Observing the Evolution of the Universe

Aguirre, J
Amblard, A
Ashoorioon, A
Baccigalupi, C
Balbi, A
Bartlett, J
Bartolo, N
Benford, D
Birkinshaw, M
Bock, J
Bond, D
Borrill, J
Bouchet, F
Bridges, M
Bunn, E
Calabrese, E
Cantalupo, C
Caramete, A
Carbone, C
Chatterjee, S
Church, S
Chuss, D
Contaldi, C
Cooray, A
Das, S
Bernardis, FD
Bernardis, PD
Zotti, GD
Delabrouille, J
Dsert, FX
Devlin, M
Dickinson, C
Dicker, S
Dobbs, M
Dodelson, S
Dore, O
Dotson, J
Dunkley, J
Falvella, MC
Fixsen, D
Fosalba, P
Fowler, J
Gates, E
Gear, W
Golwala, S
Gorski, K
Gruppuso, A
Gundersen, J
Halpern, M
Hanany, S
Hazumi, M
Hernandez-Monteagudo, C
Hertzberg, M
Hinshaw, G
Hirata, C
Hivon, E
Holmes, W
Holzapfel, W
Hu, W
Hubmayr, J
Huffenberger, K
Irwin, K
Jackson, M
Jaffe, A
Johnson, B
Jones, W
Kaplinghat, M
Keating, B
Keskitalo, R
Khoury, J
Kinney, W
Kisner, T
Knox, L
Kogut, A
Komatsu, E
Kosowsky, A
Kovac, J
Krauss, L
Kurki-Suonio, H
Landau, S
Lawrence, C
Leach, S
Lee, A
Leitch, E
Leonardi, R
Lesgourgues, J
Liddle, A
Lim, E
Limon, M
Loverde, M
Lubin, P
Magalhaes, A
Maino, D
Marriage, T
Martin, V
Matarrese, S
Mather, J
Mathur, H
Matsumura, T
Meerburg, P
Melchiorri, A
Meyer, S
Miller, A
Milligan, M
Moodley, K
Neimack, M
Nguyen, H
O'Dwyer, I
Orlando, A
Pagano, L
Page, L
Partridge, B
Pearson, T
Peiris, H
Piacentini, F
Piccirillo, L
Pierpaoli, E
Pietrobon, D
Pisano, G
Pogosian, L
Pogosyan, D
Ponthieu, N
Popa, L
Pryke, C
Raeth, C
Ray, S
Reichardt, C
Ricciardi, S
Richards, P
Rocha, G
Rudnick, L
Ruhl, J
Rusholme, B
Scoccola, C
Scott, D
Sealfon, C
Sehgal, N
Seiffert, M
Senatore, L
Serra, P
Shandera, S
Shimon, M
Shirron, P
Sievers, J
Sigurdson, K
Silk, J
Silverberg, R
Silverstein, E
Staggs, S
Stebbins, A
Stivoli, F
Stompor, R
Sugiyama, N
Swetz, D
Tartari, A
Tegmark, M
Timbie, P
Tristram, M
Tucker, G
Urrestilla, J
Vaillancourt, J
Veneziani, M
Verde, L
Vieira, J
Watson, S
Wandelt, B
Wilson, G
Wollack, E
Wyman, M
Yadav, A
Yannick, GH
Zahn, O
Zaldarriaga, M
Zemcov, M
Zwart, J

Publication date

March 2009

Abstract

How did the universe evolve? The fine angular scale (l>1000) temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB are a Rosetta stone for understanding the evolution of the universe. Through detailed measurements one may address everything from the physics of the birth of the universe to the history of star formation and the process by which galaxies formed. One may in addition track the evolution of the dark energy and discover the net neutrino mass. We are at the dawn of a new era in which hundreds of square degrees of sky can be mapped with arcminute resolution and sensitivities measured in microKelvin. Acquiring these data requires the use of special purpose telescopes such as the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), located in Chile, a...