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Instrument, Method, Brightness and Polarization Maps from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG

We present the BOOMERanG-03 experiment and maps of the Stokes parameters I, Q, U of the microwave sky obtained during a 14 day balloon flight in 2003. Three regions of the southern sky were surveyed: a deep survey (~ 90 square degrees) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S Masi , 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 , P Ehlers , E Hivon , V Hristov , A Iacoangeli , A Jaffe , W Jones , T Kisner , A Lange , C MacTavish , C Marini-Bettolo , P Mason , P Mauskopf , T Montroy , F Nati , L Nati , P Natoli , C Netterfield , E Pascale , F Piacentini , D Pogosyan , G Polenta , S Prunet , S Ricciardi , G Romeo , J Ruhl , P Santini , M Tegmark , E Torbet , M Veneziani , N Vittorio

Updated design of the CMB polarization experiment satellite LiteBIRD

Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their application on future satellite CMB polarization experiments.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 H. Sugai , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , D. Alonso , K. Arnold , J. Aumont , J. Austermann , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. Banerji , R. B. Barreiro , S. Basak , J. Beall , S. Beckman , M. Bersanelli , J. Borrill , F. Boulanger , M. L. Brown , M. Bucher , A. Buzzelli , E. Calabrese , F. J. Casas , A. Challinor , V. Chan , Y. Chinone , J. -F. Cliche , F. Columbro , A. Cukierman , D. Curtis , P. Danto , P. de Bernardis , T. de Haan , M. De Petris , C. Dickinson , M. Dobbs , T. Dotani , L. Duband , A. Ducout , S. Duff , A. Duivenvoorden , J. -M. Duval , K. Ebisawa , T. Elleflot , H. Enokida , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , T. Essinger-Hileman , F. Finelli , R. Flauger , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , K. Ganga , J. -R. Gao , R. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , A. Gomez , M. L. Gradziel , J. Grain , F. Grupp , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , N. W. Halverson , P. Hargrave , T. Hasebe , M. Hasegawa , M. Hattori , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versille , D. Herranz , C. Hill , G. Hilton , Y. Hirota , E. Hivon , R. Hlozek , D. -T. Hoang , J. Hubmayr , K. Ichiki , T. Iida , H. Imada , K. Ishimura , H. Ishino , G. C. Jaehnig , M. Jones , T. Kaga , S. Kashima , Y. Kataoka , N. Katayama , T. Kawasaki , R. Keskitalo , A. Kibayashi , T. Kikuchi , K. Kimura , T. Kisner , Y. Kobayashi , N. Kogiso , A. Kogut , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , K. Komatsu , K. Konishi , N. Krachmalnicoff , C. L. Kuo , N. Kurinsky , A. Kushino , M. Kuwata-Gonokami , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , B. Maffei , D. Maino , M. Maki , A. Mangilli , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , R. Mathon , T. Matsumura , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , Y. Minami , K. Mistuda , D. Molinari , L. Montier , G. Morgante , B. Mot , Y. Murata , J. A. Murphy , M. Nagai , R. Nagata , S. Nakamura , T. Namikawa , P. Natoli , S. Nerva , T. Nishibori , H. Nishino , Y. Nomura , F. Noviello , C. O'Sullivan , H. Ochi , H. Ogawa , H. Ogawa , H. Ohsaki , I. Ohta , N. Okada , N. Okada , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , F. Piacentini , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , D. Poletti , T. Prouvé , G. Puglisi , D. Rambaud , C. Raum , S. Realini , M. Remazeilles , G. Roudil , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , M. Russell , H. Sakurai , Y. Sakurai , M. Sandri , G. Savini , D. Scott , Y. Sekimoto , B. D. Sherwin , K. Shinozaki , M. Shiraishi , P. Shirron , G. Signorelli , G. Smecher , P. Spizzi , S. L. Stever , R. Stompor , S. Sugiyama , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , E. Switzer , R. Takaku , H. Takakura , S. Takakura , Y. Takeda , A. Taylor , E. Taylor , Y. Terao , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , M. Tomasi , H. Tomida , N. Trappe , M. Tristram , M. Tsuji , M. Tsujimoto , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , S. Uozumi , S. Utsunomiya , J. Van Lanen , G. Vermeulen , P. Vielva , F. Villa , M. Vissers , N. Vittorio , F. Voisin , I. Walker , N. Watanabe , I. Wehus , J. Weller , B. Westbrook , B. Winter , E. Wollack , R. Yamamoto , N. Y. Yamasaki , M. Yanagisawa , T. Yoshida , J. Yumoto , M. Zannoni , A. Zonca

Mapping the CMB with QUBIC spectral imaging

QUBIC, the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, is a telescope that observes the polarisation of the sky in the millimetre-wavelength range. Its goal is to detect the primordial B-modes of polarisation in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Alexandre Huchet , Tom Laclavère , Leonora Kardum

