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astro-ph.CO2018★ 51 cited

Time-varying neutrino mass from a supercooled phase transition: current cosmological constraints and impact on the - plane

Christiane S. Lorenz, Lena Funcke, Erminia Calabrese +1

In this paper we investigate a time-varying neutrino mass model, motivated by the mild tension between cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements of the matter fluctuations and…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 295 cited

Core Cosmology Library: Precision Cosmological Predictions for LSST

Nora Elisa Chisari, David Alonso, Elisabeth Krause +27

The Core Cosmology Library (CCL) provides routines to compute basic cosmological observables to a high degree of accuracy, which have been verified with an extensive suite of valid…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 492 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array x: Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and New BICEP2/Keck Observations through the 2015 Season

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +78

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2/Keck CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season. This includes the first Keck Ar…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 37 cited

Mass Calibration of Optically Selected DES clusters using a Measurement of CMB-Cluster Lensing with SPTpol Data

S. Raghunathan, S. Patil, E. Baxter +129

We use cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the 500 deg SPTpol survey to measure the stacked lensing convergence of galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Su…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 405 cited

A unified pseudo- framework

David Alonso, Javier Sanchez, Anže Slosar

The pseudo- is an algorithm for estimating the angular power and cross-power spectra that is very fast and, in realistic cases, also nearly optimal. The algorithm can be ex…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 122 cited

Search for sub-solar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO's first observing run

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1135

We present the first Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo search for ultracompact binary systems with component masses between 0.2 - 1.0 using data taken between Se…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 41 cited

Simulated multi-tracer analyses with HI intensity mapping

Amadeus Witzemann, David Alonso, José Fonseca +1

We use full sky simulations, including the effects of foreground contamination and removal, to explore multi-tracer synergies between a SKA-like 21cm intensity mapping survey and a…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1.5k cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 380 cited

Planck 2018 results. III. High Frequency Instrument data processing and frequency maps

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +152

This paper presents the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) data processing procedures for the Planck 2018 release. Major improvements in mapmaking have been achieved since the previou…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 2.4k cited

Planck 2018 results. X. Constraints on inflation

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Arroja +173

We report on the implications for cosmic inflation of the 2018 Release of the Planck CMB anisotropy measurements. The results are fully consistent with the two previous Planck cosm…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 745 cited

Planck 2018 results. VIII. Gravitational lensing

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +155

We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using the final 2018 temperature and polarization data. We increase the signifi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 424 cited

Planck 2018 results. IV. Diffuse component separation

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown +150

We present full-sky maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and polarized synchrotron and thermal dust emission, derived from the third set of Planck frequency maps. These pr…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 99 cited

Planck 2018 results. II. Low Frequency Instrument data processing

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Argüeso +148

We present a final description of the data-processing pipeline for the Planck, Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), implemented for the 2018 data release. Several improvements have been…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1.7k cited

Planck 2018 results. I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Arroja +188

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which was dedicated to studying the early Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched on 14 May 2009. It scanned the microwave…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 239 cited

A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from GW170817 without the electromagnetic counterpart

M. Fishbach, R. Gray, I. Magaña Hernandez +316

We perform a statistical standard siren analysis of GW170817. Our analysis does not utilize knowledge of NGC 4993 as the unique host galaxy of the optical counterpart to GW170817.…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 25 cited

NIKA 150 GHz polarization observations of the Crab nebula and its spectral energy distribution

A. Ritacco, J. F. Macías Pérez, N. Ponthieu +45

The Crab nebula is a supernova remnant exhibiting a highly polarized synchrotron radiation at radio and millimeter wavelengths. It is the brightest source in the microwave sky with…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 38 cited

The HI content of dark matter halos at from ALFALFA

Andrej Obuljen, David Alonso, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +2

We combine information from the clustering of HI galaxies in the 100% data release of the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey (ALFALFA), and from the HI content of optically-selected g…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 99 cited

Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration of ACTPol Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Clusters with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

Hironao Miyatake, Nicholas Battaglia, Matt Hilton +57

We present weak-lensing measurements using the first-year data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program on the Subaru telescope for eight galaxy clusters selected throug…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 30 cited

Weak-lensing mass calibration of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect using APEX-SZ galaxy clusters

A. Nagarajan, F. Pacaud, M. Sommer +16

The use of galaxy clusters as precision cosmological probes relies on an accurate determination of their masses. However, inferring the relationship between cluster mass and observ…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 34 cited

Planck intermediate results. LIV. The Planck Multi-frequency Catalogue of Non-thermal Sources

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, F. Argüeso +138

This paper presents the Planck Multi-frequency Catalogue of Non-thermal (i.e. synchrotron-dominated) Sources (PCNT) observed between 30 and 857 GHz by the ESA Planck mission. This…