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The latest constraints on inflationary B-modes from the BICEP/Keck telescopes

Ade, P.A.R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Ahmed, Z, Amiri, M, Barkats, D, Basu Thakur, R, Beck, D, Bischoff, C, Bock, J.J, Boenish, H, Bullock, E, Buza, V, Cheshire IV, J.R, Connors, J, Cornelison, J, Crumrine, M, Cukierman, A, Denison, E.V, Dierickx, M, Duband, L, Eiben, M, Fatigoni, S, Filippini, J.P, Fliescher, S, Giannakopoulos, C, Goeckner-Wald, N, Goldfinger, D.C, Grayson, J, Grimes, P, Halal, G, Hall, G, Halpern, M, Hand, E, Harrison, S, Henderson, S, Hildebrandt, S.R, Hilton, G.C, Hubmayr, J, Hui, H, Irwin, K.D, Kang, J, Karkare, K.S, Karpel, E, Kefeli, S, Kernasovskiy, S.A, Kovac, J.M, Kuo, C.L, Lau, K, Leitch, E.M, Lennox, A, Megerian, K.G, Minutolo, L, Moncelsi, L, Nakato, K, Namikawa, T, Nguyen, H.T, O'Brient, R, Ogburn IV, R.W, Palladino, S, Petroff, M, Prouve, T, Pryke, C, Racine, B, Reintsema, C.D., Richter, S, Schillaci, A, Schmitt, B.L, Schwarz, R, Sheehy, C.D, Singari, B, Soliman, A, St Germaine, T, Steinbach, B, Sudiwala, R.V, Teply, G.P, ThompsoN, K.L, Tolan, J.E, Tucker, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Turner, A, Umilta, C, Verges, C, Vieregg, A.G, Wandui, A, Weber, A.C, Wiebe, D.V, Willmert, J, Wong, C.L, Wu, W.L.K, Yang, H, Yoon, K.W, Young, E, Yu, C, Zeng, L, Zhang, C and Zhang, S 2022. The latest constraints on inflationary B-modes from the BICEP/Keck telescopes. [Online]. Cornell University. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16556

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Abstract

For the past decade, the BICEP/Keck collaboration has been operating a series of telescopes at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station measuring degree-scale $B$-mode polarization imprinted in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by primordial gravitational waves (PGWs). These telescopes are compact refracting polarimeters mapping about 2% of the sky, observing at a broad range of frequencies to account for the polarized foreground from Galactic synchrotron and thermal dust emission. Our latest publication "BK18" utilizes the data collected up to the 2018 observing season, in conjunction with the publicly available WMAP and Planck data, to constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. It particularly includes (1) the 3-year BICEP3 data which is the current deepest CMB polarization map at the foreground-minimum 95 GHz; and (2) the Keck 220 GHz map with a higher signal-to-noise ratio on the dust foreground than the Planck 353 GHz map. We fit the auto- and cross-spectra of these maps to a multicomponent likelihood model ($\Lambda$CDM+dust+synchrotron+noise+$r$) and find it to be an adequate description of the data at the current noise level. The likelihood analysis yields $\sigma(r)=0.009$. The inference of $r$ from our baseline model is tightened to $r_{0.05}=0.014^{+0.010}_{-0.011}$ and $r_{0.05}<0.036$ at 95% confidence, meaning that the BICEP/Keck $B$-mode data is the most powerful existing dataset for the constraint of PGWs. The up-coming BICEP Array telescope is projected to reach $\sigma(r) \lesssim 0.003$ using data up to 2027....

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Date Type: Submission
Status: Submitted
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: Cornell University
Last Modified: 31 Mar 2023 13:07
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156699

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