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1. Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: Cluster science

Author

Melin, J-B, Bonaldi, A, Remazeilles, M, Hagstotz, S, Diego, JM, Hernández-Monteagudo, C, Génova-Santos, RT, Luzzi, G, Martins, CJAP, Grandis, S, Mohr, JJ, Bartlett, JG, Delabrouille, J, Ferraro, S, Tramonte, D, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Macìas-Pérez, JF, Achúcarro, A, Ade, P, Allison, R, Ashdown, M, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Banerji, R, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Basu, K, Battye, RA, Baumann, D, Bersanelli, M, Bonato, M, Borrill, J, Bouchet, F, Boulanger, F, Brinckmann, T, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Buzzelli, A, Cai, Z-Y, Calvo, M, Carvalho, CS, Castellano, MG, Challinor, A, Chluba, J, Clesse, S, Colafrancesco, S, Colantoni, I, Coppolecchia, A, Crook, M, D'Alessandro, G, de Bernardis, P, de Gasperis, G, De Petris, M, De Zotti, G, Di Valentino, E, Errard, J, Feeney, SM, Fernández-Cobos, R, Finelli, F, Forastieri, F, Galli, S, Gerbino, M, González-Nuevo, J, Greenslade, J, Hanany, S, Handley, W, Hervias-Caimapo, C, Hills, M, Hivon, E, Kiiveri, K, Kisner, T, Kitching, T, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lamagna, L, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Le Brun, AMC, Lesgourgues, J, Lewis, A, Liguori, M, Lindholm, V, Lopez-Caniego, M, Maffei, B, Martinez-Gonzalez, E, Masi, S, Mazzotta, P, McCarthy, D, Melchiorri, A, Molinari, D, Monfardini, A, Natoli, P, Negrello, M, Notari, A, Paiella, A, Paoletti, D, Patanchon, G, Piat, M, Pisano, G, and Polastri, L

Subjects
CMBR experiments, Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, cluster counts, galaxy clusters, astro-ph.CO, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract

We examine the cosmological constraints that can be achieved with a galaxy cluster survey with the future CORE space mission. Using realistic simulations of the millimeter sky, produced with the latest version of the Planck Sky Model, we characterize the CORE cluster catalogues as a function of the main mission performance parameters. We pay particular attention to telescope size, key to improved angular resolution, and discuss the comparison and the complementarity of CORE with ambitious future ground-based CMB experiments that could be deployed in the next decade. A possible CORE mission concept with a 150 cm diameter primary mirror can detect of the order of 50,000 clusters through the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE). The total yield increases (decreases) by 25% when increasing (decreasing) the mirror diameter by 30 cm. The 150 cm telescope configuration will detect the most massive clusters (>1014 Mo) at redshift z>1.5 over the whole sky, although the exact number above this redshift is tied to the uncertain evolution of the cluster SZE flux-mass relation; assuming self-similar evolution, CORE will detect 0∼ 50 clusters at redshift z>1.5. This changes to 800 (200) when increasing (decreasing) the mirror size by 30 cm. CORE will be able to measure individual cluster halo masses through lensing of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies with a 1-σ sensitivity of 4×1014 Mo, for a 120 cm aperture telescope, and 1014 Mo for a 180 cm one. From the ground, we estimate that, for example, a survey with about 150,000 detectors at the focus of 350 cm telescopes observing 65% of the sky would be shallower than CORE and detect about 11,000 clusters, while a survey with the same number of detectors observing 25% of sky with a 10 m telescope is expected to be deeper and to detect about 70,000 clusters. When combined with the latter, CORE would reach a limiting mass of M500 ∼ 2-3 × 1013 Mo and detect 220,000 clusters (5 sigma detection limit). Cosmological constraints from CORE cluster counts alone are competitive with other scheduled large scale structure surveys in the 2020's for measuring the dark energy equation-of-state parameters w0 and wa (σw0=0.28, σwa=0.31). In combination with primary CMB constraints, CORE cluster counts can further reduce these error bars on w0 and wa to 0.05 and 0.13 respectively, and constrain the sum of the neutrino masses, Σ mν, to 39 meV (1 sigma). The wide frequency coverage of CORE, 60-600 GHz, will enable measurement of the relativistic thermal SZE by stacking clusters. Contamination by dust emission from the clusters, however, makes constraining the temperature of the intracluster medium difficult. The kinetic SZE pairwise momentum will be extracted with 0S/N=7 in the foreground-cleaned CMB map. Measurements of TCMB(z) using CORE clusters will establish competitive constraints on the evolution of the CMB temperature: (1+z)1-β, with an uncertainty of σβ ≲ 2.7× 10-3 at low redshift (z ≲ 1). The wide frequency coverage also enables clean extraction of a map of the diffuse SZE signal over the sky, substantially reducing contamination by foregrounds compared to the Planck SZE map extraction. Our analysis of the one-dimensional distribution of Compton-y values in the simulated map finds an order of magnitude improvement in constraints on σ8 over the Planck result, demonstrating the potential of this cosmological probe with CORE.

