Project Supported by
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NSF, National Science Foundation
KICP, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
USAP, United States Antarctic Program
Antarctic Support Contract
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Related Websites
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CBI, Cosmic Background Imager
DASI, Degree Angular Scale Interferometer
WMAP, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
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This page provides data products associated with the SPT-3G measurement of the CMB EE and TE polarization power spectra over 1500 square degrees described in arXiv:2101.01684, Dutcher et al., 2021. The power spectra are presented over the angular multipole range 300 < ell <= 3000 and can be used to constrain cosmological models using the likelihood package provided below. The data products here also relate to the results of arXiv:???, Balkenhol et al., 2021.
If you have any questions regarding this data set or its use, please contact Daniel Dutcher (ddutcher_at_uchicago_dot_edu) or Lennart Balkenhol (lbalkenhol_at_student_dot_unimelb_dot_edu_dot_au).
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 | Figures |
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Individual figures are available in PDF format here or bundled in a ZIP file here, covering both manuscripts. We highlight some select figures below.
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SPT-3G 2018 150 GHz E-mode polarization map. The data have been filtered to remove features larger than approx. 0.5 degrees, and the map has been smoothed by a 6 arcminute FWHM Gaussian.
(Figure 3 in Dutcher et al., 2021)
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The minimum-variance SPT-3G EE and TE bandpowers (red) overlaid on the Planck best-fit LCDM model, along with the recent measurements from Planck (Planck Collaboration 2018-V), ACT DR4 (Choi et al. 2020), POLARBEAR (POLARBEAR Collaboration 2019), and SPTpol (Henning et al. 2018). The Planck EE bandpowers are restricted to ell < 1500. The uncertainties shown for the SPT-3G bandpowers are the square root of the diagonal elements of the covariance matrix and do not include beam or calibration uncertainties.
(Figure 8 in Dutcher et al., 2021)
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Marginalized constraints on LCDM parameters and the Hubble constant for the SPT-3G 2018 EE/TE, SPTpol (Henning et al. 2018), and Planck (Planck Collaboration 2018-V) datasets. SPT-3G produces consistently tighter constraits than SPTpol. The results from SPT-3G are statistically consistent with the findings of Planck.
(Figure 9 in Dutcher et al. 2021)
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We show samples in the H_0 vs. N_eff plane from SPT-3G 2018 chains, colored according to S_8, a parameter describing the amplitude of matter perturbations today.
The color range has been chosen to match the 3 sigma range of the latest KiDS-1000 results (Heymans et al. 2020).
For comparison, we also show the Planck 2D marginalized posterior probability (black lines), and the Hubble constant determined from the distance-ladder (Riess et al. 2020).
The dotted grey line is the standard model prediction of N_eff = 3.046.
(Left panel of Figure 1 in Balkenhol et al. 2021)
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 | Bandpowers for Plotting |
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We provide the minimum-variance combination of the SPT-3G 2018 multi-frequency EE and TE Bandpowers from observations over a four-month period in 2018. The bandpowers cover the angular multipole range 300 < ell <= 3000 in bins of delta_ell = 50 between 301 < ell < 200 and delta_ell = 100 from 2001 < ell <= 3000.
The bandpowers, bandpower errors, and associated bandcenters, are provided for plotting in a text file here. Bandpowers and uncertainties are given in D_ell units of uK^2. Each row is one ell-bin. The columns are (1) ell_min, (2) ell_max, (3) TE ell_center, (4) TE, (5) sigma_TE, (6) EE ell_center, (7) EE, (8) sigma_EE.
Note that these bandpowers include power from foregrounds, such as Galactic dust and point sources, though we do not significantly detect this power. Foreground terms are included in our likelihood model and priors for them may be adjusted by editing the accompanying files provided in the likelihood package below.
If you have any questions regarding this data set or its use, please contact Daniel Dutcher (ddutcher@uchicago.edu).
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We provide files in a gzipped tarball here that can be added to the May 2020 version of CosmoMC to interface with the SPT-3G 2018 EE/TE bandpowers discussed above. These files include the SPT-3G likelihood, SPT-3G data (multi-frequency bandpowers, covariance matrix, bandpower window functions, beam covariance, effective band centres, and calibration covariance), batch file, a sample .ini file including the baseline priors on foreground parameters, a proposal matrix for LCDM assuming the baseline priors, and a README with instructions for how to compile CosmoMC with the SPT-3G 2018 EE/TE likelihood.
If you have any questions regarding the use of this likelihood, please contact Lennart Balkenhol (lbalkenhol@student.unimelb.edu.au)).
v1.0: March ???, 2021 - Initial version released with arXiv submission.
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