Publications (137)
A panchromatic study of BLAST counterparts: total star-formation rate, morphology, AGN fraction and stellar mass
Lorenzo Moncelsi, Peter A. R. Ade, Edward L. Chapin +16
We carry out a multi-wavelength study of individual galaxies detected by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) and identified at other wavelengths, using…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Delensed Power Spectra and Parameters
Dongwon Han, Neelima Sehgal, Amanda MacInnis +39
We present LCDM cosmological parameter constraints obtained from delensed microwave background power spectra. Lensing maps from a subset of DR4 data from the Atacama Cosmology Tele…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The LABOCA/ACT Survey of Clusters at All Redshifts
Robert R. Lindner, Paula Aguirre, Andrew J. Baker +24
We present a multi-wavelength analysis of eleven Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (SZE)-selected galaxy clusters (ten with new data) from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) southern su…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Physical Properties of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Clusters on the Celestial Equator
Felipe Menanteau, Cristóbal Sifón, L. Felipe Barrientos +28
We present the optical and X-ray properties of 68 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect at 148 GHz by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Our sample, from a…
A Bright Submillimeter Source in the Bullet Cluster (1E0657--56) Field Detected with BLAST
Marie Rex, Peter A. R. Ade, Itziar Aretxaga +26
We present the 250, 350, and 500 micron detection of bright submillimeter emission in the direction of the Bullet Cluster measured by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter…
Backlighting extended gas halos around luminous red galaxies: kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from DESI Y1 x ACT
Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Emmanuel Schaan, Boryana Hadzhiyska +58
The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
Mathew S. Madhavacheril, J. Colin Hill, Sigurd Naess +51
Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at th…
Unified and consistent structure growth measurements from joint ACT, SPT and \textit{Planck} CMB lensing
Frank J. Qu, Fei Ge, W. L. Kimmy Wu +143
We present the tightest cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing constraints to date on the growth of structure by combining CMB lensing measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Te…
Strong detection of the CMB lensingxgalaxy weak lensingcross-correlation from ACT-DR4,PlanckLegacy and KiDS-1000
Naomi Clare Robertson, David Alonso, Joachim Harnois-Déraps +48
We measure the cross-correlation between galaxy weak lensing data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000, DR4) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing data from the Atacama C…
Submillimetre observations of galaxy clusters with BLAST: the star-formation activity in Abell 3112
Filiberto G. Braglia, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +28
We present observations at 250, 350, and 500 um of the nearby galaxy cluster Abell 3112 (z=0.075) carried out with BLAST, the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope.…
BLAST: the far-infrared/radio correlation in distant galaxies
R. J. Ivison, David M. Alexander, Andy D. Biggs +32
We investigate the correlation between far-infrared (FIR) and radio luminosities in distant galaxies, a lynchpin of modern astronomy. We use data from the Balloon-borne Large Apert…
Measuring star formation in high-z massive galaxies: A mid-infrared to submillimeter study of the GOODS NICMOS Survey sample
Marco P. Viero, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Erin Mentuch +16
We present measurements of the mean mid-infrared-to-submillimeter flux densities of massive (M\ast \approx 2 \times 10^11 Msun) galaxies at redshifts 1.7 < z < 2.9, obtained by sta…
Simons Observatory: Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
Tanay Bhandarkar, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Jeff Iuliano +41
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that currently consists of three 0.42m small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one 6m…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum at 148 and 218 GHz from the 2008 Southern Survey
Sudeep Das, Tobias A. Marriage, Peter A. R. Ade +64
We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope at 148 GHz and 218 GHz, as well as the cross-frequency spect…
Comparing and combining the Saskatoon, QMAP and COBE CMB maps
Yongzhong Xu, Max Tegmark, Angelica de Oliveira-Costa +5
We present a method for comparing and combining maps with different resolutions and beam shapes, and apply it to the Saskatoon, QMAP and COBE/DMR data sets. Although the Saskatoon…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cross-Correlation of CMB Lensing and Quasars
Blake D. Sherwin, Sudeep Das, Amir Hajian +28
We measure the cross-correlation of Atacama Cosmology Telescope CMB lensing convergence maps with quasar maps made from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR8 SDSS-XDQSO photometric cata…
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance
Matthew D. P. Truch, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +25