The Atacama B-Mode Search: CMB Polarimetry with Transition-Edge-Sensor Bolometers

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) experiment is a 145 GHz polarimeter designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales. The ABS instrument will ship to the Atacama Desert of Chile…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-26 T. Essinger-Hileman , J. W. Appel , J. A. Beall , H. M. Cho , J. Fowler , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , K. D. Irwin , T. A. Marriage , M. D. Niemack , L. Page , L. P. Parker , S. Pufu , S. T. Staggs , O. Stryzak , C. Visnjic , K. W. Yoon , Y. Zhao

PROTOCALC, A W-band polarized calibrator for CMB Telescopes: application to Simons Observatory and CLASS

Current- and next-generation Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments will measure polarization anisotropies with unprecedented sensitivities. The need for high precision in these measurements underscores the importance of gaining a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Gabriele Coppi , Nadia Dachlythra , Federico Nati , Rolando Dünner-Planella , Alexandre E. Adler , Josquin Errard , Nicholas Galitzki , Yunyang Li , Matthew A. Petroff , Sara M. Simon , Ema Tsang King Sang , Amalia Villarrubia Aguilar , Edward J. Wollack , Mario Zannoni

Preparation to the CMB PLANCK data analysis, bias due to the galactic polarized emissions

The PLANCK satellite mission has been launched the 14th of May 2009 and is dedicated to the measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. The presence of diffuse galactic polarized emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-20 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macias-Perez , F. X. Desert

CLOVER - A new instrument for measuring the B-mode polarization of the CMB

We describe the design and expected performance of Clover, a new instrument designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The proposed instrument will comprise three independent telescopes operating at 90,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Taylor , A. Challinor , D. Goldie , K. Grainge , M. E. Jones , A. N. Lasenby , S. Withington , G. Yassin , W. K. Gear , L. Piccirillo , P. Ade , P. D. Mauskopf , B. Maffei , G. Pisano

MAXIMA: an experiment to measure temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background

We describe the MAXIMA experiment, a balloon-borne measurement designed to map temperature anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over a wide range of angular scales (multipole range 80 < l < 800). The experiment consists of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. T. Lee , P. Ade , A. Balbi , J. Bock , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , B. P. Crill , P. De Bernardis , H. Del Castillo , P. Ferreira , K. Ganga , S. Hanany , V. Hristov , A. H. Jaffe , A. E. Lange , P. Mauskopf , C. B. Netterfield , S. Oh , E. Pascale , B. Rabii , P. L. Richards , J. Ruhl , G. F. Smoot , C. D. Winant

CMB Telescopes and Optical Systems

The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is now firmly established as a fundamental and essential probe of the geometry, constituents, and birth of the Universe. The CMB is a potent observable because it can be measured with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Hanany , M. Niemack , L. Page

CMB foreground measurements through broad-band radio spectro-polarimetry: prospects of the SKA-MPG telescope

Precise measurement of the foreground synchrotron emission, which contaminates the faint polarized cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), is a major challenge for the next-generation of CMB experiments. To address this, dedicated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Aritra Basu , Dominik J. Schwarz , Hans-Rainer Klöckner , Sebastian von Hausegger , Michael Kramer , Gundolf Wieching , Blakesley Burkhart

Design and characterization of the POLARBEAR-2b and POLARBEAR-2c cosmic microwave background cryogenic receivers

The POLARBEAR-2/Simons Array Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment is an upgrade and expansion of the existing POLARBEAR-1 (PB-1) experiment, located in the Atacama desert in Chile. Along with the CMB temperature and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-15 Logan Howe , Calvin Tsai , Lindsay Lowry , Kam Arnold , Gabriele Coppi , John Groh , Xiaoyu Guo , Brian Keating , Adrian Lee , Andrew J. May , Lucio Piccirillo , Nathan Stebor , Grant Teply

First Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of CMB Polarization Power Spectra at 43 GHz in the Multipole Range 25 <= ell <= 475

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) employs coherent receivers at 43GHz and 95GHz, operating on the Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama Desert in Chile, to measure the anisotropy in the polarization of the CMB. QUIET primarily targets the B…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-23 QUIET Collaboration , 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 , K. M. Smith , I. K. Wehus , J. A. Zuntz , J. T. L. Zwart , L. Bronfman , R. Bustos , S. E. Church , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , P. G. Ferreira , T. Gaier , J. O. Gundersen , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , K. M. Huffenberger , M. E. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , D. J. Kapner , C. R. Lawrence , M. Limon , J. May , J. J. McMahon , A. D. Miller , H. Nguyen , G. W. Nixon , 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 , K. Vanderlinde , R. Williamson , B. Winstein

