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astro-ph.CO2017★ 23 cited

Sub-structure and merger detection in resolved NIKA Sunyaev-Zel'dovich images of distant clusters

R. Adam, O. Hahn, F. Ruppin +48

Sub-structures in the hot gas of galaxy clusters are related to their formation history and to the astrophysical processes at play in the intracluster medium (ICM). The thermal Sun…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 71 cited

First Sunyaev-Zel'dovich mapping with the NIKA2 camera: Implication of cluster substructures for the pressure profile and mass estimate

F. Ruppin, F. Mayet, G. W. Pratt +37

The complete characterization of the pressure profile of high-redshift galaxy clusters, from their core to their outskirts, is a major issue for the study of the formation of large…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 56 cited

SPIDER: CMB polarimetry from the edge of space

R. Gualtieri, J. P. Filippini, P. A. R. Ade +61

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky at large angular scales. SPIDER targets the B-mode signature of primordial gravitat…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 21 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 1.2k cited

A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1308

The detection of GW170817 in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves heralds the age of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. On 17 August 2017 the Advanced LIGO…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 62 cited

A comparison of Einstein-Boltzmann solvers for testing General Relativity

E. Bellini, A. Barreira, N. Frusciante +24

We compare Einstein-Boltzmann solvers that include modifications to General Relativity and find that, for a wide range of models and parameters, they agree to a high level of preci…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 37 cited

Mapping the hot gas temperature in galaxy clusters using X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich imaging

R. Adam, M. Arnaud, I. Bartalucci +42

We propose a method to map the temperature distribution of the hot gas in galaxy clusters that uses resolved images of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect in combination wi…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 32 cited

A multi-instrument non-parametric reconstruction of the electron pressure profile in the galaxy cluster CLJ1226.9+3332

C. Romero, M. McWilliam, J. -F. Macıas-Perez +36

Context: In the past decade, sensitive, resolved Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) studies of galaxy clusters have become common. Whereas many previous SZ studies have parameterized the pres…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 19 cited

Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: mitigation of systematic effects

P. Natoli, M. Ashdown, R. Banerji +123

We present an analysis of the main systematic effects that could impact the measurement of CMB polarization with the proposed CORE space mission. We employ timeline-to-map simulati…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 64 cited

Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: gravitational lensing of the CMB

Anthony Challinor, Rupert Allison, Julien Carron +110

Lensing of the CMB is now a well-developed probe of large-scale clustering over a broad range of redshifts. By exploiting the non-Gaussian imprints of lensing in the polarization o…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 195 cited

Measurements of the Temperature and E-Mode Polarization of the CMB from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

J. W. Henning, J. T. Sayre, C. L. Reichardt +64

We present measurements of the -mode polarization angular auto-power spectrum () and temperature--mode cross-power spectrum () of the cosmic microwave background (CMB…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 10 cited

Planck intermediate results. LIII. Detection of velocity dispersion from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +141

Using the full-mission data, we present a detection of the temperature (and therefore velocity) dispersion due to the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect from clu…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 46 cited

Distinguishing between Neutrinos and time-varying Dark Energy through Cosmic Time

Christiane S. Lorenz, Erminia Calabrese, David Alonso

We study the correlations between parameters characterizing neutrino physics and the evolution of dark energy. Using a fluid approach, we show that time-varying dark energy models…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 127 cited

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background -Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data

The POLARBEAR Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Aguilar +79

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collect…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 61 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array IX: New Bounds on Anisotropies of CMB Polarization Rotation and Implications for Axion-Like Particles and Primordial Magnetic Fields

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +65

We present the strongest constraints to date on anisotropies of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization rotation derived from 150 GHz data taken by the BICEP2/Keck Array CMB…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 24 cited

Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: effects of observer peculiar motion

C. Burigana, C. S. Carvalho, T. Trombetti +116

We discuss the effects on the CMB, CIB, and thermal SZ effect due to the peculiar motion of an observer with respect to the CMB rest frame, which induces boosting effects. We inves…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 75 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: B-mode Component Separation

M. Remazeilles, A. J. Banday, C. Baccigalupi +113

We demonstrate that, for the baseline design of the CORE satellite mission, the polarized foregrounds can be controlled at the level required to allow the detection of the primordi…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 45 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 28 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Cluster Science

J. -B. Melin, A. Bonaldi, M. Remazeilles +118

We examine the cosmological constraints that can be achieved with a galaxy cluster survey with the future CORE space mission. Using realistic simulations of the millimeter sky, pro…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 72 cited

Galaxy-halo alignments in the Horizon-AGN cosmological hydrodynamical simulation

Nora Elisa Chisari, Nikolaos Koukoufilippas, Abhinav Jindal +9

Intrinsic alignments of galaxies are a significant astrophysical systematic affecting cosmological constraints from weak gravitational lensing. Obtaining numerical predictions from…