Measurements of the temperature and e -mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background from the full 500-square-degree SPTpol dataset

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Abstract

Using the full four-year SPTpol 500 deg2 dataset in both the 95 and 150 GHz frequency bands, we present measurements of the temperature and E-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), as well as the E-mode polarization autopower spectrum (EE) and temperature-E-mode cross-power spectrum (TE) in the angular multipole range 50<ℓ<8000. We find the SPTpol dataset to be self-consistent, passing several internal consistency tests based on maps, frequency bands, bandpowers, and cosmological parameters. The full SPTpol dataset is well-fit by the ΛCDM model, for which we find H0=70.48±2.16 km s-1 Mpc-1 and ωm=0.271±0.026, when using only the SPTpol data and a Planck-based prior on the optical depth to reionization. The ΛCDM parameter constraints are consistent across the 95 GHz-only, 150 GHz-only, TE-only, and EE-only data splits. Between the ℓ<1000 and ℓ>1000 data splits, the ΛCDM parameter constraints are borderline consistent at the ∼2σ level. This consistency improves when including a parameter AL, the degree of lensing of the CMB inferred from the smearing of acoustic peaks. When marginalized over AL, the ΛCDM parameter constraints from SPTpol are consistent with those from Planck. The power spectra presented here are the most sensitive measurements of the lensed CMB damping tail to date for roughly ℓ>1700 in TE and ℓ>2000 in EE.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number123513
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume111
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 15 2025

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