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Ultra High Energy Cosmology with POLARBEAR

Observations of the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lend support to an inflationary origin of the universe, yet no direct evidence verifying inflation exists. Many current experiments are focussing on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-11 B. Keating , S. Moyerman , D. Boettger , J. Edwards , G. Fuller , F. Matsuda , N. Miller , H. Paar , G. Rebeiz , I. Schanning , M. Shimon , N. Stebor , K. Arnold , D. Flanigan , W. Holzapfel , J. Howard , Z. Kermish , A. Lee , M. Lungu , M. Myers , H. Nishino , R. O'Brient , E. Quealy , C. Reichardt , P. Richards , C. Shimmin , B. Steinbach , A. Suzuki , O. Zahn , J. Borrill , C. Cantalupo , E. Kisner , E. Linder , M. Sholl , H. Spieler , A. Anthony , N. Halverson , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , M. Le Jeune , R. Stompor , A. Jaffe , D. O'Dea , Y. Chinone , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , T. Matsumura , H. Morii , A. Shimizu , T. Tomaru , P. Hyland , M. Dobbs , P. Ade , W. Grainger , C. Tucker

CMB Observations with a Compact Heterogeneous 150 GHz Interferometer in Chile

We report on the design, first observing season, and analysis of data from a new prototype millimeter-wave interferometer, MINT. MINT consists of four 145 GHz SIS mixers operating in double-sideband mode in a compact heterogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. W. Fowler , W. B. Doriese , T. A. Marriage , H. T. Tran , A. M. Aboobaker , C. Dumont , M. Halpern , Z. D. Kermish , Y. -S. Loh , L. A. Page , S. T. Staggs , D. H. Wesley

The Keck Array: a pulse tube cooled CMB polarimeter

The Keck Array is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter that will begin observing from the South Pole in late 2010. The initial deployment will consist of three telescopes similar to BICEP2 housed in ultra-compact, pulse tube…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-02 C. D. Sheehy , P. A. R. Ade , R. W. Aikin , M. Amiri , S. Benton , C. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Bonetti , J. A. Brevik , B. Burger , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , K. Irwin , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. W. Ogburn , A. Orlando , C. L. Pryke , C. Reintsema , S. Richter , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , Z. Staniszewski , S. Stokes , R. Sudiwala , G. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , A. D. Turner , P. Wilson , C. L. Wong

Design and Deployment of a Multichroic Polarimeter Array on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

We present the design and the preliminary on sky performance with respect to beams and pass-bands of a multichroic polarimeter array covering the 90 and 146 GHz Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) bands and its enabling broadband optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 R. Datta , J. Austermann , J. A. Beall , D. Becker , K. P. Coughlin , S. M. Duff , P. A. Gallardo , E. Grace , M. Hasselfield , S. W. Henderson , G. C. Hilton , S. P. Ho , J. Hubmayr , B. J. Koopman , J. V. Lanen , D. Li , J. McMahon , C. D. Munson , F. Nati , M. D. Niemack , L. Page , C. G. Pappas , M. Salatino , B. L. Schmitt , A. Schillaci , S. M. Simon , S. T. Staggs , J. R. Stevens , E. M. Vavagiakis , J. T. Ward , E. J. Wollack

Searching for Long Strings in CMB Maps

Using analytical methods and Monte Carlo simulations, we analyze new statistics designed to detect isolated step-like discontinuities which are coherent over large areas of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) pixel maps. Such coherent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 L. Perivolaropoulos

QUaD: A High-Resolution Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter

We describe the QUaD experiment, a millimeter-wavelength polarimeter designed to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from a site at the South Pole. The experiment comprises a 2.64 m Cassegrain telescope equipped with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 QUaD collaboration , J. R. Hinderks , P. Ade , J. Bock , M. Bowden , M. L. Brown , G. Cahill , J. E. Carlstrom , P. G. Castro , S. Church , T. Culverhouse , R. Friedman , K. Ganga , W. K. Gear , S. Gupta , J. Harris , V. Haynes , B. G. Keating , J. Kovac , E. Kirby , A. E. Lange , E. Leitch , O. E. Mallie , S. Melhuish , Y. Memari , J. A. Murphy , A. Orlando , R. Schwarz , C. O'Sullivan , L. Piccirillo , C. Pryke , N. Rajguru , B. Rusholme , A. N. Taylor , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. H. Turner , E. Y. S. Wu , M. Zemcov

