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

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

Abstract

Using the full four-year SPTpol 500 deg$^2$ dataset in both the 95 GHz and 150 GHz frequency bands, we present measurements of the temperature and $E$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), as well as the $E$-mode polarization auto-power spectrum ($EE$) and temperature-$E$-mode cross-power spectrum ($TE$) in the angular multipole range $50<\ell<8000$. We find the SPTpol dataset to be self-consistent, passing several internal consistency tests based on maps, frequency bands, bandpowers, and cosmological parameters. The full SPTpol dataset is well-fit by the $\Lambda CDM$ model, for which we find $H_0=70.48\pm2.16$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ and $\Omega_m=0.271\pm0.026$, when using only the SPTpol data and a Planck-based prior on the optical depth to reionization. The $\Lambda CDM$ parameter constraints are consistent across the 95 GHz-only, 150 GHz-only, $TE$-only, and $EE$-only data splits. Between the $\ell<1000$ and $\ell>1000$ data splits, the $\Lambda CDM$ parameter constraints are borderline consistent at the $\sim2\sigma$ level. This consistency improves when including a parameter $A_L$, the degree of lensing of the CMB inferred from the smearing of acoustic peaks. When marginalized over $A_L$, the $\Lambda CDM$ parameter constraints from SPTpol are consistent with those from Planck. The power spectra presented here are the most sensitive measurements of the lensed CMB damping tail to date for roughly $\ell > 1700$ in $TE$ and $\ell > 2000$ in $EE$.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2501.06890
Document Type :
Working Paper