Publications (65)
A Simulation-Based Method for Correcting Mode Coupling in CMB Angular Power Spectra
J. S. -Y. Leung, J. Hartley, J. M. Nagy +67
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 ang…
Implications of the Cosmic Background Imager Polarization Data
J. L. Sievers, C. Achermann, J. R. Bond +17
We present new measurements of the power spectra of the E-mode of CMB polarization, the temperature T, the cross-correlation of E and T, and upper limits on the B-mode from 2.5 yea…
The Cosmic Microwave Background and Inflation Parameters
J. R. Bond, C. R. Contaldi, A. M. Lewis +1
We review the currrent cosmic parameter determinations of relevance to inflation using the WMAP-1year, Boomerang, CBI, Acbar and other CMB data. The basic steps in the pipelines wh…
Application of XFaster power spectrum and likelihood estimator to Planck
G. Rocha, C. R. Contaldi, J. R. Bond +1
We develop the XFaster Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy power spectrum and likelihood technique for the Planck CMB satellite mission. We gi…
Design and pre-flight performance of SPIDER 280 GHz receivers
E. C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +79
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 optimize…
Spider Optimization: Probing the Systematics of a Large Scale B-Mode Experiment
C. J. MacTavish, P. A. R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli +31
Spider is a long-duration, balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure large scale Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization with very high sensitivity and control of system…