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astro-ph.CO2025

A Measurement of the Largest-Scale CMB E-mode Polarization with CLASS

Yunyang Li, Joseph Eimer, John Appel +34

We present measurements of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) E-mode polarization from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 90 GHz data. Using 115 det-yr o…

astro-ph.CO2024

Sensitivity-Improved Polarization Maps at 40 GHz with CLASS and WMAP data

Rui Shi, John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett +18

Improved polarization measurements at frequencies below 70 GHz with degree-level angular resolution are crucial for advancing our understanding of the Galactic synchrotron radiatio…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

CLASS Angular Power Spectra and Map-Component Analysis for 40 GHz Observations through 2022

Joseph R. Eimer, Yunyang Li, Michael K. Brewer +31

Measurement of the largest angular scale () features of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is a powerful way to constrain the optical depth to reionizati…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

CLASS Data Pipeline and Maps for 40 GHz Observations through 2022

Yunyang Li, Joseph Eimer, Keisuke Osumi +33

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a telescope array that observes the cosmic microwave background over 75\% of the sky from the Atacama Desert, Chile, at freque…

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.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★ 25 cited

Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A Measurement of Circular Polarization at 40 GHz

Ivan L. Padilla, Joseph R. Eimer, Yunyang Li +32

We report circular polarization measurements from the first two years of observation with the 40 GHz polarimeter of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS). CLASS is con…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 33 cited

A Projected Estimate of the Reionization Optical Depth Using the CLASS Experiment's Sample-Variance Limited E-Mode Measurement

Duncan J. Watts, Bingjie Wang, Aamir Ali +17

We analyze simulated maps of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) experiment and recover a nearly cosmic-variance limited estimate of the reionization optical depth $…