[PDF] Top 20 Observation of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization with BICEP

... of three corrugated microwave feed horns that couple incoming radiation to a pair of PSBs. The lower edge of the frequency band pass for each pixel is defined by the waveguide cut-off imposed by the horn directly ... See full document

... a polarization calibration, a high signal-to- noise diffuse Galactic polarized signal observed by Bicep is another polarized source for the angle calibration on the ...sky. Bicep was a millimeter-wave ... See full document

... [67] Polarbear Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba, A. E. Anthony, K. Arnold, D. Barron, D. Boettger, J. Borrill, C. Borys, S. Chapman, Y. Chinone, M. Dobbs, T. Elleflot, J. Errard, G. Fabbian, C. Feng, D. Flanigan, A. ... See full document

... We repeat the above exercises, but now considering temperature-to-polarization leakage from dif- ferential pointing. Differential pointing templates for x and y displacement are regressed against the real data, ... See full document

... B-mode polarization signal in the CMB, which is produced by gravitational waves formed during inflation ...ing BICEP [157], Planck [145] PolarBeaR [105], Spider [133], and Clover ... See full document

... associated with the models for , and , given observation of . The noise variances are assumed known; for the Planck mis- sion, this is reasonable because of knowledge of the antenna. The independent components ... See full document

... optimal polarization method in an ideal scenario is 16 per cent higher for low redshift surveys such as the SDSS galaxy sample and 23 per cent for surveys going out to a redshift of about ...available ... See full document

... scale cosmic microwave background ...from cosmic microwave background experiments change if this is ...Combining cosmic microwave back- ground with large scale ... See full document

... the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, and Hubble's ...the cosmic ackground radiation in 1964, astrophysicists have incorporated observational and theoretical additions into ... See full document

... (CMB, Cosmic Microwave Background, and EBL, Extragalactic Background Light) shape the spectrum of UHECR observed at the Earth and are also responsible for the production of secondary ... See full document

... as cosmic strings (for general reviews see [2, ...a cosmic string ...of cosmic strings is expected include brane inflation [4– 7], supersymmetric grand unified theories with hybrid inflation [8–13] ... See full document

... the cosmic microwave background (CMB) ...while polarization anisotropies directly induced by PMFs are not significantly a ff ected by the cyclotron process associated with ... See full document

... with Polarization,” corre- sponding to NSF Grant Number AST-0965625, and a total award amount of ...and polarization, hence signifi- cantly extending the scope of rich early-universe cosmology that could be ... See full document

... Inflationary cosmology, originally proposed as a solution to the horizon, flatness, and monopole problems [1, 2], provides a very successful mechanism for generating primor- dial density perturbations. During inflation, ... See full document

... the microwave and millimeter-wave range, the dominant ra- diations are the cosmic microwave background, the galactic dust, the free-free emission and the synchrotron (see ...the cosmic ... See full document

... observation of D. The noise variances τ are assumed known. GMMs are used to represent the non-Gaussian sources, in which case it is an example of a model known as a mixture of factor analysers [8]. Like in [8], we ... See full document

... large-scale cosmic microwave background suggest that our physical universe is expanding isotropic and homogeneous models with a positive cosmological ... See full document

... Figure 3.21: Left : Zoomed-in photograph of a multichroic detector wafer showing a few individual pixels. Also visible are numerous electrical traces used to connect each TES to its corresponding bias circuit via bond ... See full document

... A warm, absorptive forebaffle extends skyward beyond the cryostat receiver (see Figure 3.2) to intercept stray light outside the designed field-of-view. It is mounted directly to the receiver and therefore comoving with ... See full document

... the polarization signal of the CMB by DASI (Kovac et ...and cosmic-variance limited to ℓ ∼ ...is cosmic variance limited, it has used all the information present in the full ... See full document