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The next-generation BLASTPol experiment

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role magnetic fields play in star formation. BLASTPol has had two science flights from McMurdo…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Bradley Dober , Peter A. R. Ade , Peter Ashton , Francesco E. Angilè , James A. Beall , Dan Becker , Kristi J. Bradford , George Che , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Mark J. Devlin , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Christopher E. Groppi , Seth Hillbrand , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Jeffrey Klein , Jeff Van Lanen , Dale Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Hamdi Mani , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Fumitaka Nakamura , Giles Novak , David P. Pappas , Enzo Pascale , Fabio P. Santos , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Sara Stanchfield , Joel N. Ullom , Matthew Underhill , Michael R. Vissers , Derek Ward-Thompson

BaBy Cosmic Tension

We show that the recently released B-mode polarisation data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) favour a non-vanishing contribution of primordial gravitational waves of inflationary origin which is in tension with the previous BICEP-Keck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Christophe Ringeval

Pointing Accuracy Improvements for the South Pole Telescope with Machine Learning

We present improvements to the pointing accuracy of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) using machine learning. The ability of the SPT to point accurately at the sky is limited by its structural imperfections, which are impacted by the extreme…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 P. M. Chichura , A. Rahlin , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , L. Balkenhol , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , M. Doohan , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , J. Kim , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , K. Levy , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , A. Maniyar , D. P. Marrone , E. S. Martsen , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , Y. Omori , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , E. Schiappucci , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Umilta , J. Veitch-Michaelis , J. D. Vieira , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , M. R. Young , K. Zagorski , J. A. Zebrowski

The stellar scintillation on large and extremely large telescopes

The accuracy of ground-based astronomical photometry is limited by two factors: photon statistics and stellar scintillation arising when star light passes through Earth's atmosphere. This paper examines the theoretical role of the outer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Victor Kornilov

The Planetary Systems Imager: 2-5 Micron Channel

We summarize the red channel (2-5 micron) of the Planetary Systems Imager (PSI), a proposed second-generation instrument for the TMT. Cold exoplanets emit the majority of their light in the thermal infrared, which means these exoplanets can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-13 Andrew J. Skemer , Deno Stelter , Dimitri Mawet , Michael Fitzgerald , Benjamin Mazin , Olivier Guyon , Christian Marois , Zackery Briesemeister , Timothy Brandt , Jeffrey Chilcote , Jacques-Robert Delorme , Nemanja Jovanovic , Jessica Lu , Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer , James Wallace , Gautam Vasisht , Lewis C. Roberts , Ji Wang

Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-14 J. Cornelison , 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 , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , 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. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , N. Precup , 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. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , 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 , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Measurements of E-Mode Polarization and Temperature-E-Mode Correlation in the Cosmic Microwave Background from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We present measurements of $E$-mode polarization and temperature-$E$-mode correlation in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the first season of observations with SPTpol, the polarization-sensitive receiver currently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. T. Crites , J. W. Henning , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , T. M. Crawford , T. De Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J Gallicchio , J. Gao , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , D. Hanson , N. Harrington , 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 , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , O. Zahn

Submillimeter Observations of Millimeter Bright Galaxies Discovered by the South Pole Telescope

We present APEX SABOCA 350micron and LABOCA 870micron observations of 11 representative examples of the rare, extremely bright (S_1.4mm > 15mJy), dust-dominated millimeter-selected galaxies recently discovered by the South Pole Telescope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. R. Greve , J. D. Vieira , A. Weiss , J. E. Aguirre , K. A. Aird , M. L. N. Ashby , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , C. M. Bradford , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , S. C. Chapman , T. M. Crawford , C. de Breuck , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , T. Downes , C. D. Fassnacht , G. Fazio , E. M. George , M. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , Y. Hezaveh , F. W. High , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , J. D. Hrubes , M. Johnson , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , M. Malkan , D. P. Marrone , V. McIntyre , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , K. M. Menten , S. S. Meyer , T. Montroy , E. J. Murphy , T. Natoli , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , M. Rosenman , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , K. Sharon , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , B. Stalder , S. A. Stanford , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , K. Vanderlinde , W. Walsh , N. Welikala , R. Williamson

Measuring the Small-Scale Matter Power Spectrum with High-Resolution CMB Lensing

We present a method to measure the small-scale matter power spectrum using high-resolution measurements of the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). To determine whether small-scale structure today is suppressed on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Ho Nam Nguyen , Neelima Sehgal , Mathew Madhavacheril

Observing low elevation sky and the CMB Cold Spot with BICEP3 at the South Pole

BICEP3 is a 520 mm aperture on-axis refracting telescope at the South Pole, which observes the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95 GHz to search for the B-mode signal from inflationary gravitational waves. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-21 J. Kang , 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 , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , 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. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , N. Precup , 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. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , 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 , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

