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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.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.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★ 38 cited

The Simons Observatory: gain, bandpass and polarization-angle calibration requirements for B-mode searches

Maximilian H. Abitbol, David Alonso, Sara M. Simon +45

We quantify the calibration requirements for systematic uncertainties for next-generation ground-based observatories targeting the large-angle -mode polarization of the Cosmic M…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 23 cited

Framework for analysis of next generation, polarised CMB data sets in the presence of galactic foregrounds and systematic effects

Clara Vergès, Josquin Errard, Radek Stompor

Reaching the sufficient sensitivity to detect primordial B-modes requires modern CMB polarisation experiments to rely on new technologies, necessary for the deployment of arrays th…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 37 cited

A measurement of the CMB E-mode angular power spectrum at subdegree scales from 670 square degrees of POLARBEAR data

S. Adachi, M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez, K. Arnold +53

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBE…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 73 cited

A Measurement of the Degree Scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR

S. Adachi, M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez, K. Arnold +69

We present a measurement of the -mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experim…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 42 cited

Internal delensing of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization B-modes with the POLARBEAR experiment

S. Adachi, M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez, Y. Akiba +51

Using only cosmic microwave background polarization data from the POLARBEAR experiment, we measure -mode polarization delensing on subdegree scales at more than significanc…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 25 cited

Evidence for the Cross-correlation between Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing from POLARBEAR and Cosmic Shear from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

Toshiya Namikawa, Yuji Chinone, Hironao Miyatake +72

We present the first measurement of cross-correlation between the lensing potential, reconstructed from cosmic microwave background (CMB) {\it polarization} data, and the cosmic sh…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 8 cited

Cross-correlation of POLARBEAR CMB Polarization Lensing with High- Sub-mm Herschel-ATLAS galaxies

M. Aguilar Faundez, K. Arnold, C. Baccigalupi +45

We report a 4.8 measurement of the cross-correlation signal between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence reconstructed from measurements of the CMB polariza…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1.5k cited

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…