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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

We present measurements of the electrical and thermal properties of new arrays of bolometeric detectors that were fabricated as part of a program to develop bolometers optimized for the low photon background of the EBEX balloon-borne…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Johannes Hubmayr , Francois Aubin , Eric Bissonnette , Matt Dobbs , Shaul Hanany , Adrian T. Lee , Kevin MacDermid , Xiaofan Meng , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) experiment is a 145 GHz polarimeter designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales. The ABS instrument will ship to the Atacama Desert of Chile…

The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. Its goal is to constrain the background of…

We present the B-BOP instrument, a polarimetric camera on board the future ESA-JAXA SPICA far-infrared space observatory. B-BOP will allow the study of the magnetic field in various astrophysical environments thanks to its unprecedented…

We report on the design and performance of the BICEP3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. BICEP3 is a 52cm aperture, refracting telescope designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave…

Inflation Gravity Waves B-Modes polarization detection is the ultimate goal of modern large angular scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments around the world. A big effort is undergoing with the deployment of many ground-based,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 G. D'Alessandro , L. Mele , F. Columbro , G. Amico , E. S. Battistelli , P. de Bernardis , A. Coppolecchia , M. De Petris , L. Grandsire , J. -Ch. Hamilton , L. Lamagna , S. Marnieros , S. Masi , A. Mennella , C. O'Sullivan , A. Paiella , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , G. Pisano , G. Presta , A. Tartari , S. A. Torchinsky , F. Voisin , M. Zannoni , P. Ade , J. G. Alberro , A. Almela , L. H. Arnaldi , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , S. Azzoni , S. Banfi , B. Bélier , A. Baù , D. Bennett , L. Bergé , J. -Ph. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , J. Bonaparte , J. Bonis , E. Bunn , D. Burke , D. Buzi , F. Cavaliere , P. Chanial , C. Chapron , R. Charlassier , A. C. Cobos Cerutti , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , S. Dheilly , C. Duca , L. Dumoulin , A. Etchegoyen , A. Fasciszewski , L. P. Ferreyro , D. Fracchia , C. Franceschet , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , K. M. Ganga , B. García , M. E. García Redondo , M. Gaspard , D. Gayer , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , V. Gilles , Y. Giraud-Heraud , M. Gómez Berisso , M. González , M. Gradziel , M. R. Hampel , D. Harari , S. Henrot-Versillé , F. Incardona , E. Jules , J. Kaplan , C. Kristukat , S. Loucatos , T. Louis , B. Maffei , W. Marty , A. Mattei , A. May , M. McCulloch , D. Melo , L. Montier , L. Mousset , L. M. Mundo , J. A. Murphy , J. D. Murphy , F. Nati , E. Olivieri , C. Oriol , F. Pajot , A. Passerini , H. Pastoriza , A. Pelosi , C. Perbost , M. Perciballi , F. Pezzotta , L. Piccirillo , M. Platino , G. Polenta , D. Prêle , R. Puddu , D. Rambaud , E. Rasztocky , P. Ringegni , G. E. Romero , J. M. Salum , A. Schillaci , C. G. Scóccola , S. Scully , S. Spinelli , G. Stankowiak , M. Stolpovskiy , A. D. Supanitsky , J. -P. Thermeau , P. Timbie , M. Tomasi , G. Tucker , C. Tucker , D. Viganò , N. Vittorio , F. Wicek , M. Wright , A. Zullo

In this paper we investigate the impact of using a polarization modulator in the Short Wavelenght Instrument for the Polarization Explorer (SWIPE) of the Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE). The experiment is optimized to measure the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-04 F. Columbro , E. S. Battistelli , A. Coppolecchia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , L. Lamagna , S. Masi , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Piacentini , G. Presta

We propose and implement an optical technique to access the local temperature of an erbium doped crystal by probing the electron spin population under magnetic field. We reliably extract the sample temperature in the range 2-7 K. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-19 Marek Zeman , Philippe Camus , Thierry Chanelière

Cryogenic characterization of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers is a time- and labor-intensive process. As new experiments deploy larger and larger arrays of TES bolometers, the testing process will become more of a bottleneck. Thus…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 K. R. Ferguson , A. N. Bender , N. Whitehorn , T. W. Cecil

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…

We present a measurement of the temperature-polarization angular cross power spectrum, <TE>, of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The result is based on $\sim 200$ hours of data from 8 polarization sensitive bolometers operating at 145 GHz…

