The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data

Jonathan L. Sievers; Renée A. Hlozek; Michael R. Nolta; Viviana Acquaviva; Graeme E. Addison; Peter A.R. Ade; Paula Aguirre; Mandana Amiri; John William Appel; L. Felipe Barrientos; Elia S. Battistelli; Nick Battaglia; J. Richard Bond; Ben Brown; Bryce Burger; Erminia Calabrese; Jay Chervenak; Devin Crichton; Sudeep Das; Mark J. Devlin; Simon R. Dicker; W. Bertrand Doriese; Joanna Dunkley; Rolando Dünner; Thomas Essinger-Hileman; David Faber; Ryan P. Fisher; Joseph W. Fowler; Patricio Gallardo; Michael S. Gordon; Megan B. Gralla; Amir Hajian; Mark Halpern; Matthew Hasselfield; Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo; J. Colin Hill; Gene C. Hilton; Matt Hilton; Adam D. Hincks; Dave Holtz; Kevin M. Huffenberger; David H. Hughes; John P. Hughes; Leopoldo Infante; Kent D. Irwin; David R. Jacobson; Brittany Johnstone; Jean Baptiste Juin; Madhuri Kaul; Jeff Klein; Arthur Kosowsky; Judy M. Lau; Michele Limon; Yen Ting Lin; Thibaut Louis; Robert H. Lupton; Tobias A. Marriage; Danica Marsden; Krista Martocci; Phil Mauskopf; Michael McLaren; Felipe Menanteau; Kavilan Moodley; Harvey Moseley; Calvin B. Netterfield; Michael D. Niemack; Lyman A. Page; William A. Page; Lucas Parker; Bruce Partridge; Reed Plimpton; Hernan Quintana; Erik D. Reese; Beth Reid; Felipe Rojas; Neelima Sehgal; Blake D. Sherwin; Benjamin L. Schmitt; David N. Spergel; Suzanne T. Staggs; Omelan Stryzak; Daniel S. Swetz; Eric R. Switzer; Robert Thornton; Hy Trac; Carole Tucker; Masao Uehara; Katerina Visnjic; Ryan Warne; Grant Wilson; Ed Wollack; Yue Zhao; Caroline Zunckel

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2013/10/060

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data

Jonathan L. Sievers
, Renée A. Hlozek
, Michael R. Nolta
, Viviana Acquaviva
, Graeme E. Addison
, Peter A.R. Ade
, Paula Aguirre
, Mandana Amiri
, John William Appel
, L. Felipe Barrientos
, Elia S. Battistelli
, Nick Battaglia
, J. Richard Bond
, Ben Brown
, Bryce Burger
, Erminia Calabrese
, Jay Chervenak
, Devin Crichton
, Sudeep Das
, Mark J. Devlin

Simon R. Dicker, W. Bertrand Doriese, Joanna Dunkley, Rolando Dünner, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, David Faber, Ryan P. Fisher, Joseph W. Fowler, Patricio Gallardo, Michael S. Gordon, Megan B. Gralla, Amir Hajian, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo, J. Colin Hill, Gene C. Hilton, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Dave Holtz, Kevin M. Huffenberger, David H. Hughes, John P. Hughes, Leopoldo Infante, Kent D. Irwin, David R. Jacobson, Brittany Johnstone, Jean Baptiste Juin, Madhuri Kaul, Jeff Klein, Arthur Kosowsky, Judy M. Lau, Michele Limon, Yen Ting Lin, Thibaut Louis, Robert H. Lupton, Tobias A. Marriage, Danica Marsden, Krista Martocci, Phil Mauskopf, Michael McLaren, Felipe Menanteau, Kavilan Moodley, Harvey Moseley, Calvin B. Netterfield, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, William A. Page, Lucas Parker, Bruce Partridge, Reed Plimpton, Hernan Quintana, Erik D. Reese, Beth Reid, Felipe Rojas, Neelima Sehgal, Blake D. Sherwin, Benjamin L. Schmitt, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Omelan Stryzak, Daniel S. Swetz, Eric R. Switzer, Robert Thornton, Hy Trac, Carole Tucker, Masao Uehara, Katerina Visnjic, Ryan Warne, Grant Wilson, Ed Wollack, Yue Zhao, Caroline Zunckel

