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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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astro-ph.CO2019

NIKA: a mm camera for Sunyaev-Zel'dovich science in clusters of galaxies

J. F. Macías-Pérez, R. Adam, P. Ade +42

Clusters of galaxies, the largest bound objects in the Universe, constitute a cosmological probe of choice, which is sensitive to both dark matter and dark energy. Within this fram…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 2 cited

Mapping the gas thermodynamic properties of the massive cluster merger MOO J11421527 at z = 1.2

F. Ruppin, R. Adam, P. Ade +51

We present the results of the analysis of the very massive cluster MOO J11421527 at a redshift based on high angular resolution NIKA2 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) and $Chan…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 1 cited

A low-mass galaxy cluster as a test-case study for the NIKA2 SZ Large Program

F. Kéruzoré, R. Adam, P. Ade +42

High-resolution mapping of the hot gas in galaxy clusters is a key tool for cluster-based cosmological analyses. Taking advantage of the NIKA2 millimeter camera operated at the IRA…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 103 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, J. Colin Hill, Sigurd Naess +51

Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at th…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 19 cited

Cluster cosmology with the NIKA2 SZ Large Program

F. Mayet, R. Adam, P. Ade +42

The main limiting factor of cosmological analyses based on thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) cluster statistics comes from the bias and systematic uncertainties that affect the estim…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 19 cited

Unveiling the merger dynamics of the most massive MaDCoWS cluster at from a multi-wavelength mapping of its intracluster medium properties

F. Ruppin, M. McDonald, M. Brodwin +51

The characterization of the Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM) properties of high-redshift galaxy clusters is fundamental to our understanding of large-scale structure formation processes.…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 191 cited

Pulsar Timing Array Constraints on Primordial Black Holes with NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set

Zu-Cheng Chen, Chen Yuan, Qing-Guo Huang

The detection of binary black hole coalescences by LIGO/Virgo has aroused the interest in primordial black holes (PBHs), because they could be both the progenitors of these black h…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 90 cited

Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the 500 deg SPTpol Lensing Power Spectrum

F. Bianchini, W. L. K. Wu, P. A. R. Ade +68

We present cosmological constraints based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential power spectrum measurement from the recent 500 deg SPTpol survey, the most…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 100 cited

Measurements of B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

J. T. Sayre, C. L. Reichardt, J. W. Henning +62

We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made using the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Tel…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 207 cited

The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey

L. E. Bleem, S. Bocquet, B. Stalder +135

We describe the observations and resultant galaxy cluster catalog from the 2770 deg SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (SPT-ECS). Clusters are identified via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 3 cited

A Space Mission to Map the Entire Observable Universe using the CMB as a Backlight

Kaustuv Basu, Mathieu Remazeilles, Jean-Baptiste Melin +22

This Science White Paper, prepared in response to the ESA Voyage 2050 call for long-term mission planning, aims to describe the various science possibilities that can be realized w…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 39 cited

Microwave Spectro-Polarimetry of Matter and Radiation across Space and Time

Jacques Delabrouille, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Nabila Aghanim +77

This paper discusses the science case for a sensitive spectro-polarimetric survey of the microwave sky. Such a survey would provide a tomographic and dynamic census of the three-di…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 243 cited

A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1186

This paper presents the gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant () using the detections from the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo d…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 1.1k cited

Planck 2018 results. V. CMB power spectra and likelihoods

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +165

This paper describes the 2018 Planck CMB likelihoods, following a hybrid approach similar to the 2015 one, with different approximations at low and high multipoles, and implementin…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 14 cited

Calibrating the cosmic distance ladder using gravitational-wave observations

Anuradha Gupta, Derek Fox, B. S. Sathyaprakash +1

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are among preeminent distance ladders for precision cosmology due to their intrinsic brightness, which allows them to be observable at high redshifts. T…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 82 cited

Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the SPTpol 100-Square-Degree Survey

N. Huang, L. E. Bleem, B. Stalder +74

We present a catalog of galaxy cluster candidates detected in 100 square degrees surveyed with the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The catalog contains 89 candidates d…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 24 cited

A Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

S. Raghunathan, S. Patil, E. Baxter +126

We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained u…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 31 cited

Fractional Polarisation of Extragalactic Sources in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey

N. Gupta, C. L. Reichardt, P. A. R. Ade +77

We study the polarisation properties of extragalactic sources at 95 and 150 GHz in the SPTpol 500 deg survey. We estimate the polarised power by stacking maps at known source p…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 495 cited

Planck 2018 results. VII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB

Planck Collaboration, Y. Akrami, M. Ashdown +147

Analysis of the Planck 2018 data set indicates that the statistical properties of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies are in excellent agreement with pre…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 188 cited

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

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1187

We present an Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo search for sub-solar mass ultracompact objects in data obtained during Advanced LIGO's second observing run. In contrast to a previou…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 100 cited

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

W. L. K. Wu, L. M. Mocanu, P. A. R. Ade +68

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lens…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 5 cited

Sheer shear: weak lensing with one mode

Emilio Bellini, David Alonso, Shahab Joudaki +1

3D data compression techniques can be used to determine the natural basis of radial eigenmodes that encode the maximum amount of information in a tomographic large-scale structure…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 17 cited

QSOs sigposting cluster size halos as gravitational lenses: halo mass, projected mass density profile and concentration at

L. Bonavera, J. González-Nuevo, S. L. Suárez Gómez +6

Magnification bias is a gravitational lensing effect that is normally overlooked because it is considered sub-optimal in comparison with the lensing shear. Thanks to the demonstrat…