Measurements of the E-mode polarization and temperature-E-mode correlation of the CMB from SPT-3G 2018 data

• Published in: Physical Review D
• Main Authors: Dutcher, D., Balkenhol, L., Ade, P.A.R., Ahmed, Z., Anderes, E., Anderson, A.J., Archipley, M., Avva, J.S., Aylor, K., Barry, P.S., Thakur, R. Basu, Benabed, K., Bender, A.N., Benson, B.A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L.E., Bouchet, F.R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J.E., Carter, F.W., Cecil, T.W., Chang, C.L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Cho, H.-M., Chou, T.-L., Cliche, J.-F., Crawford, T.M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Denison, E.V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M.A., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K.R., Foster, A., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gambrel, A.E., Gardner, R.W., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., Halverson, N.W., Harke-Hosemann, A.H., Harrington, N.L., Henning, J.W., Hilton, G.C., Hivon, E., Holder, G.P., Holzapfel, W.L., Hood, J.C., Howe, D., Huang, N., Irwin, K.D., Jeong, O.B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T.S., Knox, L., Kofman, A.M., Korman, M., Kubik, D.L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C.-L., Lee, A.T., Leitch, E.M., Lowitz, A.E., Lu, C., Meyer, S.S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Noble, G.I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Pearson, J., Posada, C.M., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Raghunathan, S., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C.L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J.E., Sayre, J.T., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J.A., Stark, A.A., Stephen, J., Story, K.T., Suzuki, A., Thompson, K.L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L.R., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J.D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W.L.K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K.W., Young, M.R.
• Other Authors: Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), SPT-3G
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: cosmological model: parameter space; polarization: power spectrum; cosmic background radiation: spectrum; gravitation: lens; dimension: 6; cosmic background radiation: multipole; satellite: Planck; correlation; pole; [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03122245; https://hal.science/hal-03122245/document; https://hal.science/hal-03122245/file/PhysRevD.104.022003.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022003

International audience We present measurements of the E -mode ( E E ) polarization power spectrum and temperature- E -mode ( T E ) cross-power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background using data collected by SPT-3G, the latest instrument installed on the South Pole Telescope. This analysis uses observations of a 1500 deg 2 region at 95, 150, and 220 GHz taken over a four-month period in 2018. We report binned values of the E E and T E power spectra over the angular multipole range 300 ≤ ℓ < 3000 , using the multifrequency data to construct six semi-independent estimates of each power spectrum and their minimum-variance combination. These measurements improve upon the previous results of SPTpol across the multipole ranges 300 ≤ ℓ ≤ 1400 for E E and 300 ≤ ℓ ≤ 1700 for T E , resulting in constraints on cosmological parameters comparable to those from other current leading ground-based experiments. We find that the SPT-3G data set is well fit by a Λ CDM cosmological model with parameter constraints consistent with those from Planck and SPTpol data. From SPT-3G data alone, we find H 0 = 68.8 ± 1.5 km s − 1 Mpc − 1 and σ 8 = 0.789 ± 0.016 , with a gravitational lensing amplitude consistent with the Λ CDM prediction ( A L = 0.98 ± 0.12 ). We combine the SPT-3G and the Planck data sets and obtain joint constraints on the Λ CDM model. The volume of the 68% confidence region in six-dimensional Λ CDM parameter space is reduced by a factor of 1.5 compared to Planck-only constraints, with no significant shifts in central values. We note that the results presented here are obtained from data collected during just half of a typical observing season with only part of the focal plane operable, and that the active detector count has since nearly doubled for observations made with SPT-3G after 2018.