, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Zmuidzinas, Jonas, and Gao, Jian-Rong

Subjects
scientific ballooning, cosmic microwave background, cosmological model, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Computer science, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, scientific instrumentation, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation: polarization, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, B-mode: primordial, law.invention, Telescope, law, optical, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Remote sensing, media_common, Spider, polarization, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, millimeter wave instrumentation, Polarization (waves), transition-edge sensor, SPIDER, experimental equipment, Wide area, B-mode, Sky, astro-ph.CO, galaxy, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, cosmology, performance, Dust emission, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, experimental results, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

In this work we describe upgrades to the Spider balloon-borne telescope in preparation for its second flight, currently planned for December 2021. The Spider instrument is optimized to search for a primordial B-mode polarization signature in the cosmic microwave background at degree angular scales. During its first flight in 2015, Spider mapped ~10% of the sky at 95 and 150 GHz. The payload for the second Antarctic flight will incorporate three new 280 GHz receivers alongside three refurbished 95- and 150 GHz receivers from Spider's first flight. In this work we discuss the design and characterization of these new receivers, which employ over 1500 feedhorn-coupled transition-edge sensors. We describe pre-flight laboratory measurements of detector properties, and the optical performance of completed receivers. These receivers will map a wide area of the sky at 280 GHz, providing new information on polarized Galactic dust emission that will help to separate it from the cosmological signal., 13 pages, 8 figures; as published in the conference proceedings for SPIE Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X (2020)

Published
2020

20. Microwave multiplexing on the Keck Array

Author

Howard Hui, J. Willmert, Gene C. Hilton, John E. Dusatko, S. Fatigoni, K. G. Megerian, Joel N. Ullom, L. Duband, Carole Tucker, D. V. Wiebe, Ari Cukierman, Gunther Haller, Shawn W. Henderson, Tyler St. Germaine, Stephen E. Kuenstner, Jeffrey P. Filippini, S. R. Hildebrandt, S. A. Kernasovskiy, David Brown, M. Crumrine, K. W. Yoon, Leila R. Vale, Jake Connors, G. Hall, Bradley Dober, Saptarshi Chaudhuri, Toshiya Namikawa, H. Yang, Chao-Lin Kuo, Josef Frisch, A. D. Turner, E. Karpel, J. Cornelison, C. Umilta, Ahmed Soliman, Zeeshan Ahmed, K. L. Thompson, Johannes Hubmayr, Mark Halpern, E. Y. Young, Bryan Steinbach, J. Cheshire, E. Bullock, John A. B. Mates, C. Pryke, Sarah M. Harrison, Attila Kovács, Roger O'Brient, M. Amiri, J. Kang, Jesus Vasquez, Lingzhen Zeng, R. Basu Thakur, Victor Buza, B. Racine, John M. D'Ewart, Denis Barkats, H. T. Nguyen, S. Palladino, A. C. Weber, C. D. Reintsema, Marion Dierickx, Stefan Richter, Chao Zhang, A. Schillaci, J. J. Bock, R. Schwarz, Stephen J. Smith, H. Boenish, S. Kefeli, Dale Li, John M Kovac, Kirit Karkare, Kent D. Irwin, A. Wandui, Colin A. Bischoff, Daniel D. Van Winkle, R. V. Sudiwala, W. L. K. Wu, C. D. Sheehy, C. Yu, Peter A. R. Ade, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Abigail G. Vieregg, Kei May Lau, Service des Basses Températures (SBT ), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)

Subjects
SMuRF, Coaxial cable, Cosmic microwave background, Polarimetry, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, CMB, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Optics, law, Tone tracking, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, Electronics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, business.industry, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, BICEP, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cardinal point, Microwave multiplexing, Keck Array, Radio frequency, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Microwave
Abstract

We describe an on-sky demonstration of a microwave-multiplexing readout system in one of the receivers of the Keck Array, a polarimetry experiment observing the cosmic microwave background at the South Pole. During the austral summer of 2018-2019, we replaced the time-division multiplexing readout system with microwave-multiplexing components including superconducting microwave resonators coupled to radio-frequency superconducting quantum interference devices at the sub-Kelvin focal plane, coaxial-cable plumbing and amplification between room temperature and the cold stages, and a SLAC Microresonator Radio Frequency system for the warm electronics. In the range 5-6 GHz, a single coaxial cable reads out 528 channels. The readout system is coupled to transition-edge sensors, which are in turn coupled to 150-GHz slot-dipole phased-array antennas. Observations began in April 2019, and we report here on an initial characterization of the system performance., 9 pages, 11 figures, Accepted by the Journal of Low Temperature Physics (Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors)

Published
2020

21. Optical Design and Characterization of 40-GHz Detector and Module for the BICEP Array

Author

Ahmed Soliman, A. Cukierman, M. Amiri, Z. Ahmed, Victor Buza, N. Precup, B. Racine, S. R. Hildebrandt, Chao Zhang, H. T. Nguyen, John M Kovac, H. Boenish, Jake Connors, Kirit Karkare, D. V. Wiebe, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Mark Halpern, Kent D. Irwin, Jeffrey P. Filippini, S. Palladino, J. J. Bock, Abigail G. Vieregg, S. Kefeli, Kei May Lau, L. Duband, R. Schwarz, Sarah M. Harrison, M. Crumrine, K. W. Yoon, G. Hall, P. A. R. Ade, C. Umilta, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, J. Willmert, E. Bullock, B. L. Schmitt, Gene C. Hilton, Eui-Hyeok Yang, Colin A. Bischoff, Edward D. Young, C. D. Reintsema, C. L. Kuo, C. D. Sheehy, Stefan Richter, Denis Barkats, K. G. Megerian, A. D. Turner, E. Karpel, C. Yu, A. C. Weber, R. V. Sudiwala, J. Kang, T. St. Germaine, W. L. K. Wu, R. Basu Thakur, K. L. Thompson, T. Namikawa, Bryan Steinbach, J. Cheshire, Marion Dierickx, A. Schillaci, Roger O'Brient, S. Henderson, J. Cornelison, Howard Hui, C. Tucker, S. Fatigoni, A. Wandui, Namikawa, Toshiya [0000-0003-3070-9240], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
BICEP array, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, CMB, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Optics, Frequency coverage, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Anisotropy, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Detectors, Condensed Matter Physics, Polarization (waves), Inflation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cosmology, Amplitude, Cardinal point, Antennas, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business
Abstract

Families of cosmic inflation models predict a primordial gravitational-wave background that imprints B-mode polarization pattern in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). High sensitivity instruments with wide frequency coverage and well-controlled systematic errors are needed to constrain the faint B-mode amplitude. We have developed antenna-coupled Transition Edge Sensor (TES) arrays for high-sensitivity polarized CMB observations over a wide range of millimeter-wave bands. BICEP Array, the latest phase of the BICEP/Keck experiment series, is a multi-receiver experiment designed to search for inflationary B-mode polarization to a precision $\sigma$(r) between 0.002 and 0.004 after 3 full years of observations, depending on foreground complexity and the degree of lensing removal. We describe the electromagnetic design and measured performance of BICEP Array low-frequency 40-GHz detector, their packaging in focal plane modules, and optical characterization including efficiency and beam matching between polarization pairs. We summarize the design and simulated optical performance, including an approach to improve the optical efficiency due to mismatch losses. We report the measured beam maps for a new broad-band corrugation design to minimize beam differential ellipticity between polarization pairs caused by interactions with the module housing frame, which helps minimize polarized beam mismatch that converts CMB temperature to polarization ($T \rightarrow P$) anisotropy in CMB maps., Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, Accepted by the Journal of Low Temperature Physics (Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors)

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2020
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22. A Demonstration of Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves with Delensing

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Roger O'Brient, John M Kovac, Kirit Karkare, T. Natoli, Kent D. Irwin, A. E. Lowitz, N. Huang, Y. Omori, Victor Buza, Robert I. Citron, S. A. Kernasovskiy, W. L. Holzapfel, Ahmed Soliman, Jeff McMahon, C. Corbett Moran, P. A. R. Ade, Lingzhen Zeng, S. Henderson, W. B. Everett, J. D. Hrubes, Jessica Avva, C. Yu, Calvin B. Netterfield, Lorenzo Moncelsi, J. R. Cheshire, Jason W. Henning, J. A. Grayson, S. Patil, K. K. Schaffer, Elizabeth George, Abigail G. Vieregg, Denis Barkats, V. G. Yefremenko, Jason E. Austermann, N. W. Halverson, A. Cukierman, H. Boenish, B. L. Schmitt, Marion Dierickx, M. Crumrine, K. W. Yoon, Joaquin Vieira, E. Young, G. Hall, Stefan Richter, C. Sievers, Toshiya Namikawa, Graeme Smecher, C. Umilta, D. V. Wiebe, S. Fliescher, T.-L. Chou, H. C. Chiang, Johannes Hubmayr, H. Yang, C. D. Sheehy, Chao-Lin Kuo, Mark Halpern, Christian L. Reichardt, Marius Millea, Joshua Montgomery, S. Kefeli, J. Cornelison, J. J. Bock, Bryan Steinbach, Howard Hui, Gensheng Wang, Andreas Bender, Neil Goeckner-Wald, J. E. Ruhl, Dale Li, C. Tucker, K. G. Megerian, T. M. Crawford, M. A. Dobbs, Mandana Amiri, V. Novosad, R. Schwarz, S. Fatigoni, S. R. Hildebrandt, S. Padin, John E. Carlstrom, E. Bullock, Chao Zhang, T. de Haan, D. C. Goldfinger, John P. Nibarger, Andrew Nadolski, J. Willmert, Carl D. Reintsema, Gene C. Hilton, N. Whitehorn, B. Racine, H. T. Nguyen, A. A. Stark, E. M. Leitch, Alessandro Schillaci, A. D. Turner, E. Karpel, T. Veach, R. Basu Thakur, K. L. Thompson, T. Prouve, A. T. Crites, C. Pryke, C. L. Wong, C. L. Chang, J. Kang, Adam Anderson, Grant Teply, Benjamin Saliwanchik, A. Wandui, Gilbert Holder, A. Manzotti, A. C. Weber, G. I. Noble, Federico Bianchini, Nikhel Gupta, Jeffrey P. Filippini, R. V. Sudiwala, Adrian T. Lee, Bradford Benson, Lloyd Knox, W. L. K. Wu, Colin A. Bischoff, S. S. Meyer, Jason Gallicchio, T. St. Germaine, S. Palladino, L. Duband, J. E. Tolan, Zeeshan Ahmed, L. M. Mocanu, Jake Connors, Kei May Lau, Sarah M. Harrison, Lindsey Bleem, R. W. Ogburn, J. A. Beall, Département des Systèmes Basses Températures (DSBT ), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), SPTpol, BICEP/Keck, BICEP, and Keck