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 250-hour flight over Antarctica in December 2006 (BLAST06). As part of the calibrati…
In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform
Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30
The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular reso…
The balloon-borne large-aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry: BLAST-Pol
Laura M. Fissel, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angile +27
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLAST-Pol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the…
Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Carina Nebula
Jamil A. Shariff, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè +27
Linear polarization maps of the Carina Nebula were obtained at 250, 350, and 500 m during the 2012 flight of the BLASTPol balloon-borne telescope. These measurements are combin…
Cosmological Parameters from Pre-Planck CMB Measurements
Erminia Calabrese, Renée A. Hlozek, Nick Battaglia +31
Recent data from the WMAP, ACT and SPT experiments provide precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum over a wide range of angular scales. T…
Simons Observatory: Pre-deployment Performance of a Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tube in the 90 and 150 GHz Spectral Bands
Carlos E. Sierra, Kathleen Harrington, Shreya Sutariya +42
The Simons Observatory will map the temperature and polarization over half of the sky, at millimeter wavelengths in six spectral bands from the Atacama Desert in Chile. These data…
Temperature Profiles and the Effect of AGN on Submillimeter Emission from BLAST Observations of Resolved Galaxies
Donald V. Wiebe, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +24
Over the course of two flights, the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) made resolved maps of seven nearby (<25 Mpc) galaxies at 250, 350, and 500 microns.…
BLAST05: Power Spectra of Bright Galactic Cirrus at Submillimeter Wavelengths
Arabindo Roy, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +25
We report multi-wavelength power spectra of diffuse Galactic dust emission from BLAST observations at 250, 350, and 500 microns in Galactic Plane fields in Cygnus X and Aquila. The…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models
Erminia Calabrese, J. Colin Hill, Hidde T. Jense +169
We use new cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) to test fo…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A demonstration of CMB lensing measurement from daytime data
Irene Abril-Cabezas, Frank J. Qu, Joshua Kim +30
We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum analysis using daytime data (11am-11pm UTC) gathered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) over the period…
Relative Alignment Between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud using Low and High Density Tracers
Laura M. Fissel, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè +37
We compare the magnetic field orientation for the young giant molecular cloud Vela C inferred from 500-m polarization maps made with the BLASTPol balloon-borne polarimeter to t…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on Pre-Recombination Early Dark Energy
J. Colin Hill, Erminia Calabrese, Simone Aiola +40
The early dark energy (EDE) scenario aims to increase the value of the Hubble constant () inferred from cosmic microwave background (CMB) data over that found in CDM, via…
BLAST: the Redshift Survey
Stephen Eales, Edward L. Chapin, Mark J. Devlin +16
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) has recently surveyed ~8.7 deg^2 centered on GOODS-South at 250, 350, and 500 microns. In Dye et al. (2009) we pres…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data
Jonathan L. Sievers, Renée A. Hlozek, Michael R. Nolta +90
We present constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters from high-resolution microwave background maps at 148 GHz and 218 GHz made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (A…
Herschel and ALMA Observations of Massive SZE-selected Clusters
John F. Wu, Paula Aguirre, Andrew J. Baker +6
We present new Herschel observations of four massive, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE)-selected clusters at , two of which have also been observed with ALMA. We…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and CDM Parameters
Thibaut Louis, Adrien La Posta, Zachary Atkins +165
We present power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in temperature and polarization, measured from the Data Release 6 maps made from Atacama Cosmology Tele…
Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays
Nathan P. Lourie, Peter A. R. Ade, Francisco E. Angile +26
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight f…
Comparing submillimeter polarized emission with near-infrared polarization of background stars for the Vela C molecular cloud
Fabio P. Santos, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angile +27
We present a large-scale combination of near-infrared (near-IR) interstellar polarization data from background starlight with polarized emission data at submillimeter (sub-mm) wave…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A search for late-time anisotropic screening of the Cosmic Microwave Background
William R. Coulton, Theo Schutt, Abhishek S. Maniyar +37
