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1. Astro2020 Science White Paper: Primordial Non-Gaussianity

Author

Meerburg, P. Daniel, Green, Daniel, Abidi, Muntazir, Amin, Mustafa A., Adshead, Peter, Ahmed, Zeeshan, Alonso, David, Ansarinejad, Behzad, Armstrong, Robert, Ávila, Santiago, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Baldauf, Tobias, Ballardini, Mario, Bandura, Kevin, Bartolo, Nicola, Battaglia, Nicholas, Baumann, Daniel, Bavdhankar, Chetan, Bernal, José Luis, Beutler, Florian, Biagetti, Matteo, Bischoff, Colin, Blazek, Jonathan, Bond, J. Richard, Borrill, Julian, Bouchet, François R., Bull, Philip, Burgess, Cliff, Byrnes, Christian, Calabrese, Erminia, Carlstrom, John E., Castorina, Emanuele, Challinor, Anthony, Chang, Tzu-Ching, Chaves-Montero, Jonas, Chen, Xingang, Yeche, Christophe, Cooray, Asantha, Coulton, William, Crawford, Thomas, Chisari, Elisa, Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan, d'Amico, Guido, de Bernardis, Paolo, de La Macorra, Axel, Dore, Olivier, Duivenvoorden, Adri, Dunkley, Joanna, Dvorkin, Cora, Eggemeier, Alexander, Escoffier, Stephanie, Essinger-Hileman, Tom, Fasiello, Matteo, Ferraro, Simone, Flauger, Raphael, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Foreman, Simon, Friedrich, Oliver, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Gerbino, Martina, Gluscevic, Vera, Goon, Garrett, Gorski, Krzysztof M., Gudmundsson, Jon E., Gupta, Nikhel, Hanany, Shaul, Handley, Will, Hawken, Adam J., Hill, J. Colin, Hirata, Christopher M., Hložek, Renée, Holder, Gilbert, Huterer, Dragan, Kamionkowski, Marc, Karkare, Kirit S., Keeley, Ryan E., Kinney, William, Kisner, Theodore, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knox, Lloyd, Koushiappas, Savvas M., Kovetz, Ely D., Koyama, Kazuya, L'Huillier, Benjamin, Lahav, Ofer, Lattanzi, Massimiliano, Lee, Hayden, Liguori, Michele, Loverde, Marilena, Madhavacheril, Mathew, Maldacena, Juan, Marsh, M. C. David, Masui, Kiyoshi, Matarrese, Sabino, Mcallister, Liam, Mcmahon, Jeff, Mcquinn, Matthew, Meyers, Joel, Mirbabayi, Mehrdad, Dizgah, Azadeh Moradinezhad, Motloch, Pavel, Mukherjee, Suvodip, Muñoz, Julian B., Myers, Adam D., Nagy, Johanna, Naselsky, Pavel, Nati, Federico, Nicolis, Alberto, Niemack, Michael D., Niz, Gustavo, Nomerotski, Andrei, Page, Lyman, Pajer, Enrico, Padmanabhan, Hamsa, Palma, Gonzalo A., Peiris, Hiranya V., Percival, Will J., Piacentni, Francesco, Pimentel, Guilherme L., Pogosian, Levon, Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, Pryke, Clement, Puglisi, Giuseppe, Racine, Benjamin, Stompor, Radek, Raveri, Marco, Remazeilles, Mathieu, Rocha, Gracca, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruhl, John, Sasaki, Misao, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schillaci, Alessandro, Schmittfull, Marcel, Sehgal, Neelima, Senatore, Leonardo, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shan, Huanyuan, Shandera, Sarah, Sherwin, Blake D., Silverstein, Eva, Simon, Sara, Slosar, Anže, Staggs, Suzanne, Starkman, Glenn, Stebbins, Albert, Suzuki, Aritoki, Switzer, Eric R., Timbie, Peter, Tolley, Andrew J., Tomasi, Maurizio, Tristram, Matthieu, Trodden, Mark, Tsai, Yu-Dai, Uhlemann, Cora, Umiltà, Caterina, van Engelen, Alexander, Vargas-Magaña, M., Vieregg, Abigail, Wallisch, Benjamin, Wands, David, Wandelt, Benjamin, Wang, Yi, Watson, Scott, Wise, Mark, Wu, W. L. K., Xianyu, Zhong-Zhi, Xu, Weishuang, Yasini, Siavash, Young, Sam, Yutong, Duan, Zaldarriaga, Matias, Zemcov, Michael, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Yi, Zhu, Ningfeng, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation [Portsmouth] (ICG), University of Portsmouth, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Argonne National Laboratory [Lemont] (ANL), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University, Facultad de Ingeniería [Buenos Aires] (FIUBA), Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA), Dipartimento di Fisica [Roma La Sapienza], Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University College of London [London] (UCL), National Oceanography Centre [Southampton] (NOC), University of Southampton, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), ICRA and Physics Department, Columbia University [New York], Dipartimento di Fisica 'G. Galilei', Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics [Chicago] (KICP), University of Chicago, School of Physics and Astronomy [Nottingham], University of Nottingham, UK (UON), Institute for Astronomy [Zürich], Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), University of Waterloo [Waterloo], University of New Hampshire (UNH), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Catania (INGV), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard University-Smithsonian Institution, APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), University of Manchester [Manchester], Brookhaven National Laboratory [Upton, NY] (BNL), UT-Battelle, LLC-Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY)-U.S. Department of Energy [Washington] (DOE), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, School of physics and astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of California, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Okayama University, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Smithsonian Institution-Harvard University [Cambridge], Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), U.S. Department of Energy [Washington] (DOE)-UT-Battelle, LLC-Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - UNAM (MEXICO)

