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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

Recent Advances in Frequency-Multiplexed TES Readout: Vastly Reduced Parasitics and an Increase in Multiplexing Factor with sub-Kelvin SQUIDs

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements are fundamentally limited by photon statistics. Therefore, ground-based CMB observatories have been increasing the number of detectors that are simultaneously observing the sky. Thanks to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 T. de Haan , A. Suzuki , S. T. P. Boyd , R. H. Cantor , A. Coerver , M. A. Dobbs , R. Hennings-Yeomans , W. L. Holzapfel , A. T. Lee , G. I. Noble , G. Smecher , J. Zhou

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

BICEP Array: a multi-frequency degree-scale CMB polarimeter

BICEP Array is the newest multi-frequency instrument in the BICEP/Keck Array program. It is comprised of four 550 mm aperture refractive telescopes observing the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 30/40, 95, 150 and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-03 Howard Hui , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , R. W. Aikin , K. D. Alexander , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , B. P. Crill , M. Crumrine , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , C. Dvorkin , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , N. A. Larsen , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. OBrient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , C. Pryke , B. Racine , S. Richter , R. Schwarz , A. Schillaci , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umilta , 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 , C. Zhang

BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Keck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , D. Beck , C. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Halal , G. Hall , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. 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 , A. Lennox , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , 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. Turner , C. Umilta , C. Verges , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

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 bolometric focal plane array of the Polarbear CMB experiment

The Polarbear Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment is currently observing from the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. It will characterize the expected B-mode polarization due to gravitational lensing of the CMB, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Arnold , P. A. R. Ade , A. E. Anthony , D. Barron , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , M. A. Dobbs , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , D. Flanigan , G. Fuller , A. Ghribi , W. Grainger , N. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Howard , P. Hyland , A. Jaffe , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , N. J. Miller , X. Meng , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , H. Nishino , H. Paar , E. Quealy , C. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , O. Zahn

EBEX: A balloon-borne CMB polarization experiment

EBEX is a NASA-funded balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Observations will be made using 1432 transition edge sensor (TES) bolometric detectors read out with frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Asad M. Aboobaker , Peter Ade , Françcois Aubin , Carlo Baccigalupi , Chaoyun Bao , Julian Borrill , Christopher Cantalupo , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Julien Grain , William Grainger , Shaul Hanany , Seth Hillbrand , Johannes Hubmayr , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , Terry Jones , Theodore Kisner , Jeff Klein , Andrei Korotkov , Sam Leach , Adrian Lee , Lorne Levinson , Michele Limon , Kevin MacDermid , Tomotake Matsumura , Xiaofan Meng , Amber Miller , Michael Milligan , Enzo Pascale , Daniel Polsgrove , Nicolas Ponthieu , Kate Raach , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher , Federico Stivoli , Radek Stompor , Huan Tran , Matthieu Tristram , Gregory S. Tucker , Yury Vinokurov , Amit Yadav , Matias Zaldarriaga , Kyle Zilic

Clover - A B-mode polarization experiment

Clover is a new instrument being built to detect the B-mode polarization of the CMB. It consists of three telescopes operating at 97, 150, and 220 GHz and will be sited in Chile at the Llano de Chajnantor. Each telescope assembly is scaled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Angela C. Taylor

Cosmology with the CMB temperature-polarization correlation

We demonstrate that the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature-polarization cross-correlation provides accurate and robust constraints on cosmological parameters. We compare them with the results from temperature or polarization and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 F. Couchot , S. Henrot-Versillé , O. Perdereau , S. Plaszczynski , B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil , M. Spinelli , M. Tristram

Polarization Calibration of a Microwave Polarimeter with Near-Infrared Up-Conversion for Optical Correlation and Detection

This paper presents a polarization calibration method applied to a microwave polarimeter demonstrator based on a near-infrared (NIR) frequency up-conversion stage that allows both optical correlation and signal detection at a wavelength of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Francisco J. Casas , Patricio Vielva , R. Belen Barreiro , Enrique Martínez-González , G. Pascual-Cisneros

