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Development of the 220/270 GHz Receiver of BICEP Array

Measurements of B-mode polarization in the CMB sourced from primordial gravitational waves would provide information on the energy scale of inflation and its potential form. To achieve these goals, one must carefully characterize the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Keck Collaboration , Y. Nakato , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , B. Cantrall , J. R. Cheshire , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , B. D. Elwood , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , A. Fortes , M. Gao , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , M. Lautzenhiser , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. G. Megerian , M. Miller , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , A. Patel , M. Petroff , A. R. Polish , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , T. Romand , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , A. Steiger , B. Steinbach , R. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Vergès , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Conceptual Design of the Modular Detector and Readout System for the CMB-S4 survey experiment

We present the conceptual design of the modular detector and readout system for the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4) ground-based survey experiment. CMB-S4 will map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the millimeter-wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-05 D. R. Barron , Z. Ahmed , J. Aguilar , A. J. Anderson , C. F. Baker , P. S. Barry , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , R. W. Besuner , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , S. C. Chapman , G. E. Chesmore , G. Derylo , W. B. Doriese , S. M. Duff , T. Elleflot , J. P. Filippini , B. Flaugher , J. G. Gomez , P. K. Grimes , R. Gualtieri , I. Gullett , G. Haller , S. W. Henderson , D. Henke , R. Herbst , A. I. Huber , J. Hubmayr , M. Jonas , J. Joseph , C. L. King , J. M. Kovac , D. Kubik , M. Lisovenko , J. J. McMahon , L. Moncelsi , J. M. Nagy , B. Osherson , B. Reese , J. E. Ruhl , L. Sapozhnikov , A. Schillaci , S. M. Simon , A. Suzuki , G. Wang , B. Westbrook , V. Yefremenko , J. Zhang

A Constraint on Primordial $B$-Modes from the First Flight of the SPIDER Balloon-Borne Telescope

We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of SPIDER, an experiment designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales. Results from these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 SPIDER Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , O. Doré , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , J. S. -Y. Leung , S. Li , D. S. Y. Mak , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , R. O'Brient , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , A. S. Rahlin , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , E. C. Shaw , C. Shiu , J. D. Soler , X. Song , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. F. van der List , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

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

BICEP / Keck XII: Constraints on axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background

We present a search for axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with observations from the Keck Array. A local axion field induces an all-sky, temporally sinusoidal rotation of CMB polarization. A CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Keck Collaboration , 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 , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , 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. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umilta , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang

On Measuring the CMB Temperature at Redshift 0.89

We report on a measurement of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation field, T_CMB, at z = 0.88582 by imaging HC3N (3-2) and (5-4) absorption in the foreground galaxy of the gravitationally lens magnified radio source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mayumi Sato , Mark J. Reid , Karl M. Menten , Chris L. Carilli

Lecture notes on the physics of cosmic microwave background anisotropies

We review the theory of the temperature anisotropy and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and describe what we have learned from current CMB observations. In particular, we discuss how the CMB is being used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-22 Anthony Challinor , Hiranya Peiris

Consistency of cosmic microwave background temperature measurements in three frequency bands in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

We present an internal consistency test of South Pole Telescope (SPT) measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropy using three-band data from the SPT-SZ survey. These measurements are made from observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-30 L. M. Mocanu , T. M. Crawford , K. Aylor , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , R. Chown , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. B. Everett , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , D. Luong-Van , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. J. Mohr , T. Natoli , Y. Omori , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , W. L. K. Wu

A CubeSat for Calibrating Ground-Based and Sub-Orbital Millimeter-Wave Polarimeters (CalSat)

We describe a low-cost, open-access, CubeSat-based calibration instrument that is designed to support ground-based and sub-orbital experiments searching for various polarization signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). All modern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-23 Bradley R. Johnson , Clement J. Vourch , Timothy D. Drysdale , Andrew Kalman , Steve Fujikawa , Brian Keating , Jon Kaufman

