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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

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

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

Instrument Overview of Taurus: A Balloon-borne CMB and Dust Polarization Experiment

Taurus is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment optimized to map the E-mode polarization and Galactic foregrounds at the largest angular scales ($\ell$ $\lt$ 30) and improve measurements of the optical depth to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Jared L. May , Alexandre E. Adler , Jason E. Austermann , Steven J. Benton , Rick Bihary , Malcolm Durkin , Shannon M. Duff , Jeffrey P. Filippini , Aurelien A. Fraisse , Thomas J. L. J. Gascard , Sho M. Gibbs , Suren Gourapura , Jon E. Gudmundsson , John W. Hartley , Johannes Hubmayr , William C. Jones , Steven Li , Johanna M. Nagy , Kate Okun , Ivan L. Padilla , L. Javier Romualdez , Simon Tartakovsky , Michael R. Vissers

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

CMB Polarization Measurements

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation carries essential information on early stages of the Universe such as the cosmic inflation, forming cosmological structures through gravitational lensing, and the epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 E. Carretti , C. Baccigalupi

PICSARR: high-precision polarimetry using CMOS image sensors

We have built and tested a compact, low-cost, but very-high-performance astronomical polarimeter based on a continuously rotating half-wave plate and a high-speed imaging detector. The polarimeter is suitable for small telescopes up to ~1 m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jeremy Bailey , Daniel V. Cotton , Ain De Horta , Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer , Om Shastri

SPOrt: an Experiment Aimed at Measuring the Large Scale Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

SPOrt (Sky Polarization Observatory) is a space experiment to be flown on the International Space Station during Early Utilization Phase aimed at measuring the microwave polarized emission with FWHM = 7deg, in the frequency range 22-90 GHz.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Carretti , S. Cortiglioni , G. Bernardi , S. Cecchini , C. Macculi , C. Sbarra , J. Monari , A. Orfei , M. Poloni , S. Poppi , G. Boella , S. Bonometto , M. Gervasi , G. Sironi , M. Zannoni , M. Tucci , M. Baralis , O. A. Peverini , R. Tascone , G. Virone , R. Fabbri , L. Nicastro , K. -W. Ng , V. A. Razin , E. N. Vinyajkin , M. V. Sazhin , I. A. Strukov

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

CMB polarimetry with BICEP: instrument characterization, calibration, and performance

BICEP is a ground-based millimeter-wave bolometric array designed to target the primordial gravity wave signature on the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at degree angular scales. Currently in its third year of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuki D. Takahashi , Denis Barkats , John O. Battle , Evan M. Bierman , James J. Bock , H. Cynthia Chiang , C. Darren Dowell , Eric F. Hivon , William L. Holzapfel , Viktor V. Hristov , William C. Jones , J. P. Kaufman , Brian G. Keating , John M. Kovac , Chao-Lin Kuo , Andrew E. Lange , Erik M. Leitch , Peter V. Mason , Tomotake Matsumura , Hien T. Nguyen , Nicolas Ponthieu , Graca M. Rocha , Ki Won Yoon , P. Ade , L. Duband

Antenna-coupled TES bolometers used in BICEP2, Keck array, and SPIDER

We have developed antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers for a wide range of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry experiments, including BICEP2, Keck Array, and the balloon borne SPIDER. These detectors have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 P. A. R. Ade , R. W. Aikin , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Bonetti , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , G. Chattopadhyay , G. Davis , P. K. Day , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , V. Hristov , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , K. S. Karkare , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , H. G. Leduc , E. M. Leitch , N. Llombart , M. Lueker , P. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , A. Orlando , C. Pryke , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , M. C. Runyan , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , J. E. Tolan , A. Trangsrud , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , P. Wilson , C. L. Wong , K. W. Yoon , J. Zmuidzinas

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

On Stokes polarimeters for high precision CMB measurements and mm Astronomy measurements

Several on-going and future experiments use a Stokes polarimeter (i.e. a rotating wave plate followed by a steady polarizer and by an unpolarized detector) to measure the small polarized component of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-17 Maria Salatino , Paolo de Bernardis

Observing the polarized cosmic microwave background from the Earth: scanning strategy and polarimeters test for the LSPE/STRIP instrument