Since the formation of the first stars, most of the gas in the Universe has been ionized. Spatial variations in the density of this ionized gas generate cosmic microwave background…
The next-generation BLASTPol experiment
Bradley Dober, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter Ashton +36
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role magnetic fields play in star forma…
Optical modeling of systematic uncertainties in detector polarization angles for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Colin C. Murphy, Steve K. Choi, Rahul Datta +10
We present an estimate of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) detector polarization angle systematic uncertainty from optics perturbation analysis using polarization-sensitive ra…
Observations of compact sources in galaxy clusters using MUSTANG2
Simon R. Dicker, Elia S. Battistelli, Tanay Bhandarkar +26
Compact sources can cause scatter in the scaling relationships between the amplitude of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (tSZE) in galaxy clusters and cluster mass. Estimates…
Sensitive 3mm Imaging of Discrete Sources in the Fields of tSZ-Selected Galaxy Clusters
Simon R. Dicker, Karen Perez Sarmiento, Brian Mason +12
In this paper we present the results of a blind survey for compact sources in 243 Galaxy clusters that were identified using the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (tSZ). The survey…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Maps
Sigurd Naess, Yilun Guan, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +163
We present Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy at arcminute resolution over three…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Data Characterization and Map Making
Rolando Dünner, Matthew Hasselfield, Tobias A. Marriage +71
We present a description of the data reduction and mapmaking pipeline used for the 2008 observing season of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The data presented here at 148 GH…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: the stellar content of galaxy clusters selected using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
Matt Hilton, Matthew Hasselfield, Cristóbal Sifón +26
We present a first measurement of the stellar mass component of galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, using 3.6 um and 4.5 um photometry from the Spitzer…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Map-Based Noise Simulations for DR6
Zachary Atkins, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, William R. Coulton +25
The increasing statistical power of cosmic microwave background (CMB) datasets requires a commensurate effort in understanding their noise properties. The noise in maps from ground…
Evidence for dark energy from the cosmic microwave background alone using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope lensing measurements
Blake D. Sherwin, Joanna Dunkley, Sudeep Das +35
For the first time, measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) alone favor cosmologies with dark energy over models without dark energy at a 3.2-sigma l…
Radio and mid-infrared identification of BLAST source counterparts in the Chandra Deep Field South
Simon Dye, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +28
We have identified radio and/or mid-infrared counterparts to 198 out of 350 sources detected at >=5 sigma over ~ 9 square degrees centered on the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) by…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters
Simone Aiola, Erminia Calabrese, Loïc Maurin +138
We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The Two-Season ACTPol Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Selected Cluster Catalog
Matt Hilton, Matthew Hasselfield, Cristóbal Sifón +41
We present a catalog of 182 galaxy clusters detected through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in a contiguous 987.5 deg field. The clusters we…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Dynamical masses for 44 SZ-selected galaxy clusters over 755 square degrees
Cristóbal Sifón, Nick Battaglia, Matthew Hasselfield +22
We present galaxy velocity dispersions and dynamical mass estimates for 44 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. Dynam…
BLAST: A Far-Infrared Measurement of the History of Star Formation
Enzo Pascale, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +26
We directly measure redshift evolution in the mean physical properties (far-infrared luminosity, temperature, and mass) of the galaxies that produce the cosmic infrared background…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence
Toshiya Namikawa, Yilun Guan, Omar Darwish +51
We present new constraints on anisotropic birefringence of the cosmic microwave background polarization using two seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope covering $456…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of galaxy cluster temperatures through relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
William R. Coulton, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Zachary Atkins +32
The high electron temperature in galaxy clusters (keV or K) leads to corrections at the level of a few percent in their thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect signatures.…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure growth measurements from the cross-correlation of DESI Legacy Imaging galaxies and CMB lensing from ACT DR6 and Planck PR4
