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Mark Halpern

Researcher at University of British Columbia

Publications -  560
Citations -  121832

Mark Halpern is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cosmic microwave background & Galaxy. The author has an hindex of 126, co-authored 546 publications receiving 114409 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Halpern include National Institute of Standards and Technology & Stanford University.

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Detection of $B$-Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2

TL;DR: An excess of B-mode power over the base lensed-ΛCDM expectation is found in the range 30 < ℓ < 150, inconsistent with the null hypothesis at a significance of >5σ, and it is shown that systematic contamination is much smaller than the observed excess.
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Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Likelihoods and Parameters from the WMAP data

TL;DR: In this article, a simple LCDM cosmological model was used to fit the five-year WMAP temperature and polarization data, and the upper bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio was improved to r < 0.43.
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Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Data Processing, Sky Maps, and Basic Results

TL;DR: In this paper, the first five years of the WMAP sky survey were used for full-sky temperature and polarization maps in five frequency bands from 23 to 94 GHz, and several new tests for systematic errors in the polarization data and conclude that Ka band data (33 GHz) is suitable for use in cosmological analysis, after foreground cleaning.