Astrofisica

New Results from The Atacama Cosmology Telescope

by Prof. Johanna Dunkley (University of Oxford)

Europe/Rome
Aula Conversi

Aula Conversi

Description
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has mapped the microwave sky to arcminute scales. I will present recent results from ACT on the angular power spectrum of the microwave background fluctuations, measuring the acoustic oscillations well into the Silk damping tail. I will also describe the extraction of a gravitational lensing signal from the observations, and the detection of galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect. I will describe the implications of these various measurements for better constraining the cosmological model, and discuss prospects for the upcoming ACTPol experiment.