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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★ 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.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.CO2020★ 47 cited

A Demonstration of Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves with Delensing

BICEP/Keck, SPTpol Collaborations, : +139

We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, , derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization -modes with "delensing," whereby the unce…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 492 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array x: Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and New BICEP2/Keck Observations through the 2015 Season

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +78

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2/Keck CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season. This includes the first Keck Ar…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 10 cited

Measurements of Degree-Scale B-mode Polarization with the BICEP/Keck Experiments at South Pole

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +76

The BICEP and Keck Array experiments are a suite of small-aperture refracting telescopes observing the microwave sky from the South Pole. They target the degree-scale B-mode polari…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 61 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array IX: New Bounds on Anisotropies of CMB Polarization Rotation and Implications for Axion-Like Particles and Primordial Magnetic Fields

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +65

We present the strongest constraints to date on anisotropies of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization rotation derived from 150 GHz data taken by the BICEP2/Keck Array CMB…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 45 cited

A New Limit on CMB Circular Polarization from SPIDER

J. M. Nagy, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +58

We present a new upper limit on CMB circular polarization from the 2015 flight of SPIDER, a balloon-borne telescope designed to search for -mode linear polarization from cosmic…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 104 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array VIII: Measurement of gravitational lensing from large-scale B-mode polarization

The Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +63

We present measurements of polarization lensing using the 150 GHz maps which include all data taken by the BICEP2 & Keck Array CMB polarization experiments up to and including the…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 104 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array V: Measurements of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales and 150 GHz by the Keck Array

The BICEP2, Keck Array Collaborations, : +59

The Keck Array is a system of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters, each similar to the BICEP2 experiment. In this paper we report results from the 2012 and 2013 observin…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 985 cited

A Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck Data

BICEP2/Keck, Planck Collaborations, : +276

We report the results of a joint analysis of data from BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck. BICEP2 and Keck Array have observed the same approximately 400 deg patch of sky centered on…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 225 cited

BICEP2 II: Experiment and Three-Year Data Set

BICEP2 Collaboration, P. A. R Ade, R. W. Aikin +49

We report on the design and performance of the BICEP2 instrument and on its three-year data set. BICEP2 was designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 1.6k cited

BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales

P. A. R Ade, R. W. Aikin, D. Barkats +44

(abridged for arXiv) We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gr…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 38 cited

SPIDER: a balloon-borne CMB polarimeter for large angular scales

J. P. Filippini, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +41

We describe SPIDER, a balloon-borne instrument to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky with degree angular resolution. Spider consists of six monochromatic refracting te…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 92 cited

SPIDER: Probing the Early Universe with a Suborbital Polarimeter

A. A. Fraisse, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +43

We evaluate the ability of SPIDER, a balloon-borne polarimeter, to detect a divergence-free polarization pattern ("B-modes") in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In the inflat…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 12 cited

Spider Optimization II: Optical, Magnetic and Foreground Effects

D. T. O'Dea, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +43

Spider is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with degree-scale resolution over a large fraction of the sky. Spider…