Searching for B-modes with QUIET: Latest results from the maximum-likelihood pipeline
ORAL
Abstract
The polarisation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) gives us unique information about the existence of primordial gravitational waves and the energy scale of inflation. QUIET is a ground-based CMB polarisation experiment, taking advantage of the world's most sensitive microwave radiometers, to search for B-modes in the CMB polarisation. The pilot phase data taking was finished in December 2010, consisting of around 250 000 diode hours of Q-band data at 43 GHz and about ten times more W-band data at 94 GHz. The data are analyzed by two independent pipelines, the maximum-likelihood (ML) pipeline and the pseudo-$C_\ell$ (PCl) pipeline. I will present the ML pipeline and our latest results.
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Authors
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Ingunn Kathrine Wehus
University of Oslo