31 July 2017 to 4 August 2017
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
US/Central timezone

News from BICEP/Keck Array CMB program

1 Aug 2017, 13:30
20m
Comitium (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Comitium

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Presentation Cosmology and Astrophysics Cosmology and Astrophysics

Speaker

Zeeshan Ahmed (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

The BICEP/Keck Array program comprises a series of telescopes at the South Pole designed to make deep measurements of cosmic microwave background polarization at degree angular scales on a 1% patch of sky. This talk will describe the latest science results from the program, including constraints on inflation, axion-like particles and primordial magnetic fields, as well as a high-significance detection of gravitational lensing. These results were derived using various combinations of 150GHz and 95GHz data collected by the BICEP/Keck receivers through 2014, and multi-frequency data from Planck and WMAP. The talk will also preview imminent science results that include one year of 220GHz data from BICEP/Keck. Finally, we will share plans for BICEP Array, the Stage 3 expansion of the BICEP/Keck program.

Primary author

Zeeshan Ahmed (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Presentation materials