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Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: The Instrument

We describe a space-borne, multi-band, multi-beam polarimeter aiming at a precise and accurate measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The instrument is optimized to be compatible with the strict budget…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. de Bernardis , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. A. Baselmans , E. S. Battistelli , A. Benoit , M. Bersanelli , A. Bideaud , M. Calvo , F. J. Casas , G. Castellano , A. Catalano , I. Charles , I. Colantoni , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , M. Crook , G. D'Alessandro , M. De Petris , J. Delabrouille , S. Doyle , C. Franceschet , A. Gomez , J. Goupy , S. Hanany , M. Hills , L. Lamagna , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , S. Martin , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , S. Masi , D. McCarthy , A. Mennella , A. Monfardini , F. Noviello , A. Paiella , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , G. Pisano , G. Signorelli , C. Y. Tan , A. Tartari , N. Trappe , S. Triqueneaux , C. Tucker , G. Vermeulen , K. Young , M. Zannoni , A. Achúcarro , R. Allison , M. Ashdown , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. Banerji , J. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , A. Bonaldi , M. Bonato , J. Borrill , F. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , T. Brinckmann , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , A. Buzzelli , Z. Y. Cai , C. S. Carvalho , A. Challinor , J. Chluba , S. Clesse , G. De Gasperis , G. De Zotti , E. Di Valentino , J. M. Diego , J. Errard , S. Feeney , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , S. Galli , R. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , J. González-Nuevo , S. Hagstotz , J. Greenslade , W. Handley , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , C. Hervias-Caimapo , E. Hivon , K. Kiiveri , T. Kisner , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , J. Lesgourgues , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , V. Lindholm , G. Luzzi , C. J. A. P. Martins , A. Melchiorri , J. B. Melin , D. Molinari , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , A. Notari , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , A. Pollo , V. Poulin , M. Quartin , M. Remazeilles , M. Roman , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , L. Salvati , M. Tomasi , D. Tramonte , T. Trombetti , J. Väliviita , R. Van de Weijgaert , B. van Tent , V. Vennin , P. Vielva , N. Vittorio

The Large-Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE)

The LSPE is a balloon-borne mission aimed at measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales, and in particular to constrain the curl component of CMB polarization (B-modes) produced by tensor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-02 The LSPE collaboration , S. Aiola , G. Amico , P. Battaglia , E. Battistelli , A. Baù , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , A. Boscaleri , F. Cavaliere , A. Coppolecchia , A. Cruciani , F. Cuttaia , A. D' Addabbo , G. D'Alessandro , S. De Gregori , F. Del Torto , M. De Petris , L. Fiorineschi , C. Franceschet , E. Franceschi , M. Gervasi , D. Goldie , A. Gregorio , V. Haynes , N. Krachmalnicoff , L. Lamagna , B. Maffei , D. Maino , S. Masi , A. Mennella , Ng Ming Wah , G. Morgante , F. Nati , L. Pagano , A. Passerini , O. Peverini , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , S. Ricciardi , P. Rissone , G. Romeo , M. Salatino , M. Sandri , A. Schillaci , L. Stringhetti , A. Tartari , R. Tascone , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , F. Villa , G. Virone , S. Withington , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

SWIPE: a bolometric polarimeter for the Large-Scale Polarization Explorer

The balloon-borne LSPE mission is optimized to measure the linear polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background at large angular scales. The Short Wavelength Instrument for the Polarization Explorer (SWIPE) is composed of 3 arrays of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. de Bernardis , S. Aiola , G. Amico , E. Battistelli , A. Coppolecchia , A. Cruciani , A. D' Addabbo , G. D' Alessandro , S. De Gregori , M. De Petris , D. Goldie , R. Gualtieri , V. Haynes , L. Lamagna , B. Maffei , S. Masi , F. Nati , M. Wah Ng , L. Pagano , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , G. Romeo , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , E. Tommasi , S. Withington

