Improved constraints on cosmology and foregrounds from BICEP2 and Keck Array cosmic microwave background data with inclusion of 95 GHz band
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 95843795
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.031302
- Title of journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Article number
- 031302
- First page
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- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.031302
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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60
- Research group(s)
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I - Astronomy Instrumentation
- Citation count
- 481
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- This paper combines data from the ground-based KECK Array and BICEP2 telescopes with data from the ESA Planck Satellite. All three instruments rely on optical and thermal filtering which I designed and which were manufactured and tested at Cardiff under my supervision. The KECK refit for 95 GHz (page 2), involved the design and provision of an optimised filter chain which is not reported elsewhere. The addition of this band facilitated better identification of the multicomponent signals, thus providing the tightest constraint at that time on the inflationary gravitational wave signal.
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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