A Constraint on Primordial B-modes from the First Flight of the Spider Balloon-borne Telescope

Autor: Collaboration, SPIDER, Ade, PAR, Amiri, M, Benton, SJ, Bergman, AS, Bihary, R, Bock, JJ, Bond, JR, Bonetti, JA, Bryan, SA, Chiang, HC, Contaldi, CR, Doré, O, Duivenvoorden, AJ, Eriksen, HK, Farhang, M, Filippini, JP, Fraisse, AA, Freese, K, Galloway, M, Gambrel, AE, Gandilo, NN, Ganga, K, Gualtieri, R, Gudmundsson, JE, Halpern, M, Hartley, J, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, G, Holmes, W, Hristov, VV, Huang, Z, Irwin, KD, Jones, WC, Karakci, A, Kuo, CL, Kermish, ZD, Leung, JS-Y, Li, S, Mak, DSY, Mason, PV, Megerian, K, Moncelsi, L, Morford, TA, Nagy, JM, Netterfield, CB, Nolta, M, O'Brient, R, Osherson, B, Padilla, IL, Racine, B, Rahlin, AS, Reintsema, C, Ruhl, JE, Runyan, MC, Ruud, TM, Shariff, JA, Shaw, EC, Shiu, C, Soler, JD, Song, X, Trangsrud, A, Tucker, C, Tucker, RS, Turner, AD, List, JFVD, Weber, AC, Wehus, IK, Wen, S, Wiebe, DV, Young, EY
Přispěvatelé: 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), SPIDER, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
noise
cosmological model
data analysis method
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
satellite: Planck
ANGULAR POWER SPECTRUM
CIRCULAR-POLARIZATION
FOS: Physical sciences
cosmic background radiation: polarization
detector: noise
STATISTICAL-ANALYSIS
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics
POLARIMETRY
Monte Carlo: Markov chain
cosmic background radiation: B-mode
DESIGN
0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
MICROWAVE BACKGROUND DATA
numerical calculations
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
ANISOTROPY
0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
polarization: linear
Science & Technology
perturbation: primordial
BOLOMETERS
synchrotron radiation
Computer Science::Information Retrieval
LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR
statistical analysis: Bayesian
Astronomy and Astrophysics
SPIDER
detector: sensitivity
Space and Planetary Science
density: perturbation
Physical Sciences
0202 Atomic
Molecular
Nuclear
Particle and Plasma Physics

black body
astro-ph.CO
power spectrum: angular dependence
energy: density: primordial
galaxy
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
TRANSITION
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
cosmic background radiation: anisotropy
Zdroj: Astrophys.J.
Astrophys.J., 2022, 927 (2), pp.174. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ac20df⟩
ISSN: 0004-637X
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac20df⟩
Popis: We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of SPIDER, an experiment designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales. Results from these measurements include maps and angular power spectra from observations of 4.8% of the sky at 95 and 150 GHz, along with the results of internal consistency tests on these data. While the polarized CMB anisotropy from primordial density perturbations is the dominant signal in this region of sky, Galactic dust emission is also detected with high significance; Galactic synchrotron emission is found to be negligible in the SPIDER bands. We employ two independent foreground-removal techniques in order to explore the sensitivity of the cosmological result to the assumptions made by each. The primary method uses a dust template derived from Planck data to subtract the Galactic dust signal. A second approach, employing a joint analysis of SPIDER and Planck data in the harmonic domain, assumes a modified-blackbody model for the spectral energy distribution of the dust with no constraint on its spatial morphology. Using a likelihood that jointly samples the template amplitude and $r$ parameter space, we derive 95% upper limits on the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio from Feldman-Cousins and Bayesian constructions, finding $r
29 pages, 13 figures
Databáze: OpenAIRE