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LiteBIRD is a proposed JAXA satellite mission to measure the CMB B-mode polarization with unprecedented sensitivity ($\sigma_r\sim 0.001$). To achieve this goal, $4676$ state-of-the-art TES bolometers will observe the whole sky for 3 years…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-03 Tommaso Ghigna , Tomotake Matsumura , Masashi Hazumi , Samantha Lynn Stever , Yuki Sakurai , Nobuhiko Katayama , Aritoki Suzuki , Benjamin Westbrook , Adrian Lee

The highly sensitive millimeter-wave telescope is an important tool for accurate measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, and its core component is a detector array located in a cryogenic focal plane. The feasibility of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 Ye Chai , Shibo Shu , Yongping Li , Jiamin Sun , Zhouhui Liu , Yu Xu , Daikang Yan , Zhengwei Li , Yang Liu , Yiwen Wang , Weijie Guo , Juexian Cao , Congzhan Liu

An extended analysis of some instrumental polarisation sources has been done, as a consequence of the renewed interest in extremely sensitive polarisation measurements stimulated by Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. The case of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Carretti , R. Tascone , S. Cortiglioni , J. Monari , M. Orsini

The latest generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescopes is searching for the undetected faint signature of gravitational waves from inflation in the polarized signal of the CMB. To achieve the unprecedented levels of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Darcy Barron , Matt Atlas , Brian Keating , Ron Quillin , Nathan Stebor , Brandon Wilson

Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers are a well-established technology with a strong track record in experimental cosmology, making them ideal for current and future radio astronomy instruments. The Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Victoria L. Butler , James J. Bock , Dongwoo T. Chung , Abigail T. Crites , King Lau , Ian Lowe , Dan P. Marrone , Evan C. Mayer , Benjamin J. Vaughan , Michael Zemcov

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

Recent polarimetric surveys of extragalactic radio sources (ERS) at frequencies \nu>1GHz are reviewed. By exploiting all the most relevant data on the polarized emission of ERS we study the frequency dependence of polarization properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-27 M. Tucci , L. Toffolatti

The next generation of far infrared space observatories will require extremely sensitive detectors that can be realized only by combining extremely low intrinsic noise with high optical efficiency. We have measured the broad-band optical…

The six-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile was built to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at arcminute angular scales. We are building a new polarization sensitive receiver for ACT (ACTPol). ACTPol will…

We study the mechanism of instability in transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers used for ground based observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 270GHz. The instability limits the range of useful operating resistances of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-18 Rita Sonka , James J. Bock , Krikor G. Megerian , Bryan A. Steinbach , Anthony D. Turner , Cheng Zhang

Next generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry experiments aim to deploy order 500,000 detectors, requiring repeatable and reliable fabrication process with stable and uniform transition edge sensor (TES) bolometer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-10 K. M. Rotermund , X. Li , R. Carney , D. Yohannes , R. Cantor , J. Vivalda , A. Chambal-Jacobs , A. Suzuki

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…

Searching for primordial gravitational wave in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization signal is one of the key topics in modern cosmology. Cutting-edge CMB telescopes requires thousands of pixels to maximize mapping speed. Using…

The readout of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers with a large multiplexing factor is key for the next generation Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment, Polarbear-2, having 7,588 TES bolometers. To enable the large arrays, we…

The B-mode detection of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization will require new technological developments, able to get sensitivities at least 2 orders of magnitude better than for the E-mode. This really ambitious goal cannot be reached…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Cortiglioni , E. Carretti

We report upper limits on the polarization of the CMBR as measured with the Cosmic Background Imager, a 13 element interferometer that operates in the 26-36 GHz band and is sited on Llano de Chajnantor in northern Chile. The array consists…

We present the in-lab and on-sky performance for the upgraded 90 GHz focal plane of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS), which had four of its seven detector wafers updated during the austral winter of 2022. The update aimed…

The polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources at frequencies higher than 20 GHz are still poorly constrained. However, their characterization would provide invaluable information about the physics of the emission processes and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-28 V. Galluzzi , M. Massardi