Frank J. Qu, Qianjun Hang, Gerrit Farren +51
We measure the growth of cosmic density fluctuations on large scales and across the redshift range through the cross-correlation of the ACT DR6 CMB lensing map and gala…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with SDSS DR15 Galaxies
Victoria Calafut, Patricio A. Gallardo, Eve M. Vavagiakis +49
We present a 5.4 detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect using Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and CMB observations in combination w…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth
Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +155
We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescop…
POLOCALC: a Novel Method to Measure the Absolute Polarization Orientation of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Federico Nati, Mark J. Devlin, Martina Gerbino +4
We describe a novel method to measure the absolute orientation of the polarization plane of the CMB with arcsecond accuracy, enabling unprecedented measurements for cosmology and f…
Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration of ACTPol Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Clusters with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey
Hironao Miyatake, Nicholas Battaglia, Matt Hilton +57
We present weak-lensing measurements using the first-year data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program on the Subaru telescope for eight galaxy clusters selected throug…
Non-Gaussianity of secondary anisotropies from ACTPol and Planck
William R. Coulton, Simone Aiola, Nicholas Battaglia +22
Most secondary sources of cosmic microwave background anisotropy (radio sources, dusty galaxies -DSFGs-, thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich -tSZ- distortions from hot gas, and gravitationa…
A Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
Mark J. Devlin
A new generation of sub-orbital platforms will be operational in the next few years. These new telescopes will operate from airborne and balloon-borne platforms where the atmospher…
Spitzer MIPS 24 and 70 micron Imaging near the South Ecliptic Pole: Maps and Source Catalogs
Kimberly S. Scott, Hans F. Stabenau, Filiberto G. Braglia +8
We have imaged an 11.5 sq. deg. region of sky towards the South Ecliptic Pole (RA = 04h43m, Dec = -53d40m, J2000) at 24 and 70 microns with MIPS, the Multiband Imaging Photometer f…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cross Correlation with Planck maps
Thibaut Louis, Graeme E. Addison, Matthew Hasselfield +26
We present the temperature power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background obtained by cross-correlating maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) at 148 and 218 GHz with m…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing new signatures of ultralight axions with gravitational lensing
Alex Laguë, Keir K. Rogers, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +14
Ultralight axions (ULAs) are well-motivated dark matter particle candidates that arise in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. ULAs with mass $m_\mathrm{a} \l…
Studies of Systematic Uncertainties for Simons Observatory: Optical Effects and Sensitivity Considerations
Patricio A. Gallardo, Jon Gudmundsson, Brian J. Koopman +32
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new experiment that aims to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. SO will measure the polarized sky over a…
Radio and X-ray observations of the luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2020xnd
Joe S. Bright, Raffaella Margutti, David Matthews +25
We present deep X-ray and radio observations of the Fast Blue Optical Transient (FBOT) AT2020xnd/ZTF20acigmel at from d to d after explosion. AT2020xnd belongs…
Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver
Ian Lowe, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 25…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Calibration with WMAP Using Cross-Correlations
Amir Hajian, Viviana Acquaviva, Peter A. R. Ade +64
We present a new calibration method based on cross-correlations with WMAP and apply it to data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). ACT's observing strategy and map making p…
ACT-DR5 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Clusters: weak lensing mass calibration with KiDS
Naomi Clare Robertson, Cristóbal Sifón, Marika Asgari +24
We present weak gravitational lensing measurements of a sample of 157 clusters within the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), detected with a thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal b…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Lensing Power Spectrum
Blake D. Sherwin, Alexander van Engelen, Neelima Sehgal +43
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 le…
MUSTANG 3.3 Millimeter Continuum Observations of Class 0 Protostars
Yancy L. Shirley, Brian S. Mason, Jeffrey G. Mangum +4
We present observations of six Class 0 protostars at 3.3 mm (90 GHz) using the 64-pixel MUSTANG bolometer camera on the 100-m Green Bank Telescope. The 3.3 mm photometry is analyze…
Correlations in the (Sub)millimeter background from ACTxBLAST
Amir Hajian, Marco P. Viero, Graeme Addison +42