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Gravitational Lensing Potential from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) gravitational lensing potential using data from the first two seasons of observations with SPTpol, the polarization-sensitive receiver currently installed on the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 K. T. Story , D. Hanson , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , J. Gao , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , C. Liang , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , O. Zahn

Mapping the CMB III: combined analysis of QMAP flights

We present results from the QMAP balloon experiment, which maps the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and probes its angular power spectrum on degree scales. In two separate flights, data were taken in six channels at two frequency bands…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Angelica de Oliveira-Costa , Mark Devlin , Tom Herbig , Amber Miller , Barth Netterfield , Lyman Page , Max Tegmark

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales with POLARBEAR

We report a measurement of the B-mode polarization power spectrum in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the POLARBEAR experiment in Chile. The faint B-mode polarization signature carries information about the Universe's entire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , A. E. Anthony , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , D. Barron , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , D. Flanigan , A. Gilbert , W. Grainger , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , J. Howard , P. Hyland , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , E. Linder , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , N. J. Miller , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , E. Quealy , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , I. Schanning , D. E. Schenck , B. D. Sherwin , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , P. Siritanasak , G. Smecher , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , B. Wilson , A. Yadav , O. Zahn

Status of the COSmological Microwave Observations CALibrator

As the sensitivity of CMB telescopes increases, the need for precise calibration becomes critical. Started in 2022, the COSMOCal project aims to place an artificial polarized source in geostationary orbit, which will serve as a reference…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 L. Mousset , J. Aumont , S. Berta , L. Bizzarri , F. Boulanger , A. Catalano , F. Cuttaia , A. Denis , A. -L. Fontana , D. González Ovejero , B. Kalemi , S. Leclercq , J. -F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , T. Mcnamara , S. Micheli , M. Migliaccio , L. Montier , P. Morfin , M. Moulin , M. Murgia , I. Myserlis , F. Nati , P. Ortu , M. Pérault , G. Pisano , T. Pisanu , N. Ponthieu , A. Ritacco , S. Savorgnano , L. Terenzi , L. Thibaut , J. Treuttel , C. Vescovi , L. Vacher , M. Zannoni

A Measurement of the CMB <EE> Spectrum from the 2003 Flight of BOOMERANG

We report measurements of the CMB polarization power spectra from the January 2003 Antarctic flight of BOOMERANG. The primary results come from six days of observation of a patch covering 0.22% of the sky centered near R.A. = 82.5 deg.,…

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

The Simons Observatory: Instrument Overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular scales between 1 arcminute and tens of degrees, contain over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Nicholas Galitzki , Aamir Ali , Kam S. Arnold , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Darcy Barron , James A. Beall , Shawn Beckman , Sarah Marie M. Bruno , Sean Bryan , Paolo G. Calisse , Grace E. Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Steve K. Choi , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Shannon M. Duff , Jo Dunkley , Giulio Fabbian , Patricio A. Gallardo , Martina Gerbino , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Joseph E. Golec , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Erin E. Healy , Shawn Henderson , Charles A. Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Logan A. Howe , Johannes Hubmayr , Oliver Jeong , Brian Keating , Brian J. Koopman , Kenji Kuichi , Akito Kusaka , Jacob Lashner , Adrian T. Lee , Yaqiong Li , Michele Limon , Marius Lungu , Frederick Matsuda , Philip D. Mauskopf , Andrew J. May , Nialh McCallum , Jeff McMahon , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Stephen C. Parshley , Lucio Piccirillo , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Christopher Raum , Maria Salatino , Joseph S. Seibert , Carlos Sierra , Max Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason R. Stevens , Aritoki Suzuki , Grant Teply , Robert Thornton , Calvin Tsai , Joel N. Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R. Vissers , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

The White Mountain Polarimeter Telescope and an Upper Limit on CMB Polarization

The White Mountain Polarimeter (WMPol) is a dedicated ground-based microwave telescope and receiver system for observing polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. WMPol is located at an altitude of 3880 meters on a plateau in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alan R. Levy , Rodrigo Leonardi , Markus Ansmann , Marco Bersanelli , Jeffery Childers , Terrence D. Cole , Ocleto D'Arcangelo , G. Vietor Davis , Philip M. Lubin , Joshua Marvil , Peter R. Meinhold , Gerald Miller , Hugh O`Neill , Fabrizio Stavola , Nathan C. Stebor , Peter T. Timbie , Maarten van der Heide , Fabrizio Villa , Thyrso Villela , Brian D. Williams , Carlos A. Wuensche

Probing the Universe on Gigaparsec Scales with Remote Cosmic Microwave Background Quadrupole Measurements

Scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation in galaxy clusters induces a polarization signal proportional to the CMB quadrupole anisotropy at the cluster's location and look-back time. A survey of such remote quadrupole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emory F. Bunn