Subjects
[PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

5 pages + references; Submitted to the Astro2020 call for science white papers. This version: fixed author list; International audience; Our current understanding of the Universe is established through the pristine measurements of structure in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the distribution and shapes of galaxies tracing the large scale structure (LSS) of the Universe. One key ingredient that underlies cosmological observables is that the field that sources the observed structure is assumed to be initially Gaussian with high precision. Nevertheless, a minimal deviation from Gaussianityis perhaps the most robust theoretical prediction of models that explain the observed Universe; itis necessarily present even in the simplest scenarios. In addition, most inflationary models produce far higher levels of non-Gaussianity. Since non-Gaussianity directly probes the dynamics in the early Universe, a detection would present a monumental discovery in cosmology, providing clues about physics at energy scales as high as the GUT scale.

Published
2019

2. PICO: Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins

Author

Bennett, Charles, Dodelson, Scott, Page, Lyman, Bartlett, James, Battaglia, Nick, Bock, Jamie, Borrill, Julian, Chuss, David, Crill, Brendan P., Delabrouille, Jacques, Devlin, Mark, Fissel, Laura, Flauger, Raphael, Green, Dan, Hill, J.Colin, Hubmayr, Johannes, Jones, William, Knox, Lloyd, Kogut, Al, Lawrence, Charles, McMahon, Jeff, Pearson, Tim, Pryke, Clem, Schmittfull, Marcel, Trangsrud, Amy, van Engelen, Alexander, Alvarez, Marcelo, Artis, Emmanuel, Ashton, Peter, Aumont, Jonathan, Aurlien, Ragnhild, Banerji, Ranajoy, Belen Barreiro, R., Bartlett, James G., Basak, Soumen, Boddy, Kimberly K., Bonato, Matteo, Bouchet, François, Boulanger, François, Burkhart, Blakesley, Chluba, Jens, Clark, Susan E., Cooperrider, Joelle, De Zotti, Gianfranco, Di Valentino, Eleonora, DIDIER, JOY, Doré, Olivier, Eriksen, Hans K., Errard, Josquin, Essinger-Hileman, Tom, Feeney, Stephen, Filippini, Jeffrey, Fuskeland, Unni, Gluscevic, Vera, Gorski, Krzysztof M., Hanany, Shaul, Hensley, Brandon, Herranz, Diego, Colin Hill, J., Hivon, Eric, Hložek, Renée, Johnson, Bradley R., JONES, TERRY, López-Caniego, Marcos, Lazarian, Alex, Li, Zack, Madhavacheril, Mathew, Melin, Jean-Baptiste, Meyers, Joel, Murray, Calum, Negrello, Mattia, Novak, Giles, O'Brient, Roger, Paine, Christopher, Pogosian, Levon, Puglisi, Giuseppe, Remazeilles, Mathieu, Rocha, Graca, Scott, Douglas, Shirron, Peter, Stephens, Ian, Sutin, Brian, Tomasi, Maurizio, Vansyngel, Flavien, Wehus, Ingunn K., Wen, Qi, Xu, Siyao, Young, Karl, Zonca, Andrea, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), NASA PICO, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Planck, fluctuation: linear, scalar tensor, costs, magnetic field, cosmic background radiation, power spectrum, thermal, pressure, optical, neutrino: mass, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), birefringence, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], photon, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, imaging, star: formation, inflation: model, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, infrared, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, scale: inflation, noise, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, dark matter, supernova, ionization, structure, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], inflation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), beam: polarization, inflation: slow-roll approximation, scale: Planck, gravitational radiation, temperature, gold, redshift, sensitivity, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), angular resolution, quantum gravity, efficiency, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is an imaging polarimeter that will scan the sky for 5 years in 21 frequency bands spread between 21 and 799 GHz. It will produce full-sky surveys of intensity and polarization with a final combined-map noise level of 0.87 $\mu$K arcmin for the required specifications, equivalent to 3300 Planck missions, and with our current best-estimate would have a noise level of 0.61 $\mu$K arcmin (6400 Planck missions). PICO will either determine the energy scale of inflation by detecting the tensor to scalar ratio at a level $r=5\times 10^{-4}~(5\sigma)$, or will rule out with more than $5\sigma$ all inflation models for which the characteristic scale in the potential is the Planck scale. With LSST's data it could rule out all models of slow-roll inflation. PICO will detect the sum of neutrino masses at $>4\sigma$, constrain the effective number of light particle species with $\Delta N_{\rm eff}, Comment: Probe class mission study submitted to NASA and 2020 Decadal Panel. Executive summary: 2.5 pages; Science: 28 pages; Total: 50 pages, 36 figures