The large scale polarization explorer (LSPE) for CMB measurements: performance forecast

[Abridged] The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is one of the current frontiers in cosmology. In particular, the detection of the primordial B-modes, could reveal the presence of gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 The LSPE collaboration , G. Addamo , P. A. R. Ade , C. Baccigalupi , A. M. Baldini , P. M. Battaglia , E. S. Battistelli , A. Baù , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , M. Biasotti , A. Boscaleri , B. Caccianiga , S. Caprioli , F. Cavaliere , F. Cei , K. A. Cleary , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , G. De Gasperis , M. De Petris , V. Fafone , F. Farsian , L. Ferrari Barusso , F. Fontanelli , C. Franceschet , T. C. Gaier , L. Galli , F. Gatti , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , D. Grosso , A. Gruppuso , R. Gualtieri , F. Incardona , M. E. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , N. Krachmalnicoff , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. H. López-Caraballo , M. Lumia , R. Mainini , D. Maino , S. Mandelli , M. Maris , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , A. May , L. Mele , P. Mena , A. Mennella , R. Molina , D. Molinari , G. Morgante , U. Natale , F. Nati , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Panico , F. Paonessa , S. Paradiso , A. Passerini , M. Perez-de-Taoro , O. A. Peverini , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , G. Presta , S. Realini , N. Reyes , J. A. Rubino-Martin , M. Sandri , S. Sartor , F. Pezzotta , G. Polenta , A. Rocchi , A. Schillaci , G. Signorelli , B. Siri , M. Soria , F. Spinella , V. Tapia , A. Tartari , A. C. Taylor , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , C. Tucker , D. Vaccaro , D. M. Vigano , F. Villa , G. Virone , N. Vittorio , A. Volpe , R. E. J. Watkins , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

BFORE: The B-mode Foreground Experiment

The B-mode Foreground Experiment (BFORE) is a proposed NASA balloon project designed to make optimal use of the sub-orbital platform by concentrating on three dust foreground bands (270, 350, and 600 GHz) that complement ground-based cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 Michael D. Niemack , Peter Ade , Francesco de Bernardis , Francois Boulanger , Sean Bryan , Mark Devlin , Joanna Dunkley , Steve Eales , Haley Gomez , Chris Groppi , Shawn Henderson , Seth Hillbrand , Johannes Hubmayr , Philip Mauskopf , Jeff McMahon , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Giles Novak , Douglas Scott , Juan Soler , Carole Tucker

The short wavelength instrument for the polarization explorer balloon-borne experiment: Polarization modulation issues

In this paper we investigate the impact of using a polarization modulator in the Short Wavelenght Instrument for the Polarization Explorer (SWIPE) of the Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE). The experiment is optimized to measure the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-04 F. Columbro , E. S. Battistelli , A. Coppolecchia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , L. Lamagna , S. Masi , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Piacentini , G. Presta

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER)

The Primordial Inflation Polarization ExploreR (PIPER) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background on large angular scales. PIPER will map 85% of the sky at 200, 270, 350, and 600 GHz…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Natalie N. Gandilo , Peter A. R. Ade , Dominic Benford , Charles L. Bennett , David T. Chuss , Jessie L. Dotson , Joseph R. Eimer , Dale J. Fixsen , Mark Halpern , Gene Hilton , Gary F. Hinshaw , Kent Irwin , Christine Jhabvala , Mark Kimball , Alan Kogut , Luke Lowe , Jeff J. McMahon , Timothy M. Miller , Paul Mirel , S. Harvey Moseley , Samuel Pawlyk , Samelys Rodriguez , Elmer Sharp , Peter Shirron , Johannes G. Staguhn , Dan F. Sullivan , Eric R. Switzer , Peter Taraschi , Carole E. Tucker , Edward J. Wollack

Polarization of the Atmosphere as a Foreground for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Experiments

We quantify the level of polarization of the atmosphere due to Zeeman splitting of oxygen in the Earth's magnetic field and compare it to the level of polarization expected from the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shaul Hanany , Philip Rosenkranz

Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data

Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) is a bolometric polarimeter designed to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at degree angular scales. During three seasons of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-25 H. C. Chiang , P. A. R. Ade , D. Barkats , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , W. C. Jones , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , T. Matsumura , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , C. Pryke , S. Richter , G. Rocha , C. Sheehy , Y. D. Takahashi , J. E. Tolan , K. W. Yoon

COrE (Cosmic Origins Explorer) A White Paper

COrE (Cosmic Origins Explorer) is a fourth-generation full-sky, microwave-band satellite recently proposed to ESA within Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. COrE will provide maps of the microwave sky in polarization and temperature in 15 frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 The COrE Collaboration , C. Armitage-Caplan , M. Avillez , D. Barbosa , A. Banday , N. Bartolo , R. Battye , JP. Bernard , P. de Bernardis , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , A. Bonaldi , M. Bucher , F. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , C. Burigana , P. Camus , A. Challinor , S. Chongchitnan , D. Clements , S. Colafrancesco , J. Delabrouille , M. De Petris , G. De Zotti , C. Dickinson , J. Dunkley , T. Ensslin , J. Fergusson , P. Ferreira , K. Ferriere , F. Finelli , S. Galli , J. Garcia-Bellido , C. Gauthier , M. Haverkorn , M. Hindmarsh , A. Jaffe , M. Kunz , J. Lesgourgues , A. Liddle , M. Liguori , M. Lopez-Caniego , B. Maffei , P. Marchegiani , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , S. Masi , P. Mauskopf , S. Matarrese , A. Melchiorri , P. Mukherjee , F. Nati , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , T. Peacocke , H. Peiris , L. Perroto , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , C. Rath , S. Ricciardi , J. Rubino Martin , M. Salatino , P. Shellard , R. Stompor , L. Toffolatti J. Urrestilla , B. Van Tent , L. Verde , B. Wandelt , S. Withington

EBEX: A balloon-borne CMB polarization experiment

EBEX is a NASA-funded balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Observations will be made using 1432 transition edge sensor (TES) bolometric detectors read out with frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Asad M. Aboobaker , Peter Ade , Françcois Aubin , Carlo Baccigalupi , Chaoyun Bao , Julian Borrill , Christopher Cantalupo , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Julien Grain , William Grainger , Shaul Hanany , Seth Hillbrand , Johannes Hubmayr , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , Terry Jones , Theodore Kisner , Jeff Klein , Andrei Korotkov , Sam Leach , Adrian Lee , Lorne Levinson , Michele Limon , Kevin MacDermid , Tomotake Matsumura , Xiaofan Meng , Amber Miller , Michael Milligan , Enzo Pascale , Daniel Polsgrove , Nicolas Ponthieu , Kate Raach , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher , Federico Stivoli , Radek Stompor , Huan Tran , Matthieu Tristram , Gregory S. Tucker , Yury Vinokurov , Amit Yadav , Matias Zaldarriaga , Kyle Zilic

The EBEX Experiment

EBEX is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the intensity and polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The measurements would probe the inflationary epoch that took place shortly after the big bang and would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Oxley , P. Ade , C. Baccigalupi , P. deBernardis , H--M. Cho , M. J. Devlin , S. Hanany , B. R. Johnson , T. Jones , A. T. Lee , T. Matsumura , A. D. Miller , M. Milligan , T. Renbarger , H. G. Spieler , R. Stompor , G. S. Tucker , M. Zaldarriaga

Simulations of Foreground Effects for CMB Polarization

We use a simple model to investigate the effect of polarized Galactic foreground emission on the ability of planned CMB missions to detect and model CMB polarization. Emission from likely polarized sources (synchrotron and spinning dust)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kogut , G. Hinshaw

A new model of the microwave polarized sky for CMB experiments

We present a new model of the microwave sky in polarization that can be used to simulate data from CMB polarization experiments. We exploit the most recent results from the Planck satellite to provide an accurate description of the diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

