The Latest Constraints on Inflationary B-modes from the BICEP/Keck Telescopes

• Main Authors: Ade, P.A.R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Barkats, D., Thakur, R. Basu, Beck, D., Bischoff, C., Bock, J.J., Boenish, H., Bullock, E., Buza, V., Cheshire, 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, Y., Namikawa, T., Nguyen, H.T., O'Brient, R., Ogburn, 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., Germaine, T. St, Steinbach, B., Sudiwala, R.V., Teply, G.P., Thompson, K.L., Tolan, J.E., Tucker, C., 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., Zhang, S.
• Other Authors: Département des Systèmes Basses Températures (DSBT ), Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), BICEP/Keck
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: cosmic background radiation: polarization; gravitational radiation: primordial; cosmological model: dust; beam: polarization; BICEP; synchrotron; noise; satellite: Planck; B-mode; pole; thermal; galaxy; WMAP; inflation; cosmological model: parameter space; statistical analysis: confidence limit; [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; South Pole; Lambda; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; South pole
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03632701

International audience 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...