Publications (24)
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The polarization-sensitive ACTPol instrument
R. J. Thornton, P. A. R. Ade, S. Aiola +53
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is designed to make high angular resolution measurements of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at millimeter wavelengths. W…
Modeling beam chromaticity for high-resolution CMB analyses
S. Giardiello, A. J. Duivenvoorden, E. Calabrese +7
We investigate the impact of beam chromaticity, i.e., the frequency dependence of the beam window function, on cosmological and astrophysical parameter constraints from CMB power s…
QUBIC: the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology
E. S. Battistelli, P. Ade, J. G. Alberro +136
The Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, QUBIC, is an innovative experiment designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and in particular the…
Detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with BOSS DR11 and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
F. De Bernardis, S. Aiola, E. M. Vavagiakis +55
We present a new measurement of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).…
LiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization
M. Hazumi, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +233
LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and…
Quadratic estimator for CMB cross-correlation
S. Vanneste, S. Henrot-Versillé, T. Louis +1
The Quadratic Maximum Likelihood estimator can be used to reconstruct the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectra with minimal error bars. Still, it requires an accurate es…
The Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT, DES, and BOSS: a Novel Hybrid Estimator
M. Mallaby-Kay, S. Amodeo, J. C. Hill +80
The kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects probe the abundance and thermodynamics of ionized gas in galaxies and clusters. We present a new hybrid estimator…
The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419
We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…
QUBIC V: Cryogenic system design and performance
S. Masi, E. S. Battistelli, P. de Bernardis +126
Current experiments aimed at measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) use cryogenic detector arrays and cold optical systems to boost the mapping speed o…
QUBIC: using NbSi TESs with a bolometric interferometer to characterize the polarisation of the CMB
M. Piat, B. Bélier, L. Bergé +135
QUBIC (Q \& U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology) is an international ground-based experiment dedicated in the measurement of the polarized fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwav…
QUBIC VIII: Optical design and performance
C. O'Sullivan, M. De Petris, G. Amico +126
The Q and U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a ground-based experiment that aims to detect B-mode polarisation anisotropies in the CMB at angular scales around th…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: likelihood for small-scale CMB data
J. Dunkley, E. Calabrese, J. Sievers +32
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope has measured the angular power spectra of microwave fluctuations to arcminute scales at frequencies of 148 and 218 GHz, from three seasons of data.…
QUBIC I: Overview and ScienceProgram
J. -Ch. Hamilton, L. Mousset, E. S. Battistelli +127
The Q U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a novel kind of polarimeter optimized for the measurement of the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Backgro…
QUBIC III: Laboratory Characterization
S. A. Torchinsky, J. -Ch. Hamilton, M. Piat +125
A prototype version of the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) underwent a campaign of testing in the laboratory at Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology in Paris.…
The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479
We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…
QUBIC IV: Performance of TES Bolometers and Readout Electronics
M. Piat, G. Stankowiak, E. S. Battistelli +126
A prototype version of the Q & U bolometric interferometer for cosmology (QUBIC) underwent a campaign of testing in the laboratory at Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology laboratory…
Thermal architecture for the QUBIC cryogenic receiver
A. J. May, C. Chapron, G. Coppi +127
QUBIC, the QU Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, is a novel forthcoming instrument to measure the B-mode polarization anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The detec…
Evidence for large baryonic feedback at low and intermediate redshifts from kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations with ACT and DESI photometric galaxies
B. Hadzhiyska, S. Ferraro, B. Ried Guachalla +70
Recent advances in cosmological observations have provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the distribution of baryons relative to the underlying matter. In this work,…
Survey strategy optimization for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
F. De Bernardis, J. R. Stevens, M. Hasselfield +34
In recent years there have been significant improvements in the sensitivity and the angular resolution of the instruments dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Backg…
QUBIC VI: cryogenic half wave plate rotator, design and performances
G. D'Alessandro, L. Mele, F. Columbro +126
Inflation Gravity Waves B-Modes polarization detection is the ultimate goal of modern large angular scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments around the world. A big effo…
Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission
L. Montier, B. Mot, P. de Bernardis +232
LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Univer…
QUBIC VII: The feedhorn-switch system of the technological demonstrator
F. Cavaliere, A. Mennella, M. Zannoni +128
We present the design, manufacturing and performance of the horn-switch system developed for the technological demonstrator of QUBIC (the \& Bolometric Interferometer for Cos…
Concept Design of Low Frequency Telescope for CMB B-mode Polarization satellite LiteBIRD
Y. Sekimoto, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +232
LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode polarization over the full sky at large angular…
QUBIC II: Spectro-Polarimetry with Bolometric Interferometry
L. Mousset, M. M. Gamboa Lerena, E. S. Battistelli +128
Bolometric interferometry is a novel technique that has the ability to perform spectral imaging. A bolometric interferometer observes the sky in a wide frequency band and can recon…