DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves Using P l a n c k , WMAP, and New BICEP2/ K e c k Observations through the 2015 Season

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters

Here, we present results from an analysis of all data taken by the bicep2/Keck CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season. This includes the first Keck Array observations at 220 GHz and additional observations at 95 and 150 GHz.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
Contributing Organization:
Keck Array and bicep2 Collaborations; Keck Array and bicep2 Collaborations
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1487242
Report Number(s):
BNL--209746-2018-JAAM
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 22 Vol. 121; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (72)

Planck intermediate results: VI. The dynamical structure of PLCKG214.6+37.0, a Planck discovered triple system of galaxy clusters journal February 2013
Planck intermediate results : X. Physics of the hot gas in the Coma cluster journal June 2013
Planck 2013 results. IX. HFI spectral response journal October 2014
Planck intermediate results: XVII. Emission of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium from the far-infrared to microwave frequencies⋆ journal June 2014
Planck intermediate results. XXII. Frequency dependence of thermal emission from Galactic dust in intensity and polarization journal April 2015
Planck intermediate results : XXIV. Constraints on variations in fundamental constants⋆ journal July 2015
Planck intermediate results : XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes journal February 2016
Planck 2015 results : VI. LFI mapmaking journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : II. Low Frequency Instrument data processings journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : XIII. Cosmological parameters journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : VII. High Frequency Instrument data processing: Time-ordered information and beams journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : XV. Gravitational lensing journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : XVI. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : XXVI. The Second journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : XI. CMB power spectra, likelihoods, and robustness of parameters journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : I. Overview of products and scientific results journal September 2016
Planck 2015 results : XXIII. The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect-cosmic infrared background correlation journal September 2016
Planck intermediate results : XL. The Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from the Virgo cluster journal December 2016
Planck intermediate results : XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth journal December 2016
Planck intermediate results : L. Evidence of spatial variation of the polarized thermal dust spectral energy distribution and implications for CMB journal February 2017
Statistical simulations of the dust foreground to cosmic microwave background polarization journal July 2017
Planck intermediate results: LIII. Detection of velocity dispersion from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect journal September 2018
Prospects for polarized foreground removal
  • Dunkley, J.; Amblard, A.; Baccigalupi, C.
  • CMB POLARIZATION WORKSHOP: THEORY AND FOREGROUNDS: CMBPol Mission Concept Study, AIP Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3160888
conference January 2009
A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s. journal July 1965
Measuring Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background journal June 1997
Extrapolation of Galactic Dust Emission at 100 Microns to Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Frequencies Using FIRAS journal October 1999
A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Microwave Background Using South pole Telescope data journal August 2012
SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN THE SPECTRAL INDEX OF POLARIZED SYNCHROTRON EMISSION IN THE 9 yr WMAP SKY MAPS journal July 2014
BICEP2. II. Experiment And Three-Year Data Set journal August 2014
MEASUREMENTS OF SUB-DEGREE B -MODE POLARIZATION IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND FROM 100 SQUARE DEGREES OF SPTPOL DATA journal July 2015
BICEP2/KECK ARRAY V: MEASUREMENTS OF B -MODE POLARIZATION AT DEGREE ANGULAR SCALES AND 150 GHz BY THE KECK ARRAY journal September 2015
ANTENNA-COUPLED TES BOLOMETERS USED IN BICEP2, Keck Array , AND SPIDER journal October 2015
NINE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE ( WMAP ) OBSERVATIONS: FINAL MAPS AND RESULTS journal September 2013
The structure and statistics of interstellar turbulence journal June 2017
Polarized galactic synchrotron and dust emission and their correlation journal December 2015
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: two-season ACTPol spectra and parameters journal June 2017
Results from the Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) experiment journal September 2018
The Python Sky Model: software for simulating the Galactic microwave sky journal May 2017
Gravitational lensing effect on cosmic microwave background polarization journal June 1998
Cosmological parameters from CMB and other data: A Monte Carlo approach journal November 2002
Likelihood analysis of CMB temperature and polarization power spectra journal May 2008
No evidence for dust B -mode decorrelation in Planck data journal February 2018
Detection of B -Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2 journal June 2014
Joint Analysis of BICEP2/ Keck Array and Planck Data journal March 2015
Improved Constraints on Cosmology and Foregrounds from BICEP2 and Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Data with Inclusion of 95 GHz Band journal January 2016
Signature of Gravity Waves in the Polarization of the Microwave Background journal March 1997
A Probe of Primordial Gravity Waves and Vorticity journal March 1997
The Quest for B Modes from Inflationary Gravitational Waves journal September 2016
BICEP2/KECK ARRAY. VII. MATRIX BASED E/B SEPARATION APPLIED TO BICEP2 AND THE KECK ARRAY journal June 2016
Bicep2/ KECK ARRAY VIII: MEASUREMENT OF GRAVITATIONAL LENSING FROM LARGE-SCALE B -MODE POLARIZATION journal December 2016
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B -mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Subdegree Scales from Two Years of polarbear Data journal October 2017
Likelihood Analysis of CMB Temperature and Polarization Power Spectra text January 2008
Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes text January 2014
A Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck Data text January 2015
Antenna-coupled TES bolometers used in BICEP2, Keck array, and SPIDER text January 2015
Planck 2015 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results text January 2015
Planck 2015 results. X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps text January 2015
Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters text January 2015
Planck 2015 results. XV. Gravitational lensing text January 2015
Measurements of Sub-degree B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data text January 2015
Polarized galactic synchrotron and dust emission and their correlation text January 2015
The Quest for B Modes from Inflationary Gravitational Waves text January 2015
BICEP2 / Keck Array VII: Matrix based E/B Separation applied to BICEP2 and the Keck Array text January 2016
Planck intermediate results. XLVI. Reduction of large-scale systematic effects in HFI polarization maps and estimation of the reionization optical depth text January 2016
Planck intermediate results. L. Evidence for spatial variation of the polarized thermal dust spectral energy distribution and implications for CMB $B$-mode analysis text January 2016
The Python Sky Model: software for simulating the Galactic microwave sky text January 2016
The structure and statistics of interstellar turbulence text January 2017
No evidence for dust B-mode decorrelation in Planck data text January 2017
Cosmological parameters from CMB and other data: a Monte-Carlo approach text January 2002
A Probe of Primordial Gravity Waves and Vorticity text January 1996
Gravitational Lensing Effect on Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization text January 1998