Subjects
data analysis method, satellite: Planck, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, Cosmic background radiation, cosmic background radiation: polarization, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, cosmic rays, gravitation: lens, statistical analysis, Cosmic infrared background, 0103 physical sciences, Experiments in gravity, Sample variance, Planck, numerical calculations, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, polarization, background, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, gravitational radiation: primordial, BICEP, South Pole Telescope, Gravitational lens, B-mode, infrared, symbols, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization $B$-modes with "delensing," whereby the uncertainty on $r$ contributed by the sample variance of the gravitational lensing $B$-modes is reduced by cross-correlating against a lensing $B$-mode template. This template is constructed by combining an estimate of the polarized CMB with a tracer of the projected large-scale structure. The large-scale-structure tracer used is a map of the cosmic infrared background derived from Planck satellite data, while the polarized CMB map comes from a combination of South Pole Telescope, BICEP/Keck, and Planck data. We expand the BICEP/Keck likelihood analysis framework to accept a lensing template and apply it to the BICEP/Keck data set collected through 2014 using the same parametric foreground modelling as in the previous analysis. From simulations, we find that the uncertainty on $r$ is reduced by $\sim10\%$, from $��(r)$= 0.024 to 0.022, which can be compared with a $\sim26\%$ reduction obtained when using a perfect lensing template. Applying the technique to the real data, the constraint on $r$ is improved from $r_{0.05} < 0.090$ to $r_{0.05} < 0.082$ (95\% C.L.). This is the first demonstration of improvement in an $r$ constraint through delensing., 23 pages, 11 figures; match published version

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2020
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23. Planck 2018 results

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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 Zot

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2020
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24. Detection ofB-Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2

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P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin, D. Barkats, S. J. Benton, C. A. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, J. A. Brevik, I. Buder, E. Bullock, C. D. Dowell, L. Duband, J. P. Filippini, S. Fliescher, S. R. Golwala, M. Halpern, M. Hasselfield, S. R. Hildebrandt, G. C. Hilton, V. V. Hristov, K. D. Irwin, K. S. Karkare, J. P. Kaufman, B. G. Keating, S. A. Kernasovskiy, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, E. M. Leitch, M. Lueker, P. Mason, C. B. Netterfield, H. T. Nguyen, R. O’Brient, R. W. Ogburn, A. Orlando, C. Pryke, C. D. Reintsema, S. Richter, R. Schwarz, C. D. Sheehy, Z. K. Staniszewski, R. V. Sudiwala, G. P. Teply, J. E. Tolan, A. D. Turner, A. G. Vieregg, C. L. Wong, and K. W. Yoon

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2014
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25. Hafnium Films and Magnetic Shielding for TIME, A mm-Wavelength Spectrometer Array

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Jonathon Hunacek, A. C. Weber, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Isaac Trumper, Yun-Ting Cheng, Guochao Sun, Charles M. Bradford, Asantha Cooray, Dae Wook Kim, V. Butler, M. Zemcov, J. J. Bock, Tzu-Ching Chang, Bryan Steinbach, Erik Shirokoff, Clifford Frez, S. Hailey-Dunsheath, Benjamin L. Hoscheit, B. Uzgil, Chao-Te Li, Daniel P. Marrone, A. T. Crites, and A. D. Turner

Subjects
Materials science, Spectrometer, business.industry, Bolometer, chemistry.chemical_element, Condensed Matter Physics, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Hafnium, law.invention, chemistry.chemical_compound, Wavelength, chemistry, Silicon nitride, law, 0103 physical sciences, Electromagnetic shielding, Optoelectronics, General Materials Science, Emission spectrum, 010306 general physics, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Reionization
Abstract

TIME is a mm-wavelength grating spectrometer array that will map fluctuations of the 157.7-μm emission line of singly ionized carbon ([CII]) during the epoch of reionization (redshift z ∼5–9). Sixty transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers populate the output arc of each of the 32 spectrometers, for a total of 1920 detectors. Each bolometer consists of gold absorber on a ∼ 3 × 3 mm silicon nitride micro-mesh suspended near the corners by 1 × 1 × 500 μm silicon nitride legs targeting a photon-noise-dominated NEP ∼1×10^(-17)W/√Hz. Hafnium films are explored as a lower-T_c alternative to Ti (500 mK) for TIME TESs, allowing thicker support legs for improved yield. Hf T_c is shown to vary between 250 and 450 mK when varying the resident Ar pressure during deposition. Magnetic shielding designs and simulations are presented for the TIME first-stage SQUIDs. Total axial field suppression is predicted to be 5×10^7.

Published
2018

26. Particle response of antenna-coupled TES arrays: results from SPIDER and the lab

Author

Johanna Nagy, Steven J. Benton, W. A. Holmes, Carlo R. Contaldi, Gene C. Hilton, Jeffrey P. Filippini, D. V. Wiebe, Amy Trangsrud, A. S. Rahlin, J. E. Ruhl, Marcus Runyan, Calvin B. Netterfield, J. J. Bock, E. Young, E. C. Shaw, A. D. Turner, Carole Tucker, J. Fu, Sean Bryan, J. Hartley, O. Doré, H. C. Chiang, R. S. Tucker, Mandana Amiri, Kent D. Irwin, Natalie N. Gandilo, T. A. Morford, Carl D. Reintsema, Peter Mason, A. C. Weber, Jon E. Gudmundsson, A. E. Gambrel, Aurelien A. Fraisse, B. Osherson, R. Gualtieri, K. G. Megerian, W. C. Jones, Matthew Hasselfield, Jamil A. Shariff, Mark Halpern, Viktor Hristov, R. V. Gramillano, I. L. Padilla, Juan D. Soler, Peter A. R. Ade, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Zigmund Kermish, J. R. Bond, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112))

Subjects
General Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Bolometer, Transition-edge sensor, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic microwave background, 0204 Condensed Matter Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Space exploration, Physics, Applied, 0203 Classical Physics, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, symbols.namesake, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Planck, 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Spider, Science & Technology, 0105 Mathematical Physics, business.industry, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Glitch, Physics, Condensed Matter, Physical Sciences, symbols, Antenna (radio), Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

Future mm-wave and sub-mm space missions will employ large arrays of multiplexed Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers. Such instruments must contend with the high flux of cosmic rays beyond our atmosphere that induce "glitches" in bolometer data, which posed a challenge to data analysis from the Planck bolometers. Future instruments will face the additional challenges of shared substrate wafers and multiplexed readout wiring. In this work we explore the susceptibility of modern TES arrays to the cosmic ray environment of space using two data sets: the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of the SPIDER cosmic microwave background polarimeter, and a laboratory exposure of SPIDER flight hardware to radioactive sources. We find manageable glitch rates and short glitch durations, leading to minimal effect on SPIDER analysis. We constrain energy propagation within the substrate through a study of multi-detector coincidences, and give a preliminary look at pulse shapes in laboratory data., Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors

Published
2019

27. Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves Using Planck , WMAP, and New BICEP2/ Keck Observations through the 2015 Season

Author

Peter A. R. Ade, Lorenzo Moncelsi, N. A. Larsen, Abigail G. Vieregg, S. Kefeli, J. A. Grayson, Justus A. Brevik, Randol W. Aikin, King Tong Lau, Toshiya Namikawa, John M Kovac, Z. K. Staniszewski, Stefan Richter, Kirit Karkare, S. Palladino, K. G. Megerian, C. D. Sheehy, Chao-Lin Kuo, Denis Barkats, A. Wandui, J. J. Bock, Kent D. Irwin, Victor Buza, A. D. Turner, E. Karpel, L. Duband, R. Bowens-Rubin, M. Lueker, J. Cornelison, J. Kang, Cora Dvorkin, K. L. Thompson, Colin A. Bischoff, Howard Hui, Calvin B. Netterfield, J. P. Kaufman, J. E. Tolan, C. Tucker, R. Schwarz, Alessandro Schillaci, Marion Dierickx, T. St. Germaine, D. V. Wiebe, M. Crumrine, A. C. Weber, R. V. Sudiwala, Jake Connors, G. Hall, Brian Keating, J. Willmert, W. L. K. Wu, S. Fliescher, Ahmed Soliman, C. Umilta, Ki Won Yoon, Kate D. Alexander, Gene C. Hilton, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Steven J. Benton, R. W. Ogburn, B. P. Crill, Chao Zhang, C. Pryke, Grant Teply, Hyunsoo Yang, B. Racine, C. L. Wong, Sarah M. Harrison, H. T. Nguyen, E. M. Leitch, I. Buder, Bryan Steinbach, E. Bullock, Roger O'Brient, Mark Halpern, Z. Ahmed, S. A. Kernasovskiy, and S. R. Hildebrandt

