The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters

Simone Aiola , Erminia Calabrese , Loïc Maurin (1) , Sigurd Naess , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Graeme E. Addison , Peter A.R. Ade , David Alonso , Mandana Amiri , Stefania Amodeo , Elio Angile , Jason E. Austermann , Taylor Baildon , Nick Battaglia , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Daniel T. Becker , J.Richard Bond , Sarah Marie Bruno , Victoria Calafut , Luis E. Campusano , Felipe Carrero , Grace E. Chesmore , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Susan E. Clark , Nicholas F. Cothard , Devin Crichton , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Rahul Datta , Edward V. Denison , Mark J. Devlin , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Max Fankhanel , Simone Ferraro , Anna E. Fox , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Yilun Guan , Kirsten Hall , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Matthew Hasselfield , Jakob M. Helton , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Leopoldo Infante , Kent Irwin , Rebecca Jackson , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Vincent Lakey , Dale Li , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis (2) , Marius Lungu , Amanda Macinnis , Mathew Madhavacheril , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Danica Marsden , Jeff Mcmahon , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Tim Morton , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , John P. Nibarger , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Sherer , Lyman A. Page , Christine G. Pappas , Bruce Partridge , Phumlani Phakathi , Giampaolo Pisano , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Frank J. Qu , Jesus Rivera , Naomi Robertson , Felipe Rojas , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason Stevens , Emilie Storer , Dhaneshwar D. Sunder , Eric R. Switzer , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Carole Tucker , Leila R. Vale , Alexander van Engelen , Jeff van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Jonathan T. Ward , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Fernando Zago , Ningfeng Zhu

1 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
2 IJCLab - Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie

We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013–2016 at 98 and 150 GHz. The maps cover more than 17,000 deg2, the deepest 600 deg2 with noise levels below 10μK-arcmin. We use the power spectrum derived from almost 6,000 deg2 of these maps to constrain cosmology. The ACT data enable a measurement of the angular scale of features in both the divergence-like polarization and the temperature anisotropy, tracing both the velocity and density at last-scattering. From these one can derive the distance to the last-scattering surface and thus infer the local expansion rate, H0. By combining ACT data with large-scale information from WMAP we measure H0=67.6± 1.1 km/s/Mpc, at 68% confidence, in excellent agreement with the independently-measured Planck satellite estimate (from ACT alone we find H0=67.9± 1.5 km/s/Mpc). The ΛCDM model provides a good fit to the ACT data, and we find no evidence for deviations: both the spatial curvature, and the departure from the standard lensing signal in the spectrum, are zero to within 1σ; the number of relativistic species, the primordial Helium fraction, and the running of the spectral index are consistent with ΛCDM predictions to within 1.5–2.2σ. We compare ACT, WMAP, and Planck at the parameter level and find good consistency; we investigate how the constraints on the correlated spectral index and baryon density parameters readjust when adding CMB large-scale information that ACT does not measure. The DR4 products presented here will be publicly released on the NASA Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis.

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Simone Aiola, Erminia Calabrese, Loïc Maurin, Sigurd Naess, Benjamin L. Schmitt, et al.. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020, 12, pp.047. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12/047⟩. ⟨hal-02911941⟩