Complementing the ground-based CMB-S4 experiment on large scales with the PIXIE satellite

E Calabrese, D Alonso, J Dunkley - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We present forecasts for cosmological parameters from future cosmic microwave
background (CMB) data measured by the stage-4 (S4) generation of ground-based …

External priors for the next generation of CMB experiments

A Manzotti, S Dodelson, Y Park - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
Planned cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will improve what we know
about neutrino physics, inflation, and dark energy. The low level of noise, together with …

Mitigating the optical depth degeneracy using the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with CMB-S4 data

MA Alvarez, S Ferraro, JC Hill, R Hložek, M Ikape - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The epoch of reionization is one of the major phase transitions in the history of the universe,
and is a focus of ongoing and upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments …

CMB-S4 technology book

MH Abitbol, Z Ahmed, D Barron, RB Thakur… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
CMB-S4 is a proposed experiment to map the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave
Background (CMB) to nearly the cosmic variance limit for angular scales that are accessible …

Optimization study for the experimental configuration of CMB-S4

D Barron, Y Chinone, A Kusaka, J Borril… - … of Cosmology and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The CMB Stage 4 (CMB-S4) experiment is a next-generation, ground-based
experiment that will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization to …

A projected estimate of the reionization optical depth using the CLASS experiment's sample variance limited e-mode measurement

DJ Watts, B Wang, A Ali, JW Appel… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze simulated maps of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)
experiment and recover a nearly cosmic variance limited estimate of the reionization optical …

Reconstructing CMB fluctuations and the mean reionization optical depth

PD Meerburg, J Meyers, KM Smith, A Van Engelen - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
The Thomson optical depth from reionization is a limiting factor in measuring the amplitude
of primordial fluctuations, and hence in measuring physics that affects the low-redshift …

Towards a cosmological neutrino mass detection

R Allison, P Caucal, E Calabrese, J Dunkley, T Louis - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
Future cosmological measurements should enable the sum of neutrino masses to be
determined indirectly through their effects on the expansion rate of the Universe and the …

Lensing power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background with deep polarization experiments

L Legrand, J Carron - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Precise reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background lensing potential can be
achieved with deep polarization surveys by iteratively removing lensing-induced B modes …

Eliminating the optical depth nuisance from the CMB with 21 cm cosmology

A Liu, JR Pritchard, R Allison, AR Parsons, U Seljak… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
Amongst standard model parameters that are constrained by cosmic microwave background
(CMB) observations, the optical depth τ stands out as a nuisance parameter. While τ …