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, General Physics and Astronomy, Planck temperature, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, CMB cold spot, Spectral line, symbols.namesake, 13. Climate action, Sky, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common
Abstract

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the bicep2/Keck CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season. This includes the first Keck Array observations at 220 GHz and additional observations at 95 and 150 GHz. The Q and U maps reach depths of 5.2, 2.9, and 26 μKCMB arcmin at 95, 150, and 220 GHz, respectively, over an effective area of ≈400 square degrees. The 220 GHz maps achieve a signal to noise on polarized dust emission approximately equal to that of Planck at 353 GHz. We take auto and cross spectra between these maps and publicly available WMAP and Planck maps at frequencies from 23 to 353 GHz. We evaluate the joint likelihood of the spectra versus a multicomponent model of lensed-ΛCDM+r+dust+synchrotron+noise. The foreground model has seven parameters, and we impose priors on some of these using external information from Planck and WMAP derived from larger regions of sky. The model is shown to be an adequate description of the data at the current noise levels. The likelihood analysis yields the constraint r0.05

Published
2018

28. Planck 2018 results. VIII. Gravitational lensing

Author

Charles R. Lawrence, L. Pagano, Andrea Zacchei, J. B. Kim, K. Benabed, E. Martínez-González, Francesco Forastieri, M. Migliaccio, Martin White, M. Bucher, J. R. Bond, B. Ruiz-Granados, Andrea Zonca, N. Mauri, J. J. Bock, Douglas Scott, Davide Maino, H. C. Chiang, Yashar Akrami, Anthony Challinor, M. Tenti, Michele Maris, J. A. Tauber, M. Savelainen, O. Doré, K. Ganga, P. Bielewicz, Tiziana Trombetti, Jose M. Diego, Jean-François Cardoso, Francesca Perrotta, J. Aumont, Torsten A. Enßlin, M. Ashdown, H. K. Eriksen, X. Dupac, P. B. Lilje, Krzysztof M. Gorski, A. Marcos-Caballero, M. Reinecke, A. Mennella, Nabila Aghanim, R. A. Sunyaev, Julien Carron, Paolo Natoli, Franz Elsner, L. Montier, A. Mangilli, F. Cuttaia, Martin Kunz, Mathieu Remazeilles, R. B. Barreiro, F. Piacentini, G. Roudier, J.-L. Puget, K. Kiiveri, Guilaine Lagache, M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, L. Salvati, J. F. Macías-Pérez, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Yin-Zhe Ma, Jason D. McEwen, Zhiqi Huang, M. López-Caniego, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, L. P. L. Colombo, Martina Gerbino, G. Polenta, A. Moneti, F. K. Hansen, S. Galli, Soumen Basak, Mario Ballardini, Graca Rocha, J.-P. Bernard, Carlo Burigana, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Chiara Sirignano, Sabino Matarrese, G. de Zotti, A. Renzi, C. Combet, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Julian Borrill, George Efstathiou, M. Frailis, Carlo Baccigalupi, Andrei V. Frolov, Jörg P. Rachen, Antony Lewis, Valeria Pettorino, François Levrier, E. Hivon, Will Handley, E. Di Valentino, Jacques Delabrouille, N. Mandolesi, Gianluca Morgante, Andrew H. Jaffe, Philip Lubin, Ingunn Kathrine Wehus, Diego Molinari, L. Toffolatti, A. J. Banday, Fabio Finelli, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Tuhin Ghosh, P. de Bernardis, R. Fernandez-Cobos, Aurelien A. Fraisse, B. P. Crill, B. Van Tent, P. Vielva, Erminia Calabrese, C. Rosset, Michele Liguori, Fabrizio Villa, Anthony Lasenby, Adam Moss, Ricardo Genova-Santos, E. Keihänen, E. Franceschi, Yabebal Fantaye, D. Tavagnacco, Nicola Bartolo, Marian Douspis, Nicola Vittorio, A. Karakci, W. C. Jones, A.-S. Suur-Uski, V. Lindholm, J. Valiviita, Peter G. Martin, S. Galeotta, Alessandro Gruppuso, J. González-Nuevo, J.-M. Lamarre, B. Partridge, A. Ducout, D. Paoletti, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, Steven Gratton, Lloyd Knox, L. Polastri, Alessandro Melchiorri, Reijo Keskitalo, M. Tomasi, Marco Bersanelli, Jan Hamann, Simon D. M. White, M. Sandri, Gianmarco Maggio, G. Patanchon, D. Herranz, M. Le Jeune, F. Boulanger, François R. 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Subjects
Cosmological parameter, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, Astronomy, Cosmic microwave background, Cosmological parameters, Cosmic background radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, NO, symbols.namesake, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, HALO-MODEL, Cosmic background radiation, Cosmological parameters, Cosmology: observations, Gravitational lensing: weak, Large-scale structure of Universe, Gravitational lensing: weak, Cosmic infrared background, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmology: observations, Planck, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QB, Physics, Settore FIS/05, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, POWER SPECTRA, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Redshift, GALAXIES, Gravitational lens, Space and Planetary Science, CROSS-CORRELATION, Dark energy, symbols, astro-ph.CO, DARK ENERGY, weak [Gravitational lensing], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Planck Collaboration: et al., arXiv:1807.06210v2, We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using the final Planck 2018 temperature and polarization data. Using polarization maps filtered to account for the noise anisotropy, we increase the significance of the detection of lensing in the polarization maps from 5σ to 9σ. Combined with temperature, lensing is detected at 40σ. We present an extensive set of tests of the robustness of the lensing-potential power spectrum, and construct a minimum-variance estimator likelihood over lensing multipoles 8 ≤ L ≤ 400 (extending the range to lower L compared to 2015), which we use to constrain cosmological parameters. We find good consistency between lensing constraints and the results from the Planck CMB power spectra within the ΛCDM model. Combined with baryon density and other weak priors, the lensing analysis alone constrains σ8Ωm0.25 = 0.589 ± 0.020 (1σ errors). Also combining with baryon acoustic oscillation data, we find tight individual parameter constraints, σ8 = 0.811 ± 0.019, H0 = 67.9−1.3+1.2 km s−1 Mpc−1, and Ωm = 0.303−0.018+0.016. Combining with Planck CMB power spectrum data, we measure σ8 to better than 1% precision, finding σ8 = 0.811 ± 0.006. CMB lensing reconstruction data are complementary to galaxy lensing data at lower redshift, having a different degeneracy direction in σ8 − Ωm space; we find consistency with the lensing results from the Dark Energy Survey, and give combined lensing-only parameter constraints that are tighter than joint results using galaxy clustering. Using the Planck cosmic infrared background (CIB) maps as an additional tracer of high-redshift matter, we make a combined Planck-only estimate of the lensing potential over 60% of the sky with considerably more small-scale signal. We additionally demonstrate delensing of the Planck power spectra using the joint and individual lensing potential estimates, detecting a maximum removal of 40% of the lensing-induced power in all spectra. The improvement in the sharpening of the acoustic peaks by including both CIB and the quadratic lensing reconstruction is detected at high significance., Support is acknowledged from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. [616170], and from the Science and Technology Facilities Council [grant numbers ST/L000652/1 and ST/N000927/1, respectively]. The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES, and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF, and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); ERC and PRACE (EU).

Published
2018

29. Ultra-thin large-aperture vacuum windows for millimeter wavelengths receivers

Author

R. W. Ogburn, E. Bullock, Mark Halpern, B. Racine, Grant Teply, M. Lueker, K. Lau, J. Willmert, S. J. Benton, G. Hall, H. T. Nguyen, I. Buder, Peter A. R. Ade, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Bryan Steinbach, J. Kang, R. Bowens-Rubin, Hong Yang, Abigail G. Vieregg, Randol W. Aikin, M. Crumrine, J. Connors, K. L. Thompson, B. G. Keating, Howard Hui, J. P. Kaufman, K. G. Megerian, C. L. Kuo, S. A. Harrison, S. Palladino, Marion Dierickx, Justus A. Brevik, Carole Tucker, S. Fliescher, Chris Pentacoff, N. A. Larsen, Zeeshan Ahmed, S. A. Kernasovskiy, S. R. Hildebrandt, Victor Buza, A. Wandui, J. E. Tolan, Denis Barkats, C. L. Wong, Kate D. Alexander, Roger O'Brient, E. Karpel, C. Pryke, Jeffrey P. Filippini, J. J. Bock, R. V. Sudiwala, S. Kefeli, W. L. K. Wu, C. D. Sheehy, K. W. Yoon, D. V. Wiebe, Cora Dvorkin, R. Schwarz, E. M. Leitch, J. Cornelison, C. Umiltà, A. C. Weber, John M Kovac, G. C. Hilton, Kirit Karkare, Kent D. Irwin, S. Richter, Colin A. Bischoff, B. P. Crill, Alessandro Schillaci, T. St. Germaine, Ahmed Soliman, J. A. Grayson, C. Zhang, A. D. Turner, L. Duband, T. Namikawa, Z. K. Staniszewski, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Zmuidzinas, Jonas, and Gao, Jian-Rong