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…

[Abridged] The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is one of the current frontiers in cosmology. In particular, the detection of the primordial B-modes, could reveal the presence of gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 The LSPE collaboration , G. Addamo , P. A. R. Ade , C. Baccigalupi , A. M. Baldini , P. M. Battaglia , E. S. Battistelli , A. Baù , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , M. Biasotti , A. Boscaleri , B. Caccianiga , S. Caprioli , F. Cavaliere , F. Cei , K. A. Cleary , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , G. De Gasperis , M. De Petris , V. Fafone , F. Farsian , L. Ferrari Barusso , F. Fontanelli , C. Franceschet , T. C. Gaier , L. Galli , F. Gatti , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , D. Grosso , A. Gruppuso , R. Gualtieri , F. Incardona , M. E. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , N. Krachmalnicoff , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. H. López-Caraballo , M. Lumia , R. Mainini , D. Maino , S. Mandelli , M. Maris , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , A. May , L. Mele , P. Mena , A. Mennella , R. Molina , D. Molinari , G. Morgante , U. Natale , F. Nati , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Panico , F. Paonessa , S. Paradiso , A. Passerini , M. Perez-de-Taoro , O. A. Peverini , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , G. Presta , S. Realini , N. Reyes , J. A. Rubino-Martin , M. Sandri , S. Sartor , F. Pezzotta , G. Polenta , A. Rocchi , A. Schillaci , G. Signorelli , B. Siri , M. Soria , F. Spinella , V. Tapia , A. Tartari , A. C. Taylor , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , C. Tucker , D. Vaccaro , D. M. Vigano , F. Villa , G. Virone , N. Vittorio , A. Volpe , R. E. J. Watkins , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

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.…

The BICEP3 and BICEP Array polarimeters are small-aperture refracting telescopes located at the South Pole designed to measure primordial gravitational wave signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization, predicted by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 Christos Giannakopoulos , Clara Vergès , P. A. R. Ade , Zeeshan Ahmed , Mandana Amiri , Denis Barkats , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Colin A. Bischoff , Dominic Beck , James J. Bock , Hans Boenish , Victor Buza , James R. Cheshire , Jake Connors , James Cornelison , Michael Crumrine , Ari Jozef Cukierman , Edward Denison , Marion Dierickx , Lionel Duband , Miranda Eiben , Brodi D. Elwood , Sofia Fatigoni , Jeff P. Filippini , Antonio Fortes , Min Gao , Neil Goeckner-Wald , David C. Goldfinger , James A. Grayson , Paul K. Grimes , Grantland Hall , George Halal , Mark Halpern , Emma Hand , Sam A. Harrison , Shawn Henderson , Johannes Hubmayr , Howard Hui , Kent D. Irwin , Jae Hwan Kang , Kirit S. Karkare , Sinan Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , Chao-Lin Kuo , King Lau , Margaret Lautzenhiser , Amber Lennox , Tongtian Liu , Koko G. Megerian , Oliver Miller , Lorenzo Minutolo , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Yuka Nakato , H. T. Nguyen , Roger O'brient , Anika Patel , Matthew A. Petroff , Anna R. Polish , Nathan Precup , Thomas Prouve , Clement Pryke , Carl D. Reintsema , Thibault Romand , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin Schmitt , Baibhav Singari , Ahmed Soliman , Tyler St Germaine , Aaron Steiger , Bryan Steinbach , Rashmi Sudiwala , Keith L. Thompson , Calvin Tsai , Carole Tucker , Anthony D. Turner , Abigail G. Vieregg , Albert Wandui , Alexis C. Weber , Justin Willmert , Wai Ling K. Wu , Hung-I Yang , Cyndia Yu , Lingzhen Zeng , Cheng Zhang , Silvia Zhang

Controlling polarisation directly at low temperature is crucial for development of optical spectroscopy techniques at sub-Kelvin temperatures, for example, in a hybrid scheme where light is fed into and collected in the cryostat by fibres…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-07 Thierry Chanelière , Alexei D. Chepelianskii

Precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, especially experiments seeking to detect the odd-parity "B-modes", have far-reaching implications for cosmology. To detect the B-modes generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-27 Brian Keating , Meir Shimon , Amit Yadav

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment, designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLASTPol observes polarized light…