[PDF] Top 20 Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the BICEP2 and Keck Array Telescopes

... of Bicep2/Keck Array, which are derivative of the Bicep1 instrument [85], is contrary to the usual design of most science quality telescopes in operation today, which boast very large mirrors ... See full document

... The VLA data were edited and calibrated with standard AIPS tools. Data edits substantially reduced the body of monitoring data; these edits can be grouped based on the reach of the underlying problem—some problems ... See full document

... successful polarization modulation devices with suffi- ciently low instrumental polarization, the death sentence for FRMs in B ICEP came in a noise performance showdown between FRM-demodulated and ... See full document

... the Bicep2/Keck Array strategy of compact, on-axis, two-refractor optical design to target the degree-scale primordial B-mode CMB ...single Keck Array receiver at the same ... See full document

... the cosmic origin and its evolution by observing CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies with ∼ degree resolution, as in PIXIE 13 and LiteBird, c ... See full document

... 3.3.1 Array Module The silicon wafers that compose each detector array, along with its feedhorns and first stage readout electronics, are contained within a single compact array module made of OFHC ... See full document

... Figure 1. E-mode and B-mode polarization power spectra. The diamonds, triangles, stars, and squares show the WMAP seven-year data (Larson et al. 2011), the QUaD final data (Brown et al. 2009), the BICEP two-year ... See full document

... challenging measurement, from the ground, from stratospheric balloons, and from space (see ...CMB polarization field at small angular scales (see ... See full document

... CMB polarization studies, and requires the measurement of the BB power spectrum, which, as yet, has been undetected, though measurements of the TT, TE, and EE power spectra have been made and results for ... See full document

... indeed, AdvACTPol, BICEP-Keck, Simons Array and SPT-3G plan to. Here, we model all channels flying at altitude to avoid having to select a particular observatory to optimize against. We assume all ... See full document

... spaced array of holes of fixed ...constant measurement with the substitution of a much brighter, chopped thermal ...the measurement at the chop frequency. The measurement is repeated with the ... See full document

... The leading paradigm for the generation of these primordial density perturbations is inflation[1, 2, 3, 4], a period of nearly exponential expansion of the Universe. This expansion not only generates density ... See full document

... yielded measurement of the correlation structure of the random field up to a resolution of about ...so-called polarization data, which will set the agenda for the experiments to ...come. Polarization ... See full document

... uncorrelated polarization map does not align with the one of the ...uncorrelated polarization map are distributed isotropically and independently of each ...the polarization data rather than from the ... See full document

... ASTR/PHYS 4080: Introduction to Cosmology Spring 2021: Week 08 Acoustic peaks 24 causal contact initial conditions first peak third peak second peak etc peaks First peak: spatially [r] ... See full document

... Once we have a model (with its parameters) we can easily create data by simulating that model and this is called a forward problem.. Finding parameters Θ of a model from the data d is ca[r] ... See full document

... • Intuitive explanation of the “power spectrum”, and how we used this to determine the composition of the Universe. • The target audience of the movie is the general public[r] ... See full document

... For those first 300,000 years, the pho- tonsofthebackgroundradiationwere bound up in a broiling plasma. Be- cause of random fluctuations gener- ated by cosmic inflation in the first split second, some regions ... See full document

... Cosmic microwave background radiation carries information from around z ~ 1000, the epoch of hydrogen recombination.. Dark matter and baryons slow-moving, diffuse, nearly uniform (nonli[r] ... See full document

... described in Nolta et al. (2009), at each multipole the conditional likelihoods are computed as a function of C  EE , with all other multipoles held fixed, for 2 <  < 7. The results are consistent, although this ... See full document