Published
2018

2. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: single-probe measurements from CMASS anisotropic galaxy clustering

Author

Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Prada, Francisco, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Beutler, Florian, Cuesta, Antonio J, Eisenstein, Daniel J, Escoffier, Stephanie, Ho, Shirley, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Manera, Marc, Nuza, Sebastián E, Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Ross, Ashley, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Samushia, Lado, Schlegel, David J, Schneider, Donald P, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin A, Zhao, Gongbo, Brownstein, Joel R, Dawson, Kyle S, Maraston, Claudia, Olmstead, Matthew D, and Thomas, Daniel

Subjects
cosmological parameters, cosmology: observations, distance scale, large-scale structure of Universe, astro-ph.CO, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Abstract

With the largest spectroscopic galaxy survey volume drawn from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), we can extract cosmological constraints from the measurements of redshift and geometric distortions at quasi-linear scales (e.g. above 50 h-1 Mpc). We analyse the broad-range shape of the monopole and quadrupole correlation functions of the BOSS Data Release 12 (DR12) CMASS galaxy sample, at the effective redshift z = 0.59, to obtain constraints on the Hubble expansion rate H(z), the angular- diameter distance DA(z), the normalized growth rate f(z)σ8(z), and the physical matter density Ωm h2.We obtain robust measurements by including a polynomial as the model for the systematic errors, and find it works very well against the systematic effects, e.g. ones induced by stars and seeing. We provide accurate measurements (DA(0.59)rs,fid/rs, H(0.59)rs/rs,fid, f(0.59)σ8(0.59), Ωm h2) = (1427 ± 26 Mpc, 97.3 ± 3.3 kms-1 Mpc-1, 0.488 ± 0.060, 0.135 ± 0.016), where rs is the comoving sound horizon at the drag epoch and rs,fid = 147.66 Mpc is the sound scale of the fiducial cosmology used in this study. The parameters which are not well constrained by our galaxy clustering analysis are marginalized over with wide flat priors. Since no priors from other data sets, e.g. cosmic microwave background (CMB), are adopted and no dark energy models are assumed, our results from BOSS CMASS galaxy clustering alone may be combined with other data sets, i.e. CMB, SNe, lensing or other galaxy clustering data to constrain the parameters of a given cosmological model. The uncertainty on the dark energy equation of state parameter, w, from CMB+CMASS is about 8 per cent. The uncertainty on the curvature fraction, Ωk, is 0.3 per cent. We do not find deviation from flat ΛCDM.

Published
2016

3. Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation measurements

Author

Aubourg, É, Bailey, S, Bautista, JE, Beutler, F, Bhardwaj, V, Bizyaev, D, Blanton, M, Blomqvist, M, Bolton, AS, Bovy, J, Brewington, H, Brinkmann, J, Brownstein, JR, Burden, A, Busca, NG, Carithers, W, Chuang, CH, Comparat, J, Croft, RAC, Cuesta, AJ, Dawson, KS, Delubac, T, Eisenstein, DJ, Font-Ribera, A, Ge, J, Le Goff, JM, Gontcho, SGA, Gott, JR, Gunn, JE, Guo, H, Guy, J, Hamilton, JC, Ho, S, Honscheid, K, Howlett, C, Kirkby, D, Kitaura, FS, Kneib, JP, Lee, KG, Long, D, Lupton, RH, Magaña, MV, Malanushenko, V, Malanushenko, E, Manera, M, Maraston, C, Margala, D, McBride, CK, Miralda-Escudé, J, Myers, AD, Nichol, RC, Noterdaeme, P, Nuza, SE, Olmstead, MD, Oravetz, D, Pâris, I, Padmanabhan, N, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Pan, K, Pellejero-Ibanez, M, Percival, WJ, Petitjean, P, Pieri, MM, Prada, F, Reid, B, Rich, J, Roe, NA, Ross, AJ, Ross, NP, Rossi, G, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Sánchez, AG, Samushia, L, Santos, RTG, Scóccola, CG, Schlegel, DJ, Schneider, DP, Seo, HJ, Sheldon, E, Simmons, A, Skibba, RA, Slosar, A, Strauss, MA, Thomas, D, Tinker, JL, Tojeiro, R, Vazquez, JA, Viel, M, Wake, DA, Weaver, BA, Weinberg, DH, Wood-Vasey, WM, Yèche, C, Zehavi, I, and Zhao, GB

