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Two-Season Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter Lensing Power Spectrum

Authors :
Shewin, Blake D
van Engelen, Alexander
Sehgal, Neelima
Madhavacheril, Mathew
Addison, Graeme E
Aiola, Simone
Allison, Rupert
Battaglia, Nicholas
Becker, Daniel T
Beall, James A
Bond, J. Richard
Calabrese, Ermini
Datta, Rahul
Devlin, Mark J
Dunner, Rolando
Dunkley, Joanna
Fox, Anna E
Gallardo, Patricio
Halpern, Mark
Hasselfield, Matthew
Henderson, Shawn
Hill, J. Colin
Hilton, Gene C
Hubmayr, Johannes
Hughes, John P
Hincks, Adam D
Hlozek, Renee
Huffenberger, Kevin M
Koopman, Brian
Kosowsky, Arthur
Louis, Thibaut
Maurin, Loic
McMahon, Jeff
Moodley, Kavilan
Naess, Sigurd
Nati, Federico
Newburgh, Laura
Niemack, Michael D
Page, Lyman A
Sievers, Jonathan
Spergel, David N
Staggs, Suzanne T
Thornton, Robert J
Van Lanen, Jeff
Vavagiakis, Eve
Wollack, Edward J
Source :
Physical Review D. 95(12)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2017.

Abstract

We report a measurement of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from two seasons of Atacama Cosmology Telescope polarimeter (ACTPol) CMB data. The CMB lensing power spectrum is extracted from both temperature and polarization data using quadratic estimators. We obtain results that are consistent with the expectation from the best-fit Planck CDM model over a range of multipoles L 80-2100, with an amplitude of lensing A(sub lens) = 1.06 +/- 0.15 stat +/- 0.06 sys relative to Planck. Our measurement of the CMB lensing power spectrum gives sigma 8 omega m(sup 0.25) = 0.643 +/- 0.054; including baryon acoustic oscillation scale data, we constrain the amplitude of density fluctuations to be sigma 8 = 0.831 +/- 0.053. We also update constraints on the neutrino mass sum. We verify our lensing measurement with a number of null tests and systematic checks, finding no evidence of significant systematic errors. This measurement relies on a small fraction of the ACTPol data already taken; more precise lensing results can therefore be expected from the full ACTPol data set.

Subjects

Subjects :
Astrophysics

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10894918 and 15507998
Volume :
95
Issue :
12
Database :
NASA Technical Reports
Journal :
Physical Review D
Notes :
NNX13AE56G, , NSF PHY-0855887, , NNX14AB58G, , NSF AST-0965625, , NSF 1513618, , NSF AST-0408698, , NSF AST-1312380, , NSF PHY-1214379, , NSF AST-1440226
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsnas.20170007348
Document Type :
Report
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.123529