Subjects
Cryostat, Materials science, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Transmission loss, polymer, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation: polarization, fabrication, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, microwaves, 010309 optics, Optics, Vacuum Windows, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmic Microwave Background, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), attenuation, Primordial Gravitational Waves, business.industry, Attenuation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, gravitational radiation: primordial, Polymer Materials, Polarization (waves), sensitivity, BICEP, vacuum system, Wavelength, Millimeter Wavelengths, cryogenics, Keck Array, Millimeter, atmosphere: pressure, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Microwave, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Targeting faint polarization patterns arising from Primordial Gravitational Waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background requires excellent observational sensitivity. Optical elements in small aperture experiments such as Bicep3 and Keck Array are designed to optimize throughput and minimize losses from transmission, reflection and scattering at millimeter wavelengths. As aperture size increases, cryostat vacuum windows must withstand larger forces from atmospheric pressure and the solution has often led to a thicker window at the expense of larger transmission loss. We have identified a new candidate material for the fabrication of vacuum windows: with a tensile strength two orders of magnitude larger than previously used materials, woven high-modulus polyethylene could allow for dramatically thinner windows, and therefore significantly reduced losses and higher sensitivity. In these proceedings we investigate the suitability of high-modulus polyethylene windows for ground-based CMB experiments, such as current and future receivers in the Bicep/Keck Array program. This includes characterizing their optical transmission as well as their mechanical behavior under atmospheric pressure. We find that such ultra-thin materials are promising candidates to improve the performance of large-aperture instruments at millimeter wavelengths, and outline a plan for further tests ahead of a possible upcoming field deployment of such a science-grade window., Comment: Published in Proc. SPIE. Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference 10708: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, June 2018. 14 pages, 7 figures

Published
2018

30. Design and Fabrication of TES Detector Modules for the TIME-Pilot [CII] Intensity Mapping Experiment

Author

Jonathon Hunacek, Chao-Te Li, Bruce Bumble, Z. Staniszewski, A. T. Crites, Yun-Ting Cheng, Tzu-Ching Chang, Charles M. Bradford, Asantha Cooray, B. Uzgil, Erik Shirokoff, C. Shiu, Yan Gong, J. J. Bock, S. Hailey-Dunsheath, Roger O'Brient, Michael Zemcov, Patrick M. Koch, and M. Kenyon

Subjects
Physics, Spectrometer, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Bolometer, Detector, Intensity mapping, Condensed Matter Physics, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, law.invention, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, Emission spectrum, Transition edge sensor, 010306 general physics, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Diffraction grating
Abstract

We are developing a series of close-packed modular detector arrays for TIME-Pilot, a new mm-wavelength grating spectrometer array that will map the intensity fluctuations of the redshifted 157.7 μm emission line of singly ionized carbon ([CII]) from redshift z∼5 to 9. TIME-Pilot’s two banks of 16 parallel-plate waveguide spectrometers (one bank per polarization) will have a spectral range of 183–326 GHz and a resolving power of R∼100. The spectrometers use a curved diffraction grating to disperse and focus the light on a series of output arcs, each sampled by 60 transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers with gold micro-mesh absorbers. These low-noise detectors will be operated from a 250 mK base temperature and are designed to have a background-limited NEP of ∼10^(−17) W/Hz^(1/2). This proceeding presents an overview of the detector design in the context of the TIME-Pilot instrument. Additionally, a prototype detector module produced at the Microdevices Laboratory at JPL is shown.

Published
2015

31. HerMES: point source catalogues from Herschel-SPIRE observations II★

Author

M. J. Page, Sebastien Heinis, Peder Norberg, Marco P. Viero, Anthony J. Smith, Yannick Roehlly, A. Conley, Seb Oliver, V. Buat, Isaac Roseboom, K. Guo, Mattia Vaccari, Michael Zemcov, Duncan Farrah, Gaelen Marsden, Benjamin L. Schulz, Georgios E. Magdis, C. Clarke, J. J. Bock, Lin Wang, and Lucia Marchetti

Subjects
Physics, Luminous infrared galaxy, Point source, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Space observatory, Extractor, QB0460, Photometry (optics), Methods statistical, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Extensive data, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Data release
Abstract

The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) is the largest Guaranteed Time Key Programme on the Herschel Space Observatory. With a wedding cake survey strategy, it consists of nested fields with varying depth and area totalling ~380 deg^2. In this paper, we present deep point source catalogues extracted from Herschel-SPIRE observations of all HerMES fields, except for the later addition of the 270 deg^2 HeLMS field. These catalogues constitute the second Data Release (DR2) made in October 2013. A subset of these catalogues, which consists of bright sources extracted from Herschel-SPIRE observations completed by May 1, 2010 (covering ~ 74 deg^2) were released earlier in the first extensive Data Release (DR1) in March 2012. Two different methods are used to generate the point source catalogues, the SUSSEXtractor (SXT) point source extractor used in two earlier data releases (EDR and EDR2) and a new source detection and photometry method. The latter combines an iterative source detection algorithm, StarFinder (SF), and a De-blended SPIRE Photometry (DESPHOT) algorithm. We use end-to-end Herschel-SPIRE simulations with realistic number counts and clustering properties to characterise basic properties of the point source catalogues, such as the completeness, reliability, photometric and positional accuracy. Over 500, 000 catalogue entries in HerMES fields (except HeLMS) are released to the public through the HeDAM website (http://hedam.oamp.fr/herMES)., 14 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS. Comments welcome

Published
2014

32. The Tomographic Ionized-Carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME) CII Imaging Spectrometer

Author

Yan Gong, Charles M. Bradford, M. R. e Silva, Roger O'Brient, Asantha Cooray, Erik Shirokoff, Michael Zemcov, Z. K. Staniszewski, Justus A. Brevik, Mario G. Santos, J. J. Bock, and Steve Hailey-Dunsheath

Subjects
Physics, Spectrometer, Ionization, Scale structure, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Imaging spectrometer, General Materials Science, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Reionization, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Redshift
Abstract

The Tomographic Ionized-Carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME) and TIME-Pilot are proposed imaging spectrometers to measure reionization and large scale structure at redshifts 5–9. We seek to exploit the 158 μm restframe emission of [CII], which becomes measurable at 200–300 GHz at reionization redshifts. Here we describe the scientific motivation, give an overview of the proposed instrument, and highlight key technological developments underway to enable these measurements.

Published
2014

33. Tracing the cosmic growth of supermassive black holes to z ∼ 3 with Herschel★

Author

Giovanni Cresci, G. Zamorani, Marco Scodeggio, Alessandro Cimatti, A. Feltre, P. Popesso, Ivan Delvecchio, Alvio Renzini, M. Carollo, Benjamin Magnelli, Carlotta Gruppioni, Mattia Vaccari, Douglas Scott, E. Le Floc'h, O. Le Fevre, Francesca Pozzi, Simon J. Lilly, S. Berta, Jacopo Fritz, Asantha Cooray, Dieter Lutz, J. J. Bock, Cristian Vignali, Vincenzo Mainieri, Seb Oliver, Thierry Contini, Delvecchio I., Gruppioni C., Pozzi F., Berta S., Zamorani G., Cimatti A., Lutz D., Scott D., Vignali C., Cresci G., Feltre A., Coorey A., Vaccari M., Fritz J., Le Floch E., Magnelli B., Popesso P., Oliver S., Bock J., Carollo M., Contini T., Le Fevre O., Lilly S., Mainieri V., Renzini A., and Scodeggio M.

Subjects
ULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, RAY LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, nuclei [galaxies], FOS: Physical sciences, SPECTRAL ENERGY-DISTRIBUTIONS, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, galaxies [infrared], 01 natural sciences, HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES, infrared: galaxies, QB0460, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, evolution [galaxies], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Luminosity function (astronomy), XMM-NEWTON, Luminous infrared galaxy, Physics, Supermassive black hole, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, HUBBLE-SPACE-TELESCOPE, STAR-FORMATION HISTORY, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Black hole, Physics and Astronomy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), X-RAY, DEEP-FIELD-SOUTH, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: nuclei, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We study a sample of Herschel-PACS selected galaxies within the GOODS-South and the COSMOS fields in the framework of the PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP) project. Starting from the rich multi-wavelength photometric data-sets available in both fields, we perform a broad-band Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) decomposition to disentangle the possible active galactic nucleus (AGN) contribution from that related to the host galaxy. We find that 37 per cent of the Herschel-selected sample shows signatures of nuclear activity at the 99 per cent confidence level. The probability to reveal AGN activity increases for bright ($L_{\rm 1-1000} > 10^{11} \rm L_{\odot}$) star-forming galaxies at $z>0.3$, becoming about 80 per cent for the brightest ($L_{\rm 1-1000} > 10^{12} \rm L_{\odot}$) infrared (IR) galaxies at $z \geq 1$. Finally, we reconstruct the AGN bolometric luminosity function and the super-massive black hole growth rate across cosmic time up to $z \sim 3$ from a Far-Infrared (FIR) perspective. This work shows general agreement with most of the panchromatic estimates from the literature, with the global black hole growth peaking at $z \sim 2$ and reproducing the observed local black hole mass density with consistent values of the radiative efficiency $��_{\rm rad}$ ($\sim$0.07)., 20 pages, 14 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Published
2014

34. Comparing Transition-Edge Sensor Response Times in a Modified Contact Scheme with Different Support Beams

Author

J. J. Bock, Charles M. Bradford, M. Kenyon, Marcus Runyan, W. A. Holmes, P. E. Echternach, B. Bumble, and Andrew D. Beyer

Subjects
Physics, business.industry, Transition temperature, Thermistor, Time constant, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Thermal conductivity, Meander (mathematics), Optics, General Materials Science, Transition edge sensor, Atomic physics, business, Noise-equivalent power, Beam (structure)
Abstract

We present measurements of the thermal conductance, G, and effective time constants, $$\tau $$ , of three transition-edge sensors (TESs) populated in arrays operated from 80–87 mK with T $$_\mathrm{C}$$ $$\sim $$ 120 mK. Our TES arrays include several variations of thermal architecture enabling determination of the architecture that demonstrates the minimum noise equivalent power, the lowest $$\tau $$ , and the trade-offs among designs. The three TESs we report here have identical Mo/Cu bilayer thermistors and wiring structures, while the thermal architectures are: (1) a TES with straight support beams of 1 mm length, (2) a TES with meander support beams of total length 2 mm and with two phonon-filter blocks per beam, and (3) a TES with meander support beams of total length 2 mm and with six phonon-filter blocks per beam. Our wiring scheme aims to lower the thermistor normal state resistance R $$_{N}$$ and increase the sharpness of the transition $$\alpha =$$ dlogR/dlogT at the transition temperature T $$_\mathrm{C}$$ . We find an upper limit of $$\alpha $$ given by ( $$25\pm 10$$ ), and G values of 200 fW/K for (1), 15 fW/K for (2), and 10 fW/K for (3). The value of $$\alpha $$ can be improved by slightly increasing the length of our thermistors.