Subjects
astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-ex, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and a recent reanalysis of Type Ia supernova (SN) data. In particular, we take advantage of high-precision BAO measurements from galaxy clustering and the Lyman-α forest (LyaF) in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Treating the BAO scale as an uncalibrated standard ruler, BAO data alone yield a high confidence detection of dark energy; in combination with the CMB angular acoustic scale they further imply a nearly flat universe. Adding the CMB-calibrated physical scale of the sound horizon, the combination of BAO and SN data into an "inverse distance ladder" yields a measurement of H0=67.3±1.1 km s-1 Mpc-1, with 1.7% precision. This measurement assumes standard prerecombination physics but is insensitive to assumptions about dark energy or space curvature, so agreement with CMB-based estimates that assume a flat ΛCDM cosmology is an important corroboration of this minimal cosmological model. For constant dark energy (Λ), our BAO+SN+CMB combination yields matter density Ωm=0.301±0.008 and curvature Ωk=-0.003±0.003. When we allow more general forms of evolving dark energy, the BAO+SN+CMB parameter constraints are always consistent with flat ΛCDM values at ≈1σ. While the overall χ2 of model fits is satisfactory, the LyaF BAO measurements are in moderate (2-2.5σ) tension with model predictions. Models with early dark energy that tracks the dominant energy component at high redshift remain consistent with our expansion history constraints, and they yield a higher H0 and lower matter clustering amplitude, improving agreement with some low redshift observations. Expansion history alone yields an upper limit on the summed mass of neutrino species, mν

Published
2015

4. Planck intermediate results. LVI. Detection of the CMB dipole through modulation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect: Eppur si muove II

Author

Collaboration, P, Akrami, Y, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Benabed, K, Bernard, J-P, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Burigana, C, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, J-F, Casaponsa, B, Chiang, HC, Combet, C, Contreras, D, Crill, BP, Cuttaia, F, Bernardis, PD, Rosa, AD, Zotti, GD, Delabrouille, J, Valentino, ED, Diego, JM, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Dupac, X, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Fernandez-Cobos, R, Finelli, F, Frailis, M, Franceschi, E, Frolov, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Génova-Santos, RT, Gerbino, M, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Handley, W, Herranz, D, Hivon, E, Huang, Z, Jaffe, AH, Jones, WC, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kiiveri, K, Kim, J, Kisner, TS, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lamarre, J-M, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Jeune, ML, Levrier, F, Liguori, M, Lilje, PB, Lindholm, V, López-Caniego, M, Macías-Pérez, JF, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Marcos-Caballero, A, Maris, M, Martin, PG, Martínez-González, E, Matarrese, S, Mauri, N, McEwen, JD, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Molinari, D, Moneti, A, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Moss, A, Natoli, P, Pagano, L, Paoletti, D, Perrotta, F, Pettorino, V, Piacentini, F, Polenta, G, Rachen, JP, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Renzi, A, Rocha, G, Rosset, C, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Ruiz-Granados, B, Salvati, L, Savelainen, M, Scott, D, Sirignano, C, Sirri, G, Spencer, LD, Sullivan, RM, Sunyaev, R, Suur-Uski, A-S, Tauber, JA, Tavagnacco, D, Tenti, M, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Trombetti, T, Valiviita, J, Tent, BV, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vittorio, N, Wehus, IK, Zacchei, A, and Zonca, A

Subjects
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astro-ph.CO, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The largest temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the dipole, which has been measured with increasing accuracy for more than three decades, particularly with the Planck satellite. The simplest interpretation of the dipole is that it is due to our motion with respect to the rest frame of the CMB. Since current CMB experiments infer temperature anisotropies from angular intensity variations, the dipole modulates the temperature anisotropies with the same frequency dependence as the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect. We present the first, and significant, detection of this signal in the tSZ maps and find that it is consistent with direct measurements of the CMB dipole, as expected. The signal contributes power in the tSZ maps, which is modulated in a quadrupolar pattern, and we estimate its contribution to the tSZ bispectrum, noting that it contributes negligible noise to the bispectrum at relevant scales.

Published
2020

5. Planck intermediate results. LVII. Joint Planck LFI and HFI data processing

Author

Collaboration, P, Akrami, Y, Andersen, KJ, Ashdown, M, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Benabed, K, Bernard, J-P, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Casaponsa, B, Chiang, HC, Colombo, LPL, Combet, C, Crill, BP, Cuttaia, F, Bernardis, PD, Rosa, AD, Zotti, GD, Delabrouille, J, Valentino, ED, Diego, JM, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Dupac, X, Eriksen, HK, Fernandez-Cobos, R, Finelli, F, Frailis, M, Fraisse, AA, Franceschi, E, Frolov, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Gerbino, M, Ghosh, T, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Handley, W, Helou, G, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, SR, Hivon, E, Huang, Z, Jaffe, AH, Jones, WC, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kiiveri, K, Kim, J, Kisner, TS, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Jeune, ML, Levrier, F, Liguori, M, Lilje, PB, Lilley, M, Lindholm, V, López-Caniego, M, Lubin, PM, Macías-Pérez, JF, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Marcos-Caballero, A, Maris, M, Martin, PG, Martínez-González, E, Matarrese, S, Mauri, N, McEwen, JD, Meinhold, PR, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Mitra, S, Molinari, D, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Moss, A, Natoli, P, Paoletti, D, Partridge, B, Patanchon, G, Pearson, D, Pearson, TJ, Perrotta, F, Piacentini, F, Polenta, G, Rachen, JP, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Renzi, A, Rocha, G, Rosset, C, Roudier, G, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Ruiz-Granados, B, Salvati, L, Savelainen, M, Scott, D, Sirignano, C, Sirri, G, Spencer, LD, Suur-Uski, A-S, Svalheim, TL, Tauber, JA, Tavagnacco, D, Tenti, M, Terenzi, L, Thommesen, H, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Tristram, M, Trombetti, T, Valiviita, J, Tent, BV, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vittorio, N, Wandelt, BD, Wehus, IK, Zacchei, A, and Zonca, A

