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Two-Season Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter Lensing Power SpectrumWe report a measurement of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from two seasons of Atacama Cosmology Telescope polarimeter (ACTPol) CMB data. The CMB lensing power spectrum is extracted from both temperature and polarization data using quadratic estimators. We obtain results that are consistent with the expectation from the best-fit Planck CDM model over a range of multipoles L 80-2100, with an amplitude of lensing A(sub lens) = 1.06 +/- 0.15 stat +/- 0.06 sys relative to Planck. Our measurement of the CMB lensing power spectrum gives sigma 8 omega m(sup 0.25) = 0.643 +/- 0.054; including baryon acoustic oscillation scale data, we constrain the amplitude of density fluctuations to be sigma 8 = 0.831 +/- 0.053. We also update constraints on the neutrino mass sum. We verify our lensing measurement with a number of null tests and systematic checks, finding no evidence of significant systematic errors. This measurement relies on a small fraction of the ACTPol data already taken; more precise lensing results can therefore be expected from the full ACTPol data set.
Document ID
20170007348
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Shewin, Blake D.
(California Univ. Berkeley, CA, United States)
van Engelen, Alexander
(Canadian Inst. for Theoretical Astrophysics Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Sehgal, Neelima
(Stony Brook Univ. Stony Brook, NY, United States)
Madhavacheril, Mathew
(Princeton Univ. NJ, United States)
Addison, Graeme E.
(Johns Hopkins Univ. Baltimore, MD, United States)
Aiola, Simone
(Princeton Univ. Princeton, NJ, United States)
Allison, Rupert
(Institute of Astronomy Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Battaglia, Nicholas
(Princeton Univ. NJ, United States)
Becker, Daniel T.
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Beall, James A.
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Bond, J. Richard
(Canadian Inst. for Theoretical Astrophysics Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Calabrese, Ermini
(Oxford Univ. Oxford, United Kingdom)
Datta, Rahul
(Michigan Univ. Ann Arbor, MI, United States)
Devlin, Mark J.
(Pennsylvania Univ. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Dunner, Rolando
(Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile Santiago, Chile)
Dunkley, Joanna
(Princeton Univ. Princeton, NJ, United States)
Fox, Anna E.
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Gallardo, Patricio
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Halpern, Mark
(British Columbia Univ. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Hasselfield, Matthew
(Pennsylvania State Univ. University Park, PA, United States)
Henderson, Shawn
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Hill, J. Colin
(Columbia Univ. New York, NY, United States)
Hilton, Gene C.
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Hubmayr, Johannes
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Hughes, John P.
(Rutgers - The State Univ. Piscataway, NJ, United States)
Hincks, Adam D.
(Rome Univ. Rome, Italy)
Hlozek, Renee
(Toronto Univ. Ontario, Canada)
Huffenberger, Kevin M.
(Florida State Univ. Tallahassee, FL, United States)
Koopman, Brian
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Kosowsky, Arthur
(Pittsburgh Univ. Pittsburgh, PA, United States)
Louis, Thibaut
(Paris VI Univ. France)
Maurin, Loic
(Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile Santiago, Chile)
McMahon, Jeff
(Michigan Univ. Ann Arbor, MI, United States)
Moodley, Kavilan
(KwaZulu-Natal Univ. Durban, South Africa)
Naess, Sigurd
(Center for Computational Astrophysics New York, NY, United States)
Nati, Federico
(Pennsylvania Univ. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Newburgh, Laura
(Toronto Univ. Ontario, Canada)
Niemack, Michael D.
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Page, Lyman A.
(Princeton Univ. Princeton, NJ, United States)
Sievers, Jonathan
(KwaZulu-Natal Univ. Durban, South Africa)
Spergel, David N.
(Princeton Univ. NJ, United States)
Staggs, Suzanne T.
(Princeton Univ. Princeton, NJ, United States)
Thornton, Robert J.
(West Chester Univ. PA, United States)
Van Lanen, Jeff
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Vavagiakis, Eve
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Wollack, Edward J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 3, 2017
Publication Date
June 21, 2017
Publication Information
Publication: Physical Review D
Publisher: Physical Review D
Volume: 95
Issue: 12
ISSN: 1550-7998
e-ISSN: 1089-4918
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN44620
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNX13AE56G
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF PHY-0855887
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNX14AB58G
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF AST-0965625
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF 1513618
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF AST-0408698
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF AST-1312380
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF PHY-1214379
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF AST-1440226
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