The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Sievers, Jonathan L ^a,b   Hlozek, Renée A ^a   Nolta, Michael R ^b   Acquaviva, Viviana ^c   Addison, Graeme E ^d,e   Ade, Peter A R ^f   Aguirre, Paula ^g   Amiri, Mandana ^d   William Appel, John ^a   Barrientos, L Felipe ^g   Battistelli, Elia S ^d,h   Battaglia, Nick ^b,i   Bond, J Richard ^b   Brown, Ben ^j   Burger, Bryce ^d   Calabrese, Erminia ^e   Chervenak, Jay ^k   Crichton, Devin ^l   Das, Sudeep ^m,n   Devlin, Mark J ^o   Dicker, Simon R ^o   Doriese, W Bertrand ^p   Dunkley, Joanna ^e   Dünner, Rolando ^g   Essinger Hileman, Thomas ^a   Faber, David ^a   Fisher, Ryan P ^a   Fowler, Joseph W ^a,p   Gallardo, Patricio ^g   Gordon, Michael S ^a   Gralla, Megan B ^l   Hajian, Amir ^a,b   Halpern, Mark ^d   Hasselfield, Matthew ^a,d   Hernández Monteagudo, Carlos ^q   Hill, J Colin ^a   Hilton, Gene C ^p   Hilton, Matt ^r,s   Hincks, Adam D ^a,b   Holtz, Dave ^a   Huffenberger, Kevin M ^t   Hughes, David H ^u   Hughes, John P ^v   Infante, Leopoldo ^g   Irwin, Kent D ^p   Jacobson, David R ^o   Johnstone, Brittany ^x   Baptiste Juin, Jean ^g   Kaul, Madhuri ^o   Klein, Jeff ^o   Kosowsky, Arthur ^j   Lau, Judy M ^a   Limon, Michele ^a,o,y   Lin, Yen Ting ^a,z,aa   Louis, Thibaut ^e   Lupton, Robert H ^a   Marriage, Tobias A ^a,l   Marsden, Danica ^o,w   Martocci, Krista ^a   Mauskopf, Phil ^f,ac   McLaren, Michael ^o   Menanteau, Felipe ^v   Moodley, Kavilan ^s   Moseley, Harvey ^k   Netterfield, Calvin B ^ad   Niemack, Michael D ^a,p,ae   Page, Lyman A ^a   Page, William A ^a   Parker, Lucas ^a   Partridge, Bruce ^af   Plimpton, Reed ^o   Quintana, Hernan ^g   Reese, Erik D ^o   Reid, Beth ^a   Rojas, Felipe ^g   Sehgal, Neelima ^a,ag   Sherwin, Blake D ^a   Schmitt, Benjamin L ^o   Spergel, David N ^a   Staggs, Suzanne T ^a   Stryzak, Omelan ^a   Swetz, Daniel S ^o,p   Switzer, Eric R ^a,b,ab   Thornton, Robert ^o,x   Trac, Hy ⁱ   Tucker, Carole ^f   Uehara, Masao ^a   Visnjic, Katerina ^a   Warne, Ryan ^s   Wilson, Grant ^ah   Wollack, Ed ^k   Zhao, Yue ^a   Zunckel, Caroline ^s   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^h SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

ⁱ CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^k NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^l JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁿ ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^p NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^q MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^t UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^u INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^v RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^x WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^y University of Tokyo ^*  (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^aa INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^ac ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^ae Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^af HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^ag STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

CMBR experiments; cosmological parameters from CMBR; physics of the early universe; Sunyaev Zeldovich effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888090276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/10/060     Document Type: Article

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