Detecting B-mode polarization anisotropies on large angular scales in the CMB polarization pattern is one of the major challenges in modern observational cosmology since it would give us an important evidence in favor of the inflationary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Federico Incardona

Mission design of LiteBIRD

LiteBIRD is a next-generation satellite mission to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. On large angular scales the B-mode polarization of the CMB carries the imprint of primordial gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-24 T. Matsumura , Y. Akiba , J. Borrill , Y. Chinone , M. Dobbs , H. Fuke , A. Ghribi , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. Holzapfel , Y. Inoue , K. Ishidoshiro , H. Ishino , H. Ishitsuka , K. Karatsu , N. Katayama , I. Kawano , A. Kibayashi , Y. Kibe , K. Kimura , N. Kimura , K. Koga , M. Kozu , E. Komatsu , A. Lee , H. Matsuhara , S. Mima , K. Mitsuda , K. Mizukami , H. Morii , T. Morishima , S. Murayama , M. Nagai , R. Nagata , S. Nakamura , M. Naruse , K. Natsume , T. Nishibori , H. Nishino , A. Noda , T. Noguchi , H. Ogawa , S. Oguri , I. Ohta , C. Otani , P. Richards , S. Sakai , N. Sato , Y. Sato , Y. Sekimoto , A. Shimizu , K. Shinozaki , H. Sugita , T. Suzuki , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takada , S. Takakura , Y. Takei , T. Tomaru , Y. Uzawa , T. Wada , H. Watanabe , N. Yamasaki , M. Yoshida , T. Yoshida , K. Yotsumoto

Improved Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 Polarimeter is a small aperture, refracting telescope, dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 95GHz. It is designed to target degree angular scale polarization patterns, in particular the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 J. Cornelison , C. Vergès , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , D. Beck , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , 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. Kang , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. Look , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. Palladino , M. A. Petroff , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reinsema , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , 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

Measuring CMB Polarization with BOOMERANG

BOOMERANG is a balloon-borne telescope designed for long duration (LDB) flights around Antarctica. The second LDB Flight of BOOMERANG took place in January 2003. The primary goal of this flight was to measure the polarization of the CMB.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Montroy , P. A. R. Ade , A. Balbi , 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 , K. Ganga , E. Hivon , V. V. Hristov , A. Iacoangeli , A. H. Jaffe , T. S. Kisner , W. C. Jones , A. E. Lange , S. Masi , P. D. Mauskopf , C. MacTavish , A. Melchiorri , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , F. Piacentini , D. Pogosyan , G. Polenta , S. Prunet , S. Ricciardi , G. Romeo , J. E. Ruhl , E. Torbet , M. Tegmark , N. Vittorio

Thermal architecture for the SPIDER flight cryostat

We describe the cryogenic system for SPIDER, a balloon-borne microwave polarimeter that will map 8% of the sky with degree-scale angular resolution. The system consists of a 1284 L liquid helium cryostat and a 16 L capillary-filled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 J. E. Gudmundsson , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , D. O'Dea , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , N. N. Gandilo , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , K. R. Helson , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , C. J. MacTavish , P. V. Mason , T. E. Montroy , T. A. Morford , C. B. Netterfield , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , M. A. Schenker , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner

High-impedence NbSi TES sensors for studying the cosmic microwave background radiation

Precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are crucial in cosmology, because any proposed model of the universe must account for the features of this radiation. Of all CMB measurements that the scientific community has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Claudia Nones , Stefanos Marnieros , Alain Benoit , Laurent Bergé , Aurelien Bideau , Philippe Camus , Louis Dumoulin , Alessandro Monfardini , Olivier Rigaut

Antenna-coupled TES bolometer arrays for CMB polarimetry

We describe the design and performance of polarization selective antenna-coupled TES arrays that will be used in several upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments: SPIDER, BICEP-2/SPUD. The fully lithographic polarimeter arrays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 C. L. Kuo , J. J. Bock , J. A. Bonetti , J. Brevik , G. Chattopadhyay , P. K. Day , S. Golwala , M. Kenyon , A. E. Lange , H. G. LeDuc , H. Nguyen , R. W. Ogburn , A. Orlando , A. Trangsrud , A. Turner , G. Wang , J. Zmuidzinas