The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Spectra and Parameters

• Published in: Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics Vol. 2017; no. 6; p. 31
• Main Authors: Louis, Thibaut, Grace, Emily, Hasselfield, Matthew, Lungu, Marius, Maurin, Loic, Addison, Graeme E., R., Adem Peter A., Aiola, Simone, Allison, Rupert, Amiri, Mandana, Angile, Elio, Battaglia, Nicholas, Beall, James A., De Bernardis, Francesco, Bond, J. Richard, Britton, Joe, Calabrese, Erminia, Cho, Hsiao-mei, Choi, Steve K., Coughlin, Kevin, Crichton, Devin, Crowley, Kevin, Datta, Rahul, Devlin, Mark J., Dicker, Simon R., Dunkley, Joanna, Dunner, Rolando, Ferraro, Simone, Fox, Anna E., Gallardo, Patricio, Gralla, Megan, Halpern, Mark, Henderson, Shawn, Hill, J. Colin, Hilton, Gene C., Hilton, Matt, Hincks, Adam D., Hlozek, Renee, Ho, S. P. Patty, Huang, Zhiqi, Hubmayr, Johannes, Huffenberger, Kevin M., Hughes, John P., Infante, Leopoldo, Irwin, Kent, Kasanda, Simon Muya, Klein, Jeff, Koopman, Brian, Kosowsky, Arthur, Li, Dale, Madhavacheril, Mathew, Marriage, Tobias A., McMahon, Jeff, Menanteau, Felipe, Moodley, Kavilan, Munson, Charles, Naess, Sigurd, Nati, Federico, Newburgh, Laura, Nibarger, John, Niemack, Michael D., Nolta, Michael R., Nunez, Carolina, Pappas, Christine, Partridge, Bruce, Rojas, Felipe, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schmitt, Benjamin L., Sehgal, Neelima, Sherwin, Blake D., Sievers, Jon, Simon, Sara, Spergel, David N., Staggs, Suzanne T., Switzer, Eric R., Thornton, Robert, Trac, Hy, Treu, Jesse, Tucker, Carole, Van Engelen, Alexander, Ward, Jonathan T., Wollack, Edward J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Goddard Space Flight Center IOP Publishing 15.06.2017; Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Subjects: ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astrophysics; Statistics And Probability
• ISSN: 1475-7516; 1475-7516
• DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/06/031

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra measuredby the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol). We analyze night-time datacollected during 2013-14 using two detector arrays at 149 GHz, from 548 deg(exp. 2) of sky onthe celestial equator. We use these spectra, and the spectra measured with the MBAC camera on ACT from 2008-10, in combination with Planck and WMAP data to estimate cosmological parameters from the temperature, polarization, and temperature-polarization cross-correlations. We find the new ACTPol data to be consistent with the CDM model. The ACTPol temperature-polarization cross-spectrum now provides stronger constraints on multiple parameters than the ACTPol temperature spectrum, including the baryon density, the acoustic peak angular scale, and the derived Hubble constant. The new ACTPol dataprovide information on damping tail parameters. The joint uncertainty on the number of neutrino species and the primordial helium fraction is reduced by 20% when adding ACTPol to Planck temperature data alone.