The QUIJOTE CMB Experiment: status and first results with the multi-frequency instrument

The QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint Tenerife) CMB Experiment is designed to observe the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and other Galactic and extragalactic signals at medium and large angular scales in the frequency range of 10-40…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-06 M. López-Caniego , R. Rebolo , M. Aguiar , R. Génova-Santos , F. Gómez-Reñasco , C. Gutierrez , J. M. Herreros , R. J. Hoyland , C. López-Caraballo , A. E. Pelaez Santos , F. Poidevin , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , V. Sanchez 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 , 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 , R. Battye , E. Blackhurst , M. Brown , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , C. Dickinson , K. Grainge , S. Harper , B. Maffei , M. McCulloch , S. Melhuish , G. Pisano , R. A. Watson , M. Hobson , A. Lasenby , R. Saunders , P. Scott

BICEP Array: a multi-frequency degree-scale CMB polarimeter

BICEP Array is the newest multi-frequency instrument in the BICEP/Keck Array program. It is comprised of four 550 mm aperture refractive telescopes observing the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 30/40, 95, 150 and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-03 Howard Hui , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , R. W. Aikin , K. D. Alexander , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , B. P. Crill , M. Crumrine , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , C. Dvorkin , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , N. A. Larsen , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. OBrient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , C. Pryke , B. Racine , S. Richter , R. Schwarz , A. Schillaci , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. 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 , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , C. Zhang

BICEP Array: 150 GHz detector module development

The BICEP/Keck Collaboration is currently leading the quest to the highest sensitivity measurements of the polarized CMB anisotropies on degree scale with a series of cryogenic telescopes, of which BICEP Array is the latest Stage-3 upgrade…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-30 A. Schillaci , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , K. G. Megerian , O. Y. Miller , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O' Brient , S. Palladino , M. Petroff , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltá , C. Verges , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

ACTPol: A polarization-sensitive receiver for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

The six-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile was built to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at arcminute angular scales. We are building a new polarization sensitive receiver for ACT (ACTPol). ACTPol will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. D. Niemack , P. A. R. Ade , J. Aguirre , F. Barrientos , J. A. Beall , J. R. Bond , J. Britton , H. M. Cho , S. Das , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , J. Dunkley , R. Dunner , J. W. Fowler , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. C. Hilton , M. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , J. P. Hughes , L. Infante , K. D. Irwin , N. Jarosik , J. Klein , A. Kosowsky , T. A. Marriage , J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , K. Moodley , J. P. Nibarger , M. R. Nolta , L. A. Page , B. Partridge , E. D. Reese , J. Sievers , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , R. Thornton , C. Tucker , E. Wollack , K. W. Yoon

2022 Upgrade and Improved Low Frequency Camera Sensitivity for CMB Observation at the South Pole

Constraining the Galactic foregrounds with multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations is an essential step towards ultimately reaching the sensitivity to measure primordial gravitational waves (PGWs), the sign of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 A. Soliman , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. I. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kangh , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. Palladino , M. A. Petroff , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , C. Vergès , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

First results from the Very Small Array -- II. Observations of the CMB

We have observed the cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations in eight fields covering three separated areas of sky with the Very Small Array at 34 GHz. A total area of 101 square degrees has been imaged, with sensitivity on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Angela C. Taylor , Pedro Carreira , Kieran Cleary , Rod D. Davies , Richard J. Davis , Clive Dickinson , Keith Grainge , Carlos M. Gutierrez , Michael P. Hobson , Michael E. Jones , Rudiger Kneissl , Anthony Lasenby , J. P. Leahy , Klaus Maisinger , Guy G. Pooley , Rafael Rebolo , Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin , Ben Rusholme , Richard D. E. Saunders , Richard Savage , Paul F. Scott , Anze Slosar , Pedro J. Sosa Molina , David Titterington , Elizabeth Waldram , Robert A. Watson , Althea Wilkinson

Receiver development for BICEP Array, a next-generation CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