Subjects
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astro-ph.CO
Abstract

We present the NPIPE processing pipeline, which produces calibrated frequency maps in temperature and polarization from data from the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and High Frequency Instrument (HFI) using high-performance computers. NPIPE represents a natural evolution of previous Planck analysis efforts, and combines some of the most powerful features of the separate LFI and HFI analysis pipelines. The net effect of the improvements is lower levels of noise and systematics in both frequency and component maps at essentially all angular scales, as well as notably improved internal consistency between the various frequency channels. Based on the NPIPE maps, we present the first estimate of the Solar dipole determined through component separation across all nine Planck frequencies. The amplitude is ($3366.6 \pm 2.7$)$\mu$K, consistent with, albeit slightly higher than, earlier estimates. From the large-scale polarization data, we derive an updated estimate of the optical depth of reionization of $\tau = 0.051 \pm 0.006$, which appears robust with respect to data and sky cuts. There are 600 complete signal, noise and systematics simulations of the full-frequency and detector-set maps. As a Planck first, these simulations include full time-domain processing of the beam-convolved CMB anisotropies. The release of NPIPE maps and simulations is accompanied with a complete suite of raw and processed time-ordered data and the software, scripts, auxiliary data, and parameter files needed to improve further on the analysis and to run matching simulations.

Published
2020

6. Planck 2018 results. XII. Galactic astrophysics using polarized dust emission

Author

Collaboration, P, Aghanim, N, Akrami, Y, Alves, MIR, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Benabed, K, Bernard, J-P, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bock, JJ, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Bracco, A, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, J-F, Carron, J, Chary, R-R, Chiang, HC, Colombo, LPL, Combet, C, Crill, BP, Cuttaia, F, Bernardis, PD, Zotti, GD, Delabrouille, J, Delouis, J-M, Valentino, ED, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Fantaye, Y, Fernandez-Cobos, R, Ferrière, K, Forastieri, F, Frailis, M, Fraisse, AA, Franceschi, E, Frolov, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Génova-Santos, RT, Gerbino, M, Ghosh, T, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gratton, S, Green, G, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Guillet, V, Handley, W, Hansen, FK, Helou, G, Herranz, D, Hivon, E, Huang, Z, Jaffe, AH, Jones, WC, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kiiveri, K, Kim, J, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lamarre, J-M, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Jeune, ML, Levrier, F, Liguori, M, Lilje, PB, Lindholm, V, López-Caniego, M, Lubin, PM, Ma, Y-Z, Macías-Pérez, JF, Maggio, G, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Mangilli, A, Marcos-Caballero, A, Maris, M, Martin, PG, Martínez-González, E, Matarrese, S, Mauri, N, McEwen, JD, Melchiorri, A, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Miville-Deschênes, M-A, Molinari, D, Moneti, A, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Moss, A, Natoli, P, Pagano, L, Paoletti, D, Patanchon, G, Perrotta, F, Pettorino, V, Piacentini, F, Polastri, L, Polenta, G, Puget, J-L, Rachen, JP, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Renzi, A, Ristorcelli, I, Rocha, G, Rosset, C, Roudier, G, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Ruiz-Granados, B, Salvati, L, Sandri, M, Savelainen, M, Scott, D, Sirignano, C, Sunyaev, R, Suur-Uski, A-S, Tauber, JA, Tavagnacco, D, Tenti, M, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Trombetti, T, Valiviita, J, Tent, BV, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vittorio, N, Wandelt, BD, Wehus, IK, Zacchei, A, and Zonca, A