PSZSPT: a joint Planck and SPT-SZ cluster catalog

We present the first cluster catalog extracted from combined space-based (Planck) and ground-based (South Pole Telescope; SPT-SZ) millimeter data. We developed and applied a matched multi-filter (MMF) capable of dealing with the different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 J. -B. Melin , J. G. Bartlett , P. Tarrío , G. W. Pratt

LSPE-STRIP on-sky calibration strategy using bright celestial sources

In this paper we describe the global on-sky calibration strategy of the LSPE-Strip instrument. Strip is a microwave telescope operating in the Q- and W-bands (central frequencies of 43 and 95 GHz respectively) from the Observatorio del…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Bersanelli , C. Franceschet , M. Gervasi , C. López-Caraballo , L. Mandelli , M. Maris , A. Mennella , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , F. Villa , M. Zannoni , C. Baccigalupi , B. Caccianiga , L. Colombo , F. Cuttaia , F. Farsian , G. Morgante , S. Paradiso , G. Polenta , S. Ricciardi , M. Sandri , A. Taylor , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi

The Polatron: A Millimeter-Wave Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter for the OVRO 5.5 m Telescope

We describe the development of a bolometric receiver designed to measure the arcminute-scale polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The Polatron will be mounted at the Cassegrain focus of the 5.5 m telescope at the Owens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. Philhour , B. G. Keating , P. A. R. Ade , R. S. Bhatia , J. J. Bock , S. E. Church , J. Glenn , J. R. Hinderks , V. V. Hristov , W. C. Jones , M. Kamionkowski , D. E. Kumar , A. E. Lange , J. R. Leong , D. P. Marrone , B. S. Mason , P. V. Mason , M. M. Shuman , G. I. Sirbi

Observing the Evolution of the Universe

How did the universe evolve? The fine angular scale (l>1000) temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB are a Rosetta stone for understanding the evolution of the universe. Through detailed measurements one may address everything…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-06 James Aguirre , Alexandre Amblard , Amjad Ashoorioon , Carlo Baccigalupi , Amedeo Balbi , James Bartlett , Nicola Bartolo , Dominic Benford , Mark Birkinshaw , Jamie Bock , Dick Bond , Julian Borrill , Franois Bouchet , Michael Bridges , Emory Bunn , Erminia Calabrese , Christopher Cantalupo , Ana Caramete , Carmelita Carbone , Suchetana Chatterjee , Sarah Church , David Chuss , Carlo Contaldi , Asantha Cooray , Sudeep Das , Francesco De Bernardis , Paolo De Bernardis , Gianfranco De Zotti , Jacques Delabrouille , F. -Xavier Dsert , Mark Devlin , Clive Dickinson , Simon Dicker , Matt Dobbs , Scott Dodelson , Olivier Dore , Jessie Dotson , Joanna Dunkley , Maria Cristina Falvella , Dale Fixsen , Pablo Fosalba , Joseph Fowler , Evalyn Gates , Walter Gear , Sunil Golwala , Krzysztof Gorski , Alessandro Gruppuso , Josh Gundersen , Mark Halpern , Shaul Hanany , Masashi Hazumi , Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo , Mark Hertzberg , Gary Hinshaw , Christopher Hirata , Eric Hivon , Warren Holmes , William Holzapfel , Wayne Hu , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin Huffenberger , Kent Irwin , Mark Jackson , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , William Jones , Manoj Kaplinghat , Brian Keating , Reijo Keskitalo , Justin Khoury , Will Kinney , Theodore Kisner , Lloyd Knox , Alan Kogut , Eiichiro Komatsu , Arthur Kosowsky , John Kovac , Lawrence Krauss , Hannu Kurki-Suonio , Susana Landau , Charles Lawrence , Samuel Leach , Adrian Lee , Erik Leitch , Rodrigo Leonardi , Julien Lesgourgues , Andrew Liddle , Eugene Lim , Michele Limon , Marilena Loverde , Philip Lubin , Antonio Magalhaes , Davide Maino , Tobias Marriage , Victoria Martin , Sabino Matarrese , John Mather , Harsh Mathur , Tomotake Matsumura , Pieter Meerburg , Alessandro Melchiorri , Stephan Meyer , Amber Miller , Michael Milligan , Kavilan Moodley , Michael Neimack , Hogan Nguyen , Ian O'Dwyer , Angiola Orlando , Luca Pagano , Lyman Page , Bruce Partridge , Timothy Pearson , Hiranya Peiris , Francesco Piacentini , Lucio Piccirillo , Elena Pierpaoli , Davide Pietrobon , Giampaolo Pisano , Levon Pogosian , Dmitri Pogosyan , Nicolas Ponthieu , Lucia Popa , Clement Pryke , Christoph Raeth , Subharthi Ray , Christian Reichardt , Sara Ricciardi , Paul Richards , Graca Rocha , Lawrence Rudnick , John Ruhl , Benjamin Rusholme , Claudia Scoccola , Douglas Scott , Carolyn Sealfon , Neelima Sehgal , Michael Seiffert , Leonardo Senatore , Paolo Serra , Sarah Shandera , Meir Shimon , Peter Shirron , Jonathan Sievers , Kris Sigurdson , Joe Silk , Robert Silverberg , Eva Silverstein , Suzanne Staggs , Albert Stebbins , Federico Stivoli , Radek Stompor , Naoshi Sugiyama , Daniel Swetz , Andria Tartari , Max Tegmark , Peter Timbie , Matthieu Tristram , Gregory Tucker , Jon Urrestilla , John Vaillancourt , Marcella Veneziani , Licia Verde , Joaquin Vieira , Scott Watson , Benjamin Wandelt , Grant Wilson , Edward Wollack , Mark Wyman , Amit Yadav , Giraud-Heraud Yannick , Olivier Zahn , Matias Zaldarriaga , Michael Zemcov , Jonathan Zwart

