New physics from the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background

E Komatsu - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The current cosmological model requires new physics beyond the standard model of
elementary particles and fields, such as dark matter and dark energy. Their nature is …

The quest for B modes from inflationary gravitational waves

M Kamionkowski, ED Kovetz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The search for the curl component (B mode) in the cosmic microwave background (CMB)
polarization induced by inflationary gravitational waves is described. The canonical single …

CMB-S4 science case, reference design, and project plan

K Abazajian, G Addison, P Adshead, Z Ahmed… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan Page 1 CMB-S4 Science Case,
Reference Design, and Project Plan CMB-S4 Collaboration July 9, 2019 arXiv:1907.04473v1 …

CMB-S4: Forecasting constraints on primordial gravitational waves

K Abazajian, GE Addison, P Adshead… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Determining the origin of structure in the universe is one of the most important open
problems in cosmology. CMB anisotropies sourced by early-universe density perturbations …

Planck 2015 results-XI. CMB power spectra, likelihoods, and robustness of parameters

N Aghanim, M Arnaud, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
This paper presents the Planck 2015 likelihoods, statistical descriptions of the 2-point
correlationfunctions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and …

[HTML][HTML] Planck 2015 results-I. Overview of products and scientific results

R Adam, PAR Ade, N Aghanim, Y Akrami… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which is dedicated to studying the early
Universe and its subsequent evolution, was launched on 14 May 2009. It scanned the …

SPT-3G: a next-generation cosmic microwave background polarization experiment on the South Pole telescope

BA Benson, PAR Ade, Z Ahmed… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We describe the design of a new polarization sensitive receiver, spt-3g, for the 10-meter
South Pole Telescope (spt). The spt-3g receiver will deliver a factor of~ 20 improvement in …

Planck 2015 results-xiii. cosmological parameters

PAR Ade, N Aghanim, M Arnaud, M Ashdown… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
This paper presents cosmological results based on full-mission Planck observations of
temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) …

Measurements of the temperature and E-mode polarization of the CMB from 500 square degrees of SPTpol data

JW Henning, JT Sayre, CL Reichardt… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present measurements of the E-mode polarization angular auto-power spectrum (EE)
and temperature–E-mode cross-power spectrum (TE) of the cosmic microwave background …

Weak gravitational lensing of the CMB

A Lewis, A Challinor - Physics Reports, 2006 - Elsevier
Weak gravitational lensing has several important effects on the cosmic microwave
background (CMB): it changes the CMB power spectra, induces non-Gaussianities, and …