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A Dual-polarized Broadband Planar Antenna and Channelizing Filter Bank for Millimeter Wavelengths

We describe the design, fabrication, and testing of a broadband log-periodic antenna coupled to multiple cryogenic bolometers. This detector architecture, optimized here for astrophysical observations, simultaneously receives two linear…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Roger OBrient , Peter Ade , Kam Arnold , Jennifer Edwards , Greg Engargiola , William L Holzapfel , Adrian T Lee , Michael J Myers , Erin Quealy , Gabriel Rebeiz , Paul Richards , Aritoki Suzuki

Multichroic TES Bolometers and Galaxy Cluster Mass Scaling Relations with the South Pole Telescope

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a high-resolution microwave-frequency telescope designed to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). To date, two cameras have been installed on the SPT to conduct two surveys of the CMB, the first in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 Benjamin Saliwanchik

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

CAPMAP: A New Instrument to Measure the E-mode CMB Polarization on Angular Scales of 4 arcmin to 40 arcmin

The CMB polarization is the Everest in the quest to characterize the earliest photons from the Universe. After a long list of ever-decreasing upper limits, a detection of polarization was made in 2002 by the DASI team at ell =~ 500. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Denis Barkats

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

A dual output polarimeter devoted to the study of the Cosmic Microwave Background

We have developed a correlation radiometer at 33 GHz devoted to the search for residual polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The two instruments`s outputs are linear combination of two Stokes Parameters (Q and U or U and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Gervasi , G. Boella , F. Cavaliere , G. Grossetti , A. Passerini , G. Sironi , A. Tartari , M. Zannoni

Horn Coupled Multichroic Polarimeters for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization Experiment

Multichroic polarization sensitive detectors enable increased sensitivity and spectral coverage for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). An array optimized for dual frequency detectors can provide 1.7 times gain in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Rahul Datta , Johannes Hubmayr , Charles Munson , Jason Austermann , James Beall , Dan Becker , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Nils Halverson , Gene Hilton , Kent Irwin , Dale Li , Jeff McMahon , Laura Newburgh , John Nibarger , Michael Niemack , Benjamin Schmitt , Harrison Smith , Suzanne Staggs , Jeff Van Lanen , Edward Wollack

Hierarchical sinuous phased array for increased mapping speed of multichroic focal planes

We present the design, fabrication and measured performance of a hierarchical sinuous-antenna phased array coupled to transition-edge-sensor (TES) bolometers for measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To efficiently cover a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Ari Cukierman , Adrian T. Lee , Christopher Raum , Aritoki Suzuki , Benjamin Westbrook

Half-wave Plates for the Spider Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter

Spider is a balloon-borne array of six telescopes that will observe the Cosmic Microwave Background. The 2400 antenna-coupled bolometers in the instrument will make a polarization map of the CMB with ~degree resolution at 150 GHz and 95…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-12 Sean Bryan

Testing magnetic interference between TES detectors and the telescope environment for future CMB satellite missions

The two most common components of several upcoming CMB experiments are large arrays of superconductive TES (Transition-Edge Sensor) detectors and polarization modulator units, e.g. continuously-rotating Half-Wave Plates (HWP). A high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Tommaso Ghigna , Thuong Duc Hoang , Takashi Hasebe , Yurika Hoshino , Nobuhiko Katayama , Kunimoto Komatsu , Adrian Lee , Tomotake Matsumura , Yuki Sakurai , Shinya Sugiyama , Aritoki Suzuki , Christopher Raum , Ryota Takaku , Benjamin Westbrook

BICEP2 II: Experiment and Three-Year Data Set

We report on the design and performance of the BICEP2 instrument and on its three-year data set. BICEP2 was designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales of 1 to 5 degrees ($\ell$=40-200),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-18 BICEP2 Collaboration , P. A. R Ade , R. W. Aikin , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , G. Davis , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , K. S. Karkare , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , N. Llombart , M. Lueker , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , A. Orlando , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , K. T. Story , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , J. E. Tolan , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , P. Wilson , C. L. Wong , K. W. Yoon

Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER

We describe 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER. A primary science goal of SPIDER is to measure the large-scale B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background in search of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Johannes Hubmayr , Jason E. Austermann , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , Steven J. Benton , A. Stevie Bergman , J. Richard Bond , Sean Bryan , Shannon M. Duff , Adri J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , Jeffrey P. Filippini , Aurelien A. Fraisse , Mathew Galloway , Anne E. Gambrel , K. Ganga , Arpi L. Grigorian , Riccardo Gualtieri , Jon E. Gudmundsson , John W. Hartley , M. Halpern , Gene C. Hilton , William C. Jones , Jeffrey J. McMahon , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Johanna M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , Benjamin Osherson , Ivan Padilla , Alexandra S. Rahlin , B. Racine , John Ruhl , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , Xue Song , Joel N. Ullom , Jeff Van Lanen , Michael R. Vissers , I. K. Wehus , Shyang Wen , D. V. Wiebe , Edward Young

Adaptation of frequency-domain readout for Transition Edge Sensor bolometers for the POLARBEAR-2 Cosmic Microwave Background experiment

The POLARBEAR-2 CosmicMicrowave Background (CMB) experiment aims to observe B-mode polarization with high sensitivity to explore gravitational lensing of CMB and inflationary gravitational waves. POLARBEAR-2 is an upgraded experiment based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kaori Hattori , Kam Arnold , Darcy Barron , Matt Dobbs , Tijmen de Haan , Nicholas Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Masashi Hazumi , William L. Holzapfel , Brian Keating , Adrian T. Lee , Hideki Morii , Michael J. Myers , Graeme Smecher , Aritoki Suzuki , Takayuki Tomaru

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

Development of large radii half-wave plates for CMB satellite missions

The successful European Space Agency (ESA) Planck mission has mapped the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy with unprecedented accuracy. However, Planck was not designed to detect the polarised components of the CMB…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 G. Pisano , B. Maffei , M. W. Ng , V. Haynes , M. Brown , F. Noviello , P. de Bernardis , S. Masi , F. Piacentini , L. Pagano , M. Salatino , B. Ellison , M. Henry , P. de Maagt , B. Shortt

Fabrication of Feedhorn-Coupled Transition Edge Sensor Arrays for Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Characterization of the minute cosmic microwave background polarization signature requires multi-frequency, high-throughput precision instrument systems. We have previously described the detector fabrication of a 40 GHz focal plane and now…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Kevin L. Denis , Aamir Ali , John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , Meng-Ping Chang , David T. Chuss , Felipe Colazo , Nicholas Costen , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Ron Hu , Tobias Marriage , Karwan Rostem , Kongpop U-Yen , Edward J. Wollack

