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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 maps and cosmological parameters

Ailoa, Simone, Calabrese, Erminia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0837-0068, Maurin, Loic, Naess, Sigurd, Schmitt, Benjamin L., Arbitol, Maximillan H., Addison, Graeme E., Ade, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Alonso, David, Amiri, Mandana, Amodeo, Stefania, Angile, Elio, Austerman, Jason E., Baildon, Taylor, Battaglia, Nick, Beall, James A., Bean, Rachel, Becker, Daniel T., Bond, J. Richard, Bruno, Sarah Marie, Calafut, Victoria, Campusano, Luis E., Carrero, Felipe, Chesmore, Grace E., Cho, Hsiao-Mei, Choi, Steve K., Clark, Susan E., Cotard, Nicholas F., Crichton, Devin, Crowley, Kevin T., Darwish, Omar, Datta, Rahul, Denison, Edward V., Devlin, Mark J., Duell, Cody J., Duff, Shannon M., Duivenvoorden, Adriaan J., Dunkley, Jo, Dunner, Rolando, Essinger-Hileman, Thomas, Fankhanel, Max, Ferrarro, Simone, Fox, Anna E., Fuzia, Brittany, Gallardo, Patricio A., Gluscevic, Vera, Golec, Joseph E., Grace, Emily, Gralla, Megan, Guan, Yilun, Hall, Kirsten, Halper, Mark, Han, Dongwon, Hargrave, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3109-6629, Hasselfield, Matthew, Helton, Jakob M., Henderson, Shawn, Hensley, Brandon, Hill, J. Colin, Hilton, Gene C., Hilton, Matt, Hincks, Adam D., Hlozer, Renee, Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty, Hubmayr, Johannes, Huffenberger, Kevin M., Hughes, John P., Infante, Leopoldo, Irwin, Kent, Jackson, Rebecca, Klein, Jeff, Knowles, Kenda, Koopman, Brian, Kosowsky, Arthur, Lakey, Vincent, Li, Dale, Li, Yaqiong, Li, Zack, Lokken, Martine, Louis, Thibaut, Lungu, Marius, Mac|Innes, Amanda, Madhavacherill, Mathew, Maldonaldo, Felipe, Mallaby-Kay, Maya, Marsden, Danica, McHahon, Menanteau, Moodley, Kavilan, Morton, Tim, Namikawa, Toshiya, Nati, Federico, Newburgh, Laura, Nibarger, John P., Nicola, Andrina, Niemack, Michaael D., Nolta, Michael R., Orlowski-Sherer, John, Page, Lyman A., Pappas, Christine G., Partridge, Bruce, Phakathi, Phumlani, Pisano, Giampaolo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4302-5681, Prince, Heather, Puddu, Roberto, Qu, Frank J., Rivera, Jesus, Robertson, Naomi, Rojas, Felipe, Salatino, Maria, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schillaci, Alesandro, Sehgal, Neelima, Sherwin, David N., Sierra, Carlos, Sievers, John, Sifon, Cristobal, Sikhosana, Precious, Simon, Sara, Spergel, David N., Staggs, Suzanne T., Stevens, Jason, Storer, Emilie, Sunder, Dhaneshwar D., Switzer, Eric R., Thorne, Ben, Thornton, Robert, Trac, Hy, Treu, Jesse, Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Vale, Leila R., Van Engelen, Alexander, Van Lanen, Jeff, Vavagiakis, Eve M., Wagoner, Kasey, Wang, Yuhan, Ward, Jonathan T., Wollack, Edward J., Xu, Zhilei, Zago, Fernando and Zhu, Ningfeng 2020. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 maps and cosmological parameters. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 12 (2020) , 047. 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12/047

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Abstract

We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013–2016 at 98 and 150 GHz. The maps cover more than 17,000 deg2, the deepest 600 deg2 with noise levels below 10μK-arcmin. We use the power spectrum derived from almost 6,000 deg2 of these maps to constrain cosmology. The ACT data enable a measurement of the angular scale of features in both the divergence-like polarization and the temperature anisotropy, tracing both the velocity and density at last-scattering. From these one can derive the distance to the last-scattering surface and thus infer the local expansion rate, H0. By combining ACT data with large-scale information from WMAP we measure H0=67.6± 1.1 km/s/Mpc, at 68% confidence, in excellent agreement with the independently-measured Planck satellite estimate (from ACT alone we find H0=67.9± 1.5 km/s/Mpc). The ΛCDM model provides a good fit to the ACT data, and we find no evidence for deviations: both the spatial curvature, and the departure from the standard lensing signal in the spectrum, are zero to within 1σ; the number of relativistic species, the primordial Helium fraction, and the running of the spectral index are consistent with ΛCDM predictions to within 1.5–2.2σ. We compare ACT, WMAP, and Planck at the parameter level and find good consistency; we investigate how the constraints on the correlated spectral index and baryon density parameters readjust when adding CMB large-scale information that ACT does not measure. The DR4 products presented here will be publicly released on the NASA Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: IOP Publishing
ISSN: 1475-7516
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 2 December 2020
Date of Acceptance: 13 November 2020
Last Modified: 23 Nov 2023 08:22
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/136736

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