Bock, James, Aljabri, Abdullah, Amblard, Alex, Baumann, Daniel, Betoule, Marc, Chui, Talso, ...
Measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy have served as the best experimental probe of the early universe to date. The inflationary paradigm, inspired in part by the extreme...
Cooray, Asantha, Bock, James J., Kawada, Mitsunobu, Keating, Brian, Lange, Andrew, Lee, Dae-Hee, ...
The Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) is a rocket-borne absolute photometry imaging and spectroscopy experiment optimized to detect signatures of first-light galaxies present during...
Observing the Evolution of the Universe (2009)
Aguirre, James, Amblard, Alexandre, Ashoorioon, Amjad, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Balbi, Amedeo, Bartlett, James, ...
How did the universe evolve? The fine angular scale (l>1000) temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB are a Rosetta stone for understanding the evolution of the universe. Through detailed...
Cooray, Asantha, Amblard, Alexandre, Beichman, Charles, Benford, Dominic, Bernstein, Rebecca, Bock, James, ...
(Brief Summary) What is the total radiative content of the Universe since the epoch of recombination? The extragalactic background light (EBL) spectrum captures the redshifted energy released from...
CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Gravitational Lensing (2008)
Smith, Kendrick M., Cooray, Asantha, Das, Sudeep, Doré, Olivier, Hanson, Duncan, Hirata, Chris, ...
Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by large-scale structure in the late universe is both a source of cosmological information and a potential contaminant of primordial gravity...
Bock, James, Cooray, Asantha, Hanany, Shaul, Keating, Brian, Lee, Adrian, Matsumura, Tomotake, ...
This is the Phase 1 Report on the Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC), a mission concept study for NASA's Einstein Inflation Probe. When we began our study we sought to answer five...
CMB polarization systematics due to beam asymmetry: Impact on inflationary science (2008)
Shimon, Meir, Keating, Brian, Ponthieu, Nicolas, Hivon, Eric
Cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization provides a unique window into cosmological inflation; the amplitude of the B-mode polarization from last scattering is uniquely sensitive to the...
CMB Polarization Systematics Due to Beam Asymmetry: Impact on Inflationary Science (2007)
Shimon, Meir, Keating, Brian, Ponthieu, Nicolas, Hivon, Eric
CMB polarization provides a unique window into cosmological inflation; the amplitude of the B-mode polarization from last scattering is uniquely sensitive to the energetics of inflation. However,...
IR Background Anisotropies in Spitzer GOODS images and constraints on first galaxies (2006)
Cooray, Asantha, Sullivan, Ian, Chary, Ranga-Ram, Bock, James J., Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., ...
We describe the angular power spectrum of unresolved 3.6 micron IR light in Spitzer GOODS fields. The amplitude of the anisotropy spectrum decreases with decreasing flux threshold to which resolved...
Clustering of the IR Background Light with Spitzer: Contribution from Resolved Sources (2006)
Sullivan, Ian, Cooray, Asantha, Chary, Ranga-Ram, Bock, James J., Brodwin, Mark, Brown, Michael J. I., ...
We describe the angular power spectrum of resolved sources at 3.6 microns (L-band) in Spitzer imaging data of the GOODS HDF-N, the GOODS CDF-S, and the NDWFS Bootes field in several source magnitude...
The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (2005)
Bock, James, Battle, John, Cooray, Asantha, Kawada, Mitsunobu, Keating, Brian, Lange, Andrew, ...
We are developing a rocket-borne instrument (the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment, or CIBER) to search for signatures of primordial galaxy formation in the cosmic near-infrared extra-galactic...
CMB Optical Depth Measurements: Past, Present, Future (2005)
Keating, Brian, Miller, Nathan
The polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is encoded with exactly the same cosmic information as the CMB's temperature anistropy. However, polarization has the additional promise of...
First Star Signature in Infrared Background Anisotropies (2003)
Cooray, Asantha, Bock, James J., Keating, Brian, Lange, Andrew E., Matsumoto, T.
(Abridged) Recent cosmic microwave background anisotropy results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe suggest that the universe was reionized at a redshift around 20. Such an early...
Farese, Philip C., Dall'Oglio, Giorgio, Gundersen, Josh, Keating, Brian, Klawikowski, Slade, Knox, Lloyd, ...
COMPASS is an on-axis 2.6 meter telescope coupled to a correlation polarimeter. The entire instrument was built specifically for CMB polarization studies. Careful attention was given to receiver and...
The Large-Scale Polarization of the Microwave Foreground (2003)
Tegmark, Max, O'Dell, Christopher, Keating, Brian, Timbie, Peter, Efstathiou, George, ...
Most of the useful information about inflationary gravitational waves and reionization is on large angular scales where Galactic foreground contamination is the worst, so a key challenge is to model,...
The large-scale polarization of the microwave background and foreground (2002)
Tegmark, Max, O'Dell, Chris, Keating, Brian, Timbie, Peter, Efstathiou, George, ...
The DASI discovery of CMB polarization has opened a new chapter in cosmology. Most of the useful information about inflationary gravitational waves and reionization is on large angular scales where...
Keating, Brian, Timbie, Peter, Polnarev, Alexander, Steinberger, Julia
In addition to its spectrum and temperature anisotropy, the 2.7K Cosmic Microwave Background is also expected to exhibit a low level of polarization. The spatial power spectrum of the polarization...