Published
2019
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3. Foreground analysis using cross-correlations of external templates on the 7-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data

Author

Ghosh, Tuhin, Banday, A. J., Jaffe, Tess, Dickinson, Clive, Davies, Rod, Davis, Richard, and Gorski, Krzysztof

Subjects
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data when combined with ancillary data on free–free, synchrotron and dust allow an improved understanding of the spectrum of emission from each of these components. Here we examine the sky variation at intermediate and high latitudes using a cross-correlation technique. In particular, we compare the observed emission in several global partitions of the sky plus 33 selected sky regions to three ‘standard’ templates. The regions are selected using a criterion based on the morphology of these template maps. The synchrotron emission shows evidence of steepening between GHz frequencies and the WMAP bands. There are indications of spectral index variations across the sky, but the current data are not precise enough to accurately quantify this from region to region. The Hα template correlated emission derived from the global fits shows clear evidence of deviation from a free–free spectrum. If this spectrum is decomposed into a contribution from both free–free and spinning dust emission in the warm ionized medium of the Galaxy, the derived free–free emissivity corresponds to a mean electron temperature of ∼6000 K (a value critically dependent on the impact of dust absorption on the Hα intensity), and the spinning dust emission has a peak emission in intensity typically in the range 40–50 GHz. However, the analysis of the smaller regions is generally unrevealing and the analysis presented here does not unambiguously demonstrate the presence of spinning dust emission in the warm ionized medium, as advocated by Dobler & Finkbeiner. The anomalous microwave emission associated with dust is detected at high significance in most of the 33 fields studied. The anomalous emission correlates well with the Finkbeiner et al. model 8 predictions (FDS8) at 94 GHz, and is well described globally by a power-law emission model with an effective spectral index between 20 and 60 GHz of β≈−2.7. It is clear that attempts to explain the emission by spinning dust models require multiple components, which presumably relates to a complex mix of emission regions along a given line of sight. An enhancement of the thermal dust contribution over the FDS8 predictions by a factor ∼1.2 is required with such models. Furthermore, the emissivity varies by a factor of ∼50 per cent from cloud to cloud relative to the mean. The significance of these results for the correction of cosmic microwave background data for Galactic foreground emission is discussed.

Published
2012

4. The primordial non-Gaussianity of local type (f_NL) in the WMAP 5-year data: the length distribution of CMB skeleton

Author

Hou, Zhen, Banday, A. J., Gorski, Krzysztof M., Elsner, Franz, and Wandelt, Benjamin D.

