MG14 - Talk detail |
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Participant |
McMahon, Jeff | |||||||
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Institution |
University of Michigan - 450 Church Street - Ann Arbor - Mi - USA | |||||||
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Session |
CM1 |
Accepted |
Yes |
Order |
4 |
Time |
15:30 | 20' |
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Talk |
Oral abstract |
Title |
Surveying the Cosmic Microwave Background with ACTPol and Advanced ACTPol | |||||
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Abstract |
In this talk, I will give an overview of the ACTPol and Advanced ACTPol instruments and surveys. ACTPol is the first polarization sensitive receiver deployed on the arc minute resolution Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). With this instrument we have surveyed the sky for two seasons and a third season is now in progress. I will give a brief overview of this instrument, describe our published power spectra and lensing results, and highlight the science that will be achieved with the full survey. Advanced ACTPol is an upgraded receiver that will improve upon the sensitivity and greatly expand the frequency coverage of ACTPol beginning in 2016. With Advanced ACTPol we will survey nearly half the sky in five frequency bands. These data will improve our understanding of inflation, neutrino properties, dark energy and a number of other cosmological measurements. |
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