A Measurement of the Degree Scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR

Abstract

We present a measurement of the $B$-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. The CMB power spectra are measured using observations at 150 GHz with an instantaneous array sensitivity of ${\mathrm{NET}}_{\mathrm{array}}=23\mu \mathrm{K}\sqrt{\mathrm{s}}$ on a 670 square degree patch of sky centered at (RA, Dec)=($+0^{\mathrm{h}}12^{\mathrm{m}}{0}^{\mathrm{s}},-59^{\circ }18^{\prime }$). A continuously rotating half-wave plate is used to modulate polarization and to suppress low-frequency noise. We achieve $32\mu \mathrm{K}$-$\mathrm{arcmin}$ effective polarization map noise with a knee in sensitivity of $\ell =90$, where the inflationary gravitational wave signal is expected to peak. The measured $B$-mode power spectrum is consistent with a $\Lambda$CDM lensing and single dust component foreground model over a range of multipoles $50\le \ell \le 600$. The data disfavor zero $C_{\ell }^{BB}$ at $2.2\sigma$ using this $\ell$ range of POLARBEAR data alone. We cross-correlate our data with Planck high frequency maps and find the low-$\ell$ $B$-mode power in the combined dataset to be consistent with thermal dust emission. We place an upper limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r<0.90$ at 95% confidence level after marginalizing over foregrounds.

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