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present skeleton studies of non-Gaussianity in the CMB temperature anisotropy observed in the WMAP5 data. The local skeleton is traced on the 2D sphere by cubic spline interpolation which leads to more accurate estimation of the intersection positions between the skeleton and the secondary pixels than conventional linear interpolation. We demonstrate that the skeleton-based estimator of non-Gaussianity of the local type (f_NL) - the departure of the length distribution from the corresponding Gaussian expectation - yields an unbiased and sufficiently converged f_NL-likelihood. We analyse the skeleton statistics in the WMAP5 combined V- and W-band data outside the Galactic base-mask determined from the KQ75 sky-coverage. The results are consistent with Gaussian simulations of the the best-fitting cosmological model, but deviate from the previous results determined using the WMAP1 data. We show that it is unlikely that the improved skeleton tracing method, the omission of Q-band data, the modification of the foreground-template fitting method or the absence of 6 extended regions in the new mask contribute to such a deviation. However, the application of the Kp0 base-mask in data processing does improve the consistency with the WMAP1 results. The f_NL-likelihoods of the data are estimated at 9 different smoothing levels. It is unexpected that the best-fit values show positive correlation with the smoothing scales. Further investigation argues against a point-source or goodness-of-fit explanation but finds that about 30% of either Gaussian or f_NL samples having better goodness-of-fit than the WMAP5 show a similar correlation. We present the estimate f_NL=47.3+/-34.9 (1sigma error) determined from the first four smoothing angles and f_NL=76.8+/-43.1 for the combination of all nine. The former result may be overestimated at the 0.21sigma-level because of point sources., Comment: 17 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Published
2010
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5. Lensing reconstruction from Planck sky maps: inhomogeneous noise

Author

Hanson, Duncan, Rocha, Graca, and Gorski, Krzysztof

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We discuss the effects of inhomogeneous sky-coverage on CMB lens reconstruction, focusing on application to the recently launched Planck satellite. We discuss the mean-field which is induced by noise inhomogeneities, as well as three approaches to lens reconstruction in this context: an optimal maximum-likelihood approach which is computationally expensive to evaluate, and two suboptimal approaches which are less intensive. The first of these is only sub-optimal at the five per-cent level for Planck, and the second prevents biasing due to uncertainties in the noise model., Comment: pdflatex to fix incorrectly rendered plots

Published
2009

6. Study of the Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC)-Intemediate Mission for NASA's Einstein Inflation Probe

Author

Bock, James, Aljabri, Abdullah, Amblard, Alex, Baumann, Daniel, Betoule, Marc, Chui, Talso, Colombo, Loris, Cooray, Asantha, Crumb, Dustin, Day, Peter, Dickinson, Clive, Dowell, Darren, Dragovan, Mark, Golwala, Sunil, Gorski, Krzysztof, Hanany, Shaul, Holmes, Warren, Irwin, Kent, Johnson, Brad, Keating, Brian, Kuo, Chao-Lin, Lee, Adrian, Lange, Andrew, Lawrence, Charles, Meyer, Steve, Miller, Nate, Nguyen, Hien, Pierpaoli, Elena, Ponthieu, Nicolas, Puget, Jean-Loup, Raab, Jeff, Richards, Paul, Satter, Celeste, Seiffert, Mike, Shimon, Meir, Tran, Huan, Williams, Brett, and Zmuidzinas, Jonas

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy have served as the best experimental probe of the early universe to date. The inflationary paradigm, inspired in part by the extreme isotropy of the CMB, is now a cornerstone in modern cosmology. Inflation has passed a series of rigorous experimental tests, but we still do not understand the physical mechanism or energy scale behind inflation. A general prediction of inflation and one that can provide certain insights into inflationary physics is a background of primordial gravitational waves. These perturbations leave a distinct signature in the CMB B-modes of polarization. The EPIC (Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology) study team has investigated several CMB polarization mission concepts to carry out a definitive measurement of the inflationary B-mode polarization spectrum. In this report we study a mission with an aperture intermediate between the two missions discussed in our previous report. EPIC-IM's increased aperture allows access to a broader science case than the small EPIC-Low Cost mission. In addition to the search for inflationary gravitational waves, the increase aperture allows us to mine the scale polarization and lensing shear polarization signals down to cosmological limits, so that we extract virtually all the cosmological information available from the CMB. In addition, a modest number of channels operating at higher frequencies allows for an all-sky measurement of polarized Galactic dust, which will provide a rich dataset for Galactic science related to magnetic fields. Using a combination of a large sensitivity focal plane with a new optical design, and an efficient 4K mechanical cooler, EPIC-IM realizes higher sensitivity than EPIC-Comprehensive Science mission., 157 pages. This report presents the EPIC mission concept for NASA's Inflation Probe (CMBpol) for CMB polarization measurements with an aperture intermediate between the previous EPIC-Low Cost and Comprehensive Science missions studied in arXiv:0805.4207

