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Absolute reference for microwave polarization experiments -- The COSMOCal project and its proof of concept

The cosmic microwave background (CMB), a remnant of the Big Bang, provides unparalleled insights into the primordial universe, its energy content, and the origin of cosmic structures. The success of forthcoming terrestrial and space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 A. Ritacco , L. Bizzarri , S. Savorgnano , F. Boulanger , M. Pérault , J. Treuttel , P. Morfin , A. Catalano , D. Darson , N. Ponthieu , A. Feret , B. Maffei , A. Chahadih , G. Pisano , M. Zannoni , F. Nati , J. F. Macías-Pérez , F. Cuttaia , L. Terenzi , A. Monfardini , M. Calvo , M. Murgia , P. Ortu , T. Pisanu , J. Aumont , J. Errard , S. Leclercq , M. Migliaccio

The Square Kilometer Array as a Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment

Contemporary cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments typically have observing bands covering the range 20 - 800 GHz. Certain science goals, including the detection of $\mu$-type distortions to the CMB spectrum and the characterization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 David Zegeye , Thomas Crawford , Jens Chluba , Mathieu Remazeilles , Keith Grainge

Second Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of the CMB Polarization Power Spectrum at 95 GHz

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) has observed the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 43 and 95GHz. The 43-GHz results have been published in QUIET Collaboration et al. (2011), and here we report the measurement of CMB polarization power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-01 QUIET Collaboration , D. Araujo , C. Bischoff , A. Brizius , I. Buder , Y. Chinone , K. Cleary , R. N. Dumoulin , A. Kusaka , R. Monsalve , S. K. Næss , L. B. Newburgh , R. Reeves , I. K. Wehus , J. T. L. Zwart , L. Bronfman , R. Bustos , S. E. Church , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , T. Gaier , J. O. Gundersen , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , K. M. Huffenberger , K. Ishidoshiro , M. E. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , D. J. Kapner , D. Kubik , C. R. Lawrence , M. Limon , J. J. McMahon , A. D. Miller , M. Nagai , H. Nguyen , G. Nixon , T. J. Pearson , L. Piccirillo , S. J. E. Radford , A. C. S. Readhead , J. L. Richards , D. Samtleben , M. Seiffert , M. C. Shepherd , K. M. Smith , S. T. Staggs , O. Tajima , K. L. Thompson , K. Vanderlinde , R. Williamson

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

QUBIC V: Cryogenic system design and performance

Current experiments aimed at measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) use cryogenic detector arrays and cold optical systems to boost the mapping speed of the sky survey. For these reasons, large volume cryogenic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 S. Masi , E. S. Battistelli , P. de Bernardis , C. Chapron , F. Columbro , G. D'Alessandro , M. De Petris , L. Grandsire , J. -Ch. Hamilton , S. Marnieros , L. Mele , A. May , A. Mennella , C. O'Sullivan , A. Paiella , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , L. Piccirillo , G. Presta , A. Schillaci , A. Tartari , J. -P. Thermeau , S. A. Torchinsky , F. Voisin , M. Zannoni , P. Ade , J. G. Alberro , A. Almela , G. Amico , L. H. Arnaldi , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , S. Azzoni , S. Banfi , B. Bélier , A. Baù , D. Bennett , L. Bergé , J. -Ph. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , J. Bonaparte , J. Bonis , E. Bunn , D. Burke , D. Buzi , F. Cavaliere , P. Chanial , R. Charlassier , A. C. Cobos Cerutti , A. Coppolecchia , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , S. Dheilly , C. Duca , L. Dumoulin , A. Etchegoyen , A. Fasciszewski , L. P. Ferreyro , D. Fracchia , C. Franceschet , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , K. M. Ganga , B. García , M. E. García Redondo , M. Gaspard , D. Gayer , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , V. Gilles , Y. Giraud-Heraud , M. Gómez Berisso , M. González , M. Gradziel , M. R. Hampel , D. Harari , S. Henrot-Versillé , F. Incardona , E. Jules , J. Kaplan , C. Kristukat , L. Lamagna , S. Loucatos , T. Louis , B. Maffei , W. Marty , A. Mattei , M. McCulloch , D. Melo , L. Montier , L. Mousset , L. M. Mundo , J. A. Murphy , J. D. Murphy , F. Nati , E. Olivieri , C. Oriol , F. Pajot , A. Passerini , H. Pastoriza , A. Pelosi , C. Perbost , M. Perciballi , F. Pezzotta , G. Pisano , M. Platino , G. Polenta , D. Prêle , R. Puddu , D. Rambaud , E. Rasztocky , P. Ringegni , G. E. Romero , J. M. Salum , C. G. Scóccola , S. Scully , S. Spinelli , G. Stankowiak , M. Stolpovskiy , A. D. Supanitsky , P. Timbie , M. Tomasi , G. Tucker , C. Tucker , D. Viganò , N. Vittorio , F. Wicek , M. Wright , A. Zullo

