The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a measurement of the 600 < ℓ < 8000 cosmic microwave background power spectrum at 148 GHz

Fowler, J. W., Acquaviva, V., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Aguirre, P., Amiri, M., Appel, J. W., Barrientos, L. F., Battistelli, E. S., Bond, J. R., Brown, B., Burger, B., Chervenak, J., Das, S., Devlin, M. J., Dicker, S. R., Doriese, W. B., Dunkley, J., Dunner, R., Essinger-Hileman, T., Fisher, R. P., Hajian, A., Halpern, M., Hasselfield, M., Hernandez-Monteagudo, C., Hilton, G. C., Hilton, M., Hincks, A. D., Hlozek, R., Huffenberger, K. M., Hughes, D. H., Hughes, J. P., Infante, L., Irwin, K. D., Jimenez, R., Juin, J. B., Kaul, M., Klein, J., Kosowsky, A., Lau, J. M., Limon, M., Lin, Y. -T., Lupton, R. H., Marriage, T. A., Marsden, D., Martocci, K., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, Menanteau, F., Moodley, K., Moseley, H., Netterfield, C. B., Niemack, M. D., Nolta, M. R., Page, L. A., Parker, L., Partridge, B., Quintana, H., Reid, B., Sehgal, N., Sievers, J., Spergel, D. N., Staggs, S. T., Swetz, D. S., Switzer, E. R., Thornton, R., Trac, H., Tucker, Carole Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Verde, L., Warne, R., Wilson, G., Wollack, E. and Zhao, Y. 2010. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a measurement of the 600 < ℓ < 8000 cosmic microwave background power spectrum at 148 GHz. Astrophysical Journal 722 (2) , pp. 1148-1161. 10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1148

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Abstract

We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observed at 148 GHz. The measurement uses maps with 14 angular resolution made with data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The observations cover 228 deg2 of the southern sky, in a 42 wide strip centered on declination 53° south. The CMB at arcminute angular scales is particularly sensitive to the Silk damping scale, to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from galaxy clusters, and to emission by radio sources and dusty galaxies. After masking the 108 brightest point sources in our maps, we estimate the power spectrum between 600 < ℓ < 8000 using the adaptive multi-taper method to minimize spectral leakage and maximize use of the full data set. Our absolute calibration is based on observations of Uranus. To verify the calibration and test the fidelity of our map at large angular scales, we cross-correlate the ACT map to the WMAP map and recover the WMAP power spectrum from 250 < ℓ < 1150. The power beyond the Silk damping tail of the CMB (ℓ ~ 5000) is consistent with models of the emission from point sources. We quantify the contribution of SZ clusters to the power spectrum by fitting to a model normalized to σ8 = 0.8. We constrain the model's amplitude A SZ < 1.63 (95% CL). If interpreted as a measurement of σ8, this implies σSZ 8 < 0.86 (95% CL) given our SZ model. A fit of ACT and WMAP five-year data jointly to a six-parameter ΛCDM model plus point sources and the SZ effect is consistent with these results.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords:	cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations
Publisher:	American Astronomical Society
ISSN:	0004-637X
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 14:22
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/17264

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