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astro-ph.CO2016★ 13 cited

Additional spectroscopic redshift measurements for galaxy clusters from the First Planck Catalogue

V. S. Vorobyev, R. A. Burenin, I. F. Bikmaev +10

We present the results of spectroscopic redshift measurements for the galaxy clusters from the first all-sky Planck catalogue of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources, that have been mostl…

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★ 39 cited

Power law cosmology model comparison with CMB scale information

Isaac Tutusaus, Brahim Lamine, Alain Blanchard +14

Despite the ability of the cosmological concordance model (CDM) to describe the cosmological observations exceedingly well, power law expansion of the Universe scale radius, $R(…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 8 cited

Non-Gaussianity in two-field inflation beyond the slow-roll approximation

Gabriel Jung, Bartjan van Tent

We use the long-wavelength formalism to investigate the level of bispectral non-Gaussianity produced in two-field inflation models with standard kinetic terms. Even though the Plan…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 15 cited

Statistical simulations of the dust foreground to CMB polarization

Flavien Vansyngel, François Boulanger, Tuhin Ghosh +6

The characterization of the dust polarization foreground to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a necessary step towards the detection of the B-mode signal associated with pri…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 3 cited

Primordial Nucleosynthesis

Alain Coc

Primordial or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is now a parameter free theory whose predictions are in good overall agreement with observations. However, the 7Li calculated abundance…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 27 cited

ATCA observations of the MACS-Planck Radio Halo Cluster Project - I. New detection of a radio halo in PLCK G285.0-23.7

Gerardo Martinez Aviles, Chiara Ferrari, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt +12

We investigate the possible presence of diffuse radio emission in the intermediate redshift, massive cluster PLCK G285.0-23.7 (z=0.39, M_500 = 8.39 x 10^(14) M_Sun). Our 16cm-band…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 45 cited

Weakening Gravity on Redshift-Survey Scales with Kinetic Matter Mixing

Guido D'Amico, Zhiqi Huang, Michele Mancarella +1

We explore general scalar-tensor models in the presence of a kinetic mixing between matter and the scalar field, which we call Kinetic Matter Mixing. In the frame where gravity is…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 30 cited

Cosmology with the CMB temperature-polarization correlation

F. Couchot, S. Henrot-Versillé, O. Perdereau +4

We demonstrate that the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature-polarization cross-correlation provides accurate and robust constraints on cosmological parameters. We compare…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 37 cited

QuickPol: Fast calculation of effective beam matrices for CMB polarization

Eric Hivon, Sylvain Mottet, Nicolas Ponthieu

Current and planned observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropies, with their ever increasing number of detectors, have reached a potential accura…

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★ 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★ 66 cited

Improved EDELWEISS-III sensitivity for low-mass WIMPs using a profile likelihood approach

EDELWEISS Collaboration, L. Hehn, E. Armengaud +46

We report on a dark matter search for a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) in the mass range with the EDELWEISS-III experiment. A 2D prof…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 65 cited

Planck intermediate results. L. Evidence for spatial variation of the polarized thermal dust spectral energy distribution and implications for CMB -mode analysis

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Ashdown +156

The characterization of the Galactic foregrounds has been shown to be the main obstacle in the challenging quest to detect primordial B-modes in the polarized microwave sky. We mak…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 63 cited

The XMM Cluster Outskirts Project (X-COP): Physical conditions to the virial radius of Abell 2142

C. Tchernin, D. Eckert, S. Ettori +9

Context. Galaxy clusters are continuously growing through the accretion of matter in their outskirts. This process induces inhomogeneities in the gas density distribution (clumping…

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★ 19 cited

Breaking Be: a sterile neutrino solution to the cosmological lithium problem

Laura Salvati, Luca Pagano, Massimiliano Lattanzi +2

The possibility that the so-called "lithium problem", i.e. the disagreement between the theoretical abundance predicted for primordial Li assuming standard nucleosynthesis and…

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★ 398 cited

Planck intermediate results. XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Ashdown +170

This paper describes the identification, modelling, and removal of previously unexplained systematic effects in the polarization data of the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI)…

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★ 235 cited

Planck intermediate results. XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, N. Aghanim +163

We investigate constraints on cosmic reionization extracted from the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. We combine the Planck CMB anisotropy data in temperature with th…

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…