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We present constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters from high-resolution microwave background maps at 148 GHz and 218 GHz made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in three seasons of observations from 2008 to 2010. A model of primary cosmological and secondary foreground parameters is fit to the map power spectra and lensing deflection power spectrum, including contributions from both the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect and the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect, Poisson and correlated anisotropy from unresolved infrared sources, radio sources, and the correlation between the tSZ effect and infrared sources. The power ℓ²C_ℓ/2π of the thermal SZ power spectrum at 148 GHz is measured to be 3.4±1.4 μK² at ℓ = 3000, while the corresponding amplitude of the kinematic SZ power spectrum has a 95% confidence level upper limit of 8.6 μK². Combining ACT power spectra with the WMAP 7-year temperature and polarization power spectra, we find excellent consistency with the LCDM model. We constrain the number of effective relativistic degrees of freedom in the early universe to be N_eff = 2.79±0.56, in agreement with the canonical value of N_eff = 3.046 for three massless neutrinos. We constrain the sum of the neutrino masses to be Σm_ν < 0.39 eV at 95% confidence when combining ACT and WMAP 7-year data with BAO and Hubble constant measurements. We constrain the amount of primordial helium to be Y_p = 0.225±0.034, and measure no variation in the fine structure constant α since recombination, with α/α₀ = 1.004±0.005. We also find no evidence for any running of the scalar spectral index, dn_s/dln k = -0.004±0.012.

Original language	English
Article number	060
Journal	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume	2013
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/10/060
State	Published - Oct 2013

Keywords

CMBR experiments
cosmological parameters from CMBR
physics of the early universe
Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

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Sievers, J. L., Hlozek, R. A., Nolta, M. R., Acquaviva, V., Addison, G. E., Ade, P. A. R., Aguirre, P., Amiri, M., William Appel, J., Barrientos, L. F., Battistelli, E. S., Battaglia, N., Bond, J. R., Brown, B., Burger, B., Calabrese, E., Chervenak, J., Crichton, D., Das, S., ... Zunckel, C. (2013). The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013(10), Article 060. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/10/060

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TY - JOUR

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T2 - Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data

AU - Sievers, Jonathan L.

AU - Hlozek, Renée A.

AU - Nolta, Michael R.

AU - Acquaviva, Viviana

AU - Addison, Graeme E.

AU - Ade, Peter A.R.

AU - Aguirre, Paula

AU - Amiri, Mandana

AU - William Appel, John

AU - Barrientos, L. Felipe

AU - Battistelli, Elia S.

AU - Battaglia, Nick

AU - Bond, J. Richard

AU - Brown, Ben

AU - Burger, Bryce

AU - Calabrese, Erminia

AU - Chervenak, Jay

AU - Crichton, Devin

AU - Das, Sudeep

AU - Devlin, Mark J.

AU - Dicker, Simon R.

AU - Doriese, W. Bertrand

AU - Dunkley, Joanna

AU - Dünner, Rolando

AU - Essinger-Hileman, Thomas

AU - Faber, David

AU - Fisher, Ryan P.

AU - Fowler, Joseph W.

AU - Gallardo, Patricio

AU - Gordon, Michael S.

AU - Gralla, Megan B.

AU - Hajian, Amir

AU - Halpern, Mark

AU - Hasselfield, Matthew

AU - Hernández-Monteagudo, Carlos

AU - Hill, J. Colin

AU - Hilton, Gene C.

AU - Hilton, Matt

AU - Hincks, Adam D.

AU - Holtz, Dave

AU - Huffenberger, Kevin M.

AU - Hughes, David H.

AU - Hughes, John P.

AU - Infante, Leopoldo

AU - Irwin, Kent D.

AU - Jacobson, David R.

AU - Johnstone, Brittany

AU - Baptiste Juin, Jean

AU - Kaul, Madhuri

AU - Klein, Jeff

AU - Kosowsky, Arthur

AU - Lau, Judy M.

AU - Limon, Michele

AU - Lin, Yen Ting

AU - Louis, Thibaut

AU - Lupton, Robert H.