Updated design of the CMB polarization experiment satellite LiteBIRD

Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their application on future satellite CMB polarization experiments.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 H. Sugai , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , D. Alonso , K. Arnold , J. Aumont , J. Austermann , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. Banerji , R. B. Barreiro , S. Basak , J. Beall , S. Beckman , M. Bersanelli , J. Borrill , F. Boulanger , M. L. Brown , M. Bucher , A. Buzzelli , E. Calabrese , F. J. Casas , A. Challinor , V. Chan , Y. Chinone , J. -F. Cliche , F. Columbro , A. Cukierman , D. Curtis , P. Danto , P. de Bernardis , T. de Haan , M. De Petris , C. Dickinson , M. Dobbs , T. Dotani , L. Duband , A. Ducout , S. Duff , A. Duivenvoorden , J. -M. Duval , K. Ebisawa , T. Elleflot , H. Enokida , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , T. Essinger-Hileman , F. Finelli , R. Flauger , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , K. Ganga , J. -R. Gao , R. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , A. Gomez , M. L. Gradziel , J. Grain , F. Grupp , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , N. W. Halverson , P. Hargrave , T. Hasebe , M. Hasegawa , M. Hattori , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versille , D. Herranz , C. Hill , G. Hilton , Y. Hirota , E. Hivon , R. Hlozek , D. -T. Hoang , J. Hubmayr , K. Ichiki , T. Iida , H. Imada , K. Ishimura , H. Ishino , G. C. Jaehnig , M. Jones , T. Kaga , S. Kashima , Y. Kataoka , N. Katayama , T. Kawasaki , R. Keskitalo , A. Kibayashi , T. Kikuchi , K. Kimura , T. Kisner , Y. Kobayashi , N. Kogiso , A. Kogut , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , K. Komatsu , K. Konishi , N. Krachmalnicoff , C. L. Kuo , N. Kurinsky , A. Kushino , M. Kuwata-Gonokami , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , B. Maffei , D. Maino , M. Maki , A. Mangilli , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , R. Mathon , T. Matsumura , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , Y. Minami , K. Mistuda , D. Molinari , L. Montier , G. Morgante , B. Mot , Y. Murata , J. A. Murphy , M. Nagai , R. Nagata , S. Nakamura , T. Namikawa , P. Natoli , S. Nerva , T. Nishibori , H. Nishino , Y. Nomura , F. Noviello , C. O'Sullivan , H. Ochi , H. Ogawa , H. Ogawa , H. Ohsaki , I. Ohta , N. Okada , N. Okada , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , F. Piacentini , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , D. Poletti , T. Prouvé , G. Puglisi , D. Rambaud , C. Raum , S. Realini , M. Remazeilles , G. Roudil , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , M. Russell , H. Sakurai , Y. Sakurai , M. Sandri , G. Savini , D. Scott , Y. Sekimoto , B. D. Sherwin , K. Shinozaki , M. Shiraishi , P. Shirron , G. Signorelli , G. Smecher , P. Spizzi , S. L. Stever , R. Stompor , S. Sugiyama , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , E. Switzer , R. Takaku , H. Takakura , S. Takakura , Y. Takeda , A. Taylor , E. Taylor , Y. Terao , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , M. Tomasi , H. Tomida , N. Trappe , M. Tristram , M. Tsuji , M. Tsujimoto , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , S. Uozumi , S. Utsunomiya , J. Van Lanen , G. Vermeulen , P. Vielva , F. Villa , M. Vissers , N. Vittorio , F. Voisin , I. Walker , N. Watanabe , I. Wehus , J. Weller , B. Westbrook , B. Winter , E. Wollack , R. Yamamoto , N. Y. Yamasaki , M. Yanagisawa , T. Yoshida , J. Yumoto , M. Zannoni , A. Zonca

The Low Frequency Instrument in the ESA Planck mission

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) allow high precision observation of the cosmic plasma at redshift z~1100. After the success of the NASA satellite COBE, that in 1992 provided the first detection of the CMB anisotropy,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mennella , M. Bersanelli , B. Cappellini , D. Maino , P. Platania , S. Garavaglia , R. C. Butler , N. Mandolesi F. Pasian , O. D'arcangelo , A. Simonetto , C. Sozzi

A Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Polarimeter Using Superconducting Bearings

Measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation are expected to significantly increase our understanding of the early universe. We present a design for a CMB polarimeter in which a cryogenically cooled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. Hanany , T. Matsumura , B. Johnson , T. Jones , J. R. Hull , K. B. Ma

SPIDER: A Balloon-borne Large-scale CMB Polarimeter

Spider is a balloon-borne experiment that will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background over a large fraction of a sky at 1 degree resolution. Six monochromatic refracting millimeter-wave telescopes with large arrays of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. P. Crill , P. A. R. Ade , E. S. Battistelli , S. Benton , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Brevik , S. Bryan , C. R. Contaldi , O. Dore , M. Farhang , L. Fissel , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. Irwin , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , C. Lawrie , C. J. MacTavish , T. G. Martin , P. Mason , T. E. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , D. Riley , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , A. Turner , M. Viero , D. Wiebe