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Science with a large field-of-view polarization survey: The Large Array Survey Telescope Polarization Node (LAST-P)

Optical polarimetry provides information on the geometry of the emitting region, the magnetic field configuration and the properties of dust in astrophysical sources. Current state-of-the-art instruments typically have a small field of view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 V. Barbosa Martins , N. Jordana Mitjans , S. Garrappa , A. Franckowiak , E. O. Ofek , S. Ben-Ami , J. Borowska-Naguszewska , V. Fallah Ramazani , R. Konno , D. Kuesters , R. D. Parsons , D. Polishook , I. Sadeh , O. Savushkin , E. Segre , N. Strotjohann , S. Weimann

Instrumental performance and results from testing of the BLAST-TNG receiver, submillimeter optics, and MKID arrays

Polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains can be used to map magnetic fields in star forming molecular clouds and the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-22 Nicholas Galitzki , Peter Ade , Francesco E. Angile , Peter Ashton , Jason Austermann , Tashalee Billings , George Che , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Kristina Davis , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley J. Dober , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Jiansong Gao , Samuel Gordon , Christopher E. Groppi , Seth Hillbrand , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Jeffrey Klein , Dale Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Ian Lowe , Hamdi Mani , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Christopher McKenney , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Fabio P. Santos , Douglas Scott , Adrian Sinclair , Juan D. Soler , Carole Tucker , Matthew Underhill , Michael Vissers , Paul Williams

280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the SPIDER-2 Suborbital Polarimeter

We describe the construction and characterization of the 280 GHz bolometric focal plane units (FPUs) to be deployed on the second flight of the balloon-borne SPIDER instrument. These FPUs are vital to SPIDER's primary science goal of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 A. S. Bergman , P. A. R. Ade , S. Akers , M. Amiri , J. A. Austermann , J. A. Beall , D. T. Becker , S. J. Benton , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , R. S Domagalski , O. Doré , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , A. Grigorian , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Khan , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , S. Li , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , A. S. Rahlin , S. Redmond , C. Reintsema , L. J. Romualdez , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , E. C. Shaw , C. Shiu , J. D. Soler , X. Song , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. Ullom , J. F. van der List , J. Van Lanen , M. R. Vissers , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

The Submillimeter Array Polarimeter

We describe the Submillimeter Array (SMA) Polarimeter, a polarization converter and feed multiplexer installed on the SMA. The polarimeter uses narrow-band quarter-wave plates to generate circular polarization sensitivity from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel P. Marrone , Ramprasad Rao

LAMP: a micro-satellite based soft X-ray polarimeter for astrophysics

The Lightweight Asymmetry and Magnetism Probe (LAMP) is a micro-satellite mission concept dedicated for astronomical X-ray polarimetry and is currently under early phase study. It consists of segmented paraboloidal multilayer mirrors with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Rui She , Hua Feng , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta , Renxin Xu , Hong Li , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Zhanshan Wang , Daniele Spiga , Massimo Minuti , Alessandro Brez , Gloria Spandre , Michele Pinchera , Carmelo Sgro , Luca Baldini , Mingwu Wen , Zhengxiang Shen , Giovanni Pareschi , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Kashmira Tayabaly , Bianca Salmaso , Yafeng Zhan

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

Lupus I Observations from the 2010 Flight of the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) was created by adding polarimetric capability to the BLAST experiment that was flown in 2003, 2005, and 2006. BLASTPol inherited BLAST's 1.8 m primary and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Tristan G. Matthews , Peter A. R. Ade , Francesco E. Angilè , Steven J. Benton , Edward L. Chapin , Nicholas L. Chapman , Mark J. Devlin , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Natalie N. Gandilo , Joshua O. Gundersen , Peter C. Hargrave , Jeffrey Klein , Andrei L. Korotkov , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Tony K. Mroczkowski , Calvin B. Netterfield , Giles Novak , David Nutter , Luca Olmi , Enzo Pascale , Frédérick Poidevin , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Jamil A. Shariff , Juan Diego Soler , Kengo Tachihara , Nicholas E. Thomas , Matthew D. P. Truch , Carole E. Tucker , Gregory S. Tucker , Derek Ward-Thompson

