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astro-ph.CO2026

Improved Constraints on Cosmic Microwave Background Circular Polarization with CLASS

Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Caleigh Ryan, Yunyang Li +25

We present improved constraints on circular polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) experiment using data at 9…

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.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.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★ 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.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★ 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★ 13 cited

Testing CMB Anomalies in E-mode Polarization with Current and Future Data

Rui Shi, Tobias A. Marriage, John W. Appel +15

In this paper, we explore the power of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization (E-mode) data to corroborate four potential anomalies in CMB temperature data: the lack of…

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★ 49 cited

Full-sky Cosmic Microwave Background Foreground Cleaning Using Machine Learning

Matthew A. Petroff, Graeme E. Addison, Charles L. Bennett +1

In order to extract cosmological information from observations of the millimeter and submillimeter sky, foreground components must first be removed to produce an estimate of the co…

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 $…