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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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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

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.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

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.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★ 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.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.CO2018★ 492 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array x: Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and New BICEP2/Keck Observations through the 2015 Season

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +78

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2/Keck CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season. This includes the first Keck Ar…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 10 cited

Measurements of Degree-Scale B-mode Polarization with the BICEP/Keck Experiments at South Pole

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +76

The BICEP and Keck Array experiments are a suite of small-aperture refracting telescopes observing the microwave sky from the South Pole. They target the degree-scale B-mode polari…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 61 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array IX: New Bounds on Anisotropies of CMB Polarization Rotation and Implications for Axion-Like Particles and Primordial Magnetic Fields

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +65

We present the strongest constraints to date on anisotropies of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization rotation derived from 150 GHz data taken by the BICEP2/Keck Array CMB…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 104 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array VIII: Measurement of gravitational lensing from large-scale B-mode polarization

The Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +63

We present measurements of polarization lensing using the 150 GHz maps which include all data taken by the BICEP2 & Keck Array CMB polarization experiments up to and including the…