Simone Aiola (Princeton)
Date: Tue. November 14th, 2017, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Location: foldy room, rockefeller 221
Cosmology with ACTPol and AdvACT
The bolometric polarimeter at the focal plane of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope allows us to map the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with high signal-to-noise both in temperature and polarization. In this talk, I will present the data-reduction pipeline, highlighting the importance of making maximum-likelihood unbiased CMB maps. I will show the two-season ACTPol cosmological results presented in Louis et al. (2017), Sherwin et al. (2017), and Hilton et al. (2017) and describe the current effort to finalize the analysis of the ACTPol dataset. I will conclude with preliminary results from the ongoing AdvACT survey, discussing the potential of this new dataset that covers 40% of the sky.