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MALT90: The Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz Survey

The Millimetre Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz (MALT90) survey aims to characterise the physical and chemical evolution of high-mass star-forming clumps. Exploiting the unique broad frequency range and on-the-fly mapping capabilities of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 J. M. Jackson , J. M. Rathborne , J. B. Foster , J. S. Whitaker , P. Sanhueza , C. Claysmith , J. L. Mascoop , M. Wienen , S. L. Breen , F. Herpin , A. Duarte-Cabral , T. Csengeri , S. Longmore , Y. Contreras , B. Indermuehle , P. J. Barnes , A. J. Walsh , M. R. Cunningham , K. J. Brooks , T. R. Britton , M. A. Voronkov , J. S. Urquhart , J. Alves , C. H. Jordan , T. Hill , S. Hoq , S. Finn , S. C. , I. Bains , S. Bontemps , L. Bronfman , J. L. Caswell , L. Deharveng , S. P. Ellingsen , G. A. Fuller , G. Garay , J. A. Green , L. Hindson , P. A. Jones , C. Lenfestey , N. Lo , V. Lowe , D. Mardones , K. M. Menten , V. Minier , L. K. Morgan , F. Motte , E. Muller , N. Peretto , C. R. Purcell , P. Schilke , N. Schneider-Bontemps , F. Schuller , A. Titmarsh , F. Wyrowski , A. Zavagno

Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Nathan P. Lourie , Peter A. R. Ade , Francisco E. Angile , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Mark J. Devlin , Bradley Dober , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Sam Gordon , Christopher E. Groppi , Jeffrey Klein , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Dale Li , Ian Lowe , Hamdi Mani , Philip Mauskopf , Christopher M. McKenney , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Adrian Sinclair , Juan D. Soler , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Michael Vissers , Paul A. Williams

In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform

The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular resolution. BLAST-TNG flew from the Long Duration Balloon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Gabriele Coppi , Peter A. R. Ade , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Erin G. Cox , Mark J. Devlin , Bradley J. Dober , Valentina Fanfani , Laura M. Fissel , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Samuel Gordon , Christopher E. Groppi , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Klein , Dale Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Ian Lowe , Hamdi Mani , Philip Mauskopf , Christopher McKenney , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Giampaolo Pisano , L. Javier Romualdez , Adrian Sinclair , Juan D. Soler , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Michael Vissers , Caleb Wheeler , Paul A. Williams

From Large Telescopes to the MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST)

Recent advances in astronomical observations have ushered in an era of remarkable discoveries. We now probe the Universe through multi-messenger signals, image the sky with unprecedented depth and resolution, and investigate individual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zheng Cai , Song Huang , Yu Liu , Cheng Zhao , Lei Huang

Observing GRBs with TMT

The Thirty-Meter Telescope is an ambitious project to build a giant segmented mirror telescope with fully integrated adaptive optics systems that will produce diffraction-limited images. A powerful suite of instruments is being developed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 David Crampton , Luc Simard

Measuring and Correcting Wind-Induced Pointing Errors of the Green Bank Telescope Using an Optical Quadrant Detector

Wind-induced pointing errors are a serious concern for large-aperture high-frequency radio telescopes. In this paper, we describe the implementation of an optical quadrant detector instrument that can detect and provide a correction signal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-30 Paul Ries , Todd R. Hunter , Kim T. Constantikes , Joseph J. Brandt , Frank D. Ghigo , Brian S. Mason , Richard M. Prestage , Jason Ray , Frederic R. Schwab

The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G

SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 J. A. Sobrin , A. J. Anderson , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , D. Dutcher , A. Foster , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , A. Rahlin , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , E. Anderes , M. Archipley , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , K. Aylor , L. Balkenhol , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , K. Benabed , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , G. Chen , H. -M. Cho , T. -L. Chou , J. -F. Cliche , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , C. Daley , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , K. Dibert , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , J. Fu , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , R. Gualtieri , S. Guns , N. Gupta , R. Guyser , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , T. S. Khaire , L. Knox , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , M. Millea , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , C. L. Reichardt , D. Riebel , B. Riedel , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , B. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , E. Schiappucci , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , C. Tandoi , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young

