Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds

N Christensen - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A stochastic background of gravitational waves could be created by the superposition of a
large number of independent sources. The physical processes occurring at the earliest …

Planck 2018 results-VI. Cosmological parameters

N Aghanim, Y Akrami, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements
of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, combining information from the …

Planck 2018 results-VIII. Gravitational lensing

N Aghanim, Y Akrami, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential
using the final Planck 2018 temperature and polarization data. Using polarization maps …

The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts

P Ade, J Aguirre, Z Ahmed, S Aiola, A Ali… - … of Cosmology and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being
built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the …

Inflation: theory and observations

A Achúcarro, M Biagetti, M Braglia, G Cabass… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Cosmic inflation provides a window to the highest energy densities accessible in nature, far
beyond those achievable in any realistic terrestrial experiment. Theoretical insights into the …

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 …

Measurements of -mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background from 500 square degrees of SPTpol data

JT Sayre, CL Reichardt, JW Henning, PAR Ade… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background
(CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made using the SPTpol instrument on the South …

Constraints on cosmological parameters from the 500 deg2 SPTPOL lensing power spectrum

F Bianchini, WLK Wu, PAR Ade… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present cosmological constraints based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB)
lensing potential power spectrum measurement from the recent 500 deg 2 SPTpol survey …

Simons Observatory: Constraining inflationary gravitational waves with multitracer -mode delensing

T Namikawa, A Baleato Lizancos, N Robertson… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We introduce and validate a delensing framework for the Simons Observatory (SO), which
will be used to improve constraints on inflationary gravitational waves by reducing the …

A measurement of the cosmic microwave background lensing potential and power spectrum from 500 deg2 of SPTpol temperature and polarization data

WLK Wu, LM Mocanu, PAR Ade… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background lensing potential using
500 deg 2 of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The …