We present measurements of the auto- and cross-frequency correlation power spectra of the cosmic (sub)millimeter background at: 250, 350, and 500 um (1200, 860, and 600 GHz) from o…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Decrement in Groups and Clusters Associated with Luminous Red Galaxies
Nick Hand, John William Appel, Nick Battaglia +42
We present a detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) decrement associated with the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The SZ data come from 148 GHz…
Deconvolution of Images from BLAST 2005: Insight into the K3-50 and IC 5146 Star-Forming Regions
Arabindo Roy, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +26
We present an implementation of the iterative flux-conserving Lucy-Richardson (L-R) deconvolution method of image restoration for maps produced by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture…
Evidence for Environmental Changes in the Submillimeter Dust Opacity
Peter G. Martin, Arabindo Roy, Sylvain Bontemps +25
The submillimeter opacity of dust in the diffuse Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) has been quantified using a pixel-by-pixel correlation of images of continuum emission with a pr…
BLAST: Resolving the Cosmic Submillimeter Background
Gaelen Marsden, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +26
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) has made one square degree, deep, confusion limited maps at three different bands, centered on the Great Observator…
The Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope Observatory
Ian Lowe, Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade +30
The BLAST Observatory is a proposed superpressure balloon-borne polarimeter designed for a future ultra-long duration balloon campaign from Wanaka, New Zealand. To maximize scienti…
A Measurement of the Millimeter Emission and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Associated with Low-Frequency Radio Sources
Megan B. Gralla, Devin Crichton, Tobias A. Marriage +38
We present a statistical analysis of the millimeter-wavelength properties of 1.4 GHz-selected sources and a detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect associated with the halo…
Mechanical design and development of TES bolometer detector arrays for the Advanced ACTPol experiment
Jonathan T. Ward, Jason Austermann, James A. Beall +27
The next generation Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) experiment is currently underway and will consist of four Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays, with three operating together,…
First Measurement of the Cross-Correlation of CMB Lensing and Galaxy Lensing
Nick Hand, Alexie Leauthaud, Sudeep Das +33
We measure the cross-correlation of cosmic microwave background lensing convergence maps derived from Atacama Cosmology Telescope data with galaxy lensing convergence maps as measu…
Evidence of Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Dark Matter Halos
Mathew Madhavacheril, Neelima Sehgal, Rupert Allison +40
We present evidence of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by solar mass dark matter halos. Lensing convergence maps from the Atacama Cosmology T…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Large-scale velocity reconstruction with the kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect and DESI LRGs
Fiona McCarthy, Nicholas Battaglia, Rachel Bean +27
The kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect induces a non-zero density-density-temperature bispectrum, which we can use to reconstruct the large-scale velocity field from a comb…
The Next Generation BLAST Experiment
Nicholas Galitzki, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè +38
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) was a suborbital experiment designed to map magnetic fields in order to study their role in star…
BLAST: Correlations in the Cosmic Far-Infrared Background at 250, 350, and 500 microns Reveal Clustering of Star-Forming Galaxies
Marco P. Viero, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +26
We detect correlations in the cosmic far-infrared background due to the clustering of star-forming galaxies in observations made with the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters
Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +156
We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) f…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: CMB Polarization at
Sigurd Naess, Matthew Hasselfield, Jeff McMahon +75
We report on measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and celestial polarization at 146 GHz made with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) in its first…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Using the Skewness of the CMB Temperature Distribution
Michael J. Wilson, Blake D. Sherwin, J. Colin Hill +35
We present a detection of the unnormalized skewness <T^3> induced by the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect in filtered Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) 148 GHz cosmic microw…
BLAST: The Mass Function, Lifetimes, and Properties of Intermediate Mass Cores from a 50 Square Degree Submillimeter Galactic Survey in Vela (l = ~265)
Calvin. B. Netterfield, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +24
We present first results from an unbiased 50 deg^2 submillimeter Galactic survey at 250, 350, and 500 micron from the 2006 flight of the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter…
Galactic microwave emission at degree angular scales