Subjects
astro-ph.GA, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

We present 353 GHz full-sky maps of the polarization fraction $p$, angle $\psi$, and dispersion of angles $S$ of Galactic dust thermal emission produced from the 2018 release of Planck data. We confirm that the mean and maximum of $p$ decrease with increasing $N_H$. The uncertainty on the maximum polarization fraction, $p_\mathrm{max}=22.0$% at 80 arcmin resolution, is dominated by the uncertainty on the zero level in total intensity. The observed inverse behaviour between $p$ and $S$ is interpreted with models of the polarized sky that include effects from only the topology of the turbulent Galactic magnetic field. Thus, the statistical properties of $p$, $\psi$, and $S$ mostly reflect the structure of the magnetic field. Nevertheless, we search for potential signatures of varying grain alignment and dust properties. First, we analyse the product map $S \times p$, looking for residual trends. While $p$ decreases by a factor of 3--4 between $N_H=10^{20}$ cm$^{-2}$ and $N_H=2\times 10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$, $S \times p$ decreases by only about 25%, a systematic trend observed in both the diffuse ISM and molecular clouds. Second, we find no systematic trend of $S \times p$ with the dust temperature, even though in the diffuse ISM lines of sight with high $p$ and low $S$ tend to have colder dust. We also compare Planck data with starlight polarization in the visible at high latitudes. The agreement in polarization angles is remarkable. Two polarization emission-to-extinction ratios that characterize dust optical properties depend only weakly on $N_H$ and converge towards the values previously determined for translucent lines of sight. We determine an upper limit for the polarization fraction in extinction of 13%, compatible with the $p_\mathrm{max}$ observed in emission. These results provide strong constraints for models of Galactic dust in diffuse gas.

Published
2018

7. Planck intermediate results. XXXIX. The Planck list of high-redshift source candidates

Author

Collaboration, P, Ade, PAR, Aghanim, N, Arnaud, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Battaner, E, Benabed, K, Benoit-Lévy, A, Bernard, J-P, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bonaldi, A, Bonavera, L, Bond, JR, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Catalano, A, Chiang, HC, Christensen, PR, Clements, DL, Colombo, LPL, Couchot, F, Coulais, A, Crill, BP, Curto, A, Cuttaia, F, Danese, L, Davies, RD, Davis, RJ, Bernardis, PD, Rosa, AD, Zotti, GD, Delabrouille, J, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Dole, H, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Falgarone, E, Finelli, F, Flores-Cacho, I, Frailis, M, Fraisse, AA, Franceschi, E, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Giard, M, Giraud-Héraud, Y, Gjerløw, E, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gregorio, A, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Hansen, FK, Harrison, DL, Helou, G, Hernández-Monteagudo, C, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, SR, Hivon, E, Hobson, M, Hornstrup, A, Hovest, W, Huffenberger, KM, Hurier, G, Jaffe, AH, Jaffe, TR, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kisner, TS, Knoche, J, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lamarre, J-M, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Leonardi, R, Levrier, F, Lilje, PB, Linden-Vørnle, M, López-Caniego, M, Lubin, PM, Macías-Pérez, JF, Maffei, B, Maggio, G, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Mangilli, A, Maris, M, Martin, PG, Martínez-González, E, Masi, S, Matarrese, S, Melchiorri, A, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Mitra, S, Miville-Deschênes, M-A, Moneti, A, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Mortlock, D, Munshi, D, Murphy, JA, Nati, F, Natoli, P, Nesvadba, NPH, Noviello, F, Novikov, D, Novikov, I, Oxborrow, CA, Pagano, L, Pajot, F, Paoletti, D, Partridge, B, Pasian, F, Pearson, TJ, Perdereau, O, Perotto, L, Pettorino, V, Piacentini, F, Piat, M, Plaszczynski, S, Pointecouteau, E, Polenta, G, Pratt, GW, Prunet, S, Puget, J-L, Rachen, JP, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Renault, C, Renzi, A, Ristorcelli, I, Rocha, G, Rosset, C, Rossetti, M, Roudier, G, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Rusholme, B, Sandri, M, Santos, D, Savelainen, M, Savini, G, Scott, D, Spencer, LD, Stolyarov, V, Stompor, R, Sudiwala, R, Sunyaev, R, Suur-Uski, A-S, Sygnet, J-F, Tauber, JA, Terenzi, L, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Tristram, M, Tucci, M, Türler, M, Umana, G, Valenziano, L, Valiviita, J, Tent, BV, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Wade, LA, Wandelt, BD, Wehus, IK, Welikala, N, Yvon, D, Zacchei, A, Zonca, A, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and Science and Technology Facilities Council [2006-2012]