Developments of highly-multiplexed, multi-chroic pixels for Balloon-Borne Platforms

We present our work to develop and characterize low thermal conductance bolometers that are part of sinuous antenna multi-chroic pixels (SAMP). We use longer, thinner and meandered bolometer legs to achieve 9 pW/K thermal conductance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 François Aubin , Shaul Hanany , Bradley R. Johnson , Adrian Lee , Aritoki Suzuki , Benjamin Westbrook , Karl Young

The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design

Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers tiled densely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-03 Heather McCarrick , Erin Healy , Zeeshan Ahmed , Kam Arnold , Zachary Atkins , Jason E. Austermann , Tanay Bhandarkar , Jim A. Beall , Sarah Marie Bruno , Steve K. Choi , Jake Connors , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin D. Crowley , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , Josef C. Frisch , Nicholas Galitzki , Megan B. Gralla , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Shawn W. Henderson , Gene C. Hilton , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , Bradley R. Johnson , Anna M. Kofman , Akito Kusaka , Jack Lashner , Adrian T. Lee , Yaqiong Li , Michael J. Link , Tammy J. Lucas , Marius Lungu , J. A. B. Mates , Jeffrey J. McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , John Orlowski-Scherer , Joseph Seibert , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne Staggs , Aritoki Suzuki , Tomoki Terasaki , Joel N. Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Leila R. Vale , Jeff Van Lanen , Michael R. Vissers , Yuhan Wang , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Edward Young , Cyndia Yu , Kaiwen Zheng , Ningfeng Zhu

Polarization experiments

Possible instrumental set--ups for the measurement of CMB polarization are reviewed in this article. We discuss existing and planned instruments, putting special emphasis on observational, instrumental, and data processing issues for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Delabrouille , J. Kaplan , M. Piat , C. Rosset

Initial Performance of BICEP3: A Degree Angular Scale 95 GHz Band Polarimeter

BICEP3 is a $550~mm$ aperture telescope with cold, on-axis, refractive optics designed to observe at the $95~GHz$ band from the South Pole. It is the newest member of the BICEP/Keck family of inflationary probes specifically designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-05 W. L. K. Wu , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , K. D. Alexander , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. A. Connors , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. A. Grayson , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , G. C. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. G. Megerian , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , C. Sorensen , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. E. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , K. W. Yoon

Constraints on large-scale polarization in northern hemisphere

Present cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations have significantly advanced our understanding of the universe's origin, especially with primordial gravitational waves (PGWs). Currently, ground-based CMB telescopes are mainly located…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Dongdong Zhang , Bo Wang , Jia-Rui Li , Yi-Fu Cai , Chang Feng

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

BICEP Array: 150 GHz detector module development

The BICEP/Keck Collaboration is currently leading the quest to the highest sensitivity measurements of the polarized CMB anisotropies on degree scale with a series of cryogenic telescopes, of which BICEP Array is the latest Stage-3 upgrade…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-30 A. Schillaci , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. 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 , K. G. Megerian , O. Y. Miller , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O' Brient , S. Palladino , M. Petroff , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltá , C. Verges , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

The Keck Array: a pulse tube cooled CMB polarimeter

The Keck Array is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter that will begin observing from the South Pole in late 2010. The initial deployment will consist of three telescopes similar to BICEP2 housed in ultra-compact, pulse tube…

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Calibration of Transition-edge Sensor (TES) Bolometer Arrays with Application to CLASS

The current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments fielding kilo-pixel arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers require accurate and robust gain calibration methods. We simplify and refactor the standard TES model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , Michael K. Brewer , Ricardo Bustos , Manwei Chan , David T. Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Jullianna D. Couto , Sumit Dahal , Rahul Datta , Kevin Denis , Joseph Eimer , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Kathleen Harrington , Jeffrey Iuliano , Yunyang Li , Tobias A. Marriage , Carolina Núñez , Keisuke Osumi , Ivan L. Padilla , Matthew A. Petroff , Karwan Rostem , Deniz A. N. Valle , Duncan J. Watts , Janet L. Weiland , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu