Publications (31)
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…
Planck 2015 results. VII. HFI TOI and beam processing
Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +225
The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) has observed the full sky at six frequencies (100, 143, 217, 353, 545, and 857 GHz) in intensity and at four frequencies in linear polari…
Non-Gaussianity as a Probe of the Physics of the Primordial Universe and the Astrophysics of the Low Redshift Universe
E. Komatsu, N. Afshordi, N. Bartolo +58
A new and powerful probe of the origin and evolution of structures in the Universe has emerged and been actively developed over the last decade. In the coming decade, non-Gaussiani…
Planck Early Results XXIV: Dust in the diffuse interstellar medium and the Galactic halo
Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +205
This paper presents the first results of comparison of Planck along with IRAS data with Green Bank Telescope 21-cm observations in 14 fields covering more than 800 square degrees a…
A Joint Roman Space Telescope and Rubin Observatory Synthetic Wide-Field Imaging Survey
M. A. Troxel, C. Lin, A. Park +22
We present and validate 20 deg of overlapping synthetic imaging surveys representing the full depth of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope High-Latitude Imaging Survey (HLIS)…
Planck intermediate results. XXVIII. Interstellar gas and dust in the Chamaeleon clouds as seen by Fermi LAT and Planck
Planck, Fermi Collaborations, : +197
Shortened abstract: Observations of the nearby Chamaeleon clouds in gamma rays with the Fermi Large Area Telescope and in thermal dust emission with Planck and IRAS have been used…
In-flight gain monitoring of SPIDER's transition-edge sensor arrays
J. P. Filippini, A. E. Gambrel, A. S. Rahlin +67
Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain variations with minimal loss of observing time. We propose a sens…
Exploiting Cross Correlations and Joint Analyses
J. Rhodes, S. Allen, B. A. Benson +12
In this report, we present a wide variety of ways in which information from multiple probes of dark energy may be combined to obtain additional information not accessible when they…
LSST Observing Strategy White Paper: LSST Observations of WFIRST Deep Fields
R. J. Foley, A. M. Koekemoer, D. N. Spergel +38
The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is expected to launch in the mid-2020s. With its wide-field near-infrared (NIR) camera, it will survey the sky to unprecedented de…
Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +259
We present results based on full-mission Planck observations of temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB. These data are consistent with the six-parameter inflationary…
Planck Early Results. II. The thermal performance of Planck
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +225
The performance of the Planck instruments in space is enabled by their low operating temperatures, 20K for LFI and 0.1K for HFI, achieved through a combination of passive radiative…
SPIDER: A Balloon-borne Large-scale CMB Polarimeter
B. P. Crill, P. A. R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli +34
Spider is a balloon-borne experiment that will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background over a large fraction of a sky at 1 degree resolution. Six monochromatic…
The SPHEREx Image and Spectrophotometry Processing Pipeline
Rachel Akeson, Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann, Brendan P. Crill +41
In this paper, we describe the SPHEREx image and spectrophotometry data processing pipeline, an infrastructure and software system designed to produce calibrated spectral images an…
Planck 2013 results. XXXI. Consistency of the Planck data
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Arnaud +180
The Planck design and scanning strategy provide many levels of redundancy that can be exploited to provide tests of internal consistency. One of the most important is the compariso…
Neutrino Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure
K. N. Abazajian, K. Arnold, J. Austermann +74
This is a report on the status and prospects of the quantification of neutrino properties through the cosmological neutrino background for the Cosmic Frontier of the Division of Pa…
Planck 2013 results. XXII. Constraints on inflation
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +241
We analyse the implications of the Planck data for cosmic inflation. The Planck nominal mission temperature anisotropy measurements, combined with the WMAP large-angle polarization…
Planck Intermediate Results. V. Pressure profiles of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +214
Taking advantage of the all-sky coverage and broad frequency range of the Planck satellite, we study the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) and pressure profiles of 62 nearby massive clusters…
Planck intermediate results. XIII. Constraints on peculiar velocities
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +182
Using \Planck\ data combined with the Meta Catalogue of X-ray detected Clusters of galaxies (MCXC), we address the study of peculiar motions by searching for evidence of the kineti…
Planck 2013 results. XXI. All-sky Compton parameter power spectrum and high-order statistics
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +235
We have constructed the first all-sky map of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect by applying specifically tailored component separation algorithms to the 100 to 857 GHz freq…
Cosmic microwave background constraints on the duration and timing of reionization from the South Pole Telescope
O. Zahn, C. L. Reichardt, L. Shaw +48
The epoch of reionization is a milestone of cosmological structure formation, marking the birth of the first objects massive enough to yield large numbers of ionizing photons. The…
Design and performance of the Spider instrument
M. C. Runyan, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +40
Here we describe the design and performance of the Spider instrument. Spider is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarization imager that will map part of the sky at 90,…
PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins
S. Hanany, M. Alvarez, E. Artis +79
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a proposed probe-scale space mission consisting of an imaging polarimeter operating in frequency bands between 20 and 800 GHz. W…
A New Limit on CMB Circular Polarization from SPIDER
J. M. Nagy, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +58
We present a new upper limit on CMB circular polarization from the 2015 flight of SPIDER, a balloon-borne telescope designed to search for -mode linear polarization from cosmic…
Spider Optimization II: Optical, Magnetic and Foreground Effects
D. T. O'Dea, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +43
Spider is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with degree-scale resolution over a large fraction of the sky. Spider…
Planck 2013 results. XIII. Galactic CO emission
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +238
Rotational transition lines of CO play a major role in molecular radio astronomy and in particular in the study of star formation and the Galactic structure. Although a wealth of d…
Planck early results. XXI. Properties of the interstellar medium in the Galactic plane
Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +199
(abridged) Planck has observed the entire sky from 30 GHz to 857GHz. The observed foreground emission contains contributions from different phases of the interstellar medium (ISM).…
Planck intermediate results. XXIX. All-sky dust modelling with Planck, IRAS, and WISE observations
Plank Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +195
We present all-sky modelling of the high resolution Planck, IRAS, and WISE infrared (IR) observations using the physical dust model presented by Draine and Li in 2007 (DL). We stud…
Planck 2015 results. XXV. Diffuse low-frequency Galactic foregrounds
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +238
(abridged) We discuss the Galactic foreground emission between 20 and 100GHz based on observations by Planck/WMAP. The Commander component-separation tool has been used to separate…
Particle response of antenna-coupled TES arrays: results from SPIDER and the lab
B. Osherson, J. P. Filippini, J. Fu +45
Future mm-wave and sub-mm space missions will employ large arrays of multiplexed Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers. Such instruments must contend with the high flux of cosmic…
Planck 2013 results. XV. CMB power spectra and likelihood
Planck collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +257
We present the Planck likelihood, a complete statistical description of the two-point correlation function of the CMB temperature fluctuations. We use this likelihood to derive the…
The Origin of the Universe as Revealed Through the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
S. Dodelson, R. Easther, S. Hanany +61
Modern cosmology has sharpened questions posed for millennia about the origin of our cosmic habitat. The age-old questions have been transformed into two pressing issues primed for…