Angelica de Oliveira-Costa, A. Kogut, Mark J. Devlin +3
We cross-correlate the Saskatoon Ka and Q-Band Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data with different maps to quantify possible foreground contamination. We detect a marginal correl…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Combined kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements from BOSS CMASS and LOWZ halos
Emmanuel Schaan, Simone Ferraro, Stefania Amodeo +55
The scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off the free-electron gas in galaxies and clusters leaves detectable imprints on high resolution CMB maps: the thermal a…
Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z >= 1.2
Mark J. Devlin, Peter A. R. Ade, Itziar Aretxaga +26
Submillimetre surveys during the past decade have discovered a population of luminous, high-redshift, dusty starburst galaxies. In the redshift range 1 <= z <= 4, these massive sub…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmology from Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
Neelima Sehgal, Hy Trac, Viviana Acquaviva +66
We present constraints on cosmological parameters based on a sample of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected galaxy clusters detected in a millimeter-wave survey by the Atacama Cosmology Tel…
Balloon-Borne Submillimeter Polarimetry of the Vela C Molecular Cloud: Systematic Dependence of Polarization Fraction on Column Density and Local Polarization-Angle Dispersion
Laura M. Fissel, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè +27
We present results for Vela C obtained during the 2012 flight of the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol). We mapped polarized intensity…
Evidence for the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeľdovich effect with ACTPol and velocity reconstruction from BOSS
Emmanuel Schaan, Simone Ferraro, Mariana Vargas-Magaña +43
We use microwave temperature maps from two seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACTPol) at 146 GHz, together with the Constant Mass CMASS galaxy sample from the Ba…
Submillimeter Number Counts From Statistical Analysis of BLAST Maps
Guillaume Patanchon, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock +24
We describe the application of a statistical method to estimate submillimeter galaxy number counts from confusion limited observations by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillim…
Detection of the Power Spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Sudeep Das, Blake D. Sherwin, Paula Aguirre +38
We report the first detection of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background through a measurement of the four-point correlation function in the temperature maps m…
The BLAST Observatory: A Sensitivity Study for Far-IR Balloon-borne Polarimeters
The BLAST Observatory Collaboration, Gabriele Coppi, Simon Dicker +21
Sensitive wide-field observations of polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains will allow astronomers to address key outstanding questions about the life cycle of ma…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the Baryon Content of SDSS DR15 Galaxies with the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects
Eve M. Vavagiakis, Patricio A. Gallardo, Victoria Calafut +49
We present high signal-to-noise measurements (up to 12) of the average thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect from optically selected galaxy groups and clusters and estimate t…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Physical Properties and Purity of a Galaxy Cluster Sample Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
Felipe Menanteau, Jorge Gonzalez, Jean-Baptiste Juin +48
We present optical and X-ray properties for the first confirmed galaxy cluster sample selected by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from 148 GHz maps over 455 square degrees of sky mad…
The thermal and non-thermal components within and between galaxy clusters Abell 399 and Abell 401
Federico Radiconi, Valentina Vacca, Elia Battistelli +28
We measure the local correlation between radio emission and Compton- signal across two galaxy clusters, Abell~399 and Abell~401, using maps from the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR)…
Constraining CMB temperature evolution with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy clusters from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Yunyang Li, Adam D. Hincks, Stefania Amodeo +30
The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect introduces a specific distortion of the blackbody spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation when it scatters off hot gas in clu…
Evidence for the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Associated with Quasar Feedback
Devin Crichton, Megan B. Gralla, Kirsten Hall +20
Using a radio-quiet subsample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic quasar catalogue, spanning redshifts 0.5-3.5, we derive the mean millimetre and far-infrared quasar spec…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters at 148 GHz from Three Seasons of Data
Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Tobias A. Marriage +41
[Abridged] We present a catalog of 68 galaxy clusters, of which 19 are new discoveries, detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZ) at 148 GHz in the Atacama Cosmology Telescop…