Published
2014

35. BICEP2/Keck Array XI: Beam Characterization and Temperature-to-Polarization Leakage in the BK15 Data Set

Author

Grant Teply, R. V. Sudiwala, Brian Keating, W. L. K. Wu, S. R. Hildebrandt, Howard Hui, S. A. Kernasovskiy, A. Wandui, S. Kefeli, Jeffrey P. Filippini, J. A. Grayson, D. V. Wiebe, Justus A. Brevik, Carole Tucker, King Tong Lau, John M Kovac, S. Palladino, Toshiya Namikawa, Tyler St. Germaine, Kirit Karkare, M. Lueker, Alessandro Schillaci, N. A. Larsen, Mark Halpern, Lionel Duband, Kent D. Irwin, H. Yang, C. D. Sheehy, Chao-Lin Kuo, J. Willmert, Gene C. Hilton, J. Cornelison, J. E. Tolan, Ki Won Yoon, Calvin B. Netterfield, Stefan Richter, Zeeshan Ahmed, A. C. Weber, R. Bowens-Rubin, B. P. Crill, S. Fliescher, Jake Connors, M. Crumrine, G. Hall, Steven J. Benton, R. W. Ogburn, Ahmed Soliman, C. Umilta, Colin A. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, J. Kang, C. Pryke, Peter A. R. Ade, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Denis Barkats, Chao Zhang, B. Racine, C. L. Wong, J. P. Kaufman, R. Schwarz, Abigail G. Vieregg, A. D. Turner, Randol W. Aikin, H. T. Nguyen, Victor Buza, E. M. Leitch, E. Bullock, E. Karpel, K. L. Thompson, Z. K. Staniszewski, Roger O'Brient, Marion Dierickx, I. Buder, Bryan Steinbach, Sarah M. Harrison, K. G. Megerian, Service des Basses Températures (SBT ), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), BICEP2, Keck Array, Institut Nanosciences et Cryogénie (INAC), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Subjects
Planck, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, scalar tensor, Cosmic microwave background, Cosmic background radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation: polarization, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], inflation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Leakage (electronics), Physics, Gravitational wave, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, temperature, Astronomy and Astrophysics, BICEP, sensitivity, Polarization (waves), CMB cold spot, Computational physics, B-mode, WMAP, Space and Planetary Science, symbols, beam profile, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, statistical, Beam (structure), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Precision measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization require extreme control of instrumental systematics. In a companion paper we have presented cosmological constraints from observations with the BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season (BK15), resulting in the deepest CMB polarization maps to date and a statistical sensitivity to the tensor-to-scalar ratio of $\sigma(r) = 0.020$. In this work we characterize the beams and constrain potential systematic contamination from main beam shape mismatch at the three BK15 frequencies (95, 150, and 220 GHz). Far-field maps of 7,360 distinct beam patterns taken from 2010-2015 are used to measure differential beam parameters and predict the contribution of temperature-to-polarization leakage to the BK15 B-mode maps. In the multifrequency, multicomponent likelihood analysis that uses BK15, Planck, and WMAP maps to separate sky components, we find that adding this predicted leakage to simulations induces a bias of $\Delta r = 0.0027 \pm 0.0019$. Future results using higher-quality beam maps and improved techniques to detect such leakage in CMB data will substantially reduce this uncertainty, enabling the levels of systematics control needed for BICEP Array and other experiments that plan to definitively probe large-field inflation., Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables. Minor correction to Figure 2 and caption

Published
2019

36. The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey

Author

Duncan Farrah, Mat Page, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, M. N. Bremer, Douglas Scott, Kristen Coppin, Michał J. Michałowski, Omar Almaini, Elisabetta Valiante, Chris J. Willott, James Dunlop, Marco Spaans, E. L. Chapin, James Simpson, T. A. Targett, V. Arumugam, S. J. Oliver, T. Mackenzie, Robbie Richard Auld, C. Clarke, M. Symeonidis, V. Asboth, A. Conley, Rebecca A. A. Bowler, Andrew Blain, James E. Geach, T. Jenness, Michael Zemcov, Lingyu Wang, Isaac Roseboom, A. M. Swinbank, Jason Glenn, Daniel J. Smith, Mark Halpern, Marco P. Viero, Ian Smail, Scott Chapman, Alexander Karim, Rob Ivison, Antonio Chrysostomou, J. J. Bock, Michele Cirasuolo, E. van Kampen, Fernando Buitrago, G. Marsden, Rowin Meijerink, E. Pearson, Edo Ibar, A. L. R. Danielson, P. van der Werf, and Kapteyn Astronomical Institute

Subjects
ULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES, Stellar mass, Population, MU-M, galaxies: starburst, EQUAL-TO 4, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES, Photometry (optics), 0103 physical sciences, STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, DEEP FIELD-SOUTH, education, NUMBER COUNTS, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Photometric redshift, Physics, education.field_of_study, DEGREE EXTRAGALACTIC SURVEY, SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, HERSCHEL-ATLAS, evolution [Galaxies], Redshift, Galaxy, starburst [Galaxies], 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, submillimetre: galaxies, galaxies. [Submillimetre], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We investigate the multi-wavelength properties of a sample of 450-\mu m selected sources from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS). A total of 69 sources were identified above 4\sigma\ in deep SCUBA-2 450-\mu m observations overlapping the UDS and COSMOS fields and covering 210 sq. arcmin to a typical depth of \sigma 450=1.5 mJy. Reliable cross identification are found for 58 sources (84 per cent) in Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/IR data. The photometric redshift distribution (dN/dz) of 450\mu m-selected sources is presented, showing a broad peak in the redshift range 1=10^12 +/- 0.8 L_sol, =42 +/- 11 K and =1.6 +/- 0.5, respectively. The relationship between these SED parameters and the physical properties of galaxies is investigated, revealing correlations between T_D and LIR and between \beta_D and both stellar mass and effective radius. The connection between star formation rate and stellar mass is explored, with 24 per cent of 450 \mu m sources found to be ``star-bursts'', i.e. displaying anomalously high specific SFRs. However, both the number density and observed properties of these ``star-burst'' galaxies are found consistent with the population of normal star-forming galaxies., Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Published
2013

37. The roles of star formation and AGN activity of IRS sources in the HerMES fields

Author

A. Feltre, Jacopo Fritz, Asantha Cooray, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, S. J. Oliver, Antonio Hernán-Caballero, Edo Ibar, Duncan Farrah, Alberto Franceschini, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Mattia Vaccari, E. A. González Solares, M. Symeonidis, Lucia Marchetti, K. G. Isaak, Isaac Roseboom, M. J. Page, B. Lo Faro, J. J. Bock, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Canadian Space Agency, Swedish National Space Board, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (France), Commissariat à l'Ènergie Atomique et aux Ènergies Alternatives (France), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, UK Space Agency, and Universidad de Cantabria

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Active galactic nucleus, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, star formation [Galaxies], Luminosity, galaxies [Infrared], Spitzer Space Telescope, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Luminous infrared galaxy, Physics, Supermassive black hole, Galaxies: star formation, Star formation, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Infrared: galaxies, Galaxy, Accretion (astrophysics), starburst [Galaxies], Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Galaxies: starburst, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

A. Feltre et al., In this work, we explore the impact of the presence of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the mid- and far-infrared (IR) properties of galaxies as well as the effects of simultaneous AGN and starburst activity in the same galaxies. To do this, we apply a multicomponent, multiband spectral synthesis technique to a sample of 250 μm selected galaxies of the Herschel Multitiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES), with Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) spectra available for all galaxies. Our results confirm that the inclusion of the IRS spectra plays a crucial role in the spectral analysis of galaxies with an AGN component improving the selection of the best-fitting hot dust (torus) model. We find a correlation between the obscured star formation rate, SFRIR, derived from the IR luminosity of the starburst component, and SFRPAH, derived from the luminosity of the PAH features, LPAH, with SFRFIR taking higher values than SFRPAH. The correlation is different for AGN- and starburst-dominated objects. The ratio of LPAH to that of the starburst component, LPAH/LSB, is almost constant for AGN-dominated objects but decreases with increasing LSB for starburst-dominated objects. SFRFIR increases with the accretion luminosity, Lacc, with the increase less prominent for the very brightest, unobscured AGN-dominated sources. We find no correlation between the masses of the hot (AGN-heated) and cold (starburstheated) dust components. We interpret this as a non-constant fraction of gas driven by the gravitational effects to the AGN while the starburst is ongoing. We also find no evidenceof the AGN affecting the temperature of the cold dust component, though this conclusion is mostly based on objects with a non-dominant AGN component. We conclude that our findings do not provide evidence that the presence of AGN affects the star formation process in the host galaxy, but rather that the two phenomena occur simultaneously over a wide range of luminosities. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society., This development has been supported by national funding agencies: CSA (Canada); NAOC (China); CEA, CNES, CNRS (France); ASI (Italy); MCINN (Spain); SNSB (Sweden); STFC, UKSA (UK); and NASA (USA).