The QUIET Instrument

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) is designed to measure polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background, targeting the imprint of inflationary gravitational waves at large angular scales (~ 1 degree). Between 2008 October and 2010…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-20 QUIET Collaboration , C. Bischoff , A. Brizius , I. Buder , Y. Chinone , K. Cleary , R. N. Dumoulin , A. Kusaka , R. Monsalve , S. K. Naess , L. B. Newburgh , G. Nixon , R. Reeves , K. M. Smith , K. Vanderlinde , I. K. Wehus , M. Bogdan , R. Bustos , S. E. Church , R. Davis , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , T. Gaier , J. O. Gundersen , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. Holler , K. M. Huffenberger , W. A. Imbriale , K. Ishidoshiro , M. E. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , D. J. Kapner , C. R. Lawrence , E. M. Leitch , M. Limon , J. J. McMahon , A. D. Miller , M. Nagai , H. Nguyen , T. J. Pearson , L. Piccirillo , S. J. E. Radford , A. C. S. Readhead , J. L. Richards , D. Samtleben , M. Seiffert , M. C. Shepherd , S. T. Staggs , O. Tajima , K. L. Thompson , R. Williamson , B. Winstein , E. J. Wollack , J. T. L. Zwart

A Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of the CMB Temperature Anisotropy from the 2003 Flight of Boomerang

We report on observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) obtained during the January 2003 flight of Boomerang . These results are derived from 195 hours of observation with four 145 GHz Polarization Sensitive Bolometer (PSB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 W. C. Jones , P Ade , J Bock , J Bond , J Borrill , A Boscaleri , P Cabella , C Contaldi , B Crill , P de Bernardis , G De Gasperis , A de Oliveira-Costa , G De Troia , G Di Stefano , E Hivon , A Jaffe , T Kisner , A Lange , C MacTavish , S Masi , P Mauskopf , A Melchiorri , T Montroy , P Natoli , B Netterfield , E Pascale , F Piacentini , D Pogosyan , G Polenta , S Prunet , S Ricciardi , G Romeo , J Ruhl , P Santini , M Tegmark , M Veneziani , N Vittorio

Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-14 J. Cornelison , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

DASI First Results: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Angular Power Spectrum

We present measurements of anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from the first season of observations with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI). The instrument was deployed at the South Pole in the austral summer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. W. Halverson , E. M. Leitch , C. Pryke , J. Kovac , J. E. Carlstrom , W. L. Holzapfel , M. Dragovan , J. K. Cartwright , B. S. Mason , S. Padin , T. J. Pearson , M. C. Shepherd , A. C. S. Readhead

Design of a testbed for the study of system interference in space CMB polarimetry

LiteBIRD is a proposed JAXA satellite mission to measure the CMB B-mode polarization with unprecedented sensitivity ($\sigma_r\sim 0.001$). To achieve this goal, $4676$ state-of-the-art TES bolometers will observe the whole sky for 3 years…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-03 Tommaso Ghigna , Tomotake Matsumura , Masashi Hazumi , Samantha Lynn Stever , Yuki Sakurai , Nobuhiko Katayama , Aritoki Suzuki , Benjamin Westbrook , Adrian Lee

MAXIMA: Observations of CMB Anisotropy

This document describes the Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array (MAXIMA), a balloon-borne experiment measuring the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on angular scales of 10 arcminutes to 5 degrees.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 Bahman Rabii

QUBIC I: Overview and ScienceProgram

The Q $\&$ U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a novel kind of polarimeter optimized for the measurement of the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which is one of the major challenges of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 J. -Ch. Hamilton , L. Mousset , E. S. Battistelli , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , P. Chanial , R. Charlassier , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , M. De Petris , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , L. Grandsire , S. Lau , S. Marnieros , S. Masi , A. Mennella , C. O'Sullivan , M. Piat , G. Riccardi , C. Scóccola , M. Stolpovskiy , A. Tartari , S. A. Torchinsky , F. Voisin , M. Zannoni , P. Ade , J. G. Alberro , A. Almela , G. Amico , L. H. Arnaldi , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , S. Azzoni , S. Banfi , B. Bélier , A. Baù , D. Bennett , L. Bergé , J. -Ph. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , J. Bonaparte , J. Bonis , E. Bunn , D. Burke , D. Buzi , F. Cavaliere , C. Chapron , A. C. Cobos Cerutti , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , S. Dheilly , C. Duca , L. Dumoulin , A. Etchegoyen , A. Fasciszewski , L. P. Ferreyro , D. Fracchia , C. Franceschet , K. M. Ganga , B. García , M. E. García Redondo , M. Gaspard , D. Gayer , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , V. Gilles , Y. Giraud-Heraud , M. Gómez Berisso , M. González , M. Gradziel , M. R. Hampel , D. Harari , S. Henrot-Versillé , F. Incardona , E. Jules , J. Kaplan , C. Kristukat , L. Lamagna , S. Loucatos , T. Louis , B. Maffei , W. Marty , A. Mattei , A. May , M. McCulloch , L. Mele , D. Melo , L. Montier , L. M. Mundo , J. A. Murphy , J. D. Murphy , F. Nati , E. Olivieri , C. Oriol , A. Paiella , F. Pajot , A. Passerini , H. Pastoriza , A. Pelosi , C. Perbost , M. Perciballi , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , M. Platino , G. Polenta , D. Prêle , R. Puddu , D. Rambaud , P. Ringegni , G. E. Romero , E. Rasztocky , J. M. Salum , A. Schillaci , S. Scully , S. Spinelli , G. Stankowiak , A. D. Supanitsky , J. -P. Thermeau , P. Timbie , M. Tomasi , C. Tucker , G. Tucker , D. Viganò , N. Vittorio , F. Wicek , M. Wright , A. Zullo