The BOOMERANG North America Instrument: a balloon-borne bolometric radiometer optimized for measurements of cosmic background radiation anisotropies from 0.3 to 4 degrees

We describe the BOOMERANG North America (BNA) instrument, a balloon-borne bolometric radiometer designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation with 0.3 deg resolution over a significant portion of the sky. This receiver…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Piacentini , P. A. R. Ade , R. Bathia , J. J. Bock , A. Boscaleri , P. Cardoni , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , H. Del Castillo , G. de Troia , P. Farese , M. Giacometti , E. F. Hivon , V. V. Hristov , A. Iacoangeli , A. E. Lange , S. Masi , P. D. Mauskopf , L. Miglio , C. B. Netterfield , P. Palangio , E. Pascale , A. Raccanelli , S. Rao , G. Romeo , J. Ruhl , F. Scaramuzzi

MUSCAT: The Mexico-UK Sub-Millimetre Camera for AsTronomy

The Mexico-UK Sub-millimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a large-format, millimetre-wave camera consisting of 1,500 background-limited lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) scheduled for deployment on the Large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 Thomas L. R. Brien , Peter A. R. Ade , Peter S. Barry , Edgar Castillo-Domìnguez , Daniel Ferrusca , Thomas Gascard , Victor Gómez , Peter C. Hargrave , Amber L. Hornsby , David Hughes , Enzo Pascale , Josie D. A. Parrianen , Abel Perez , Sam Rowe , Carole Tucker , Salvador Ventura González , Simon M. Doyle

The Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz (MALT90) Pilot Survey

We describe a pilot survey conducted with the Mopra 22-m radio telescope in preparation for the Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team Survey at 90 GHz (MALT90). We identified 182 candidate dense molecular clumps using six different selection…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Jonathan B. Foster , James M. Jackson , Elizabeth Barris , Kate Brooks , Maria Cunningham , Susanna C. Finn , Gary A. Fuller , Steve N. Longmore , Joshua L. Mascoop , Nicholas Peretto , Jill Rathborne , Patricio Sanhueza , Frédéric Schuller , Friedrich Wyrowski

Targeted deep surveys of high Galactic latitude HI with the GBT

Over 800 sq. deg. of high Galactic latitude sky have been mapped at 21 cm with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). An improved knowledge of the telescope's beam characteristics has allowed us to reliably map not only regions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-06 K. Blagrave , F. J. Lockman , P. G. Martin

Millimeter Transient Point Sources in the SPTpol 100 Square Degree Survey

The millimeter transient sky is largely unexplored, with measurements limited to follow-up of objects detected at other wavelengths. High-angular-resolution telescopes designed for measurement of the cosmic microwave background offer the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 N. Whitehorn , T. Natoli , P. A. R. Ade , 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 , 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 , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , 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 , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , V. Yefremenko

The Star Formation in Radio Survey: Adding 90 GHz Data to 3-33 GHz Observations of Star-forming Regions in Nearby Galaxies

We present 90 GHz continuum imaging of 119 star-forming regions in 30 nearby galaxies observed with MUSTANG-2 on the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope as part of the Star Formation in Radio Survey. The 90 GHz data were combined with 3,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Anna Dignan , Eric J. Murphy , Brian Mason , Cosima Eibensteiner , Brandon S. Hensley , Eric F. Jiménez-Andrade , Sean T. Linden , Simon R. Dicker , Dillon Z. Dong , Emmanuel Momjian , Charles E. Romero , Eva Schinnerer , Jean L. Turner

Monitoring the radio spectra of selected blazars in the Fermi-GST era. The Effelsberg 100 m telescope covering the cm band

