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CMB-S4 Science Book, First Edition

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The CMB-S4 project as mentioned in this paper is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment with superconducting cameras, which will be used for the search for the B-mode polarization signature of primordial gravitational waves and the determination of the number and masses of neutrinos.
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This book lays out the scientific goals to be addressed by the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, CMB-S4, envisioned to consist of dedicated telescopes at the South Pole, the high Chilean Atacama plateau and possibly a northern hemisphere site, all equipped with new superconducting cameras. CMB-S4 will dramatically advance cosmological studies by crossing critical thresholds in the search for the B-mode polarization signature of primordial gravitational waves, in the determination of the number and masses of the neutrinos, in the search for evidence of new light relics, in constraining the nature of dark energy, and in testing general relativity on large scales.

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Planck 2015 results. XX. Constraints on inflation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the implications for cosmic inflation of the 2018 Release of the Planck CMB anisotropy measurements, which are fully consistent with the two previous Planck cosmological releases, but have smaller uncertainties thanks to improvements in the characterization of polarization at low and high multipoles.
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The Simons Observatory : Science goals and forecasts

Peter A. R. Ade, +279 more
TL;DR: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s as mentioned in this paper.
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Early Dark Energy can Resolve the Hubble Tension.

TL;DR: In this article, a Markov Chain Monte-Carlo search of the parameter space for the EDE parameters, in conjunction with the standard cosmological parameters, identifies regions in which H = 0.
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The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

Peter A. R. Ade, +248 more
TL;DR: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s as discussed by the authors.
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CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan

Kevork N. Abazajian, +224 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the science case, reference design, and project plan for the Stage-4 ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4, as well as the experimental data.
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HEALPix: A Framework for High-Resolution Discretization and Fast Analysis of Data Distributed on the Sphere

TL;DR: This paper considers the requirements and implementation constraints on a framework that simultaneously enables an efficient discretization with associated hierarchical indexation and fast analysis/synthesis of functions defined on the sphere and demonstrates how these are explicitly satisfied by HEALPix.
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HEALPix -- a Framework for High Resolution Discretization, and Fast Analysis of Data Distributed on the Sphere

TL;DR: The Hierarchical Equal Area iso-Latitude Pixelization (HEALPix) as discussed by the authors is a data structure with an associated library of computational algorithms and visualization software that supports fast scientific applications executable directly on very large volumes of astronomical data and large area surveys in the form of discretized spherical maps.
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Planck 2015 results - X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps

R. Adam, +284 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of diffuse astrophysical component separation, and process these maps within a Bayesian framework to derive an internally consistent set of full-sky astrophysical components maps.
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Planck 2015 results. X. Diffuse component separation: Foreground maps

R. Adam, +237 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of diffuse astrophysical component separation, and process these maps within a Bayesian framework to derive a consistent set of full-sky component maps.
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Determination of inflationary observables by cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments.

TL;DR: The effects of uncertainty in the Hubble constant, baryon density, cosmological constant, and ionization history are discussed.
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