Improved Upper Limit on Degree-scale CMB B-mode Polarization Power from the 670 Square-degree POLARBEAR Survey
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Published:2022-05-27
Issue:2
Volume:931
Page:101
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ISSN:0004-637X
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Container-title:The Astrophysical Journal
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language:
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Short-container-title:ApJ
Author:
Adachi S.ORCID, Adkins T.ORCID, Aguilar Faúndez M. A. O.ORCID, Arnold K. S.ORCID, Baccigalupi C.ORCID, Barron D.ORCID, Chapman S.ORCID, Cheung K.ORCID, Chinone Y.ORCID, Crowley K. T.ORCID, Elleflot T.ORCID, Errard J.ORCID, Fabbian G.ORCID, Feng C.ORCID, Fujino T.ORCID, Galitzki N.ORCID, Halverson N. W.ORCID, Hasegawa M.ORCID, Hazumi M.ORCID, Hirose H., Howe L.ORCID, Ito J., Jeong O.ORCID, Kaneko D.ORCID, Katayama N., Keating B.ORCID, Kisner T.ORCID, Krachmalnicoff N.ORCID, Kusaka A., Lee A. T.ORCID, Linder E.ORCID, Lonappan A. I.ORCID, Lowry L. N., Matsuda F.ORCID, Matsumura T.ORCID, Minami Y.ORCID, Murata M.ORCID, Nishino H.ORCID, Nishinomiya Y.ORCID, Poletti D.ORCID, Reichardt C. L.ORCID, Ross C., Segawa Y., Siritanasak P.ORCID, Stompor R.ORCID, Suzuki A.ORCID, Tajima O., Takakura S.ORCID, Takatori S., Tanabe D., Teply G., Yamada K.ORCID, Zhou Y.ORCID
Abstract
Abstract
We report an improved measurement of the degree-scale cosmic microwave background B-mode angular-power spectrum over 670 deg2 sky area at 150 GHz with Polarbear. In the original analysis of the data, errors in the angle measurement of the continuously rotating half-wave plate, a polarization modulator, caused significant data loss. By introducing an angle-correction algorithm, the data volume is increased by a factor of 1.8. We report a new analysis using the larger data set. We find the measured B-mode spectrum is consistent with the ΛCDM model with Galactic dust foregrounds. We estimate the contamination of the foreground by cross-correlating our data and Planck 143, 217, and 353 GHz measurements, where its spectrum is modeled as a power law in angular scale and a modified blackbody in frequency. We place an upper limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r < 0.33 at 95% confidence level after marginalizing over the foreground parameters.
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cited by
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