Status of QUBIC, the Q&U Bolometer for Cosmology

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 Back-ground (CMB), which is one of the major challenges of observational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-10 L. Mousset , P. Ade , A. Almela , G. Amico , L. H. Arnaldi , J. Aumont , S. Banfi , E. S. Battistelli , B. Bélier , L. Bergé , J. -Ph. Bernard , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , J. Bonaparte , J. D. Bonilla , E. Bunn , D. Buzi , D. Camilieri , F. Cavaliere , P. Chanial , C. Chapron , S. Colombo , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , B. Costanza , G. DÁlessandro , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , M. De Petris , N. Del Castillo , S. Dheilly , A. Etchegoyen , M. Famá , L. P. Ferreyro , C. Franceschet , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , K. M. Ganga , B. García , M. E. García Redondo , D. Gayer , J. M. Geria , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , V. Gilles , M. Gómez Berisso , M. González , M. Gradziel , L. Grandsire , J. -Ch. Hamilton , M. R. Hampel , G. Isopi , J. Kaplan , C. Kristukat , L. Lamagna , F. Lazarte , S. Loucatos , A. Mancilla , D. Mandelli , E. Manzan , S. Marnieros , W. Marty , S. Masi , A. May , J. Maya , M. McCulloch , L. Mele , D. Melo , A. Mennella , N. Mirón-Granese , L. Montier , N. Müller , J. D. Murphy , F. Nati , C. OŚullivan , A. Paiella , F. Pajot , S. Paradiso , A. Passerini , A. Pelosi , M. Perciballi , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , M. Platino , G. Polenta , D. Prêle , D. Rambaud , E. Rasztocky , M. Régnier , C. Reyes , F. Rodríguez , C. A. Rodríguez , G. E. Romero , J. M. Salum , A. Schillaci , C. G. Scóccola , G. Stankowiak , A. D. Supanitsky , A. Tartari , J. -P. Thermeau , P. Timbie , S. A. Torchinsky , G. Tucker , C. Tucker , L. Vacher , F. Voisin , M. Wright , M. Zannoni , A. Zullo

Thermal architecture for the QUBIC cryogenic receiver

QUBIC, the QU Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, is a novel forthcoming instrument to measure the B-mode polarization anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The detection of the B-mode signal will be extremely challenging;…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 A. J. May , C. Chapron , G. Coppi , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , S. Masi , S. Melhuish , M. Piat , L. Piccirillo , A. Schillaci , J. -P. Thermeau , P. Ade , G. Amico , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , S. Banfi , G. Barbara , P. Battaglia , E. Battistelli , A. Bau , B. Belier , D. Bennett , L. Berge , J. -Ph. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , N. Bleurvacq , J. Bonaparte , J. Bonis , G. Bordier , E. Breelle , E. Bunn , D. Burke , D. Buzi , A. Buzzelli , F. Cavaliere , P. Chanial , R. Charlassier , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , F. Couchot , R. D'Agostino , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , M. De Petris , A. Di Donato , L. Dumoulin , A. Etchegoyen , A. Fasciszewski , C. Franceschet , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , B. Garcia , X. Garrido , M. Gaspard , A. Gault , D. Gayer , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Heraud , M. Gomez Berisso , M. Gonzalez , M. Gradziel , L. Grandsire , E. Guerrard , J. -Ch. Hamilton , D. Harari , V. Haynes , S. Henrot-Versille , D. T. Hoang , F. Incardona , E. Jules , J. Kaplan , A. Korotkov , C. Kristukat , L. Lamagna , S. Loucatos , T. Louis , A. Lowitz , V. Lukovic , R. Luterstein , B. Maffei , S. Marnieros , A. Mattei , M. A. McCulloch , M. C. Medina , L. Mele , A. Mennella , L. Montier , L. M. Mundo , J. A. Murphy , J. D. Murphy , C. O'Sullivan , E. Olivieri , A. Paiella , F. Pajot , A. Passerini , H. Pastoriza , A. Pelosi , C. Perbost , O. Perdereau , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , D. Prele , R. Puddu , D. Rambaud , P. Ringegni , G. E. Romero , M. Salatino , C. G. Scoccola , S. Scully , S. Spinelli , M. Stolpovskiy , F. Suarez , A. Tartari , P. Timbie , S. A. Torchinsky , M. Tristram , V. Truongcanh , C. Tucker , G. Tucker , S. Vanneste , D. Vigano , N. Vittorio , F. Voisin , B. Watson , F. Wicek , M. Zannoni , A. Zullo

Probing the Early History of Cosmic Reionization by Future Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments

Cosmic Reionization imprints its signature on the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Advances in CMB telescopes have already placed a significant constraint on the history of reionization. As…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Hina Sakamoto , Kyungjin Ahn , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hyunjin Moon , Kenji Hasegawa

DASI Three-Year Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Results

We present the analysis of the complete 3-year data set obtained with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI) polarization experiment, operating from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station. Additional data obtained at the end…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Erik M. Leitch , J. M. Kovac , N. W. Halverson , J. E. Carlstrom , C. Pryke , M. W. E. Smith

The CMB temperature power spectrum from an improved analysis of the Archeops data