Subjects
astro-ph.GA, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

The Planck mission, thanks to its large frequency range and all-sky coverage, has a unique potential for systematically detecting the brightest, and rarest, submillimetre sources on the sky, including distant objects in the high-redshift Universe traced by their dust emission. A novel method, based on a component-separation procedure using a combination of Planck and IRAS data, has been applied to select the most luminous cold submm sources with spectral energy distributions peaking between 353 and 857GHz at 5' resolution. A total of 2151 Planck high-z source candidates (the PHZ) have been detected in the cleanest 26% of the sky, with flux density at 545GHz above 500mJy. Embedded in the cosmic infrared background close to the confusion limit, these high-z candidates exhibit colder colours than their surroundings, consistent with redshifts z>2, assuming a dust temperature of 35K and a spectral index of 1.5. First follow-up observations obtained from optical to submm have confirmed that this list consists of two distinct populations. A small fraction (around 3%) of the sources have been identified as strongly gravitationally lensed star-forming galaxies, which are amongst the brightest submm lensed objects (with flux density at 545GHz ranging from 350mJy up to 1Jy) at redshift 2 to 4. However, the vast majority of the PHZ sources appear as overdensities of dusty star-forming galaxies, having colours consistent with z>2, and may be considered as proto-cluster candidates. The PHZ provides an original sample, complementary to the Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich Catalogue; by extending the population of the virialized massive galaxy clusters to a population of sources at z>1.5, the PHZ may contain the progenitors of today's clusters. Hence the PHZ opens a new window on the study of the early ages of structure formation, and the understanding of the intensively star-forming phase at high-z.

Published
2016

8. Non-Gaussianity in the Very Small Array cosmic microwave background maps with smooth goodness-of-fit tests

Author

Rubiño-Martín, JA, Aliaga, AM, Barreiro, RB, Battye, RA, Carreira, P, Cleary, K, Davies, RD, Davis, RJ, Dickinson, C, Génova-Santos, R, Grainge, K, Gutiérrez, CM, Hafez, YA, Hobson, MP, Jones, ME, Kneissl, R, Lancaster, K, Lasenby, A, Leahy, JP, Maisinger, K, Martínez-González, E, Pooley, GG, Rajguru, N, Rebolo, R, Sanz, JL, Saunders, RDE, Savage, RS, Scaife, A, Scott, P, Slosar, A, Taylor, AC, Titterington, D, Waldram, E, and Watson, RA

Subjects
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We have used the Rayner and Best smooth tests of goodness-of-fit to study the Gaussianity of the Very Small Array (VSA) data. These tests are designed to be sensitive to the presence of 'smooth' deviations from a given distribution, and are applied to the data transformed into normalized signal-to-noise eigenmodes. In a previous work, they have been already adapted and applied to simulated observations of interferometric experiments. In this paper, we extend the practical implementation of the method to deal with mosaiced observations, by introducing the Arnoldi algorithm. This method permits us to solve large eigenvalue problems with low computational cost. Out of the 41 published VSA individual pointings dedicated to cosmological [cosmic microwave background (CMB)] observations, 37 are found to be consistent with Gaussianity, whereas four pointings show deviations from Gaussianity. In two of them, these deviations can be explained as residual systematic effects of a few visibility points which, when corrected, have a negligible impact on the angular power spectrum. The non-Gaussianity found in the other two (adjacent) pointings seems to be associated to a local deviation of the power spectrum of these fields with respect to the common power spectrum of the complete data set, at angular scales of the third acoustic peak (ℓ = 700-900). No evidence of residual systematics is found in this case, and unsubtracted point sources are not a plausible explanation either. If those visibilities are removed, the differences of the new power spectrum with respect to the published one only affect three bins. A cosmological analysis based on this new VSA power spectrum alone shows no differences in the parameter constraints with respect to our published results, except for the physical baryon density, which decreases by 10 per cent. Finally, the method has been also used to analyse the VSA observations in the Corona Borealis supercluster region. Our method finds a clear deviation (99.82 per cent) with respect to Gaussianity in the second-order moment of the distribution, and which cannot be explained as systematic effects. A detailed study shows that the non-Gaussianity is produced in scales of ℓ ≈ 500, and that this deviation is intrinsic to the data (in the sense that cannot be explained in terms of a Gaussian field with a different power spectrum). This result is consistent with the Gaussianity studies in the Corona Borealis data presented in Génova-Santos et al. which show a strong decrement that cannot be explained as primordial CMB. © 2006 RAS.