Published
2009

7. Multiparameter estimation with the Pseudo-C_l method

Author

Wandelt, Benjamin D., Gorski, Krzysztof M., and Hivon, Eric

Subjects
Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics
Abstract

We apply the Pseudo-C_l formalism to obtain an unbiased, approximate method for efficient simultaneous estimation of several cosmological parameters from large, almost full-sky cosmic microwave background data sets., Comment: 4 pages, 2 colour figures. Talk presented at "Energy Densities in the Universe", XXXVth Rencontres de Moriond, France (January 22-29, 2000)

Published
2000
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8. The Pseudo-$C_l$ method: Cosmic microwave background anisotropy power spectrum statistics for high precision cosmology

Author

Wandelt, Benjamin D., Hivon, Eric, and Gorski, Krzysztof M.

Subjects
Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics
Abstract

As the era of high precision cosmology approaches, the empirically determined power spectrum of the microwave background anisotropy $C_l$ will provide a crucial test for cosmological theories. We present an exact semi-analytic framework for the study of the ampling statistics of the $C_l$ resulting from observations with partial sky coverage and anisotropic noise distributions. This includes space-borne, air-borne and ground-based experiments. We apply this theory to demonstrate its power for constructing fast but unbiased approximate methods for the joint estimation of cosmological parameters. Further applications, such as a test for possible non-Gaussianity of the underlying theory and a ``poor man's power spectrum estimator'' are suggested. An appendix derives recursion relations for the efficient computation of the couplings between spherical harmonics on the cut sky., Comment: Long paper version of astro-ph/9808292 containing detailed calculations, comparison to other methods and discussion. Appendices give explicit formulae for fast recursions used to obtain the results in astro-ph/9808292. Submitted to Physical Review D in January 2000

Published
2000
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9. Where is the COBE maps' non-Gaussianity?

Author

Magueijo, Joao, Ferreira, Pedro G., and Gorski, Krzysztof M.

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

We review our recent claim that there is evidence of non-Gaussianity in the 4 Year COBE DMR data. We present some new results concerning the effect of the galactic cut upon the non-Gaussian signal. These findings imply a localization of the non-Gaussian signal on the Northern galactic hemisphere., Comment: Proceedings of COSMO98 Asilomar

Published
1999

10. CMB Anisotropy Constraints on Open and Flat-Lambda CDM Cosmogonies from UCSB South Pole, ARGO, MAX, White Dish, and SuZIE Data

Author

Ratra, Bharat, Stompor, Radoslaw, Ganga, Ken, Rocha, Graca, Sugiyama, Naoshi, and Gorski, Krzysztof M.

Subjects
Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics
Abstract

We use combinations of ten small-scale cosmic microwave background anisotropy data sets from the UCSB South Pole 1994, ARGO, MAX 4 and 5, White Dish and SuZIE experiments to constrain cosmogonies. We consider open and spatially-flat-Lambda cold dark matter cosmogonies. Marginalizing over all parameters but $\Omega_0$, the combined data favors an Omega_0 simeq 1 for both open and flat-Lambda models. Excluding the smallest angular scale SuZIE data, an Omega_0 simeq 0.3 (1.0) open (flat-Lambda) model is favored. Considering only multi-frequency data with error bars consistent with sample variance and noise considerations, an Omega_0 simeq 0.1 (1) open (flat-Lambda) model is favored. For both open and flat-$\Lambda$ models, after marginalizing over all the other parameters, a lower Omega_B h^2 (sim 0.005) or younger (t_0 sim 10 Gyr) universe is favored. However, the data do not rule out other values of Omega_0 in the flat-Lambda model and other values of Omega_B h^2 in both models. (abriged), Comment: 31 pages, 8 figures, uses aaspp4.sty, accepted by ApJ

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1999
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11. Python I, II, and III CMB Anisotropy Measurement Constraints on Open and Flat-Lambda CDM Cosmogonies

Author

Rocha, Graca, Stompor, Radoslaw, Ganga, Ken, Ratra, Bharat, Platt, Stephen R., Sugiyama, Naoshi, and Gorski, Krzysztof M.