AU - Marriage, Tobias A.

AU - Marsden, Danica

AU - Martocci, Krista

AU - Mauskopf, Phil

AU - McLaren, Michael

AU - Menanteau, Felipe

AU - Moodley, Kavilan

AU - Moseley, Harvey

AU - Netterfield, Calvin B.

AU - Niemack, Michael D.

AU - Page, Lyman A.

AU - Page, William A.

AU - Parker, Lucas

AU - Partridge, Bruce

AU - Plimpton, Reed

AU - Quintana, Hernan

AU - Reese, Erik D.

AU - Reid, Beth

AU - Rojas, Felipe

AU - Sehgal, Neelima

AU - Sherwin, Blake D.

AU - Schmitt, Benjamin L.

AU - Spergel, David N.

AU - Staggs, Suzanne T.

AU - Stryzak, Omelan

AU - Swetz, Daniel S.

AU - Switzer, Eric R.

AU - Thornton, Robert

AU - Trac, Hy

AU - Tucker, Carole

AU - Uehara, Masao

AU - Visnjic, Katerina

AU - Warne, Ryan

AU - Wilson, Grant

AU - Wollack, Ed

AU - Zhao, Yue

AU - Zunckel, Caroline

PY - 2013/10

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N2 - We present constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters from high-resolution microwave background maps at 148 GHz and 218 GHz made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in three seasons of observations from 2008 to 2010. A model of primary cosmological and secondary foreground parameters is fit to the map power spectra and lensing deflection power spectrum, including contributions from both the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect and the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect, Poisson and correlated anisotropy from unresolved infrared sources, radio sources, and the correlation between the tSZ effect and infrared sources. The power ℓ2Cℓ/2π of the thermal SZ power spectrum at 148 GHz is measured to be 3.4±1.4 μK2 at ℓ = 3000, while the corresponding amplitude of the kinematic SZ power spectrum has a 95% confidence level upper limit of 8.6 μK2. Combining ACT power spectra with the WMAP 7-year temperature and polarization power spectra, we find excellent consistency with the LCDM model. We constrain the number of effective relativistic degrees of freedom in the early universe to be Neff = 2.79±0.56, in agreement with the canonical value of Neff = 3.046 for three massless neutrinos. We constrain the sum of the neutrino masses to be Σmν < 0.39 eV at 95% confidence when combining ACT and WMAP 7-year data with BAO and Hubble constant measurements. We constrain the amount of primordial helium to be Yp = 0.225±0.034, and measure no variation in the fine structure constant α since recombination, with α/α0 = 1.004±0.005. We also find no evidence for any running of the scalar spectral index, dns/dln k = -0.004±0.012.

AB - We present constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters from high-resolution microwave background maps at 148 GHz and 218 GHz made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in three seasons of observations from 2008 to 2010. A model of primary cosmological and secondary foreground parameters is fit to the map power spectra and lensing deflection power spectrum, including contributions from both the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect and the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect, Poisson and correlated anisotropy from unresolved infrared sources, radio sources, and the correlation between the tSZ effect and infrared sources. The power ℓ2Cℓ/2π of the thermal SZ power spectrum at 148 GHz is measured to be 3.4±1.4 μK2 at ℓ = 3000, while the corresponding amplitude of the kinematic SZ power spectrum has a 95% confidence level upper limit of 8.6 μK2. Combining ACT power spectra with the WMAP 7-year temperature and polarization power spectra, we find excellent consistency with the LCDM model. We constrain the number of effective relativistic degrees of freedom in the early universe to be Neff = 2.79±0.56, in agreement with the canonical value of Neff = 3.046 for three massless neutrinos. We constrain the sum of the neutrino masses to be Σmν < 0.39 eV at 95% confidence when combining ACT and WMAP 7-year data with BAO and Hubble constant measurements. We constrain the amount of primordial helium to be Yp = 0.225±0.034, and measure no variation in the fine structure constant α since recombination, with α/α0 = 1.004±0.005. We also find no evidence for any running of the scalar spectral index, dns/dln k = -0.004±0.012.

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