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Title: SMALL ANGULAR SCALE MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE POWER SPECTRUM FROM QUaD

Abstract

We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation temperature anisotropy in the multipole range 2000 < l < 3000 from the QUaD telescope's second and third observing seasons. After masking the brightest point sources our results are consistent with the primary {lambda}CDM expectation alone. We estimate the contribution of residual (un-masked) radio point sources using a model calibrated to our own bright source observations, and a full simulation of the source finding and masking procedure. Including this contribution slightly improves the {chi}{sup 2}. We also fit a standard Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) template to the bandpowers and see no strong evidence of an SZ contribution, which is as expected for {sigma}{sub 8} {approx} 0.8.

Authors:
;  [1]; ; ; ; ;  [2]; ;  [3];  [4]; ;  [5]; ;  [6]; ;  [7];  [8]; ;  [9];  [10]
  1. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 (United States)
  2. School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA (United Kingdom)
  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 (United States)
  4. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OHE (United Kingdom)
  5. Department of Experimental Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Republic of Ireland (Ireland)
  6. Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ (United Kingdom)
  7. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 (United States)
  8. APC/Universite Paris 7-Denis Diderot/CNRS, Batiment Condorcet, 10, rue Alice Domon et Leonie Duquet, 75205 Paris, Cedex 13 (France)
  9. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
  10. Current address: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. (United Kingdom)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
21313723
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 700; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/L187; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; ANISOTROPY; COSMOLOGY; POINT SOURCES; RELICT RADIATION; SIMULATION; SPECTRA; TELESCOPES

Citation Formats

Friedman, R B, Culverhouse, T, Ade, P, Bowden, M, Gear, W K, Gupta, S, Orlando, A, Bock, J, Leitch, E, Brown, M L, Cahill, G, Murphy, J A, Castro, P G, Memari, Y, Church, S, Hinderks, J, Ganga, K, Kovac, J, Lange, A E, and Melhuish, S J. SMALL ANGULAR SCALE MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE POWER SPECTRUM FROM QUaD. United States: N. p., 2009. Web. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/L187; COUNTRY OF INPUT: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA).
Friedman, R B, Culverhouse, T, Ade, P, Bowden, M, Gear, W K, Gupta, S, Orlando, A, Bock, J, Leitch, E, Brown, M L, Cahill, G, Murphy, J A, Castro, P G, Memari, Y, Church, S, Hinderks, J, Ganga, K, Kovac, J, Lange, A E, & Melhuish, S J. SMALL ANGULAR SCALE MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE POWER SPECTRUM FROM QUaD. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/L187; COUNTRY OF INPUT: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA)
Friedman, R B, Culverhouse, T, Ade, P, Bowden, M, Gear, W K, Gupta, S, Orlando, A, Bock, J, Leitch, E, Brown, M L, Cahill, G, Murphy, J A, Castro, P G, Memari, Y, Church, S, Hinderks, J, Ganga, K, Kovac, J, Lange, A E, and Melhuish, S J. 2009. "SMALL ANGULAR SCALE MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE POWER SPECTRUM FROM QUaD". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/L187; COUNTRY OF INPUT: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA).
@article{osti_21313723,
title = {SMALL ANGULAR SCALE MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE POWER SPECTRUM FROM QUaD},
author = {Friedman, R B and Culverhouse, T and Ade, P and Bowden, M and Gear, W K and Gupta, S and Orlando, A and Bock, J and Leitch, E and Brown, M L and Cahill, G and Murphy, J A and Castro, P G and Memari, Y and Church, S and Hinderks, J and Ganga, K and Kovac, J and Lange, A E and Melhuish, S J},
abstractNote = {We present measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation temperature anisotropy in the multipole range 2000 < l < 3000 from the QUaD telescope's second and third observing seasons. After masking the brightest point sources our results are consistent with the primary {lambda}CDM expectation alone. We estimate the contribution of residual (un-masked) radio point sources using a model calibrated to our own bright source observations, and a full simulation of the source finding and masking procedure. Including this contribution slightly improves the {chi}{sup 2}. We also fit a standard Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) template to the bandpowers and see no strong evidence of an SZ contribution, which is as expected for {sigma}{sub 8} {approx} 0.8.},
doi = {10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/L187; COUNTRY OF INPUT: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA)},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/21313723}, journal = {Astrophysical Journal (Online)},
issn = {1538-4357},
number = 2,
volume = 700,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009},
month = {Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009}
}