The bolometric focal plane array of the Polarbear CMB experiment

The Polarbear Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment is currently observing from the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. It will characterize the expected B-mode polarization due to gravitational lensing of the CMB, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Arnold , P. A. R. Ade , A. E. Anthony , D. Barron , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , M. A. Dobbs , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , D. Flanigan , G. Fuller , A. Ghribi , W. Grainger , N. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Howard , P. Hyland , A. Jaffe , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , N. J. Miller , X. Meng , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , H. Nishino , H. Paar , E. Quealy , C. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , O. Zahn

Testing CMB Anomalies in E-mode Polarization with Current and Future Data

In this paper, we explore the power of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization (E-mode) data to corroborate four potential anomalies in CMB temperature data: the lack of large angular-scale correlations, the alignment of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Rui Shi , Tobias A. Marriage , John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , David T. Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Joseph Eimer , Sumit Dahal , Rahul Datta , Francisco Espinoza , Yunyang Li , Nathan J. Miller , Carolina Núñez , Ivan L. Padilla , Matthew A. Petroff , Deniz A. N. Valle , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

Cosmic Microwave Background Science at Commercial Airline Altitudes

Obtaining high-sensitivity measurements of degree-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is the most direct path to detecting primordial gravitational waves. Robustly recovering any primordial signal from the dominant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-20 Stephen M. Feeney , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Hiranya V. Peiris , Licia Verde , Josquin Errard

Millimetric Ground-based Observations of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy

First results of a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy experiment conducted at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain) are presented. The instrument is a four channel (3.1, 2.1, 1.3 and 1.1 mm) $^3$He bolometer system coupled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Piccirillo , B. Femenia , N. Kachwala , R. Rebolo , M. Limon , C. M. Guttierrez , J. Nicholas , R. K. Schaefer , R. A. Watson

High Resolution Observations of the CMB Power Spectrum with ACBAR

We report the first measurements of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR). The instrument was installed on the 2.1m Viper telescope at the South Pole in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. L. Kuo , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , C. Cantalupo , M. D. Daub , J. Goldstein , W. L. Holzapfel , A. E. Lange , M. Lueker , M. Newcomb , J. B. Peterson , J. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , E. Torbet

A measurement of the CMB E-mode angular power spectrum at subdegree scales from 670 square degrees of POLARBEAR data

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. We reach an effective polarization map noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 S. Adachi , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , M. Dobbs , H. El Bouhargani , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , H. Hirose , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , S. Kikuchi , T. Kisner , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. N. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , C. L. Reichardt , Y. Segawa , P. Siritanasak , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , C. Tsai , C. Vergès , B. Westbrook , Y. Zhou

Optical Characterization of the Keck Array Polarimeter at the South Pole

The Keck Array (SPUD) is a set of microwave polarimeters that observes from the South Pole at degree angular scales in search of a signature of Inflation imprinted as B-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. G. Vieregg , P. A. R. Ade , R. Aikin , C. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Bonetti , K. J. Bradford , J. A. Brevik , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , S. R. Golwala , M. S. Gordon , M. Halpern , G. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , K. Irwin , S. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , E. Leitch , M. Lueker , T. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , C. Pryke , J. E. Ruhl , M. Runyan , R. Schwarz , C. Sheehy , Z. Staniszewski , R. Sudiwala , G. Teply , J. Tolan , A. D. Turner , P. Wilson , C. L. Wong

MAXIMA: A Balloon-Borne Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment

We describe the Millimeter wave Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array (MAXIMA), a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on angular scales of 10' to 5 degrees . MAXIMA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. Rabii , C. D. Winant , M. E. Abroe , P. Ade , A. Balbi , J. J. Bock , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , P. de Bernardis , J. S. Collins , P. G. Ferreira , S. Hanany , V. V. Hristov , A. H. Jaffe , B. R. Johnson , A. E. Lange , A. T. Lee , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , P. L. Richards , G. F. Smoot , R. Stompor , J. H. P. Wu