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most citedPlanck 2013 results. XXII. Constraints on inflation

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astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Analysis of Polarized Dust Emission Using Data from the First Flight of SPIDER

SPIDER Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +67

Using data from the first flight of SPIDER and from Planck HFI, we probe the properties of polarized emission from interstellar dust in the SPIDER observing region. Component separ…

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.IM2023★ 7 cited

Results and Limits of Time Division Multiplexing for the BICEP Array High Frequency Receivers

S. Fatigoni, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +84

Time-Division Multiplexing is the readout architecture of choice for many ground and space experiments, as it is a very mature technology with proven outstanding low-frequency nois…

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.GA2022★ 20 cited

BICEP / Keck XVI: Characterizing Dust Polarization through Correlations with Neutral Hydrogen

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +92

We characterize Galactic dust filaments by correlating BICEP/Keck and Planck data with polarization templates based on neutral hydrogen (H I) observations. Dust polarization is imp…

astro-ph.IM2022

2022 Upgrade and Improved Low Frequency Camera Sensitivity for CMB Observation at the South Pole

A. Soliman, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +83

Constraining the Galactic foregrounds with multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations is an essential step towards ultimately reaching the sensitivity to measur…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 19 cited

Measurements of the Zodiacal Light Absolute Intensity through Fraunhofer Absorption Line Spectroscopy with CIBER

Phillip Korngut, Min Gyu Kim, Toshiaki Arai +14

Scattered sunlight from the interplanetary dust (IPD) cloud in our Solar system presents a serious foreground challenge for spectro-photometric measurements of the Extragalactic Ba…

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.IM2020

Receiver development for BICEP Array, a next-generation CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

L. Moncelsi, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +72

A detection of curl-type (-mode) polarization of the primary CMB would be direct evidence for the inflationary paradigm of the origin of the Universe. The BICEP/Keck Array (BK)…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 217 cited

Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami +179

We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements of the CMB anisotropies. We find good consistency with the standard spatially-flat 6-param…

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.IM2016★ 25 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array VII: Matrix based E/B Separation applied to BICEP2 and the Keck Array

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +63

A linear polarization field on the sphere can be uniquely decomposed into an E-mode and a B-mode component. These two components are analytically defined in terms of spin-2 spheric…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 663 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array VI: Improved Constraints On Cosmology and Foregrounds When Adding 95 GHz Data From Keck Array

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +60

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2 & Keck Array CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2014 observing season. This includes the first…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 79 cited

Planck 2015 results. XII. Full Focal Plane simulations

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +228

We present the 8th Full Focal Plane simulation set (FFP8), deployed in support of the Planck 2015 results. FFP8 consists of 10 fiducial mission realizations reduced to 18144 maps,…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 721 cited

Planck 2015 results. XI. CMB power spectra, likelihoods, and robustness of parameters

Planck Collaboration, N. Aghanim, M. Arnaud +221

This paper presents the Planck 2015 likelihoods, statistical descriptions of the 2-point correlations of CMB data, using the hybrid approach employed previously: pixel-based at $\e…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 146 cited

Planck 2015 results. XXVI. The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +240

The Second Planck Catalogue of Compact Sources is a catalogue of sources detected in single-frequency maps from the full duration of the Planck mission and supersedes previous vers…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 428 cited

Planck 2015 results. XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +242

We test the statistical isotropy and Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies using observations made by the Planck satellite. Our results are based mainly…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 281 cited

Planck 2015 results. X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +236

Planck has mapped the microwave sky in nine frequency bands between 30 and 857 GHz in temperature and seven bands between 30 and 353 GHz in polarization. In this paper we consider…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 276 cited

Planck 2015 results. IX. Diffuse component separation: CMB maps

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +236

We present foreground-reduced CMB maps derived from the full Planck data set in both temperature and polarization. Compared to the corresponding Planck 2013 temperature sky maps, t…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 10 cited

Planck 2015 results. XX. Constraints on inflation

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +244

We present the implications for cosmic inflation of the Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in both temperature and polarization based on the…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 183 cited

Planck 2015 results. XXI. The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +229

This paper presents a study of the ISW effect from the Planck 2015 temperature and polarization data release. The CMB is cross-correlated with different LSS tracers: the NVSS, SDSS…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 372 cited

Planck 2015 results. XIV. Dark energy and modified gravity

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +232

We study the implications of Planck data for models of dark energy (DE) and modified gravity (MG), beyond the cosmological constant scenario. We start with cases where the DE only…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 263 cited

Planck 2015 results. VIII. High Frequency Instrument data processing: Calibration and maps

Planck Collaboration, R. Adam, P. A. R. Ade +223

This paper describes the processing applied to the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) cleaned, time-ordered information to produce photometrically calibrated maps in temperatur…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 99 cited

Planck 2015 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +200

This paper presents the characterization of the in-flight beams, the beam window functions, and the associated uncertainties for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI). The stru…