Published
2006

9. Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters

Author

Collaboration, Planck, 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, J-P, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bock, JJ, Bond, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, J-F, Carron, J, Challinor, A, Chiang, HC, Chluba, J, Colombo, LPL, Combet, C, Contreras, D, Crill, BP, Cuttaia, F, Bernardis, P De, Zotti, G De, Delabrouille, J, Delouis, J-M, Valentino, E Di, Diego, JM, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Dusini, S, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, 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, Génova-Santos, RT, Gerbino, M, Ghosh, T, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gratton, S, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Hamann, J, Handley, W, Hansen, FK, Herranz, D, Hildebrandt, Hivon, E, Huang, Z, Jaffe, AH, Jones, WC, Karakci, A, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kiiveri, K, Kim, J, Kisner, TS, Knox, L, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lamarre, J-M, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Jeune, M Le, Lemos, P, Lesgourgues, J, Levrier, F, Lewis, A, Liguori, M, Lilje, PB, Lilley, M, Lindholm, V, López-Caniego, M, Lubin, PM, Ma, Y-Z, Macías-Pérez, JF, Maggio, G, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Mangilli, A, Marcos-Caballero, A, Maris, M, Martin, PG, Martinelli, M, Martínez-González, E, Matarrese, S, Mauri, N, McEwen, JD, Meinhold, PR, Melchiorri, A, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Millea, M, Mitra, S, Miville-Deschênes, M-A, Molinari, D, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Moss, A, Natoli, P, Nørgaard-Nielsen, HU, Pagano, L, Paoletti, D, Partridge, B, Patanchon, G, Peiris, HV, Perrotta, F, Pettorino, V, Piacentini, F, Polastri, L, Polenta, G, Puget, J-L, Rachen, JP, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Renzi, A, Rocha, G, Rosset, C, Roudier, G, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Ruiz-Granados, B, Salvati, L, Sandri, M, Savelainen, M, Scott, D, Shellard, EPS, Sirignano, C, Sirri, G, Spencer, LD, Sunyaev, R, Suur-Uski, A-S, Tauber, JA, Tavagnacco, D, Tenti, M, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Trombetti, T, Valenziano, L, Valiviita, J, Tent, B Van, Vibert, L, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vittorio, N, Wandelt, BD, Wehus, IK, White, M, White, SDM, Zacchei, A, and Zonca, A

Subjects
13. Climate action, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, cosmological parameters, 7. Clean energy
Abstract

We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements of the CMB anisotropies. We find good consistency with the standard spatially-flat 6-parameter $\Lambda$CDM cosmology having a power-law spectrum of adiabatic scalar perturbations (denoted "base $\Lambda$CDM" in this paper), from polarization, temperature, and lensing, separately and in combination. A combined analysis gives dark matter density $\Omega_c h^2 = 0.120\pm 0.001$, baryon density $\Omega_b h^2 = 0.0224\pm 0.0001$, scalar spectral index $n_s = 0.965\pm 0.004$, and optical depth $\tau = 0.054\pm 0.007$ (in this abstract we quote $68\,\%$ confidence regions on measured parameters and $95\,\%$ on upper limits). The angular acoustic scale is measured to $0.03\,\%$ precision, with $100\theta_*=1.0411\pm 0.0003$. These results are only weakly dependent on the cosmological model and remain stable, with somewhat increased errors, in many commonly considered extensions. Assuming the base-$\Lambda$CDM cosmology, the inferred late-Universe parameters are: Hubble constant $H_0 = (67.4\pm 0.5)$km/s/Mpc; matter density parameter $\Omega_m = 0.315\pm 0.007$; and matter fluctuation amplitude $\sigma_8 = 0.811\pm 0.006$. We find no compelling evidence for extensions to the base-$\Lambda$CDM model. Combining with BAO we constrain the effective extra relativistic degrees of freedom to be $N_{\rm eff} = 2.99\pm 0.17$, and the neutrino mass is tightly constrained to $\sum m_\nu< 0.12$eV. The CMB spectra continue to prefer higher lensing amplitudes than predicted in base -$\Lambda$CDM at over $2\,\sigma$, which pulls some parameters that affect the lensing amplitude away from the base-$\Lambda$CDM model; however, this is not supported by the lensing reconstruction or (in models that also change the background geometry) BAO data. (Abridged)