PILOT: a balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarized FIR emission of dust grains in the interstellar medium

Future cosmology space missions will concentrate on measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, which potentially carries invaluable information about the earliest phases of the evolution of our universe. Such ambitious…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-22 R. Misawa , J-Ph. Bernard , P. Ade , Y. Andre , P. deBernardis , M. Bouzit , M. Charra , B. Crane , J. P. Dubois , C. Engel , M. Griffin , P. Hargrave , B. Leriche , Y. Longval , S. Maes , C. Marty , W. Marty , S. Masi , B. Mot , J. Narbonne , F. Pajot , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , I. Ristorcelli , L. Rodriguez , G. Roudil , M. Salatino , G. Savini , C. Tucker

SPIDER: A Balloon-borne Large-scale CMB Polarimeter

Spider is a balloon-borne experiment that will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background over a large fraction of a sky at 1 degree resolution. Six monochromatic refracting millimeter-wave telescopes with large arrays of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. P. Crill , P. A. R. Ade , E. S. Battistelli , S. Benton , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Brevik , S. Bryan , C. R. Contaldi , O. Dore , M. Farhang , L. Fissel , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. Irwin , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , C. Lawrie , C. J. MacTavish , T. G. Martin , P. Mason , T. E. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , D. Riley , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , A. Turner , M. Viero , D. Wiebe

Progress report on the Large Scale Polarization Explorer

The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. Its goal is to constrain the background of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 L. Lamagna , G. Addamo , P. A. R. Ade , C. Baccigalupi , A. M. Baldini , P. M. Battaglia , E. Battistelli , A. Baù , M. Bersanelli , M. Biasotti , C. Boragno , A. Boscaleri , B. Caccianiga , S. Caprioli , F. Cavaliere , F. Cei , K. A. Cleary , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , D. Corsini , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , M. De Petris , F. Del Torto , V. Fafone , Z. Farooqui , F. Farsian , F. Fontanelli , C. Franceschet , T. C. Gaier , F. Gatti , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , M. Grassi , D. Grosso , R. Gualtieri , F. Incardona , M. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , N. Krachmalnicoff , R. Mainini , D. Maino , S. Mandelli , M. Maris , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , A. May , P. Mena , A. Mennella , R. Molina , D. Molinari , G. Morgante , F. Nati , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Paonessa , A. Passerini , M. Perez-de-Taoro , O. A. Peverini , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , D. Poletti , G. Presta , S. Realini , N. Reyes , A. Rocchi , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , M. Sandri , S. Sartor , A. Schillaci , G. Signorelli , B. Siri , M. Soria , F. Spinella , V. Tapia , A. Tartari , A. Taylor , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , C. Tucker , D. Vaccaro , D. M. Vigano , F. Villa , G. Virone , N. Vittorio , A. Volpe , B. Watkins , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

Cosmic Background dipole measurements with Planck-High Frequency Instrument

This paper discusses the Cosmic Background (CB) dipoles observations in the framework of the Planck mission. Dipoles observations can be used in three ways: (i) It gives a measurement of the peculiar velocity of our Galaxy which is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Piat , G. Lagache , J. P. Bernard , M. Giard , J. L. Puget

Current Status and Perspectives of Cosmic Microwave Background Observations

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation provide a unique opportunity for a direct study of the primordial cosmic plasma at redshift z ~1000. The angular power spectra of temperature and polarisation fluctuations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Bersanelli , Davide Maino , Aniello Mennella

The Low Frequency Instrument in the ESA Planck mission

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) allow high precision observation of the cosmic plasma at redshift z~1100. After the success of the NASA satellite COBE, that in 1992 provided the first detection of the CMB anisotropy,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mennella , M. Bersanelli , B. Cappellini , D. Maino , P. Platania , S. Garavaglia , R. C. Butler , N. Mandolesi F. Pasian , O. D'arcangelo , A. Simonetto , C. Sozzi