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astro-ph.CO2016★ 146 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Inflation

CORE Collaboration, Fabio Finelli, Martin Bucher +129

We forecast the scientific capabilities to improve our understanding of cosmic inflation of CORE, a proposed CMB space satellite submitted in response to the ESA fifth call for a m…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 135 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Cosmological Parameters

Eleonora Di Valentino, Thejs Brinckmann, Martina Gerbino +125

We forecast the main cosmological parameter constraints achievable with the CORE space mission which is dedicated to mapping the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CM…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 167 cited

Digging deeper: Observing primordial gravitational waves below the binary black hole produced stochastic background

T. Regimbau, M. Evans, N. Christensen +3

The merger rate of black hole binaries inferred from the detections in the first Advanced LIGO science run, implies that a stochastic background produced by a cosmological populati…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 32 cited

Update on the BINGO 21cm intensity mapping experiment

Richard Battye, Ian Browne, Tianyue Chen +21

21cm intensity mapping is a novel approach aimed at measuring the power spectrum of density fluctuations and deducing cosmological information, notably from the Baryonic Acoustic O…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 218 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Spectra and Parameters

Thibaut Louis, Emily Grace, Matthew Hasselfield +80

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol). We analyze night-time data collected during 2013…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 22 cited

The Integrated Bispectrum and Beyond

Dipak Munshi, Peter Coles

The position-dependent power spectrum has been recently proposed as a descriptor of gravitationally induced non-Gaussianity in galaxy clustering, as it is sensitive to the "soft li…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 178 cited

Planck intermediate results. LI. Features in the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum and shifts in cosmological parameters

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +150

The six parameters of the standard CDM model have best-fit values derived from the Planck temperature power spectrum that are shifted somewhat from the best-fit values derived f…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 88 cited

Future CMB tests of dark matter: ultra-light axions and massive neutrinos

Renée Hložek, David J. E. Marsh, Daniel Grin +3

Measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies provide strong evidence for the existence of dark matter and dark energy. They can also test its composition, probing…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 42 cited

Non-parametric deprojection of NIKA SZ observations: Pressure distribution in the Planck-discovered cluster PSZ1 G045.85+57.71

F. Ruppin, R. Adam, B. Comis +38

The determination of the thermodynamic properties of clusters of galaxies at intermediate and high redshift can bring new insights into the formation of large-scale structures. It…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 104 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array VIII: Measurement of gravitational lensing from large-scale B-mode polarization

The Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +63

We present measurements of polarization lensing using the 150 GHz maps which include all data taken by the BICEP2 & Keck Array CMB polarization experiments up to and including the…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 86 cited

Mapping the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect toward MACS J0717.5+3745 with NIKA

R. Adam, I. Bartalucci, G. W. Pratt +47

Measurement of the gas velocity distribution in galaxy clusters provides insight into the physics of mergers, through which large scale structures form in the Universe. Velocity es…

astro-ph.CO2016

High angular resolution SZ observations with NIKA and NIKA2

B. Comis, R. Adam, P. Ade +39

NIKA2 (New IRAM KID Arrays) is a dual band (150 and 260 GHz) imaging camera based on Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) and designed to work at the IRAM 30 m telescope (Pico Velet…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 69 cited

Planck intermediate results. XLVIII. Disentangling Galactic dust emission and cosmic infrared background anisotropies

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Ashdown +157

Using the Planck 2015 data release (PR2) temperature maps, we separate Galactic thermal dust emission from cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies. For this purpose, we imple…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 27 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 25 cited

Planck intermediate results. XLIII. The spectral energy distribution of dust in clusters of galaxies

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +177

Although infrared (IR) overall dust emission from clusters of galaxies has been statistically detected using data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), it has not been p…

astro-ph.CO2016

High-resolution tSZ cartography of clusters of galaxies with NIKA at the IRAM 30-m telescope

F. Mayet, R. Adam, A. Adane +41

The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (tSZ) is a powerful probe to study clusters of galaxies and is complementary with respect to X-ray, lensing or optical observations. Previous a…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 70 cited

A Dark Energy Camera Search for an Optical Counterpart to the First Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914

M. Soares-Santos, R. Kessler, E. Berger +112

We report initial results of a deep search for an optical counterpart to the gravitational wave event GW150914, the first trigger from the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detector…