Astrophysical: Cosmic microwave background radiation

  • Publication
    A Forecast of the Sensitivity on the Measurement of the Optical Depth to Reionization with the GroundBIRD Experiment
    We compute the expected sensitivity on measurements of optical depth to reionization for a ground-based experiment at Teide Observatory. We simulate polarized...
  • Project
    Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background
    The general goal of this project is to determine and characterize the spatial and spectral variations in the temperature and polarisation of the Cosmic...
  • News
    Astronomers confirm the existence of a cosmic supervoid that challenges our understanding of dark energy
    Research by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has confirmed the presence of a...
  • Publication
    Cosmic Amorphous Dust Model as the Origin of Anomalous Microwave Emission
    We have shown that the thermal emission of the amorphous dust composed of amorphous silicate dust (a-Si) and amorphous carbon dust (a-C) provides an excellent...
  • Publication
    Discovery of Four Apparently Cold Dusty Galaxies at z = 3.62─5.85 in the COSMOS Field: Direct Evidence of Cosmic Microwave Background Impact on High-redshift Galaxy Observables
    We report Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observations of four high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxy candidates selected from far-infrared (FIR)...
  • Publication
    Interferometry of the Cosmic Microwave Background
    We describe the Very Small Array (VSA) and review the recent results on the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) obtained in the Ka...
  • News
    QUIJOTE maps the structure of our Galaxy’s magnetic field
    Almost a decade after starting observations of the sky in the northern hemisphere, the QUIJOTE Collaboration has presented an initial series of 6 scientific...
  • Conference
    XIX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics "The Cosmic Microwave | Background: from quantum fluctuations to the present Universe"