Eric Hivon

TL;DR: In this article, the E-mode angular power spectrum was measured with high precision at 21 ≤ l ≤ 335, detecting for the first time the peak expected at l ~ 140.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fast method for estimating the cosmic microwave background polarization power spectra using unbiased estimates of heuristically weighted correlation functions is presented. But it is only applicable to small-area observations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the characterization of potential systematic errors for the BICEP experiment, supplementing a companion paper on the initial cosmological results, using the analysis pipelines for the experiment, have simulated the impact of systematic errors on the B-mode polarization measurement, and established benchmarks for the critical instrumental properties including bolometer relative gains, beam mismatch, polarization orientation, telescope pointing, sidelobes, thermal stability and timestream noise model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the design and expected performance of BICEP, a millimeter wave receiver designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CME).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended the Gabor transform formalism to the sphere with the intention of applying it to cosmic microwave background (CMB) data analysis, where the pseudo power spectrum coefficients were assumed to be Gaussian distributed.