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astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2021

Simulated catalogs and maps of radio galaxies at millimeter wavelengths in Websky

Zack Li, Giuseppe Puglisi, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +1

We present simulated millimeter-wavelength maps and catalogs of radio galaxies across the full sky that trace the nonlinear clustering and evolution of dark matter halos from the W…

astro-ph.CO2019

The void halo mass function: a promising probe of neutrino mass

Gemma Zhang, Zack Li, Jia Liu +4

Cosmic voids, the underdense regions in the universe, are particularly sensitive to diffuse density components such as cosmic neutrinos. This sensitivity is enhanced by the match b…

astro-ph.CO2018

Constraining neutrino mass with tomographic weak lensing peak counts

Zack Li, Jia Liu, José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla +1

Massive cosmic neutrinos change the structure formation history by suppressing perturbations on small scales. Weak lensing data from galaxy surveys probe the structure evolution an…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2018

Disentangling Dark Physics with Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments

Zack Li, Vera Gluscevic, Kimberly K. Boddy +1

We forecast constraints on dark matter (DM) scattering with baryons in the early Universe with upcoming and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, for DM particle ma…

astro-ph.IM2025

: A Differentiable and GPU-accelerated Synchrotron Simulation Package

Kangning Diao, Zack Li, Richard D. P. Grumitt +1

We introduce synax, a novel library for automatically differentiable simulation of Galactic synchrotron emission. Built on the JAX framework, synax leverages JAX's capabilities, in…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2023

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: High-resolution component-separated maps across one-third of the sky

William R. Coulton, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +151

Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compt…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Semi-Analytic Covariance Matrices for the DR6 CMB Power Spectra

Zachary Atkins, Zack Li, David Alonso +18

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6 (ACT DR6) power spectrum is expected to provide state-of-the-art cosmological constraints, with an associated need for precise error…

astro-ph.IM2026

Linear map-making with LuSEE-Night

Hugo Camacho, Kaja M. Rotermund, Anže Slosar +32

LuSEE-Night is a pathfinder radio telescope on the lunar far side employing four 3-m monopole antennas arranged as two horizontal cross pseudo-dipoles on a rotational stage and sen…

astro-ph.CO2025

Flinch: A Differentiable Framework for Field-Level Inference of Cosmological parameters from curved sky data

Andrea Crespi, Marco Bonici, Arthur Loureiro +6

We present Flinch, a fully differentiable and high-performance framework for field-level inference on angular maps, developed to improve the flexibility and scalability of current…

astro-ph.CO2023

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…

astro-ph.CO2021

The Simons Observatory: a new open-source power spectrum pipeline applied to the Planck legacy data

Zack Li, Thibaut Louis, Erminia Calabrese +12

We present a reproduction of the Planck 2018 angular power spectra at , and associated covariance matrices, for intensity and polarization maps at 100, 143 and 217 GHz.…

astro-ph.CO2023

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Mitigating the impact of extragalactic foregrounds for the DR6 CMB lensing analysis

Niall MacCrann, Blake D. Sherwin, Frank J. Qu +47

We investigate the impact and mitigation of extragalactic foregrounds for the CMB lensing power spectrum analysis of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data release 6 (DR6) data. Tw…

astro-ph.CO2020

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…

astro-ph.CO2023

A Detection of Cosmological 21 cm Emission from CHIME in Cross-correlation with eBOSS Measurements of the Lyman- Forest

CHIME Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Kevin Bandura +28

We report the detection of 21 cm emission at an average redshift in the cross-correlation of data from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) wi…

astro-ph.CO2019

The T-E correlation coefficient of Planck legacy data

Thibaut Louis, Zack Li, Matthieu Tristram

Testing deviations from the CDM model using the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) power spectra requires a pristine understanding of instrumental systematics. In this work we d…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2023

Extragalactic CO emission lines in the CMB experiments: a forgotten signal and a foreground

Abhishek S. Maniyar, Athanasia Gkogkou, William R. Coulton +3

High resolution cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments have allowed us to precisely measure the CMB temperature power spectrum down to very small scales (multipole $\ell \si…

astro-ph.CO2022

Effects of Baryonic Feedback on the Cosmic Web

James Sunseri, Zack Li, Jia Liu

We study the effect of baryons on the cosmic web -- halos, filaments, walls, and voids. To do so, we apply a modified version of NEXUS, a cosmic web morphological analysis algorith…

astro-ph.CO2025

The HalfDome Multi-Survey Cosmological Simulations: N-body Simulations

Adrian E. Bayer, Yici Zhong, Zack Li +3

Upcoming cosmological surveys have the potential to reach groundbreaking discoveries on multiple fronts, including the neutrino mass, dark energy, and inflation. Most of the key sc…

astro-ph.CO2021

Constraining neutrino masses with weak-lensing multiscale peak counts

Virginia Ajani, Austin Peel, Valeria Pettorino +3

Massive neutrinos influence the background evolution of the Universe as well as the growth of structure. Being able to model this effect and constrain the sum of their masses is on…

astro-ph.CO2024

Emulating Recombination with Neural Networks using Universal Differential Equations

Ben Pennell, Zack Li, James M. Sullivan

With an aim towards modeling cosmologies beyond the CDM paradigm, we demonstrate the automatic construction of recombination history emulators while enforcing a prior of causal…

astro-ph.CO2021

The cross correlation of the ABS and ACT maps

Zack Li, Sigurd Naess, Simone Aiola +29

One of the most important checks for systematic errors in CMB studies is the cross correlation of maps made by independent experiments. In this paper we report on the cross correla…

astro-ph.GA2020

Assembly Conformity of Structure Growth: Fossil versus Normal Groups of Galaxies

Zack Li, Renyue Cen

Using a semi-analytic method calibrated to the global star formation history and the stellar mass function at , we attempt to understand the most stellar deficient galaxy grou…

astro-ph.IM2019

The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…

astro-ph.CO2022

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: limits on dark matter-baryon interactions from DR4 power spectra

Zack Li, Rui An, Vera Gluscevic +20

Diverse astrophysical observations suggest the existence of cold dark matter that interacts only gravitationally with radiation and ordinary baryonic matter. Any nonzero coupling b…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

Steve K. Choi, Matthew Hasselfield, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho +136

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg of the 2013-2016 survey, which cove…

astro-ph.IM2026

Joint Estimation of Properties of the Lunar Subsurface and Galactic Foregrounds with LuSEE-Night

Fatima Yousuf, Zack Li, Stuart D. Bale +36

The paper presents a Bayesian method to simultaneously estimate the dielectric properties of the lunar subsurface at the LuSEE‑Night landing site and the parameters of the galactic…

#lunar subsurface#low‑frequency radio astronomy#galactic foregrounds#instrument calibration
astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2019

PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins

Shaul Hanany, Marcelo Alvarez, Emmanuel Artis +79

The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is an imaging polarimeter that will scan the sky for 5 years in 21 frequency bands spread between 21 and 799 GHz. It will produce f…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Galactic Dust Structure and the Cosmic PAH Background in Cross-correlation with WISE

Rodrigo Córdova Rosado, Brandon S. Hensley, Susan E. Clark +15

We present a cross-correlation analysis between resolution total intensity and polarization observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) at 150 and 220 GHz and 15$'…

astro-ph.CO2019

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…