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 …

New extraction of the cosmic birefringence from the Planck 2018 polarization data

Y Minami, E Komatsu - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We search for evidence of parity-violating physics in the Planck 2018 polarization data and
report on a new measurement of the cosmic birefringence angle β. The previous …

Planck 2018 results-X. Constraints on inflation

Y Akrami, F Arroja, M Ashdown, J Aumont… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We report on the implications for cosmic inflation of the 2018 release of the Planck cosmic
microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. The results are fully consistent …

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background power spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

SK Choi, M Hasselfield, SPP Ho… - … of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured
by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg 2 of the 2013–2016 survey …

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: two-season ACTPol spectra and parameters

T Louis, E Grace, M Hasselfield, M Lungu… - … of Cosmology and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra measured by the
Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol). We analyze night-time data collected …

Planck 2018 results-XI. Polarized dust foregrounds

Y Akrami, M Ashdown, J Aumont, C Baccigalupi… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
The study of polarized dust emission has become entwined with the analysis of the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) polarization in the quest for the curl-like B-mode polarization …

The origin of parity violation in polarized dust emission and implications for cosmic birefringence

SE Clark, CG Kim, JC Hill… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent measurements of Galactic polarized dust emission have found a nonzero TB signal,
a correlation between the total intensity and the B-mode polarization component. We …

Finding the chiral gravitational wave background of an axion- inflationary model using CMB observations and laser interferometers

B Thorne, T Fujita, M Hazumi, N Katayama, E Komatsu… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
A detection of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies
would confirm the presence of a primordial gravitational wave background (GWB). In the …

Spectro-spatial evolution of the CMB. Part I. Discretisation of the thermalisation Green's function

J Chluba, T Kite, A Ravenni - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been recognized as
an important future probe of the early Universe. Existing theoretical studies primarily focused …

Constraints on the spectral signatures of superconducting cosmic strings

B Cyr, J Chluba, SK Acharya - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
If they exist, networks of superconducting cosmic strings are capable of injecting copious
amounts of electromagnetic energy into the background over a broad range of frequencies …