Abstract
We present measurements of the -mode () polarization power spectrum and temperature--mode () cross-power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background using data collected by SPT-3G, the latest instrument installed on the South Pole Telescope. This analysis uses observations of a region at 95, 150, and 220 GHz taken over a four-month period in 2018. We report binned values of the and power spectra over the angular multipole range , using the multifrequency data to construct six semi-independent estimates of each power spectrum and their minimum-variance combination. These measurements improve upon the previous results of SPTpol across the multipole ranges for and for , resulting in constraints on cosmological parameters comparable to those from other current leading ground-based experiments. We find that the SPT-3G data set is well fit by a cosmological model with parameter constraints consistent with those from Planck and SPTpol data. From SPT-3G data alone, we find and , with a gravitational lensing amplitude consistent with the prediction (). We combine the SPT-3G and the Planck data sets and obtain joint constraints on the model. The volume of the 68% confidence region in six-dimensional parameter space is reduced by a factor of 1.5 compared to Planck-only constraints, with no significant shifts in central values. We note that the results presented here are obtained from data collected during just half of a typical observing season with only part of the focal plane operable, and that the active detector count has since nearly doubled for observations made with SPT-3G after 2018.
7 More- Received 7 January 2021
- Accepted 4 June 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022003
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