A high-sensitivity polarimeter using a ferro-electric liquid crystal modulator

We describe the HIgh Precision Polarimetric Instrument (HIPPI), a polarimeter built at UNSW Australia and used on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). HIPPI is an aperture polarimeter using a ferro-electric liquid crystal modulator. HIPPI…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jeremy Bailey , Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer , Daniel V. Cotton , Kimberly Bott , J. H. Hough , P. W. Lucas

Systems design, assembly, integration and lab testing of WALOP-South Polarimeter

Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South is the first wide-field and survey-capacity polarimeter in the optical wavelengths. On schedule for commissioning in 2024, it will be mounted on the 1 m SAAO telescope in Sutherland…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Siddharth Maharana , A. N. Ramaprakash , Chaitanya Rajarshi , Pravin Khodade , Bhushan Joshi , Pravin Chordia , Abhay Kohok , Ramya M. Anche , Deepa Modi , John A. Kypriotakis , Amit Deokar , Aditya Kinjawadekar , Stephen B. Potter , Dmitry Blinov , Hans Kristian Eriksen , Myrto Falalaki , Hitesh Gajjar , Tuhin Ghosh , Eirik Gjerløw , Sebastain Kiehlmann , Ioannis Liodakis , Nikolaos Mandarakas , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Timothy J. Pearson , Vincent Pelgrims , Anthony C. S. Readhead , Raphael Skalidis , Konstantinos Tassis , Namita Uppal , Ingunn K. Wehus

MAXIPOL: Data Analysis and Results

We present results from and the analysis of data from MAXIPOL, a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). MAXIPOL is the first CMB experiment to obtain results using a rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. H. P. Wu , J. Zuntz , M. E. Abroe , P. A. R. Ade , J. Bock , J. Borrill , J. Collins , S. Hanany , A. H. Jaffe , B. R. Johnson , T. Jones , A. T. Lee , T. Matsumura , B. Rabii , T. Renbarger , P. L. Richards , G. F. Smoot , R. Stompor , H. T. Tran , C. D. Winant

CLOVER - A new instrument for measuring the B-mode polarization of the CMB

We describe the design and expected performance of Clover, a new instrument designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The proposed instrument will comprise three independent telescopes operating at 90,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Taylor , A. Challinor , D. Goldie , K. Grainge , M. E. Jones , A. N. Lasenby , S. Withington , G. Yassin , W. K. Gear , L. Piccirillo , P. Ade , P. D. Mauskopf , B. Maffei , G. Pisano

High-speed data processing onboard sunrise chromospheric infrared spectropolarimeter for the SUNRISE III balloon telescope

The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) has been developed for the third flight of the SUNRISE balloon-borne stratospheric solar observatory. The aim of SCIP is to reveal the evolution of three-dimensional magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Masahito Kubo , Yukio Katsukawa , David Hernández Expósito , Antonio Sánchez Gómez , María Balaguer Jimenéz , David Orozco Suárez , José M. Morales Fernández , Beatriz Aparicio del Moral , Antonio J. Moreno Mantas , Eduardo Bailón Martínez , Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta , Yusuke Kawabata , Carlos Quintero Noda , Takayoshi Oba , Ryohtaroh T. Ishikawa , Toshifumi Shimizu

Destriping Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter data

Destriping is a well-established technique for removing low-frequency correlated noise from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) survey data. In this paper we present a destriping algorithm tailored to data from a polarimeter, i.e. an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-11 Andrea Zonca , Brian Williams , Peter Meinhold , Philip Lubin

