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astro-ph.CO2026

Quantifying the systematic impact of differential beam response on the BICEP CMB polarization data from 2016 through 2024

B. D. Elwood, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +83

As cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments, including BICEP3, BICEP Array, and future BICEP experiments, achieve ever-deeper polarization maps in search of primo…

astro-ph.CO2026

SPT-3G+: A Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment for the South Pole Telescope

T. Natoli, Z. Ahmed, H. Athreya +72

SPT-3G+ is the next survey receiver planned to be installed in early 2029 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT). This new receiver will feature 6,020 polarization-sensitive di…

astro-ph.CO2026

Controlling instrumental systematics for the BICEP inflation survey

C. Vergès, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +92

The BICEP series of experiments has been observing CMB polarisation from the South Pole for over 20 years, with the goal of constraining inflationary gravitational waves. The upcom…

astro-ph.CO2026

BICEP/Keck XXI: Constraints on Early-Universe Parity Violation from Multipole-Dependent Birefringence

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Zeeshan Ahmed +94

We present the first constraints on multipole-dependent cosmic birefringence using CMB polarization data from the BK18 dataset, which combines observations from BICEP2, Keck Array,…

astro-ph.CO2025

BICEP/Keck XX: Component-separated maps of polarized CMB and thermal dust emission using Planck and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +94

We present component-separated polarization maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Galactic thermal dust emission, derived using data from the BICEP/Keck experiments thr…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

BICEP/Keck XVIII: Measurement of BICEP3 polarization angles and consequences for constraining cosmic birefringence and inflation

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +83

We use a custom-made calibrator to measure individual detectors' polarization angles of BICEP3, a small aperture telescope observing the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95GHz…

astro-ph.CO2024

Calibration Measurements of the BICEP3 and BICEP Array CMB Polarimeters from 2017 to 2024

Christos Giannakopoulos, Clara Vergès, P. A. R. Ade +83

The BICEP3 and BICEP Array polarimeters are small-aperture refracting telescopes located at the South Pole designed to measure primordial gravitational wave signatures in the Cosmi…

astro-ph.CO2024

Constraining Inflation with the BICEP/Keck CMB Polarization Experiments

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +84

The BICEP/ (BK) series of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments has, over the past decade and a half, produced a series of field-leading constra…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 36 cited

BICEP / Keck XVII: Line of Sight Distortion Analysis: Estimates of Gravitational Lensing, Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence, Patchy Reionization, and Systematic Errors

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +91

We present estimates of line-of-sight distortion fields derived from the 95 GHz and 150 GHz data taken by BICEP2, BICEP3, and Keck Array up to the 2018 observing season, leading to…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 5 cited

A Forecast for Large Scale Structure Constraints on Horndeski Gravity with Line Intensity Mapping

Bryan R. Scott, Kirit S. Karkare, Simeon Bird

We consider the potential for line intensity mapping (LIM) of the rotational CO(1-0), CO(2-1) and CO(3-2) transitions to detect deviations from General Relativity from …

astro-ph.CO2022★ 12 cited

Snowmass 2021 CMB-S4 White Paper

Kevork Abazajian, Arwa Abdulghafour, Graeme E. Addison +353

This Snowmass 2021 White Paper describes the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 project CMB-S4, which is designed to cross critical thresholds in our understanding of the origin a…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 11 cited

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements White Paper

Clarence L. Chang, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Bradford A. Benson +128

This is a solicited whitepaper for the Snowmass 2021 community planning exercise. The paper focuses on measurements and science with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 8 cited

Snowmass 2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Cosmology with Millimeter-Wave Line Intensity Mapping

Kirit S. Karkare, Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah, Garrett K. Keating +2

Next-generation tests of fundamental physics and cosmology using large scale structure require measurements over large volumes of the Universe, including high redshifts inaccessibl…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 967 cited

BICEP / Keck XIII: Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +89

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2, Keck Array and BICEP3 CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2018 observing season. We add additi…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 37 cited

Neutrino Properties with Ground-Based Millimeter-Wavelength Line Intensity Mapping

Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah, Garrett K. Keating, Kirit S. Karkare +2

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is emerging as a powerful technique to map the cosmic large-scale structure and to probe cosmology over a wide range of redshifts and spatial scales. W…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 27 cited

BICEP / Keck XIV: Improved constraints on axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +89

We present an improved search for axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with observations from the Keck Array. An all-sky, temporally sinuso…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 4 cited

Analysis of Temperature-to-Polarization Leakage in BICEP3 and Keck CMB Data from 2016 to 2018

Keck Collaboration, T. St. Germaine, P. A. R. Ade +85

The BICEP/Keck Array experiment is a series of small-aperture refracting telescopes observing degree-scale Cosmic Microwave Background polarization from the South Pole in search of…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 1 cited

Observing low elevation sky and the CMB Cold Spot with BICEP3 at the South Pole

J. Kang, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +84

BICEP3 is a 520 mm aperture on-axis refracting telescope at the South Pole, which observes the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95 GHz to search for the B-m…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 47 cited

A Demonstration of Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves with Delensing

BICEP/Keck, SPTpol Collaborations, : +139

We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, , derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization -modes with "delensing," whereby the unce…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 271 cited

CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves

S4 Collaboration, Kevork Abazajian, Graeme E. Addison +233

CMB-S4---the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment---is set to significantly advance the sensitivity of CMB measurements and enhance our underst…

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★ 2 cited

Mapping Large-Scale-Structure Evolution over Cosmic Times

Marta B. Silva, Ely D. Kovetz, Garrett K. Keating +6

This paper outlines the science case for line-intensity mapping with a space-borne instrument targeting the sub-millimeter (microwaves) to the far-infrared (FIR) wavelength range.…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 12 cited

Delensing Degree-Scale -Mode Polarization with High-Redshift Line Intensity Mapping

Kirit S. Karkare

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments that constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio are now approaching the sensitivity at which delensing---removing the modes induced…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 6 cited

Astro2020 Science White Paper: Insights Into the Epoch of Reionization with the Highly-Redshifted 21-cm Line

Steven Furlanetto, Chris L. Carilli, Jordan Mirocha +47

The epoch of reionization, when photons from early galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium about a billion years after the Big Bang, is the last major phase transition in the Uni…