A detection of curl-type ($B$-mode) polarization of the primary CMB would be direct evidence for the inflationary paradigm of the origin of the Universe. The BICEP/Keck Array (BK) program targets the degree angular scales, where the power…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 L. Moncelsi , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. Grimes , 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 , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. Palladino , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Innovative Demodulation Scheme for Coherent Detectors in CMB Experiments

We propose an innovative demodulation scheme for coherent detectors used in cosmic microwave background polarization experiments. Removal of non-white noise, e.g., narrow-band noise, in detectors is one of the key requirements for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-22 K. Ishidoshiro , Y. Chinone , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , M. Nagai , O. Tajima

Optical characterization of the Keck Array and BICEP3 CMB Polarimeters from 2016 to 2019

The BICEP/Keck experiment (BK) is a series of small-aperture refracting telescopes observing degree-scale Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization from the South Pole in search of a primordial $B$-mode signature. This $B$-mode signal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Keck Collaboration , T. St Germaine , 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. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. A. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , 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. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , 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 , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , C. Zhang

Calibration System with Cryogenically-Cooled Loads for CMB Polarization Detectors

We present a novel system to calibrate millimeter-wave polarimeters for CMB polarization measurements. This technique is an extension of the conventional metal mirror rotation approach, however it employs cryogenically-cooled blackbody…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-01 M. Hasegawa , O. Tajima , Y. Chinone , M. Hazumi , K. Ishidoshiro , M. Nagai

The new generation CMB B-mode polarization experiment: POLARBEAR

We describe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment called Polarbear. This experiment will use the dedicated Huan Tran Telescope equipped with a powerful 1,200-bolometer array receiver to map the CMB polarization with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-25 The Polarbear Collaboration , J. Errard , P. A. R. Ade , A. Anthony , K. Arnold , F. Aubin , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , C. Cantalupo , M. A. Dobbs , D. Flanigan , A. Ghribi , N. Halverson , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Howard , P. Hyland , A. Jaffe , B. Keating , T. Kisner , Z. Kermish , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , M. Lungu , T. Matsumura , N. Miller , X. Meng , M. Myers , H. Nishino , R. O'Brient , D. O'Dea , C. Reichardt , I. Schanning , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , H. Spieler , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , T. Tomaru , H. T. Tran , C. Tucker , E. Quealy , P. L. Richards , O. Zahn

Detecting the B-mode Polarisation of the CMB with Clover

We describe the objectives, design and predicted performance of Clover, which is a ground-based experiment to measure the faint ``B-mode'' polarisation pattern in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To achieve this goal, clover will make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-03 C. E. North , B. R. Johnson , P. A. R. Ade , M. D. Audley , C. Baines , R. A. Battye , M. L. Brown , P. Cabella , P. G. Calisse , A. D. Challinor , W. D. Duncan , P. G. Ferreira , W. K. Gear , D. Glowacka , D. J. Goldie , P. K. Grimes , M. Halpern , V. Haynes , G. C. Hilton , K. D. Irwin , M. E. Jones , A. N. Lasenby , P. J. Leahy , J. Leech , B. Maffei , P. Mauskopf , S. J. Melhuish , D. O'Dea , S. M. Parsley , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , C. D. Reintsema , G. Savini , R. Sudiwala , D. Sutton , A. C. Taylor , G. Teleberg , D. Titterington , V. Tsaneva , C. Tucker , R. Watson , S. Withington , G. Yassin , J. Zhang

Bandpass mismatch error for satellite CMB experiments I: Estimating the spurious signal

Future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) satellite missions aim to use the $B$ mode polarization to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ with a sensitivity of about $10^{-3}$. Achieving this goal will not only require sufficient detector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-08 Duc Thuong Hoang , Guillaume Patanchon , Martin Bucher , Tomotake Matsumura , Ranajoy Banerji , Hirokazu Ishino , Masashi Hazumi , Jacques Delabrouille

Pseudo-$C_\ell$ estimators which do not mix E and B modes

Pseudo-$C_\ell$ quadratic estimators for CMB temperature and polarization power spectra have been used in the analysis pipelines of many CMB experiments, such as WMAP and Boomerang. In the polarization case, these estimators mix E and B…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Kendrick M. Smith