Brown, M.L., Ade, P.A.R., Bock, J.J., Bowden, M., Cahill, G., Castro, P.G., Church, S., Culverhouse, T., Friedman, R.B., Ganga, K., Gear, W.K., Gupta, S., Hinderks, J., Kovac, J., Lange, A.E., Leitch, E., Melhuish, S.J., Memari, Y., Murphy, J.Anthony, Orlando, A., O'Sullivan, Créidhe, Piccirillo, L., Pryke, C., Rajguru, N., Rusholme, B., Schwarz, R., Taylor, A.N., Thompson, K.L., Turner, A.H., Wu, E.Y.S. and Zemcov, M. (2009) Improved Measurements of the Temperature and Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from QUaD. The Astrophysical Journal, 705 (1). pp. 978-999. ISSN 0004-637X
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Abstract
We present an improved analysis of the final data set from the QUaD experiment. Using an improved technique
to remove ground contamination, we double the effective sky area and hence increase the precision of our cosmic
microwave background (CMB) power spectrummeasurements by∼30%versus that previously reported. In addition,
we have improved our modeling of the instrument beams and have reduced our absolute calibration uncertainty from
5% to 3.5% in temperature. The robustness of our results is confirmed through extensive jackknife tests, and by way
of the agreement that we find between our two fully independent analysis pipelines. For the standard six-parameter
ΛCDM model, the addition of QUaD data marginally improves the constraints on a number of cosmological
parameters over those obtained from the WMAP experiment alone. The impact of QUaD data is significantly greater
for a model extended to include either a running in the scalar spectral index, or a possible tensor component, or both.
Adding both the QUaD data and the results from the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver experiment,
the uncertainty in the spectral index running is reduced by∼25% compared toWMAPalone, while the upper limit on
the tensor-to-scalar ratio is reduced fromr < 0.48 tor < 0.33 (95% c.l.). This is the strongest limit on tensors to date
from the CMBalone.We also use our polarizationmeasurements to place constraints on parity-violating interactions
to the surface of last scattering, constraining the energy scale of Lorentz violating interactions to< 1.5×10−43 GeV
(68% c.l.). Finally, we place a robust upper limit on the strength of the lensing B-mode signal. Assuming a single flat
band power between = 200 and = 2000, we constrain the amplitude of B-modes to be < 0.57μK2 (95% c.l.).
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | cosmic microwave background; cosmological parameters; cosmology observations; polarization; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Experimental Physics |
Item ID: | 2094 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Anthony Murphy |
Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2010 16:04 |
Journal or Publication Title: | The Astrophysical Journal |
Publisher: | American Astronomical Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
Related URLs: | |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/2094 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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