Subjects
Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics
Abstract

We use Python I, II, and III cosmic microwave background anisotropy data to constrain cosmogonies. We account for the Python beamwidth and calibration uncertainties. We consider open and spatially-flat-Lambda cold dark matter cosmogonies, with nonrelativistic-mass density parameter Omega_0 in the range 0.1--1, baryonic-mass density parameter Omega_B in the range (0.005--0.029) h^{-2}, and age of the universe t_0 in the range (10--20) Gyr. Marginalizing over all parameters but Omega_0, the combined Python data favors an open (spatially-flat-Lambda) model with Omega_0 simeq 0.2 (0.1). At the 2 sigma confidence level model normalizations deduced from the combined Python data are mostly consistent with those drawn from the DMR, UCSB South Pole 1994, ARGO, MAX 4 and 5, White Dish, and SuZIE data sets., Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures, accepted by ApJ

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1999
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12. ARGO CMB Anisotropy Measurement Constraints on Open and Flat-Lambda CDM Cosmogonies

Author

Ratra, Bharat, Ganga, Ken, Stompor, Radoslaw, Sugiyama, Naoshi, de Bernardis, Paolo, and Gorski, Krzysztof M.

Subjects
Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract

We use data from the ARGO cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy experiment to constrain cosmogonies. We account for the ARGO beamwidth and calibration uncertainties, and marginalize over the offset removed from the data. Our derived amplitudes of the CMB anisotropy detected by the ARGO experiment are smaller than those derived previously. We consider open and spatially-flat-Lambda cold dark matter cosmogonies, with clustered-mass density parameter Omega_0 in the range 0.1-1, baryonic-mass density parameter Omega_B in the range (0.005-0.029)h^{-2}, and age of the universe t_0 in the range (10--20) Gyr. Marginalizing over all parameters but Omega_0, the ARGO data favors an open (spatially-flat-Lambda) model with Omega_0= 0.23 (0.1). However, these numerical values are model dependent. At the 2 sigma confidence level model normalizations deduced from the ARGO data are consistent with those drawn from the UCSB South Pole 1994, MAX 4+5, White Dish, and SuZIE data sets. The ARGO open model normalizations are also consistent with those deduced from the DMR data. However, for most spatially-flat-Lambda models the DMR normalizations are more than 2 sigma above the ARGO ones., 21 pages of latex. Uses aaspp4.sty. 8 figures included. ApJ in press

Published
1998

13. CMB anisotropy power spectrum statistics

Author

Wandelt, Benjamin D., Hivon, Eric, and Gorski, Krzysztof M.

Subjects
Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics
Abstract

Much attention has been given to the problem of estimating cosmological parameters from the $C_l$ measured by future experiments. Many of the approaches which are being used either invoke poorly controlled approximations or are computationally expensive. We derive exact results as well as fast and highly accurate approximations for mapping a theoretical model onto the observed power spectrum coefficients and computing their statistical properties. These results obtain from an analytic framework which applies for any azimuthally symmetric sky coverage regardless of the fraction of the sky observed by the experiment., Comment: Typo corrected. 5 pages, 4 figures. To appear in "Evolution of Large Scale Structure", Garching, A. J. Banday et al. (Eds.) (1998). Also available at http://www.tac.dk/~wandelt/downloads.html and http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~cosmo/contributions.html

Published
1998
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14. CMB Anisotropy in COBE-DMR-Normalized Open CDM Cosmogony

Author

Ratra, Bharat, Banday, Anthony J., Gorski, Krzysztof M., and Sugiyama, Naoshi

Subjects
Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

We compute the CMB anisotropy in an open inflation CDM model which is normalized to the two-year DMR sky map. Presently available CMB data is consistent with $\Omega_0 \sim 0.3 - 0.4$, but does not strongly disfavour either $\Omega_0 \sim 0.1$ or $\Omega_0 \sim 1$. Accumulating CMB data should strengthen the observational discriminative power, however, a better understanding of systematic effects will be needed before it will be possible to draw robust conclusions about model viability., Comment: 9 pages including 2 figures, one table: two uuencoded postscript files

Published
1995
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15. COBE-DMR-normalised Open Inflation, CDM Cosmogony

Author

Gorski, Krzysztof M., Ratra, Bharat, Sugiyama, Naoshi, and Banday, Anthony J.