Published
2013

38. Inferring the mass of submillimetre galaxies by exploiting their gravitational magnification of background galaxies

Author

Duncan Farrah, Thomas Erben, Anthony J. Smith, Ivan Valtchanov, Joaquin Vieira, Lian-Tao Wang, Asantha Cooray, James Dunlop, M. J. Page, Jason Glenn, Sebastien Heinis, Mark Halpern, Rob Ivison, J. J. Bock, Marco P. Viero, Michael Rowan-Robinson, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Stephen Anthony Eales, L. van Waerbeke, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Alberto Franceschini, Douglas Scott, David L. Clements, A. Conley, S. J. Oliver, R. F. J. van der Burg, Matthieu Béthermin, and G. Marsden

Subjects
Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Dark matter, Extinction (astronomy), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Redshift, Gravitation, Stars, Gravitational lens, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Dust emission at sub-millimetre wavelengths allows us to trace the early phases of star formation in the Universe. In order to understand the physical processes involved in this mode of star formation, it is essential to gain knowledge about the dark matter structures - most importantly their masses - that sub-millimetre galaxies live in. Here we use the magnification effect of gravitational lensing to determine the average mass and dust content of sub-millimetre galaxies with 250mu flux densities of S_250>15mJy selected using data from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey. The positions of hundreds of sub-millimetre foreground lenses are cross-correlated with the positions of background Lyman-break galaxies at z~3-5 selected using optical data from the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. We detect a cross-correlation signal at the 7-sigma level over a sky area of one square degree, with ~80% of this signal being due to magnification, whereas the remaining ~20% comes from dust extinction. Adopting some simple assumptions for the dark matter and dust profiles and the redshift distribution enables us to estimate the average mass of the halos hosting the sub-millimetre galaxies to be log(M_200/M_sun)=13.17+0.05-0.08(stat.) and their average dust mass fraction (at radii of >10kpc) to be M_dust/M_200~6x10^-5. This supports the picture that sub-millimetre galaxies are dusty, forming stars at a high rate, reside in massive group-sized halos, and are a crucial phase in the assembly and evolution of structure in the Universe., 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Published
2013

39. First results from HerMES on the evolution of the submillimetre luminosity function

Author

Simon Dye, Bruno Altieri, V. Buat, Walter Kieran Gear, Antonio Cava, Rob Ivison, S. C. Madden, Jamie Stevens, C. D. Dowell, N. Castro-Rodriguez, Tom Babbedge, Asantha Cooray, Angela M. J. Mortier, A. Boselli, Robbie Richard Auld, D. Elbaz, G. E. Morrison, Robyn L. Ward, Andrew Blain, Nick Seymour, Gwenifer Raymond, K. Xu, Michael Pohlen, Duncan Farrah, L. Vigroux, Frazer N. Owen, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Isaac Roseboom, Lucia Marchetti, I. Perez-Fournon, Maurilio Pannella, Michael Rowan-Robinson, E. Dwek, David L. Shupe, G. Mainetti, Luca Conversi, D. Rizzo, Matthew Joseph Griffin, K. E. Tugwell, H. Aussel, V. Arumugam, Stephen Anthony Eales, Chris Pearson, A. Conley, Lingyu Wang, M. Trichas, M. Sanchez Portal, Douglas Scott, M. J. Page, Alberto Franceschini, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, Denis Burgarella, M. Fox, Edo Ibar, Bruno Maffei, A. Amblard, Mattia Vaccari, V. Strazzullo, Michael Zemcov, P. Chanial, J. J. Bock, L. R. Levenson, Hien Nguyen, Nanyao Y. Lu, M. Symeonidis, Benjamin L. Schulz, David L. Clements, Drew Brisbin, Jason Glenn, Gillian S. Wright, Andreas Papageorgiou, C. J. Lonsdale, J.-S. Huang, P. Panuzzo, Seb Oliver, A. Omont, B. O'Halloran, I. Valtchanov, Martin Harwit, A. J. Smith, E. A. González Solares, Jonathan Rawlings, K. G. Isaak, Guilaine Lagache, Eales, Sa, Raymond, G, Roseboom, Ig, Altieri, B, Amblard, A, Arumugam, V, Auld, R, Aussel, H, Babbedge, T, Blain, A, Bock, J, Boselli, A, Brisbin, D, Buat, V, Burgarella, D, Castro-Rodriguez, N, Cava, A, Chanial, P, Clements, Dl, Conley, A, Conversi, L, Cooray, A, Dowell, Cd, Dwek, E, Dye, S, Elbaz, D, Farrah, D, Fox, M, Franceschini, A, Gear, W, Glenn, J, Solares, Eag, Griffin, M, Harwit, M, Hatziminaoglou, E, Huang, J, Ibar, E, Isaak, K, Ivison, Rj, Lagache, G, Levenson, L, Lonsdale, Cj, Lu, N, Madden, S, Maffei, B, Mainetti, G, Marchetti, L, Morrison, Ge, Mortier, Amj, Nguyen, Ht, O'Halloran, B, Oliver, Sj, Omont, A, Owen, Fn, Page, Mj, Pannella, M, Panuzzo, P, Papageorgiou, A, Pearson, Cp, Perez-Fournon, I, Pohlen, M, Rawlings, Ji, Rigopoulou, D, Rizzo, D, Rowan-Robinson, M, Portal, M, Schulz, B, Scott, D, Seymour, N, Shupe, Dl, Smith, Aj, Stevens, Ja, Strazzullo, V, Symeonidis, M, Trichas, M, Tugwell, Ke, Vaccari, M, Valtchanov, I, Vigroux, L, Wang, L, Ward, R, Wright, G, Xu, Ck, Zemcov, M, Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence (OAMP), Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), National Research Council of Canada (NRC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Physics, submillimeter: galaxies, Spiral galaxy, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Significant part, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Redshift, Spire, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: high-redshift, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], galaxies: formation, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evoluton, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Luminosity function (astronomy), QB, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We have carried out two extremely deep surveys with SPIRE, one of the two cameras on Herschel, at 250 microns, close to the peak of the far-infrared background. We have used the results to investigate the evolution of the rest-frame 250-micron luminosity function out to z=2. We find evidence for strong evolution out to a redshift of around 1 but evidence for at most weak evolution beyond this redshift. Our results suggest that a significant part of the stars and metals in the Universe today were formed at z, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Herschel Special Issue, in press as a Letter; 5 pages

Published
2016

40. Herschel and SCUBA-2 imaging and spectroscopy of a bright, lensed submillimetre galaxy at z = 2.3

Author

Ismael Perez-Fournon, S. J. Oliver, Mat Page, Edward Polehampton, K. Coppin, Trevor Fulton, K. G. Isaak, Matthew Joseph Griffin, L. Vigroux, D. Rigopoulou, Giorgio Savini, J. J. Bock, Gillian S. Wright, Douglas Scott, T. L. Lim, Asantha Cooray, Chris Pearson, M. J. Barlow, Alastair C. Edge, Jean-Paul Baluteau, Sarah Leeks, B. Swinyard, David L. Clements, Michael Rowan-Robinson, E. Dwek, Rob Ivison, Locke D. Spencer, Andrew Blain, A. M. Swinbank, Ivan Valtchanov, Alberto Franceschini, A. L. R. Danielson, Ian Smail, Jason Glenn, David A. Naylor, Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence (OAMP), Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
submillimeter: galaxies, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Evolution, Milky Way, Fourier transform spectrometers, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, infrared: galaxies, Submillimeter, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Spectroscopy, ISM, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Physics, infrared: ISM, radio continuum: galaxies, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Radiation field, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Radio continuum, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Infrared, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a detailed analysis of the far-IR properties of the bright, lensed, z = 2.3, SMG, SMM J2135-0102, using new observations with Herschel, SCUBA-2 and the VLA. These data allow us to constrain the galaxy's SED and show that it has an intrinsic rest-frame 8-1000um luminosity, L(bol), of (2.3 +/- 0.2) x 10^12 L(sun) and a likely SFR of ~400 M(sun)/yr. The galaxy sits on the far-IR/radio correlation for far-IR-selected galaxies. At ~>70um, the SED can be described adequately by dust components with T(d) ~ 30 and 60K. Using SPIRE's Fourier Transform Spectrometer we report a detection of the [CII] 158um cooling line. If the [CII], CO and far-IR continuum arise in photo-dissociation regions, we derive a characteristic gas density, n ~ 10^3 cm^-3, and a far-UV radiation field, G_0, 10^3x stronger than the Milky Way. L([CII])/L(bol) is significantly higher than in local ULIRGs but similar to the values found in local star-forming galaxies and starburst nuclei. This is consistent with SMM J2135-0102 being powered by starburst clumps distributed across ~2 kpc, evidence that SMGs are not simply scaled-up ULIRGs. Our results show that SPIRE's FTS has the ability to measure the redshifts of distant, obscured galaxies via the blind detection of atomic cooling lines, but it will not be competitive with ground-based CO-line searches. It will, however, allow detailed study of the integrated properties of high-redshift galaxies, as well as the chemistry of their ISM, once more suitably bright candidates have been found., A&A Herschel Special Issue, in press as a Letter. 5 pages, 3 colour figures