We present improved results on the measurement of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies using the data from the last Archeops flight. This refined analysis is obtained by using the 6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Tristram , G. Patanchon , J. F. Macias-Perez , P. Ade , A. Amblard , R. Ansari , E. Aubourg , A. Benoit , J. -Ph. Bernard , A. Blanchard , J. J. Bock , F. R. Bouchet , A. Bourrachot , P. Camus , J. -F. Cardoso , F. Couchot , P. de Bernardis , J. Delabrouille , F. -X. Desert , M. Douspis , L. Dumoulin , Ph. Filliatre , P. Fosalba , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Heraud , R. Gispert , L. Guglielmi , J. -Ch. Hamilton , S. Hanany , S. Henrot-Versille , J. Kaplan , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. E. Lange , K. Madet , B. Maffei , Ch. Magneville , S. Masi , F. Mayet , F. Nati , O. Perdereau , S. Plaszczynski , M. Piat , N. Ponthieu , S. Prunet , C. Renault , C. Rosset , D. Santos , D. Vibert , D. Yvon

High-Precision Scanning Water Vapor Radiometers for Cosmic Microwave Background Site Characterization and Comparison

The compelling science case for the observation of B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is driving the CMB community to expand the observed sky fraction, either by extending survey sizes or by deploying receivers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 D. Barkats , R. Bowens-Rubin , W. H. Clay , T. Culp , R. Hills , J. M. Kovac , N. A. Larsen , S. Paine , C. D. Sheehy , A. G. Vieregg

A Measurement of the Largest-Scale CMB E-mode Polarization with CLASS

We present measurements of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) E-mode polarization from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 90 GHz data. Using 115 det-yr of observations collected through 2024 with a variable-delay…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Yunyang Li , Joseph Eimer , John Appel , Charles Bennett , Michael Brewer , Sarah Marie Bruno , Ricardo Bustos , Carol Chan , David Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Sumit Dahal , Rahul Datta , Jullianna Denes Couto , Kevin Denis , Rolando Dunner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Kathleen Harrington , Kyle Helson , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , John Karakla , Tobias Marriage , Nathan Miller , Carolina Morales Perez , Lucas Parker , Matthew Petroff , Rodrigo Reeves , Karwan Rostem , Caleigh Ryan , Rui Shi , Koji Shukawa , Deniz Valle , Duncan Watts , J. Weiland , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Lingzhen Zeng

A Far Infrared Polarimeter

We describe an experiment to measure calibration sources, the polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) and the polarization induced on the CMBR from S-Z effects, using a polarimeter, MITOPol, that will be employed at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Catalano , L. Conversi , S. De Gregori , M. De Petris , L. Lamagna , R. Maoli , G. Savini , E. S. Battistelli , A. Orlando , .

Spectral distortion and polarization of the cosmic microwave background: Measurement, challenges and perspectives

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a fundamental observational tool in modern cosmology. The linear polarization of the CMB provides a crucial observational tool for exploring new physics, including the inflationary paradigm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Vyoma Muralidhara

Improved Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of Temperature Anisotropy in the CMB from Two New Analyses of BOOMERANG Observations

We report the most complete analysis to date of observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) obtained during the 1998 flight of BOOMERANG. We use two quite different methods to determine the angular power spectrum of the CMB in 20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. E. Ruhl , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , G. De Troia , K. Ganga , M. Giacometti , E. Hivon , V. V. Hristov , A. Iacoangeli , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , A. E. Lange , S. Masi , P. Mason , P. D. Mauskopf , A. Melchiorri , T. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , F. Piacentini , D. Pogosyan , G. Polenta , S. Prunet , G. Romeo

The QUIJOTE experiment: project overview and first results

QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) is a new polarimeter aimed to characterize the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and other Galactic and extragalactic signals at medium and large angular scales in the frequency range 10-40 GHz.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 R. Génova-Santos , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , R. Rebolo , M. Aguiar , F. Gómez-Reñasco , C. Gutiérrez , R. J. Hoyland , C. López-Caraballo , A. E. Peláez-Santos , M. R. Pérez de Taoro , F. Poidevin , V. Sánchez de la Rosa , D. Tramonte , A. Vega-Moreno , T. Viera-Curbelo , R. Vignaga , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro , B. Casaponsa , F. J. Casas , J. M. Diego , R. Fernández-Cobos , D. Herranz , M. López-Caniego , D. Ortiz , P. Vielva , E. Artal , B. Aja , J. Cagigas , J. L. Cano , L. de la Fuente , A. Mediavilla , J. V. Terán , E. Villa , L. Piccirillo , Davies , R. J. Davis , C. Dickinson , K. Grainge , S. Harper , B. Maffei , M. McCulloch , S. Melhuish , G. Pisano , R. A. Watson , A. Lasenby , M. Ashdown , M. Hobson , Y. Perrott , N. Razavi-Ghods , R. Saunders , D. Titterington , P. Scott