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The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419
We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…
A hybrid map- component separation method for primordial CMB -mode searches
Susanna Azzoni, David Alonso, Maximilian H. Abitbol +2
The observation of the polarised emission from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from future ground-based and satellite-borne experiments holds the promise of indirectly detect…
Squeezing out of the matter bispectrum with consistency relations
Samuel Goldstein, Angelo Esposito, Oliver H. E. Philcox +4
We show how consistency relations can be used to robustly extract the amplitude of local primordial non-Gaussianity () from the squeezed limit of the matter bispectrum,…
A minimal power-spectrum-based moment expansion for CMB B-mode searches
S. Azzoni, M. H. Abitbol, D. Alonso +3
The characterization and modeling of polarized foregrounds has become a critical issue in the quest for primordial -modes. A typical method to proceed is to factorize and parame…
The Simons Observatory: gain, bandpass and polarization-angle calibration requirements for B-mode searches
Maximilian H. Abitbol, David Alonso, Sara M. Simon +45
We quantify the calibration requirements for systematic uncertainties for next-generation ground-based observatories targeting the large-angle -mode polarization of the Cosmic M…
Inpainting CMB maps using Partial Convolutional Neural Networks
Gabriele Montefalcone, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Darsh Kodwani +1
We present a novel application of partial convolutional neural networks (PCNN) that can inpaint masked images of the cosmic microwave background. The network can reconstruct both t…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz
Steve K. Choi, Matthew Hasselfield, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho +136
We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg of the 2013-2016 survey, which cove…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters
Simone Aiola, Erminia Calabrese, Loïc Maurin +138
We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013…
Measuring the Hubble constant from the cooling of the CMB monopole
Maximilian H. Abitbol, J. Colin Hill, Jens Chluba
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) monopole temperature evolves with the inverse of the cosmological scale factor, independent of many cosmological assumptions. With sufficient…
New Horizons in Cosmology with Spectral Distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background
J. Chluba, M. H. Abitbol, N. Aghanim +27
Voyage 2050 White Paper highlighting the unique science opportunities using spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). CMB spectral distortions probe many proce…
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…
PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins
S. Hanany, M. Alvarez, E. Artis +79
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a proposed probe-scale space mission consisting of an imaging polarimeter operating in frequency bands between 20 and 800 GHz. W…
CMB Spectral Distortions: Status and Prospects
A. Kogut, M. H. Abitbol, J. Chluba +5
Departures of the energy spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from a perfect blackbody probe a fundamental property of the universe -- its thermal history. Current upp…
Removal of Galactic foregrounds for the Simons Observatory primordial gravitational wave search
Ben Thorne, Jo Dunkley, David Alonso +6
Upcoming observations from the Simons Observatory have been projected to constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio, , at the level of 0.003. Here we describe one of the foreca…
Spectral Distortions of the CMB as a Probe of Inflation, Recombination, Structure Formation and Particle Physics
J. Chluba, A. Kogut, S. P. Patil +98
Following the pioneering observations with COBE in the early 1990s, studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have focused on temperature and polarization anisotropies. CMB…
PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins
Shaul Hanany, Marcelo Alvarez, Emmanuel Artis +79
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is an imaging polarimeter that will scan the sky for 5 years in 21 frequency bands spread between 21 and 799 GHz. It will produce f…
Constraining the Anomalous Microwave Emission Mechanism in the S140 Star Forming Region with Spectroscopic Observations Between 4 and 8 GHz at the Green Bank Telescope
Maximilian H. Abitbol, Bradley R. Johnson, Glenn Jones +2
Anomalous microwave emission (AME) is a category of Galactic signals that cannot be explained by synchrotron radiation, thermal dust emission, or optically thin free-free radiation…
The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Detectors and Readout
The EBEX Collaboration, Maximilian Abitbol, Asad M. Aboobaker +37
EBEX was a long-duration balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The experiment had three frequency bands centered at 150, 250, and…
Design and performance of dual-polarization lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors for millimeter-wave polarimetry
H. McCarrick, G. Jones, B. R. Johnson +11
Lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) are an attractive technology for millimeter-wave observations that require large arrays of extremely low-noise detectors. We de…
CMB-S4 Technology Book, First Edition
Maximilian H. Abitbol, Zeeshan Ahmed, Darcy Barron +58
CMB-S4 is a proposed experiment to map the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to nearly the cosmic variance limit for angular scales that are accessible from the…
Prospects for Measuring Cosmic Microwave Background Spectral Distortions in the Presence of Foregrounds
Maximilian H. Abitbol, Jens Chluba, J. Colin Hill +1
Measurements of cosmic microwave background spectral distortions have profound implications for our understanding of physical processes taking place over a vast window in cosmologi…
High quality factor manganese-doped aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors sensitive to frequencies below 100 GHz
G. Jones, B. R. Johnson, M. H. Abitbol +12
Aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) sensitive to millimeter-wave photons have been shown to exhibit high quality factors, making them highly sensitive and…
Rethinking CMB foregrounds: systematic extension of foreground parameterizations
Jens Chluba, J. Colin Hill, Maximilian H. Abitbol
Future high-sensitivity measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and energy spectrum will be limited by our understanding and modeling of foregrounds. Not…
Magnetic field dependence of the internal quality factor and noise performance of lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors
Daniel Flanigan, Bradley R. Johnson, Maximilian H. Abitbol +8
We present a technique for increasing the internal quality factor of kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) by nulling ambient magnetic fields with a properly applied magnetic field.…