"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation." - Pearl S. Buck





The Cosmic Microwave Background


The Cosmic Microave Background (CMB) is often described as the Rosetta Stone of cosmology, linking the early and late universe. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope measures the CMB radiation from the Atacama Desert, to a resolution of 1 arcminute, which allows us to measure fluctuations in the temperature of the CMB to much smaller scales. I am involved in the analysis and tests of the ACT power spectrum, and the constraints on cosmological parameters from CMB lensing of the ACT data.

Papers


The ACT Power Spectrum at 148 GHz
Beam profiles and first SZ cluster maps