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

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62 papers

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Analysis of Polarized Dust Emission Using Data from the First Flight of SPIDER

SPIDER Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +67

Using data from the first flight of SPIDER and from Planck HFI, we probe the properties of polarized emission from interstellar dust in the SPIDER observing region. Component separ…

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.IM2023★ 7 cited

Results and Limits of Time Division Multiplexing for the BICEP Array High Frequency Receivers

S. Fatigoni, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +84

Time-Division Multiplexing is the readout architecture of choice for many ground and space experiments, as it is a very mature technology with proven outstanding low-frequency nois…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 19 cited

Growth-rate measurement with type-Ia supernovae using ZTF survey simulations

Bastien Carreres, Julian E. Bautista, Fabrice Feinstein +21

Measurements of the growth rate of structures at with peculiar velocity surveys have the potential of testing the validity of general relativity on cosmic scales. In this…

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.GA2022★ 20 cited

BICEP / Keck XVI: Characterizing Dust Polarization through Correlations with Neutral Hydrogen

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +92

We characterize Galactic dust filaments by correlating BICEP/Keck and Planck data with polarization templates based on neutral hydrogen (H I) observations. Dust polarization is imp…

astro-ph.HE2022

SN 2020jgb: A Peculiar Type Ia Supernova Triggered by a Helium-Shell Detonation in a Star-Forming Galaxy

Chang Liu, Adam A. Miller, Abigail Polin +25

The detonation of a thin () helium shell (He-shell) atop a white dwarf (WD) is a promising mechanism to explain normal…

astro-ph.IM2022

Improved Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

J. Cornelison, C. Vergès, P. A. R. Ade +83

The BICEP3 Polarimeter is a small aperture, refracting telescope, dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 95GHz. It is designed to target degree an…

astro-ph.IM2022

Thermal Testing for Cryogenic CMB Instrument Optical Design

D. C. Goldfinger, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +83

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background rely on cryogenic instrumentation with cold detectors, readout, and optics providing the low noise performance and instrumental stab…

astro-ph.IM2022

2022 Upgrade and Improved Low Frequency Camera Sensitivity for CMB Observation at the South Pole

A. Soliman, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +83

Constraining the Galactic foregrounds with multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations is an essential step towards ultimately reaching the sensitivity to measur…

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.IM2021★ 1 cited

In-flight gain monitoring of SPIDER's transition-edge sensor arrays

J. P. Filippini, A. E. Gambrel, A. S. Rahlin +67

Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain variations with minimal loss of observing time. We propose a sens…

astro-ph.IM2021

BICEP Array: 150 GHz detector module development

A. Schillaci, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +81

The BICEP/Keck Collaboration is currently leading the quest to the highest sensitivity measurements of the polarized CMB anisotropies on degree scale with a series of cryogenic tel…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 37 cited

SNIa-Cosmology Analysis Results from Simulated LSST Images: from Difference Imaging to Constraints on Dark Energy

B. Sánchez, R. Kessler, D. Scolnic +19

The Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to process transient detections per night. For precision measurements of cosmological par…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 7 cited

A Simulation-Based Method for Correcting Mode Coupling in CMB Angular Power Spectra

J. S. -Y. Leung, J. Hartley, J. M. Nagy +67

Modern CMB analysis pipelines regularly employ complex time-domain filters, beam models, masking, and other techniques during the production of sky maps and their corresponding ang…

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.IM2021★ 2 cited

BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set

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

We report on the design and performance of the BICEP3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. BICEP3 is a 52cm aperture, refracting telescope desi…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 25 cited

On the maximum luminosities of normal stripped-envelope supernovae -- brighter than explosion models allow

J. Sollerman, S. Yang, D. Perley +5

Stripped-envelope supernovae (SE SNe) of Type Ib and Type Ic are thought to result from explosions of massive stars having lost their outer envelopes. The favoured explosion mechan…

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

The XFaster Power Spectrum and Likelihood Estimator for the Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background Maps

A. E. Gambrel, A. S. Rahlin, X. Song +64

We present the XFaster analysis package. XFaster is a fast, iterative angular power spectrum estimator based on a diagonal approximation to the quadratic Fisher matrix estimator. X…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 4 cited

Synergies between Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and Euclid Mission: Constraining Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae

B. M. Rose, G. Aldering, M. Dai +25

We review the needs of the supernova community for improvements in survey coordination and data sharing that would significantly boost the constraints on dark energy using samples…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 2 cited

A Constraint on Primordial -Modes from the First Flight of the SPIDER Balloon-Borne Telescope

SPIDER Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +68

We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of SPIDER, an experiment designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave b…

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.IM2020★ 4 cited

Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

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

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary grav…