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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 112, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.241101
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [ANT-0742818, ANT-1044978, ANT-0742592, ANT-1110087]
- NASA APRA [06-ARPA206-0040, 10-SAT10-0017]
- SAT programs
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation at Caltech
- Canada Foundation for Innovation grant
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- FAS Science Division Research Computing Group at Harvard University
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
- STFC [ST/K000926/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1255358] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [1145143] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1125897] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
- Directorate For Geosciences [1145172] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25105004] Funding Source: KAKEN
We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gravitational waves in the B-mode power spectrum around l similar to 80. The telescope comprised a 26 cm aperture all-cold refracting optical system equipped with a focal plane of 512 antenna coupled transition edge sensor 150 GHz bolometers each with temperature sensitivity of approximate to 300 mu K-CMB root s. BICEP2 observed from the South Pole for three seasons from 2010 to 2012. A low-foreground region of sky with an effective area of 380 square deg was observed to a depth of 87 nK deg in Stokes Q and U. In this paper we describe the observations, data reduction, maps, simulations, and results. We find an excess of B-mode power over the base lensed-ACDM expectation in the range 30 < l < 150, inconsistent with the null hypothesis at a significance of > 5 sigma. Through jackknife tests and simulations based on detailed calibration measurements we show that systematic contamination is much smaller than the observed excess. Cross correlating against WMAP 23 GHz maps we find that Galactic synchrotron makes a negligible contribution to the observed signal. We also examine a number of available models of polarized dust emission and find that at their default parameter values they predict power similar to(5-10)x smaller than the observed excess signal (with no significant cross-correlation with our maps). However, these models are not sufficiently constrained by external public data to exclude the possibility of dust emission bright enough to explain the entire excess signal. Cross correlating BICEP2 against 100 GHz maps from the BICEP1 experiment, the excess signal is confirmed with 3 sigma significance and its spectral index is found to be consistent with that of the CMB, disfavoring dust at 1.7 sigma. The observed B-mode power spectrum is well fit by a lensed-ACDM + tensor theoretical model with tensor-to-scalar ratio r = 0.20(-0.05)(+0.07), with r = 0 disfavored at 7.0 sigma. Accounting for the contribution of foreground, dust will shift this value downward by an amount which will be better constrained with upcoming data sets.
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