Joint analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck data

Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Aghanim, N., Ahmed, Z., Aikin, R.W., Alexander, K.D., Arnaud, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A.J., Barkats, D., Barreiro, R.B., Bartlett, J.G., Bartolo, N., Battaner, E., Benabed, K., Benoît, A., Benoit-Lévy, A., Benton, S.J., Bernard, J.-P., Bersanelli, M., Bielewicz, P., Bischoff, C.A., Bock, J.J., Bonaldi, A., Bonavera, L., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F.R., Boulanger, F., Brevik, J.A., Bucher, M., Buder, I., Bullock, E., Burigana, C., Butler, R.C., Buza, V., Calabrese, Erminia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0837-0068, Cardoso, J.-F., Catalano, A., Challinor, A., Chary, R.-R., Chiang, H.C., Christensen, P.?R., Colombo, L.P.L., Combet, C., Connors, J., Couchot, F., Coulais, A., Crill, B.P., Curto, A., Cuttaia, F., Danese, L., Davies, R.D., Davis, R., de Bernardis, P., de Rosa, A., de Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Delouis, J.-M., Désert, F.-X., Dickinson, C., Diego, J.M., Dole, H., Donzelli, S., Doré, O., Douspis, M., Dowell, C.D., Duband, L., Ducout, A., Dunkley, J., Dupac, X., Dvorkin, C., Efstathiou, G., Elsner, F., Enßlin, T.A., Eriksen, H.K., Falgarone, E., Filippini, J.P., Finelli, F., Fliescher, S., Forni, O., Frailis, M., Fraisse, A.A., Franceschi, E., Frejsel, A., Galeotta, S., Galli, S., Ganga, K., Ghosh, T., Giard, M., Gjerløw, E., Golwala, S.R., González-Nuevo, J., Górski, K.M., Gratton, S., Gregorio, A., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J.E., Halpern, M., Hansen, F.K., Hanson, D., Harrison, D.L., Hasselfield, M., Helou, G., Henrot-Versillé, S., Herranz, D., Hildebrandt, S.R., Hilton, G.C., Hivon, E., Hobson, M., Holmes, W.A., Hovest, W., Hristov, V.V., Huffenberger, K.M., Hui, H., Hurier, G., Irwin, K.D., Jaffe, A.H., Jaffe, T.R., Jewell, J., Jones, W.C., Juvela, M., Karakci, A., Karkare, K.S., Kaufman, J.P., Keating, B.G., Kefeli, S., Keihänen, E., Kernasovskiy, S.A., Keskitalo, R., Kisner, T.S., Kneissl, R., Knoche, J., Knox, L., Kovac, J.M., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kunz, M., Kuo, C.L., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lagache, G., Lähteenmäki, A., Lamarre, J.-M., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lawrence, C.R., Leitch, E.M., Leonardi, R., Levrier, F., Lewis, A., Liguori, M., Lilje, P.B., Linden-Vørnle, M., López-Caniego, M., Lubin, P.M., Lueker, M., Macías-Pérez, J.F., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Mandolesi, N., Mangilli, A., Maris, M., Martin, P.G., Martínez-González, E., Masi, S., Mason, P., Matarrese, S., Megerian, K.G., Meinhold, P.R., Melchiorri, A., Mendes, L., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Mitra, S., Miville-Deschênes, M.-A., Moneti, A., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mortlock, D., Moss, A., Munshi, D., Murphy, J.A., Naselsky, P., Nati, F., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C.B., Nguyen, H.T., Nørgaard-Nielsen, H.U., Noviello, F., Novikov, D., Novikov, I., O?Brient, R., Ogburn, R.W., Orlando, A., Pagano, L., Pajot, F., Paladini, R., Paoletti, D., Partridge, B., Pasian, F., Patanchon, G., Pearson, T.J., Perdereau, O., Perotto, L., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Piat, M., Pietrobon, D., Plaszczynski, S., Pointecouteau, E., Polenta, G., Ponthieu, N., Pratt, G.W., Prunet, S., Pryke, C., Puget, J.-L., Rachen, J.P., Reach, W.T., Rebolo, R., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Renault, C., Renzi, A., Richter, S., Ristorcelli, I., Rocha, G., Rossetti, M., Roudier, G., Rowan-Robinson, M., Rubiño-Martín, J.A., Rusholme, B., Sandri, M., Santos, D., Savelainen, M., Savini, G., Schwarz, R., Scott, D., Seiffert, M.D., Sheehy, C.D., Spencer, L.D., Staniszewski, Z.K., Stolyarov, V., Sudiwala, Rashmikant ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3240-5304, Sunyaev, R., Sutton, D., Suur-Uski, A.-S., Sygnet, J.-F., Tauber, J.A., Teply, G.P., Terenzi, L., Thompson, K.L., Toffolatti, L., Tolan, J.E., Tomasi, M., Tristram, M., Tucci, M., Turner, A.D., Valenziano, L., Valiviita, J., Van Tent, B., Vibert, L., Vielva, P., Vieregg, A.G., Villa, F., Wade, L.A., Wandelt, B.D., Watson, R., Weber, A.C., Wehus, I.K., White, M., White, S.D.M., Willmert, J., Wong, C.L., Yoon, K.W., Yvon, D., Zacchei, A. and Zonca, A. 2015. Joint analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck data. Physical Review Letters 114 (10) , 101301. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.101301

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Abstract

We report the results of a joint analysis of data from BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck. BICEP2 and Keck Array have observed the same approximately 400  deg2 patch of sky centered on RA 0 h, Dec. −57.5°. The combined maps reach a depth of 57 nK deg in Stokes Q and U in a band centered at 150 GHz. Planck has observed the full sky in polarization at seven frequencies from 30 to 353 GHz, but much less deeply in any given region (1.2  μK deg in Q and U at 143 GHz). We detect 150×353 cross-correlation in B modes at high significance. We fit the single- and cross-frequency power spectra at frequencies ≥150  GHz to a lensed-ΛCDM model that includes dust and a possible contribution from inflationary gravitational waves (as parametrized by the tensor-to-scalar ratio r), using a prior on the frequency spectral behavior of polarized dust emission from previous Planck analysis of other regions of the sky. We find strong evidence for dust and no statistically significant evidence for tensor modes. We probe various model variations and extensions, including adding a synchrotron component in combination with lower frequency data, and find that these make little difference to the r constraint. Finally, we present an alternative analysis which is similar to a map-based cleaning of the dust contribution, and show that this gives similar constraints. The final result is expressed as a likelihood curve for r, and yields an upper limit r0.05<0.12 at 95% confidence. Marginalizing over dust and r, lensing B modes are detected at 7.0σ significance.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	0031-9007
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 September 2017
Date of Acceptance:	21 January 2015
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 09:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89766

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