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20192025
most citedThe Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters

629 citations · 2.3k across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

astro-ph.CO2025

Density reconstruction from biased tracers: Testing the equivalence principle through consistency relations

Lawrence Dam, Omar Darwish

Consistency relations of large-scale structure offer a unique and powerful test of the weak equivalence principle (EP) on cosmological scales. If the EP is violated, different trac…

cs.CV2025

Near Real-Time Dust Aerosol Detection with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks on MODIS Data

Caleb Gates, Patrick Moorhead, Jayden Ferguson +4

Dust storms harm health and reduce visibility; quick detection from satellites is needed. We present a near real-time system that flags dust at the pixel level using multi-band ima…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Impact of Galactic non-Gaussian foregrounds on CMB lensing measurements

Irene Abril-Cabezas, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +7

Weak gravitational lensing of the CMB has been established as a robust and powerful observable for precision cosmology. However, the impact of Galactic foregrounds, which has been…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 20 cited

Unified and consistent structure growth measurements from joint ACT, SPT and \textit{Planck} CMB lensing

Frank J. Qu, Fei Ge, W. L. Kimmy Wu +143

We present the tightest cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing constraints to date on the growth of structure by combining CMB lensing measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Te…

astro-ph.CO2025

Optimal joint reconstruction from CMB observations: application to cosmic birefringence, patchy reionization and CMB lensing

Omar Darwish

Line-of-sight distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), including gravitational lensing, cosmic birefringence, and patchy screening, encode crucial cosmological informa…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 14 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models

Erminia Calabrese, J. Colin Hill, Hidde T. Jense +169

We use new cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) to test fo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 11 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and CDM Parameters

Thibaut Louis, Adrien La Posta, Zachary Atkins +165

We present power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in temperature and polarization, measured from the Data Release 6 maps made from Atacama Cosmology Tele…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 38 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure formation over cosmic time with a measurement of the cross-correlation of CMB Lensing and Luminous Red Galaxies

Joshua Kim, Noah Sailer, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +70

We present a high-significance cross-correlation of CMB lensing maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) with spectroscopically calibrated luminous red…

astro-ph.CO2024

Non-Gaussian deflections in iterative optimal CMB lensing reconstruction

Omar Darwish, Sebastian Belkner, Louis Legrand +2

The gravitational lensing signal from the Cosmic Microwave Background is highly valuable to constrain the growth of the structures in the Universe in a clean and robust manner over…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Reionization kSZ trispectrum methodology and limits

Niall MacCrann, Frank J. Qu, Toshiya Namikawa +20

Patchy reionization generates kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large-scale velocity perturbations along the line of sight mo…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing and SDSS BOSS cross-correlation measurement and constraints on gravity with the statistic

Lukas Wenzl, Rui An, Nick Battaglia +24

We derive new constraints on the statistic as a test of gravity, combining the CMB lensing map estimated from Data Release 6 (DR6) of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope with SDS…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 14 cited

Cosmology from Cross-Correlation of ACT-DR4 CMB Lensing and DES-Y3 Cosmic Shear

S. Shaikh, I. Harrison, A. van Engelen +105

Cross-correlation between weak lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and weak lensing of galaxies offers a way to place robust constraints on cosmological and astrophysi…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 50 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmology from cross-correlations of unWISE galaxies and ACT DR6 CMB lensing

Gerrit S. Farren, Alex Krolewski, Niall MacCrann +33

We present tomographic measurements of structure growth using cross-correlations of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) DR6 and Planck CMB lensing maps with the unWISE Blue and Green…

astro-ph.CO2023

Cosmological constraints from the tomography of DES-Y3 galaxies with CMB lensing from ACT DR4

G. A. Marques, M. S. Madhavacheril, O. Darwish +92

We present a measurement of the cross-correlation between the MagLim galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of observations (Y3) and cosmic microwave…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Mitigating the impact of extragalactic foregrounds for the DR6 CMB lensing analysis

Niall MacCrann, Blake D. Sherwin, Frank J. Qu +47

We investigate the impact and mitigation of extragalactic foregrounds for the CMB lensing power spectrum analysis of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data release 6 (DR6) data. Tw…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 347 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +156

We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 280 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth

Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +155

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescop…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 12 cited

Probing early structure and model-independent neutrino mass with high-redshift CMB lensing mass maps

Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin, Omar Darwish +2

CMB lensing maps probe the mass distribution in projection out to high redshifts, but significant sensitivity to low-redshift structure remains. In this paper we discuss a method t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 4 cited

Optimizing foreground mitigation for CMB lensing with combined multifrequency and geometric methods

Omar Darwish, Blake D. Sherwin, Noah Sailer +2

A key challenge for current and upcoming CMB lensing measurements is their sensitivity to biases from extragalactic foregrounds, such as Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signals or cosmic in…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 24 cited

Optimal multifrequency weighting for CMB lensing

Noah Sailer, Emmanuel Schaan, Simone Ferraro +2

Extragalactic foregrounds in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature maps lead to significant biases in CMB lensing reconstruction if not properly accounted for. Combinations…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 29 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Summary of DR4 and DR5 Data Products and Data Access

Maya Mallaby-Kay, Zachary Atkins, Simone Aiola +57

Two recent large data releases for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), called DR4 and DR5, are available for public access. These data include temperature and polarization maps…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 30 cited

Partially Constrained Internal Linear Combination: a method for low-noise CMB foreground mitigation

Y. Sultan Abylkairov, Omar Darwish, J. Colin Hill +1

Internal Linear Combination (ILC) methods are some of the most widely used multi-frequency cleaning techniques employed in CMB data analysis. These methods reduce foregrounds by mi…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 47 cited

Strong detection of the CMB lensingxgalaxy weak lensingcross-correlation from ACT-DR4,PlanckLegacy and KiDS-1000

Naomi Clare Robertson, David Alonso, Joachim Harnois-Déraps +48

We measure the cross-correlation between galaxy weak lensing data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000, DR4) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing data from the Atacama C…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 20 cited

Density reconstruction from biased tracers and its application to primordial non-Gaussianity

Omar Darwish, Simon Foreman, Muntazir M. Abidi +3

Large-scale Fourier modes of the cosmic density field are of great value for learning about cosmology because of their well-understood relationship to fluctuations in the early uni…