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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.CO2026

Measurement of the Full Shape of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Power Spectrum from South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

S. Raghunathan, P. A. R. Ade, D. Anbajagane +139

We present a measurement of the full shape of the power spectrum of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect down to arcminute scales using cosmic microwave background (CMB) data…

astro-ph.CO2025

The SPT-Deep Cluster Catalog: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Clusters from Combined SPT-3G and SPTpol Measurements over 100 Square Degrees

K. Kornoelje, L. E. Bleem, E. S. Rykoff +191

We present a catalog of 500 galaxy cluster candidates in the SPT-Deep field: a 100 deg field that combines data from the SPT-3G and SPTpol surveys to reach noise levels of 3.0,…

astro-ph.CO2025

Measurements of the Temperature and E-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from the Full 500-square-degree SPTpol Dataset

T. -L. Chou, P. A. R. Ade, A. J. Anderson +59

Using the full four-year SPTpol 500 deg dataset in both the 95 GHz and 150 GHz frequency bands, we present measurements of the temperature and -mode polarization of the cosm…

astro-ph.CO2024

Multiprobe Cosmology from the Abundance of SPT Clusters and DES Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

S. Bocquet, S. Grandis, E. Krause +216

Cosmic shear, galaxy clustering, and the abundance of massive halos each probe the large-scale structure of the Universe in complementary ways. We present cosmological constraints…

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

Mass calibration of DES Year-3 clusters via SPT-3G CMB cluster lensing

B. Ansarinejad, S. Raghunathan, T. M. C. Abbott +142

We measure the stacked lensing signal in the direction of galaxy clusters in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) redMaPPer sample, using cosmic microwave background (CMB) temper…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Testing the CDM Cosmological Model with Forthcoming Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPT-3G

K. Prabhu, S. Raghunathan, M. Millea +98

We forecast constraints on cosmological parameters enabled by three surveys conducted with SPT-3G, the third-generation camera on the South Pole Telescope. The surveys cover separa…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 25 cited

First Constraints on the Epoch of Reionization Using the non-Gaussianity of the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich Effect from the South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

S. Raghunathan, P. A. R. Ade, A. J. Anderson +121

We report results from an analysis aimed at detecting the trispectrum of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich (kSZ) effect by combining data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and {…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 7 cited

SPT Clusters with DES and HST Weak Lensing. II. Cosmological Constraints from the Abundance of Massive Halos

S. Bocquet, S. Grandis, L. E. Bleem +193

We present cosmological constraints from the abundance of galaxy clusters selected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data with a simultan…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 9 cited

A Measurement of the CMB Temperature Power Spectrum and Constraints on Cosmology from the SPT-3G 2018 TT/TE/EE Data Set

L. Balkenhol, D. Dutcher, A. Spurio Mancini +84

We present a sample-variance-limited measurement of the temperature power spectrum () of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using observations of a $\sim\! 1500 \,\mathrm{de…

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★ 20 cited

A measurement of the mean central optical depth of galaxy clusters via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with SPT-3G and DES

E. Schiappucci, F. Bianchini, M. Aguena +139

We infer the mean optical depth of a sample of optically-selected galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. The…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 29 cited

Searching for axion-like time-dependent cosmic birefringence with data from SPT-3G

K. R. Ferguson, A. J. Anderson, N. Whitehorn +78

Ultralight axionlike particles (ALPs) are compelling dark matter candidates because of their potential to resolve small-scale discrepancies between CDM predictions and cosmologi…

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★ 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★ 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.CO2017★ 56 cited

SPIDER: CMB polarimetry from the edge of space

R. Gualtieri, J. P. Filippini, P. A. R. Ade +61

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky at large angular scales. SPIDER targets the B-mode signature of primordial gravitat…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 64 cited

Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: gravitational lensing of the CMB

Anthony Challinor, Rupert Allison, Julien Carron +110

Lensing of the CMB is now a well-developed probe of large-scale clustering over a broad range of redshifts. By exploiting the non-Gaussian imprints of lensing in the polarization o…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 195 cited

Measurements of the Temperature and E-Mode Polarization of the CMB from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

J. W. Henning, J. T. Sayre, C. L. Reichardt +64

We present measurements of the -mode polarization angular auto-power spectrum () and temperature--mode cross-power spectrum () of the cosmic microwave background (CMB…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 127 cited

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background -Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data

The POLARBEAR Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Aguilar +79

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collect…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 75 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: B-mode Component Separation

M. Remazeilles, A. J. Banday, C. Baccigalupi +113

We demonstrate that, for the baseline design of the CORE satellite mission, the polarized foregrounds can be controlled at the level required to allow the detection of the primordi…