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

Instrument Performance and Simulation Verification of the POLAR Detector

POLAR is a new satellite-born detector aiming to measure the polarization of an unprecedented number of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the 50-500 keV energy range. The instrument, launched on-board the Tiangong-2 Chinese Space lab on the 15th of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-18 M. Kole , Z. H. Li , N. Produit , T. Tymieniecka , J. Zhang , A. Zwolinska , T. W. Bao , T. Bernasconi , F. Cadoux , M. Z. Feng , N. Gauvin , W. Hajdas , S. W. Kong , H. C. Li , L. Li , X. Liu , R. Marcinkowski , S. Orsi , M. Pohl , D. Rybka , J. C. Sun , L. M. Song , J. Szabelski , R. J. Wang , Y. H. Wang , X. Wen , B. B. Wu , X. Wu , H. L. Xiao , L. Zhang , L. Y. Zhang , S. N. Zhang , X. F. Zhang , Y. J. Zhang , Y. Zhao

Calibration System with Cryogenically-Cooled Loads for CMB Polarization Detectors

We present a novel system to calibrate millimeter-wave polarimeters for CMB polarization measurements. This technique is an extension of the conventional metal mirror rotation approach, however it employs cryogenically-cooled blackbody…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-01 M. Hasegawa , O. Tajima , Y. Chinone , M. Hazumi , K. Ishidoshiro , M. Nagai

Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Nathan P. Lourie , Peter A. R. Ade , Francisco E. Angile , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Mark J. Devlin , Bradley Dober , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Sam Gordon , Christopher E. Groppi , Jeffrey Klein , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Dale Li , Ian Lowe , Hamdi Mani , Philip Mauskopf , Christopher M. McKenney , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Adrian Sinclair , Juan D. Soler , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Michael Vissers , Paul A. Williams

Pointing control for the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope

We present the technology and control methods developed for the pointing system of the SPIDER experiment. SPIDER is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to detect the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the polarization of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jamil A. Shariff , Peter A. R. Ade , Mandana Amiri , Steven J. Benton , Jamie J. Bock , J. Richard Bond , Sean A. Bryan , H. Cynthia Chiang , Carlo R. Contaldi , Brendan P. Crill , Olivier P. Doré , Marzieh Farhang , Jeffrey P. Filippini , Laura M. Fissel , Aurelien A. Fraisse , Anne E. Gambrel , Natalie N. Gandilo , Sunil R. Golwala , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Gene C. Hilton , Warren A. Holmes , Viktor V. Hristov , Kent D. Irwin , William C. Jones , Zigmund D. Kermish , Chao-Lin Kuo , Carolyn J. MacTavish , Peter V. Mason , Krikor G. Megerian , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Tracy A. Morford , Johanna M. Nagy , C. Barth Netterfield , Roger O'Brient , Alexandra S. Rahlin , Carl D. Reintsema , John E. Ruhl , Marcus C. Runyan , Juan D. Soler , Amy Trangsrud , Carole E. Tucker , Rebecca S. Tucker , Anthony D. Turner , Alexis C. Weber , Donald V. Wiebe , Edward Y. Young

A new beamline for Resonant Excitation of Beams with Electromagnetic fields and Lasers (REBEL) and Stopping and Trapping of Radioactive Isotopes for Precision Experiments (STRIPE)

We present two newly constructed experimental setups - REBEL (Resonant Excitation of Beams with Electromagnetic fields and Lasers) and STRIPE (Stopping and Trapping of Radioactive Isotopes for Precision Experiments) - integrated into a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-08 Phillip Imgram , Dinko Atanasov , Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis , Paul Van den Bergh , Tobias Christen , Ruben de Groote , Ágota Koszorús , Gerda Neyens , Stefanos Pelonis

Expected performance of a hard X-ray polarimeter (POLAR) by Monte Carlo Simulation

Polarization measurements of the prompt emission in Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) can provide diagnostic information for understanding the nature of the central engine. POLAR is a compact polarimeter dedicated to the polarization measurement of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shaolin Xiong , Nicolas Produit , Bobing Wu