Published
2016

41. Cosmology from MAXIMA-1, BOOMERANG, and COBE DMR cosmic microwave background observations

Author

E. Hivon, Pedro G. Ferreira, J. R. Bond, D. Sforna, K. Ganga, Silvia Masi, P. de Bernardis, Calvin B. Netterfield, Dmitry Pogosyan, J. J. Bock, Andrew E. Lange, Sang-Yun Oh, Peter A. R. Ade, Jiun-Huei Proty Wu, C. D. Winant, Giovanni Romeo, R. Stompor, Shaul Hanany, Julian Borrill, Paul L. Richards, L. Martinis, F. Piacentini, Adrian T. Lee, Francesco Scaramuzzi, P. C. Farese, Enzo Pascale, Viktor Hristov, J. E. Ruhl, S. Rao, A. Boscaleri, B. P. Crill, Bahman Rabii, Alessandro Melchiorri, M. Giacometti, Andrew H. Jaffe, Amedeo Balbi, George F. Smoot, K. Coble, T. E. Montroy, Simon Prunet, A. Iacoangeli, and Philip Daniel Mauskopf

Subjects
Structure formation, Oscillations, Acoustic oscillations, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, Scalar (mathematics), General Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics, Baryon, Cosmology, Relativity, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Probability density function, Microwaves, media_common, Physics, Nonbaryonic dark matter, Signal to noise ratio, Charged particles, Band structure, Galaxies, Universe, Acoustic variables measurement, Dark energy, Anisotropy, Multipole expansion, Calculations
Abstract

Recent results from BOOMERANG-98 and MAXIMA-1, taken together with COBE DMR, provide consistent and high signal-to-noise measurements of the cosmic microwave background power spectrum at spherical harmonic multipole bands over 2

Published
2016

42. Cosmological implications of the MAXIMA-1 high-resolution cosmic microwave background anisotropy measurement

Author

P. A. R. Ade, Jiun-Huei Proty Wu, Enzo Pascale, A. T. Lee, Bahman Rabii, A. Boscaleri, G. F. Smoot, Shaul Hanany, J. Borrill, Paul L. Richards, J. J. Bock, Pedro G. Ferreira, P. de Bernardis, M. E. Abroe, Andrew H. Jaffe, C. D. Winant, V. V. Hristov, Amedeo Balbi, Radek Stompor, and Domingos Barbosa

Subjects
Physics, Inflation (cosmology), Structure formation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic microwave background, Cosmology: observations, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Observable, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Omega, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Optical depth (astrophysics), Maxima, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

We discuss the cosmological implications of the new constraints on the power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy derived from a new high resolution analysis of the MAXIMA-1 measurement (Lee et al. 2001). The power spectrum shows excess power at $\ell \sim 860$ over the average level of power at $411 \le\ell \le 785.$ This excess is statistically significant on the 95% confidence level. Such a feature is consistent with the presence of a third acoustic peak, which is a generic prediction of inflation-based models. The height and the position of the excess power match the predictions of a family of inflationary models with cosmological parameters that are fixed to fit the CMB data previously provided by BOOMERANG-LDB and MAXIMA-1 experiments (e.g., Jaffe et al.2001). Our results, therefore, lend support for inflationary models and more generally for the dominance of coherent perturbations in the structure formation of the Universe. At the same time, they seem to disfavor a large variety of the non-standard (but still inflation-based) models that have been proposed to improve the quality of fits to the CMB data and consistency with other cosmological observables. Within standard inflationary models, our results combined with the COBE-DMR data give best fit values and 95% confidence limits for the baryon density, $\Omega_b h^2\simeq 0.033{\pm 0.013}$, and the total density, $\Omega=0.9{+0.18\atop -0.16}$. The primordial spectrum slope ($n_s$) and the optical depth to the last scattering surface ($\tau_c$) are found to be degenerate and to obey the relation $n_s \simeq 0.46 \tau_c + (0.99 \pm 0.14)$, for $\tau_c \le 0.5$ (all 95% c.l.).

Published
2016

43. Observation of H2O in a strongly lensed Herschel-ATLAS source at z=2.3

Author

P. Temi, J. E. Aguirre, N. Fiolet, Maarten Baes, Enzo Pascale, Axel Weiß, Edo Ibar, Aprajita Verma, M. Krips, Robbie Richard Auld, P. van der Werf, A. Omont, Michael Pohlen, A. M. Swinbank, Andrew J. Baker, Jacopo Fritz, J. J. Bock, Lerothodi Leonard Leeuw, M. Micha lowski, Daniel J. Smith, Dominik Riechers, R. Neri, Rob Ivison, Asantha Cooray, Kimberly S. Scott, Aliakbar Dariush, R. Gavazzi, Antonio Cava, J. Zmuidzinas, Mattia Vaccari, M. D. Lehnert, Loretta Dunne, Andrew I. Harris, E. E. Rigby, G. de Zotti, Eric J. Murphy, Peter Timothy Cox, Helmut Dannerbauer, Simon Dye, Haley Louise Gomez, Roxana Lupu, M. Guélin, Steve Maddox, Stephen Anthony Eales, Matt J. Jarvis, Mattia Negrello, David L. Clements, K. Coppin, C. M. Bradford, David T. Frayer, J. D. Vieira, A. Beelen, Ian Smail, Frank Bertoldi, David P. Hughes, B. Buttiglione, Jason Glenn, and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Subjects
submillimeter: galaxies, APM 08279+5255, Flux, galaxies [submillimeter], galaxies: starburst, Astrophysics, galaxies [infrared], Luminosity, galaxies: high-redshift, MOLECULAR GAS EXCITATION, WATER, Emission spectrum, Line (formation), Physics, starburst [galaxies], Sigma, Radio lines, galaxies: active, infrared: galaxies, radio lines: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Physical Sciences, active [galaxies], astro-ph.CO, Infrared, high-redshift [galaxies], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Active, FOS: Physical sciences, Starburst, Astronomy & Astrophysics, MARKARIAN 231, CLOVERLEAF QUASAR, INFRARED GALAXIES, STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, Submillimeter, Science & Technology, INTERSTELLAR-MEDIUM, Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, galaxies [radio lines], 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, HIGH-REDSHIFT, EMISSION, Excitation
Abstract

The Herschel survey, H-ATLAS, with its large areal coverage, has recently discovered a number of bright, strongly lensed high-z submillimeter galaxies. The strong magnification makes it possible to study molecular species other than CO, which are otherwise difficult to observe in high-z galaxies. Among the lensed galaxies already identified by H-ATLAS, the source J090302.9-014127B (SDP.17b) at z = 2.305 is remarkable due to its excitation conditions and a tentative detection of the H2O 202-111 emission line (Lupu et al. 2010). We report observations of this line in SDP.17b using the IRAM interferometer equipped with its new 277- 371GHz receivers. The H2O line is detected at a redshift of z = 2.3049+/-0.0006, with a flux of 7.8+/-0.5 Jy km s-1 and a FWHM of 250+/-60 km s-1. The new flux is 2.4 times weaker than the previous tentative detection, although both remain marginally consistent within 1.6-sigma. The intrinsic line luminosity and ratio of H2O(202-111)/CO8-7 seem comparable with those of the nearby starburst/enshrouded-AGN Mrk 231, suggesting that SDP.17b could also host a luminous AGN. The detection of a strong H2O 202-111 line in SDP.17b implies an efficient excitation mechanism of the water levels that must occur in very dense and warm interstellar gas., Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure

Published
2016

44. HerMES: THE FAR-INFRARED EMISSION FROM DUST-OBSCURED GALAXIES

Author

C. M. Casey, J. A. Calanog, Hai Fu, Duncan Farrah, J. Kartaltepe, Roberto J. Assef, Dominik Riechers, J. J. Bock, Asantha Cooray, E. Ibar, S. J. Oliver, Alex Conley, Georgios E. Magdis, D. Rigopoulou, Mattia Vaccari, Julie Wardlow, Michael Zemcov, M. Symeonidis, I. Perez-Fournon, Benjamin L. Schulz, Lucia Marchetti, Douglas Scott, Marco Viero, and Isaac Roseboom

Subjects
Physics, education.field_of_study, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Stellar mass, Star formation, Population, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, QB0349, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Luminosity, Photometry (optics), 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Luminosity function (astronomy)
Abstract

Dust-obscured galaxies (DOGs) are an ultraviolet-faint, infrared-bright galaxy population that reside at z ∼ 2 and are believed to be in a phase of dusty star-forming and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity. We present far-infrared (far-IR) observations of a complete sample of DOGs in the 2 deg2 of the Cosmic Evolution Survey. The 3077 DOGs have 〈z〉 = 1.9 ± 0.3 and are selected from 24 μm and r + observations using a color cut of r +-[24] ≥ 7.5 (AB mag) and S 24 ≥ 100 μJy. Based on the near-IR spectral energy distributions, 47% are bump DOGs (star formation dominated) and 10% are power-law DOGs (AGN-dominated). We use SPIRE far-IR photometry from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey to calculate the IR luminosity and characteristic dust temperature for the 1572 (51%) DOGs that are detected at 250 μm (≥3σ). For the remaining 1505 (49%) that are undetected, we perform a median stacking analysis to probe fainter luminosities. Herschel-detected and undetected DOGs have average luminosities of (2.8 ± 0.4) × 1012 L⊙ and (0.77 ± 0.08) × 10 12 L⊙, and dust temperatures of (33 ± 7) K and (37 ± 5) K, respectively. The IR luminosity function for DOGs with S 24 ≥ 100 μJy is calculated, using far-IR observations and stacking. DOGs contribute 10%-30% to the total star formation rate (SFR) density of the universe at z = 1.5-2.5, dominated by 250 μm detected and bump DOGs. For comparison, DOGs contribute 30% to the SFR density for all z = 1.5-2.5 galaxies with S 24 ≥ 100 μJy. DOGs have a large scatter about the star formation main sequence and their specific SFRs show that the observed phase of star formation could be responsible for their total observed stellar mass at z ∼ 2. © 2013. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Published
2016