The analysis of the spectral energy distribution variability at frequencies from radio to TeV is a powerful tool in the investigation of the dynamics, the physics and the structure evolution occurring in the most exotic flavour of active…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , N. Marchili , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus

On-sky performance of the SPT-3G frequency-domain multiplexed readout

Frequency-domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a unique AC voltage bias that is selected by a resonant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. N. Bender , A. J. Anderson , J. S. Avva , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , B. A. Benson , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , J. F. Cliche , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , K. R. Ferguson , A. Foster , J. Fu , J. Gallicchio , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , A. Gilbert , J. C. Groh , S. Guns , R. Guyser , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , T. S. Khaire , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. E. Lowitz , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , W. Quan , A. Rahlin , D. Riebel , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young

Microwave SQUID Multiplexer demonstration for Cosmic Microwave Background Imagers

Key performance characteristics are demonstrated for the microwave SQUID multiplexer ($\mu$MUX) coupled to transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers that have been optimized for cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. In a 64-channel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 B. Dober , D. T. Becker , D. A. Bennett , S. A. Bryan , S. M. Duff , J. D. Gard , J. P. Hays-Wehle , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , J. A. B. Mates , C. D. Reintsema , L. R. Vale , J. N. Ullom

Confirmation of Enhanced Long Wavelength Dust Emission in OMC 2/3

Previous continuum observations from the MUSTANG camera on the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) of the nearby star-forming filament OMC 2/3 found elevated emission at 3.3 mm relative to shorter wavelength data. As a consequence, the inferred dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-09 Brian Mason , Simon Dicker , Sarah Sadavoy , Sara Stanchfield , Tony Mroczkowski , Charles Romero , Rachel Friesen , Craig Sarazin , Jonathan Sievers , Thomas Stanke , Mark Devlin

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

A Map of the Cosmic Microwave Background from the BEAST Experiment

We present the first sky maps from the BEAST (Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope) experiment. BEAST consists of a 2.2 meter off axis Gregorian telescope fed by a cryogenic millimeter wavelength focal plane currently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter R. Meinhold , Marco Bersanelli , Jeffrey Childers , Newton Figueiredo , Todd C. Gaier , Doron Halevi , Charles R. Lawrence , Miikka Kangas , Alan Levy , Philip M. Lubin , Marco Malaspina , Nazzareno Mandolesi , Joshua Marvil , Jorge Mejia , Paolo Natoli , Ian O'Dwyer , Hugh O'Neill , Shane Parendo , Agenor Pina , Michael D. Seiffert , Nathan C. Stebor , Camilo Tello , Fabrizio Villa , Thyrso Villela , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Brian Williams , Carlos Alexandre Wuensche

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor Receiver Design

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor consists of four instruments performing a CMB polarization survey. Currently, the 40 GHz and first 90 GHz instruments are deployed and observing, with the second 90 GHz and a multichroic 150/220…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jeffrey Iuliano , Joseph Eimer , Lucas Parker , Gary Rhoades , Aamir Ali , John W. Appel , Charles Bennett , Michael Brewer , Ricardo Bustos , David Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Jullianna Couto , Sumit Dahal , Kevin Denis , Rolando Dünner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Pedro Fluxa , Mark Halpern , Kathleen Harrington , Kyle Helson , Gene Hilton , Gary Hinshaw , Johannes Hubmayr , John Karakla , Tobias Marriage , Nathan Miller , Jeffrey John McMahon , Carolina Nuñez , Ivan Padilla , Gonzalo Palma , Matthew Petroff , Bastian Pradenas Márquez , Rodrigo Reeves , Carl Reintsema , Karwan Rostem , Deniz Augusto Nunes Valle , Trevor Van Engelhoven , Bingjie Wang , Qinan Wang , Duncan Watts , Jenet Weiland , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ziang Yan , Lingzhen Zeng