Cited By (46)

Performance of Al–Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G journal November 2019
Optical Design and Characterization of 40-GHz Detector and Module for the BICEP Array journal February 2020
TES Bolometer Arrays for the QUBIC B-Mode CMB Experiment journal January 2020
QUBIC: The Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology journal February 2020
Design and Performance of the First BICEP Array Receiver journal February 2020
Inflation model selection revisited journal July 2019
Measuring the tilt of primordial gravitational-wave power spectrum from observations journal September 2019
Constraints on H 0 from WMAP and BAO Measurements journal July 2019
Echoes from the scattering of wavepackets on wormholes journal June 2019
Minimal gauge inflation and the refined Swampland conjecture journal January 2019
Towards distinguishing variants of non-minimal inflation journal April 2019
Resonant multiple peaks in the induced gravitational waves journal May 2019
Implications of the detection of primordial gravitational waves for the Standard Model journal May 2019
Constraints on scalar and tensor spectra from N eff journal June 2019
Ability of LIGO and LISA to probe the equation of state of the early Universe journal August 2019
Axion dark matter from Higgs inflation with an intermediate H * journal August 2019
Dynamical analysis of attractor behavior in constant roll inflation journal September 2019
Delensing degree-scale B -mode polarization with high-redshift line intensity mapping journal August 2019
Standard model Higgs field and hidden sector cosmology journal October 2019
Cosmological constraints on post-Newtonian parameters in effectively massless scalar-tensor theories of gravity journal November 2019
CMB targets after the latest Planck data release journal December 2019
Primordial black hole formation in inflationary α -attractor models journal January 2020
Optimal constraints on primordial gravitational waves from the lensed CMB journal February 2019
Superhorizon curvature perturbation in ultraslow-roll inflation journal March 2019
Minimal Higgs inflation with an R 2 term in Palatini gravity journal March 2019
Primordial gravitational waves in Horndeski gravity journal April 2019
Paper-boat relaxion journal May 2019
Chiral Photons from Chiral Gravitational Waves journal July 2019
$$\alpha $$α-attractor from superconformal E-models in brane inflation journal January 2020
Gauss–Bonnet Inflation and the String Swampland journal September 2019
On the Constant-Roll Inflation with Large and Small ηH journal October 2019
On-sky Performance of the CLASS Q -band Telescope journal May 2019
Accounting for Correlations When Fitting Extra Cosmological Parameters journal September 2019
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg 2 of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data journal October 2019
An Imprint of the Galactic Magnetic Field in the Diffuse Unpolarized Dust Emission journal December 2019
Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A Measurement of Circular Polarization at 40 GHz journal January 2020
Resonant multiple peaks in the induced gravitational waves text January 2019
Dynamical Analysis of Attractor Behavior in Constant Roll Inflation text January 2019
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data text January 2019
Cosmological constraints on post-Newtonian parameters in effectively massless scalar-tensor theories of gravity text January 2019
Performance of Al-Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G text January 2019
Delensing Degree-Scale $B$-Mode Polarization with High-Redshift Line Intensity Mapping text January 2019
CMB targets after the latest Planck data release text January 2019
Primordial black hole formation in inflationary $α$-attractor models text January 2019
Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A Measurement of Circular Polarization at 40 GHz text January 2019
Optical Design and Characterization of 40-GHz Detector and Module for the BICEP Array text January 2020

Similar Records

bicep2/KECK ARRAY. IV. OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE OF THE bicep2 AND KECK ARRAY EXPERIMENTS
Journal Article · Sat Jun 20 04:00:00 UTC 2015 · Astrophysical Journal · OSTI ID:22522269

bicep2/ KECK ARRAY . IV. OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE OF THE bicep2 AND KECK ARRAY EXPERIMENTS
Journal Article · Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 UTC 2015 · The Astrophysical Journal (Online) · OSTI ID:1342497

Toward an understanding of foreground emission in the BICEP2 region
Journal Article · Fri Aug 01 04:00:00 UTC 2014 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · OSTI ID:22373392