45. The HerMES submillimetre local and low-redshift luminosity functions

Author

Edo Ibar, Asantha Cooray, Herve Aussel, Michael Pohlen, Ivan Valtchanov, Lingyu Wang, Duncan Farrah, V. Arumugam, Denis Burgarella, J. J. Bock, David L. Clements, Matthew Joseph Griffin, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Benjamin L. Schulz, A. Boselli, Alberto Franceschini, Matthieu Béthermin, Sebastien Heinis, M. Symeonidis, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Mattia Vaccari, Douglas Scott, S. J. Oliver, Anthony J. Smith, Lucia Marchetti, Michael Rowan-Robinson, B. O'Halloran, Rob Ivison, H. T. Nguyen, Marco P. Viero, M. J. Page, L. Conversi, Isaac Roseboom, Andreas Papageorgiou, V. Buat, Anna Feltre, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, Chris Pearson, C. K. Xu, David L. Shupe, Jason Glenn, Michael Zemcov, Julie Wardlow, A. Conley, C. D. Dowell, Nick Seymour, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Subjects
ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, SOURCE EXTRACTION, SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY, Initial mass function, Active galactic nucleus, Hubble Deep Field, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, STAR-FORMATION RATE, 01 natural sciences, Photometry (optics), 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, DEEP-FIELD, EXTRAGALACTIC LEGACY SURVEY, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QC, galaxies: statistics, Physics, FORMATION HISTORY, Science & Technology, FORMING GALAXIES, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, galaxies: luminosity function, Space and Planetary Science, mass function, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Physical Sciences, galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, STELLAR MASS FUNCTION, Spectral energy distribution, Galaxies: evolution, Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Galaxies: statistics, Submillimetre: galaxies, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, galaxies: evolution, submillimetre: galaxies
Abstract

We used wide area surveys over 39 deg$^2$ by the HerMES collaboration, performed with the Herschel Observatory SPIRE multi-wavelength camera, to estimate the low-redshift, $0.02, Comment: Accepted for publication by MNRAS on 17 Nov 2015

Published
2016

46. The Keck Array: A Multi Camera CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

Author

J. E. Tolan, M. Lueker, D. V. Wiebe, R. W. Ogburn, C. D. Sheehy, Mark Halpern, J. E. Ruhl, Roger O'Brient, Viktor Hristov, S. J. Benton, Colin A. Bischoff, P. Wilson, John M Kovac, Mandana Amiri, Carl D. Reintsema, J. A. Bonetti, S. Stokes, Kent D. Irwin, C. Pryke, Grant Teply, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Abigail G. Vieregg, Chao-Lin Kuo, Randol W. Aikin, Justus A. Brevik, H. T. Nguyen, M. Hasselfield, B. Burger, Gene C. Hilton, A. D. Turner, K. L. Thompson, C. D. Dowell, Z. K. Staniszewski, Angiola Orlando, T. Montroy, Sunil Golwala, J. J. Bock, R. Schwarz, L. Duband, and Chin Lin Wong

Subjects
Physics, Gravitational wave, business.industry, Cosmic microwave background, Bolometer, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Polarimeter, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Polarization (waves), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, General Materials Science, Transition edge sensor, business
Abstract

The Keck array is a new multi-camera Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimeter. Each camera contains 256 polarization pairs of antenna-coupled transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. We recently deployed three of five cameras at the geographic South Pole, and plan to deploy the final two cameras in early 2012. This new telescope is an ideal instrument to search for the primordial B-mode polarization signal imprinted in the CMB by inflationary gravitational waves. We will discuss the design of the detectors and receivers, the status of current observations, and report on progress toward upgrading the instrument with the full compliment of polarized receivers.

Published
2012

47. Suppressing Beam Systematics in Antenna-Coupled TES Bolometers for CMB Polarimetry

Author

N. Llombert, A. D. Turner, M. Lueker, Roger O'Brient, Howard Hui, C. L. Kuo, H. Ngyen, K. W. Yoon, Peter Day, J. J. Bock, Grant Teply, Z. Stanizewski, and J. Bonnetti

Subjects
Physics, Pixel, business.industry, Cosmic microwave background, Detector, Bolometer, Bandwidth (signal processing), Polarimetry, Optical power, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, law.invention, Full width at half maximum, Optics, law, General Materials Science, business
Abstract

We have deployed arrays of antenna-coupled TES bolometers for cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry in the BICEP2 and Keck array experiments and will deploy similar detectors in SPIDER and Polar-1. Each pixel receives optical power centered at 146 GHz with a 20% bandwidth (−10 dB edges) through an integrated dual-polarized phased-array antenna. In past deployments, these detectors have shown offsets in the two polarizations’ beam centroids (differential ‘steering’), but we have redesigned the feed networks by strategically spacing lines and adding intentional phase delays to suppress this unwanted effect. We expect that the focal planes in this season’s deployment of Keck and in SPIDER will have detectors with less than 5′ steering, which is 0.5% of the 14.2° nominal antenna’s FWHM (i.e. without lenses). We have also redesigned the antenna-array’s illumination pattern to suppress side-lobe response in anticipation of the Polar-1 experiment, reducing spillover by a factor of 2.5.

Published
2012

48. Erratum: 'HerMES: ALMA Imaging of Herschel-selected Dusty Star-forming Galaxies' (2015, ApJ, 812, 43)

Author

Julie Wardlow, J. A. Calanog, Raphael Gavazzi, J. J. Bock, R. Hopwood, Joaquin Vieira, Jillian M. Scudder, F. De Bernardis, Cedric G. Lacey, Avi Loeb, Matt J. Jarvis, Anthony J. Smith, W. I. Cowley, Ismael Perez-Fournon, R. S. Bussmann, Douglas Scott, Dominik Riechers, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Anastasia Fialkov, Isaac Roseboom, Rob Ivison, Scott Chapman, Christopher C. Hayward, Hai Fu, Asantha Cooray, Lingyu Wang, Duncan Farrah, and S. J. Oliver

Subjects
Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Star (graph theory), Galaxy
Abstract

The original published article omitted the final 6 panels of Figure 2. In addition, the original article included an older version of Figure 3 that does not have source labels shown in each panel.

Published
2015

49. Ultra-sensitive Transition-Edge Sensors for the Background Limited Infrared/Sub-mm Spectrograph (BLISS)

Author

J. J. Bock, Peter Day, Charles M. Bradford, M. Kenyon, Byeong Ho Eom, Andrew D. Beyer, Talso Chui, Pierre Echternach, and W. A. Holmes

Subjects
Physics, Spectrometer, business.industry, Bolometer, Spica, Condensed Matter Physics, Noise (electronics), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, law.invention, Background noise, Optics, law, General Materials Science, Transition edge sensor, business, Spectrograph, Noise-equivalent power
Abstract

We report progress in fabricating ultra-sensitive superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) for BLISS. BLISS is a suite of grating spectrometers covering 35–433 μm with R∼700 cooled to 50 mK that is proposed to fly on the Japanese space telescope SPICA. The detector arrays for BLISS are TES bolometers readout with a time domain SQUID multiplexer. The required noise equivalent power (NEP) for BLISS is NEP=10−19 W/Hz1/2 with an ultimate goal of NEP=5×10−20 W/Hz1/2 to achieve background limited noise performance. The required and goal response times are τ=150 ms and τ=50 ms respectively to achieve the NEP at the required and goal optical chop frequency 1–5 Hz. We measured prototype BLISS arrays and have achieved NEP=6×10−18 W/Hz1/2 and τ=1.4 ms with a Ti TES (T C=565 mK) and NEP∼2.5×10−19 W/Hz1/2 and τ∼4.5 ms with an Ir TES (T C=130 mK). Dark power for these tests is estimated at 1–5 fW.

Published
2011

50. Characterization of an Ultra-Sensitive Transition-Edge Sensor for Space-Borne Far-IR/Sub-mm Spectroscopy

Author

Peter Day, Charles M. Bradford, M. Kenyon, J. R. Gao, J. Bueno, J. J. Bock, Byeong Ho Eom, H. F. C. Hoevers, M. P. Bruijn, Marcel L. Ridder, Pierre Echternach, Andrew D. Beyer, and Pourya Khosropanah

Subjects
Attenuator (electronics), Physics, Resistive touchscreen, business.industry, Johnson–Nyquist noise, Condensed Matter Physics, Noise (electronics), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Optics, Far infrared, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Transition edge sensor, Coaxial, business, Noise-equivalent power
Abstract

We measured the noise equivalent power (NEP) of an ultra-sensitive membrane-isolated transition-edge sensor (TES) designed for the SpicA FAR Infrared instrument (SAFARI) along with several Johnson noise Thermometry Devices (JTDs) simultaneously in a “dark” experimental setup. Our goal was to characterize the dark power PD present in our experimental setup and its effect on the measured NEP. By employing resistive attenuators, filters, lossy coaxial connections, and a light-tight box, we reduced PD to 0.25 fW in our setup. For the TES, G was measured to be (325±25) fW/K at TC=78 mK giving an upper-limit expected NEP of (3.5±0.25)×10-19 W/Hz1/2. We measured an actual NEP on the TES equal to (6.5±1.5)×10-19 W/Hz1/2, which is approximately double the expected value and likely due to residual electrical dark power in our setup.

Published
2011

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