Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season

PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, M Amiri, D Barkats, RB Thakur… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2, Keck Array, and
BICEP3 CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2018 observing season. We …

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 …

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 …

Primordial backgrounds of relic gravitons

M Giovannini - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
The diffuse backgrounds of relic gravitons with frequencies ranging between the aHz band
and the GHz region encode the ultimate information on the primeval evolution of the plasma …

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 …

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 …

Nine-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: cosmological parameter results

G Hinshaw, D Larson, E Komatsu… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present cosmological parameter constraints based on the final nine-year Wilkinson
Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data, in conjunction with a number of additional …

Detection of -Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2

PAR Ade, RW Aikin, D Barkats, SJ Benton… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB)
polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gravitational waves …

Planck intermediate results-XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

R Adam, PAR Ade, N Aghanim, M Arnaud… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
The polarized thermal emission from diffuse Galactic dust is the main foreground present in
measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at …

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) …