- Adachi, S;
- Adkins, T;
- Faúndez, MAO Aguilar;
- Arnold, KS;
- Baccigalupi, C;
- Barron, D;
- Chapman, S;
- Cheung, K;
- Chinone, Y;
- Crowley, KT;
- Elleflot, T;
- Errard, J;
- Fabbian, G;
- Feng, C;
- Fujino, T;
- Galitzki, N;
- Halverson, NW;
- Hasegawa, M;
- Hazumi, M;
- Hirose, H;
- Howe, L;
- Ito, J;
- Jeong, O;
- Kaneko, D;
- Katayama, N;
- Keating, B;
- Kisner, T;
- Krachmalnicoff, N;
- Kusaka, A;
- Lee, AT;
- Linder, E;
- Lonappan, AI;
- Lowry, LN;
- Matsuda, F;
- Matsumura, T;
- Minami, Y;
- Murata, M;
- Nishino, H;
- Nishinomiya, Y;
- Poletti, D;
- Reichardt, CL;
- Ross, C;
- Segawa, Y;
- Siritanasak, P;
- Stompor, R;
- Suzuki, A;
- Tajima, O;
- Takakura, S;
- Takatori, S;
- Tanabe, D;
- Teply, G;
- Yamada, K;
- Zhou, Y
We report an improved measurement of the degree-scale cosmic microwave background B-mode angular-power spectrum over 670 deg2 sky area at 150 GHz with Polarbear. In the original analysis of the data, errors in the angle measurement of the continuously rotating half-wave plate, a polarization modulator, caused significant data loss. By introducing an angle-correction algorithm, the data volume is increased by a factor of 1.8. We report a new analysis using the larger data set. We find the measured B-mode spectrum is consistent with the ΛCDM model with Galactic dust foregrounds. We estimate the contamination of the foreground by cross-correlating our data and Planck 143, 217, and 353 GHz measurements, where its spectrum is modeled as a power law in angular scale and a modified blackbody in frequency. We place an upper limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r < 0.33 at 95% confidence level after marginalizing over the foreground parameters.