Subjects
Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

Fourier analysis on a cut sky of the two-year COBE DMR 53 and 90 GHz sky maps (in galactic coordinates) is used to determine the normalisation of an open inflation model based on the cold dark matter scenario. The normalised model is compared to measures of large-scale structure in the universe. Although the DMR data alone does not provide sufficient discriminative power to prefer a particular value of the mass density parameter, the open model appears to be reasonably consistent with observations when Omega_0 ~ 0.3 - 0.4 and merits further study., Comment: uuencoded file containing 6 postscript files (11 pgs text, 4 figures, 1 table)

Published
1995
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16. Direct Imaging of the CMB from Space

Author

Janssen, Michael A., Douglas Scott, White, Martin, Seiffert, Michael D., Lawrence, Charles R., Gorski, Krzysztof M., Dragovan, Mark, Gaier, Todd, Ganga, Ken, Gulkis, Samuel, Lange, Andrew E., Levin, Steven M., Lubin, Philip M., Meinhold, Peter, Readhead, Anthony C. S., Richards, Paul L., and Ruhl, John E.

Subjects
Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics
Abstract

Fundamental information about the Universe is encoded in anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. To make full use of this information, an experiment must image the entire sky with the angular resolution, sensitivity, and spectral coverage necessary to reach the limits set by cosmic variance on angular scales >~10'. Recent progress in detector technology allows this to be achieved by a properly designed space mission that fits well within the scope of NASA's Medium-class Explorer program. An essential component of the mission design is an observing strategy that minimizes systematic effects due to instrumental offset drifts. The detector advances make possible a `spin chopping' approach that has significant technical and scientific advantages over the strategy used by COBE, which reconstructed an image of the sky via inversion of a large matrix of differential measurements. The advantages include increased angular resolution, increased sensitivity, and simplicity of instrumentation and spacecraft operations. For the parameters typical of experiments like the Primordial Structures Investigation (PSI) and the Far InfraRed Explorer (FIRE), we show that the spin-chopping strategy produces images of the sky and power spectra of CMB anisotropies that contain no significant systematic artifacts., 15 pages, including 8 figures. Full resolution and colour versions of simulations and full versions of the preprint available at ftp://omega.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/wwwdir/PSI/papers.htm . Further details of PSI and FIRE are available at http://astrophysics.jpl.nasa.gov/PSI/ and http://caseymac.jpl.nasa.gov/fire/fire.html, respectively

