Publications (18)
Planck intermediate results. LVI. Detection of the CMB dipole through modulation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect: Eppur si muove II
Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown +126
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, particularl…
Planck 2018 results. I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck
Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Arroja +188
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…
Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: effects of observer peculiar motion
C. Burigana, C. S. Carvalho, T. Trombetti +116
We discuss the effects on the CMB, CIB, and thermal SZ effect due to the peculiar motion of an observer with respect to the CMB rest frame, which induces boosting effects. We inves…
Planck 2015 results. XX. Constraints on inflation
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +244
We present the implications for cosmic inflation of the Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in both temperature and polarization based on the…
Measurement of muonium emission from silica aerogel
P. Bakule, G. A. Beer, D. Contreras +28
Emission of muonium () atoms from silica aerogel into vacuum was observed. Characteristics of muonium emission were established from silica aerogel samples with densit…
Planck 2018 results. X. Constraints on inflation
Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Arroja +173
We report on the implications for cosmic inflation of the 2018 Release of the Planck CMB anisotropy measurements. The results are fully consistent with the two previous Planck cosm…
Closing in on the large-scale CMB power asymmetry
D. Contreras, J. Hutchinson, A. Moss +2
Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies have revealed a dipolar asymmetry in power at the largest scales, in apparent contradiction with the…
Planck 2015 results. XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +242
We test the statistical isotropy and Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies using observations made by the Planck satellite. Our results are based mainly…
Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters
Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +179
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-param…
Testing physical models for dipolar asymmetry: from temperature to k space to lensing
J. P. Zibin, D. Contreras
One of the most intriguing hints of a departure from the standard cosmological model is a large-scale dipolar power asymmetry in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). If not a sta…
Planck intermediate results. XLIX. Parity-violation constraints from polarization data
Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Ashdown +148
Parity violating extensions of the standard electromagnetic theory cause in vacuo rotation of the plane of polarization of propagating photons. This effect, also known as cosmic bi…
Radon backgrounds in the DEAP-1 liquid-argon-based Dark Matter detector
P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov, B. Beltran +49
The DEAP-1 \SI{7}{kg} single phase liquid argon scintillation detector was operated underground at SNOLAB in order to test the techniques and measure the backgrounds inherent to si…
Planck 2015 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results
Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +352
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched 14~May 2009 and scanned the microwave and submilli…
Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Survey requirements and mission design
J. Delabrouille, P. de Bernardis, F. R. Bouchet +200
Future observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation have the potential to answer some of the most fundamental questions of modern physics and cosmology. In this p…
Planck intermediate results. LIII. Detection of velocity dispersion from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +141
Using the full-mission data, we present a detection of the temperature (and therefore velocity) dispersion due to the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect from clu…
Planck 2018 results. VII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB
Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown +147
Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with pre…
Testing physical models for dipolar asymmetry with CMB polarization
D. Contreras, J. P. Zibin, D. Scott +2
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies exhibit a large-scale dipolar power asymmetry. To determine whether this is due to a real, physical modulation or is…
Viable dark matter via radiative symmetry breaking in a scalar singlet Higgs portal extension of the standard model
T. G. Steele, Zhi-Wei Wang, D. Contreras +1
We consider generation of dark matter mass via radiative electroweak symmetry breaking in an extension of the conformal Standard Model containing a singlet scalar field with a Higg…