Update on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background (2015-2025)

arXiv:2607.15666 · astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-17 · Read on arXiv

Martin Bucher

Laboratoire Astroparticules et Cosmologie

astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-17

Comments: 33 pages, 11 figures (accepted for publication in Int. J. Physics D and to appear in Wei-Tou Ni, Ed., "One Hundred and Ten Years of General Relativity from Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity")

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Terminology

• Anisotropy — 34× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 27× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Atacama Cosmology Telescope — 6× in this paper
• Frequency Dependence — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Non-Gaussianity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• South Pole Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background — 2× in this paper
• Primordial non-Gaussianity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Differential Microwave Radiometers — 1× in this paper
• High Frequency Instrument — 1× in this paper
• Huan Tran Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Hubble Tension — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Large Aperture Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Matter Power Spectrum — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Microwave Anisotropy Probe — 1× in this paper
• Quantum fluctuations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Spectral Distortions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Topological Defects — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Weak Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper
• The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and $\Lambda$CDM Parameters
• BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales
• Toward an Understanding of Foreground Emission in the BICEP2 Region
• The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE): A Nulling Polarimeter for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations
• Probing Primordial Gravitational Waves: Ali CMB Polarization Telescope
• Tibet's Ali: A New Window to Detect the CMB Polarization
• Planck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results
• Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes
• Detection of Gravitational Lensing in the Cosmic Microwave Background
• SPT-3G D1: CMB temperature and polarization power spectra and cosmology from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field

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