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the 600< ell <8000 Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum at 148 GHz

We present a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation observed at 148 GHz. The measurement uses maps with 1.4' angular resolution made with data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-30 J. W. Fowler , V. Acquaviva , P. A. R. Ade , P. Aguirre , M. Amiri , J. W. Appel , L. F. Barrientos , E. S. Battistelli , J. R. Bond , B. Brown , B. Burger , J. Chervenak , S. Das , M. J. Devlin , S. R. Dicker , W. B. Doriese , J. Dunkley , R. Dünner , T. Essinger-Hileman , R. P. Fisher , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , G. C. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , R. Hlozek , K. M. Huffenberger , D. H. Hughes , J. P. Hughes , L. Infante , K. D. Irwin , R. Jimenez , J. B. Juin , M. Kaul , J. Klein , A. Kosowsky , J. M. Lau , M. Limon , Y. -T. Lin , R. H. Lupton , T. A. Marriage , D. Marsden , K. Martocci , P. Mauskopf , F. Menanteau , K. Moodley , H. Moseley , C. B. Netterfield , M. D. Niemack , M. R. Nolta , L. A. Page , L. Parker , B. Partridge , H. Quintana , B. Reid , N. Sehgal , J. Sievers , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , D. S. Swetz , E. R. Switzer , R. Thornton , H. Trac , C. Tucker , L. Verde , R. Warne , G. Wilson , E. Wollack , Y. Zhao , the ACT Collaboration

The BaR-SPOrt Experiment

BaR-SPOrt (Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations) is an experiment to measure the linearly polarized emission of sky patches at 32 and 90 GHz with sub-degree angular resolution. It is equipped with high sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Zannoni , S. Cortiglioni , G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , S. Cecchini , C. Macculi , E. Morelli , C. Sbarra , G. Ventura , L. Nicastro , J. Monari , M. Poloni , S. Poppi , V. Natale , M. Baralis , O. Peverini , R. Tascone , G. Virone , A. Boscaleri , E. Pascale , G. Boella , S. Bonometto , M. Gervasi , G. Sironi , M. Tucci , R. Nesti , R. Fabbri , P. de Bernardis , M. De Petris , S. Masi , M. V. Sazhin , E. N. Vinyajkin

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large-Area Synoptic Surveys

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for planetary transits of bright stars. It consists of a small-aperture, wide-field automated telescope located at Winer Observatory near Sonoita, Arizona. The telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 Joshua Pepper , Richard W. Pogge , D. L. DePoy , J. L. Marshall , K. Z. Stanek , Amelia M. Stutz , Shawn Poindexter , Robert Siverd , Thomas P. O'Brien , Mark Trueblood , Patricia Trueblood

The Simons Observatory: Rotation Performance of Cryogenic Half-Wave Plate Polarization Modulators

We present the on-site rotation performance of the first three cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate (HWP) polarization modulators for the Simons Observatory small aperture telescopes (SATs). The SATs operate at an altitude of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kyohei Yamada , Bryce Bixler , Junna Sugiyama , Daichi Sasaki , Yuki Sakurai , Kam Arnold , Samuel Day-Weiss , Nicholas Galitzki , Bradley R. Johnson , Akito Kusaka , Lyman A. Page , Yoshinori Sueno

Weighing Cosmic Structures with Clusters of Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium

We present an analysis aimed at combining cosmological constraints from number counts of galaxy clusters identified through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, obtained with the South Pole Telescope (SPT), and from Lyman-$\alpha$ spectra obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Matteo Esposito , Vid Iršič , Matteo Costanzi , Stefano Borgani , Alexandro Saro , Matteo Viel

Development of Slow Control Boards for the Large Size Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The camera of the Large Size Telescopes (LSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consists of 265 photosensor modules, each of them containing 7 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), a slow control board (SCB), a readout board, and a trigger…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 D. Hadasch , Y. Konno , H. Kubo , D. Nakajima , H. Ohoka , T. Saito , M. Teshima , the LST Team