10. Planck 2018 results. I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck

Author

Collaboration, Planck, Akrami, Y, Arroja, F, Ashdown, M, Aumont, J, Baccigalupi, C, Ballardini, M, Banday, AJ, Barreiro, RB, Bartolo, N, Basak, S, Battye, R, Benabed, K, Bernard, J-P, Bersanelli, M, Bielewicz, P, Bock, JJ, Bond, Borrill, J, Bouchet, FR, Boulanger, F, Bucher, M, Burigana, C, Butler, RC, Calabrese, E, Cardoso, J-F, Carron, J, Casaponsa, B, Challinor, A, Chiang, HC, Colombo, LPL, Combet, C, Contreras, D, Crill, BP, Cuttaia, F, Bernardis, P De, Zotti, G De, Delabrouille, J, Delouis, J-M, Désert, F-X, Valentino, E Di, Dickinson, C, Diego, JM, Donzelli, S, Doré, O, Douspis, M, Ducout, A, Dupac, X, Efstathiou, G, Elsner, F, Enßlin, TA, Eriksen, HK, Falgarone, E, Fantaye, Y, Fergusson, J, Fernandez-Cobos, R, Finelli, F, Forastieri, F, Frailis, M, Franceschi, E, Frolov, A, Galeotta, S, Galli, S, Ganga, K, Génova-Santos, RT, Gerbino, M, Ghosh, T, González-Nuevo, J, Górski, KM, Gratton, S, Gruppuso, A, Gudmundsson, JE, Hamann, J, Handley, W, Hansen, FK, Helou, G, Herranz, D, Hivon, E, Huang, Z, Jaffe, AH, Jones, WC, Karakci, A, Keihänen, E, Keskitalo, R, Kiiveri, K, Kim, J, Kisner, TS, Knox, L, Krachmalnicoff, N, Kunz, M, Kurki-Suonio, H, Lagache, G, Lamarre, J-M, Langer, M, Lasenby, A, Lattanzi, M, Lawrence, CR, Jeune, M Le, Leahy, JP, Lesgourgues, J, Levrier, F, Lewis, A, Liguori, M, Lilje, PB, Lilley, M, Lindholm, V, López-Caniego, M, Lubin, PM, Ma, Y-Z, Macías-Pérez, JF, Maggio, G, Maino, D, Mandolesi, N, Mangilli, A, Marcos-Caballero, A, Maris, M, Martin, PG, Martínez-González, E, Matarrese, S, Mauri, N, McEwen, JD, Meerburg, PD, Meinhold, PR, Melchiorri, A, Mennella, A, Migliaccio, M, Millea, M, Mitra, S, Miville-Deschênes, M-A, Molinari, D, Moneti, A, Montier, L, Morgante, G, Moss, A, Mottet, S, Münchmeyer, M, Natoli, P, Nørgaard-Nielsen, HU, Oxborrow, CA, Pagano, L, Paoletti, D, Partridge, B, Patanchon, G, Pearson, TJ, Peel, M, Peiris, HV, Perrotta, F, Pettorino, V, Piacentini, F, Polastri, L, Polenta, G, Puget, J-L, Rachen, JP, Reinecke, M, Remazeilles, M, Renzi, A, Rocha, G, Rosset, C, Roudier, G, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Ruiz-Granados, B, Salvati, L, Sandri, M, Savelainen, M, Scott, D, Shellard, EPS, Shiraishi, M, Sirignano, C, Sirri, G, Spencer, LD, Sunyaev, R, Suur-Uski, A-S, Tauber, JA, Tavagnacco, D, Tenti, M, Terenzi, L, Toffolatti, L, Tomasi, M, Trombetti, T, Valiviita, J, Tent, B Van, Vibert, L, Vielva, P, Villa, F, Vittorio, N, Wandelt, BD, Wehus, IK, White, M, White, SDM, Zacchei, A, and Zonca, A

Subjects
surveys, cosmology: observations, cosmology: theory, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, 7. Clean energy
Abstract

The European Space Agency’s Planck satellite, which was dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched on 14 May 2009. It scanned the microwave and submillimetre sky continuously between 12 August 2009 and 23 October 2013, producing deep, high-resolution, all-sky maps in nine frequency bands from 30 to 857 GHz. This paper presents the cosmological legacy of Planck, which currently provides our strongest constraints on the parameters of the standard cosmological model and some of the tightest limits available on deviations from that model. The 6-parameter ΛCDM model continues to provide an excellent fit to the cosmic microwave background data at high and low redshift, describing the cosmological information in over a billion map pixels with just six parameters. With 18 peaks in the temperature and polarization angular power spectra constrained well, Planck measures five of the six parameters to better than 1% (simultaneously), with the best-determined parameter (θ*) now known to 0.03%. We describe the multi-component sky as seen by Planck, the success of the ΛCDM model, and the connection to lower-redshift probes of structure formation. We also give a comprehensive summary of the major changes introduced in this 2018 release. The Planck data, alone and in combination with other probes, provide stringent constraints on our models of the early Universe and the large-scale structure within which all astrophysical objects form and evolve. We discuss some lessons learned from the Planck mission, and highlight areas ripe for further experimental advances.

11. Joint analysis of BICEP2/keck array and Planck Data.

Author

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

Abstract

We report the results of a joint analysis of data from BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck. BICEP2 and Keck Array have observed the same approximately 400  deg^{2} patch of sky centered on RA 0 h, Dec. -57.5°. The combined maps reach a depth of 57 nK deg in Stokes Q and U in a band centered at 150 GHz. Planck has observed the full sky in polarization at seven frequencies from 30 to 353 GHz, but much less deeply in any given region (1.2  μK deg in Q and U at 143 GHz). We detect 150×353 cross-correlation in B modes at high significance. We fit the single- and cross-frequency power spectra at frequencies ≥150  GHz to a lensed-ΛCDM model that includes dust and a possible contribution from inflationary gravitational waves (as parametrized by the tensor-to-scalar ratio r), using a prior on the frequency spectral behavior of polarized dust emission from previous Planck analysis of other regions of the sky. We find strong evidence for dust and no statistically significant evidence for tensor modes. We probe various model variations and extensions, including adding a synchrotron component in combination with lower frequency data, and find that these make little difference to the r constraint. Finally, we present an alternative analysis which is similar to a map-based cleaning of the dust contribution, and show that this gives similar constraints. The final result is expressed as a likelihood curve for r, and yields an upper limit r&#95;{0.05}<0.12 at 95% confidence. Marginalizing over dust and r, lensing B modes are detected at 7.0σ significance.

Published
2015
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