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most citedBICEP / Keck XIII: Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season

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127 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Galactic Science with the LiteBIRD satellite: Spectral characterization of diffuse Galactic polarized emission at the angular power spectrum level

S. Vinzl, J. Aumont, L. Vacher +108

Detection of primordial -mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from tensor perturbations generated during inflation is a major scientific goal of future CMB…

astro-ph.CO2026

Faster CMB lensing with control variates

Toshiya Namikawa, Blake D. Sherwin

We present a new method for fast computation of the realization-dependent bias, a major computational bottleneck in measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing po…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: -mode delensing with DR6 data and external tracers of large-scale structure

Emilie Hertig, Antón Baleato Lizancos, Frank J. Qu +14

Large-scale -mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a prime target for current and future experiments in search of primordial gravitational waves (PGW). W…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cross-correlation of kSZ and continuity equation velocity reconstruction with photometric DESI LRGs

Fiona McCarthy, Boryana Hadzhiyska, J. Richard Bond +12

Over the last year, kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (kSZ) velocity reconstruction -- the measurement of the large-scale velocity field using the anisotropic statistics of the small-s…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A demonstration of CMB lensing measurement from daytime data

Irene Abril-Cabezas, Frank J. Qu, Joshua Kim +30

We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum analysis using daytime data (11am-11pm UTC) gathered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) over the period…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 20 cited

Unified and consistent structure growth measurements from joint ACT, SPT and \textit{Planck} CMB lensing

Frank J. Qu, Fei Ge, W. L. Kimmy Wu +143

We present the tightest cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing constraints to date on the growth of structure by combining CMB lensing measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Te…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Maps

Sigurd Naess, Yilun Guan, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +163

We present Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy at arcminute resolution over three…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 14 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models

Erminia Calabrese, J. Colin Hill, Hidde T. Jense +169

We use new cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) to test fo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 11 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and CDM Parameters

Thibaut Louis, Adrien La Posta, Zachary Atkins +165

We present power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in temperature and polarization, measured from the Data Release 6 maps made from Atacama Cosmology Tele…

astro-ph.CO2025

Probing inflationary gravitational waves with cross-correlations: improved forecasting and validation with simulations

Toshiya Namikawa, Irene Abril-Cabezas, Blake D. Sherwin

We present a follow-up study to the method recently proposed by Namikawa and Sherwin (2023) to probe gravitational waves using cross-correlations between two cosmic microwave backg…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Impact of reionization history on constraining primordial gravitational waves in future all-sky cosmic microwave background experiments

Hanchun Jiang, Toshiya Namikawa

We explore the impact of the reionization history on examining the shape of the power spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) with the cosmic microwave background (CM…

astro-ph.CO2024

Efficient estimation of rotation-induced bias to reconstructed CMB lensing power spectrum

Hongbo Cai, Yilun Guan, Toshiya Namikawa +1

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum is a powerful probe of the late-time universe, encoding valuable information about cosmological parameters such as the…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Combining delensing and foreground cleaning for improved constraints on inflation

Emilie Hertig, Kevin Wolz, Toshiya Namikawa +3

The Simons Observatory (SO), a next-generation ground-based CMB experiment in its final stages of construction, will target primordial -modes with unprecedented sensitivity to s…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Reionization kSZ trispectrum methodology and limits

Niall MacCrann, Frank J. Qu, Toshiya Namikawa +20

Patchy reionization generates kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large-scale velocity perturbations along the line of sight mo…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Simons Observatory: Combining cross-spectral foreground cleaning with multitracer -mode delensing for improved constraints on inflation

Emilie Hertig, Kevin Wolz, Toshiya Namikawa +16

The Simons Observatory (SO), due to start full science operations in early 2025, aims to set tight constraints on inflationary physics by inferring the tensor-to-scalar ratio f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Detection of the CMB lensing -- galaxy bispectrum

Gerrit S. Farren, Blake D. Sherwin, Boris Bolliet +3

We present a first measurement of the galaxy-galaxy-CMB lensing bispectrum. The signal is detected at and significance using two samples from the unWISE galaxy catalog…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: High-resolution component-separated maps across one-third of the sky

William R. Coulton, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +151

Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compt…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 21 cited

Cosmic birefringence tomography with polarized Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect

Toshiya Namikawa, Ippei Obata

We consider the polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (pSZ) effect for a tomographic probe of cosmic birefringence, including all relevant terms of the pSZ effect in the cosmic microwave ba…

astro-ph.CO2023

Gravitational lensing effect on cosmic birefringence

Fumihiro Naokawa, Toshiya Namikawa

We calculate the effect of gravitational lensing on the parity-odd power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization induced by axionlike particles (ALPs). Sever…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Mitigating the impact of extragalactic foregrounds for the DR6 CMB lensing analysis

Niall MacCrann, Blake D. Sherwin, Frank J. Qu +47

We investigate the impact and mitigation of extragalactic foregrounds for the CMB lensing power spectrum analysis of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data release 6 (DR6) data. Tw…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

New probe of inflationary gravitational waves: cross-correlations of lensed primary CMB B-modes with large-scale structure

Toshiya Namikawa, Blake D. Sherwin

We propose a new probe of inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs): the cross-correlation of the lensing of inflationary -mode polarization with a large-scale structure (LSS) tra…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 347 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +156

We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 280 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth

Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +155

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescop…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

Constraint on Early Dark Energy from Isotropic Cosmic Birefringence

Johannes R. Eskilt, Laura Herold, Eiichiro Komatsu +3

Polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is sensitive to new physics violating parity symmetry, such as the presence of a pseudoscalar "axionlike" field. Such a field…