17. The Origin of the Universe as Revealed Through the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Author

Dodelson, Scott, Easther, Richard, Hanany, Shaul, Mcallister, Liam, Meyer, Stephan, Page, Lyman, Ade, Peter, Amblard, Alexandre, Ashoorioon, Amjad, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Balbi, Amedeo, Bartlett, James, Bartolo, Nicola, Baumann, Daniel, Beltran, Maria, Benford, Dominic, Birkinshaw, Mark, Bock, Jamie, Bond, Dick, Borrill, Julian, Bouchet, Francois, Bridges, Michael, Bunn, Emory, Calabrese, Erminia, Cantalupo, Christopher, Caramete, Ana, Carbone, Carmelita, Carroll, Sean, Chatterjee, Suchetana, Chen, Xingang, Church, Sarah, Chuss, David, Contaldi, Carlo R., Cooray, Asantha R., Creminelli, Paolo, Das, Sudeep, Bernardis, Francesco, Bernardis, Paolo, Delabrouille, Jacques, Desert, F. Xavier, Devlin, Mark J., Dickinson, Clive, Dicker, Simon, Dipirro, Michael, Dobbs, Matt A., Dore, Olivier, Dotson, Jessie, Dunkley, Joanna, Dvorkin, Cora, Eriksen, H. K., Falvella, Maria Cristina, Finley, Dave, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Fixsen, Dale, Flauger, Raphael, Fosalba, Pablo, Fowler, Joseph W., Galli, Silvia, Gates, Evalyn I., Gear, Walter, Giraud-Heraud, Yannick, Gorski, Krzysztof, Greene, Brian, Gruppuso, Alessandro, Gundersen, Joshua, Halpern, Mark, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Hazumi, Masashi, Hernandez-Monteagudo, Carlos, Hertzberg, Mark, Hinshaw, Gary, Hirata, Christopher, Hivon, Eric, Holman, Richard, Holmes, Warren, Hu, Wayne, Hubmayr, Johannes, Huffenberger, Kevin, Hui, Howard, Hui, Lam, Irwin, Kent, Jackson, Mark, Jaffe, Andrew H., Johnson, Bradley, Johnson, Dean, Jones, William, Kachru, Shamit, Kadota, Kenji, Kaplan, Jean, Kaplinghat, Manoj, Keating, Brian G., Keskitalo, Reijo, Khoury, Justin, Kinney, William H., Kisner, Theodore, Knox, Lloyd, Kodama, Hideo, Kogut, Alan, Komatsu, Eiichiro, Kosowsky, Arthur, Kovac, John, Krauss, Lawrence M., Kurki-Suonio, Hannu, Lamarre, Jean-Michel, Landau, Susana Judith, Lawrence, Charles, Leach, Samuel M., Leblond, Louis, Lee, Adrian, Leitch, Erik, Leonardi, Rodrigo, Lesgourgues, Julien, Liddle, Andrew R., Lim, Eugene A., Limon, Michele, Loverde, Marilena, Lubin, Philip, Lunghi, Enrico, Lykken, Joseph D., Mactavish, Carolyn, Magalhaes, Antonio, Maino, Davide, Martin, Victoria, Sabino Matarrese, Mather, John C., Mathur, Harsh, Matsumura, Tomotake, Meerburg, Pieter, Melchiorri, Alessandro, Mersini-Houghton, Laura, Miller, Amber, Milligan, Michael, Moodley, Kavilan, Neimack, Michael, Nguyen, Hogan, Nicolis, Alberto, O Dwyer, Ian, Olinto, Angela, Pagano, Luca, Pajer, Enrico, Partridge, Bruce, Pearson, Timothy, Peiris, Hiranya V., Peloso, Marco, Piacentini, Francesco, Piat, Michel, Piccirillo, Lucio, Pierpaoli, Elena, Pietrobon, Davide, Pisano, Giampaolo, Pogosian, Levon, Pogosyan, Dmitri, Ponthieu, Nicolas, Popa, Lucia, Pryke, Clement, Raeth, Christoph, Ray, Subharthi, Reichardt, Christian, Ricciardi, Sara, Richards, Paul, Riotto, Antonio, Rocha, Graca, Ruhl, John, Rusholme, Benjamin, Scherrer, Robert, Scoccola, Claudia, Scott, Douglas, Sealfon, Carolyn, Sefusatti, Emiliano, Sehgal, Neelima, Seiffert, Michael, Senatore, Leonardo, Serra, Paolo, Shandera, Sarah E., Shimon, Meir, Shirron, Peter, Sievers, Jonathan, Silk, Joseph I., Sigurdson, Kris, Silverberg, Robert F., Silverstein, Eva, Staggs, Suzanne, Starkman, Glenn D., Stebbins, Albert, Stivoli, Federico, Stompor, Radek, Sugiyama, Naoshi, Swetz, Daniel, Tartari, Andrea, Tegmark, Max, Timbie, Peter, Titov, Maxim P., Tristram, Matthieu, Trodden, Mark, Tucker, Gregory, Urrestilla, Jon, Veneziani, Marcella, Verde, Licia, Vieira, Joaquin, Walker, Terry, Wands, David, Watson, Scott, Weinberg, Steven, Weiss, Rainer, Wandelt, Benjamin, Winstein, Bruce D., Wollack, Edward, Wyman, Mark, Yadav, Amit, Yoon, Ki Won, Zahn, Olivier, Zaldarriaga, Matias, Zemcov, Michael, Zwart, Jonathan, APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), APC - Gravitation (APC-Gravitation), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik ( Albert-Einstein-Institut ) (AEI), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies (APC - AHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Bartlett, James, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik ( Albert-Einstein-Institut ) (AEI), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik ( Albert-Einstein-Institut ) (AEI), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, and Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)-Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO)

Subjects
[SDU.ASTR.CO] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [PHYS.ASTR.CO] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Modern cosmology has sharpened questions posed for millennia about the origin of our cosmic habitat. The age-old questions have been transformed into two pressing issues primed for attack in the coming decade: How did the Universe begin? and What physical laws govern the Universe at the highest energies? The clearest window onto these questions is the pattern of polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which is uniquely sensitive to primordial gravity waves. A detection of the special pattern produced by gravity waves would be not only an unprecedented discovery, but also a direct probe of physics at the earliest observable instants of our Universe. Experiments which map CMB polarization over the coming decade will lead us on our first steps towards answering these age-old questions.

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