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The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared Spectro-Polarimeter SCIP: an instrument for SUNRISE III

The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory is equipped with a one-meter aperture optical telescope, offering a unique platform for uninterrupted seeing-free observations across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths from altitudes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Y. Katsukawa , J. C. del Toro Iniesta , S. K. Solanki , M. Kubo , H. Hara , T. Shimizu , T. Oba , Y. Kawabata , T. Tsuzuki , F. Uraguchi , K. Shinoda , T. Tamura , Y. Suematsu , T. Matsumoto , R. T. Ishikawa , Y. Naito , K. Ichimoto , S. Nagata , T. Anan , D. Orozco Suárez , E. Sanchis Kilders , M. Balaguer Jiménez , A. C. López Jiménez , C. Quintero Noda , D. Álvarez García , J. L. Ramos Mas , J. P. Cobos Carrascosa , P. Labrousse , B. Aparicio del Moral , A. Sánchez Gómez , D. Hernández Expósito , E. Bailón Martínez , J. M. Morales Fernández , A. J. Moreno Mantas , A. Tobaruela , I. Bustamante , F. J. Bailén , J. Blanco Rodríguez , J. L. Gasent Blesa , P. Rodríguez Martínez , A. Ferreres , D. Gilabert Palmer , J. Piqueras Carreño , I. Pérez Grande , I. Torralbo , A. Álvarez Herrero , A. Korpi-Lagg , A. Gandorfer , T. Berkefeld , P Bernasconi , A. Feller , T. L. Riethmüller , H. N. Smitha , V. Martínez Pillet , B. Grauf , A. Bell , M. Carpenter

B-Machine Polarimeter: A Telescope to Measure the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

The B-Machine Telescope is the culmination of several years of development, construction, characterization and observation. The telescope is a departure from standard polarization chopping of correlation receivers to a half wave plate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-11 Brian D. Williams

Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data

Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) is a bolometric polarimeter designed to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at degree angular scales. During three seasons of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-25 H. C. Chiang , P. A. R. Ade , D. Barkats , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , W. C. Jones , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , T. Matsumura , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , C. Pryke , S. Richter , G. Rocha , C. Sheehy , Y. D. Takahashi , J. E. Tolan , K. W. Yoon

SPIDER: CMB polarimetry from the edge of space

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky at large angular scales. SPIDER targets the B-mode signature of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 R. Gualtieri , J. P. Filippini , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , O. Doré , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , R. V. Gramillano , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , 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 , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , X. Song , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. F. van der List , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

An Imaging Polarimeter(IMPOL) for multi-wavelength observations

Taking advantage of the advances in array detector technology, an imaging polarimeter (IMPOL) has been constructed for measuring linear polarization in the wavelength band from 400-800 nm. It makes use of a Wollaston prism as the analyser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 A. N. Ramaprakash , Ranjan Gupta , A. K. Sen , S. N. Tandon

SPIDER: Probing the Early Universe with a Suborbital Polarimeter

We evaluate the ability of SPIDER, a balloon-borne polarimeter, to detect a divergence-free polarization pattern ("B-modes") in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In the inflationary scenario, the amplitude of this signal is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-06 A. A. Fraisse , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. Bryan , B. Burger , H. C. Chiang , C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , G. Davis , O. Doré , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , N. N. Gandilo , S. Golwala , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. Irwin , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , C. J. MacTavish , P. V. Mason , T. E. Montroy , T. A. Morford , C. B. Netterfield , D. T. O'Dea , A. S. Rahlin , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , M. A. Schenker , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , D. Wiebe

The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): Pre-Launch

Scheduled to launch in late 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The mission will open a new window of investigation - imaging X-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Martin C. Weisskopf , Paolo Soffitta , Luca Baldini , Brian D. Ramsey , Stephen L. O'Dell , Roger W. Romani , Giorgio Matt , William D. Deininger , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Enrico Costa , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Luca Latronico , Herman L. Marshall , Fabio Muleri , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Allyn Tennant , Niccolo Bucciantini , Michal Dovciak , Frederic Marin , Alan Marscher , Juri Poutanen , Pat Slane , Roberto Turolla , William Kalinowski , Alessandro Di Marco , Sergio Fabiani , Massimo Minuti , Fabio La Monaca , Michele Pinchera , John Rankin , Carmelo Sgro' , Alessio Trois , Fei Xie , Cheryl Alexander , D. Zachery Allen , Fabrizio Amici , Jason Andersen , Angelo Antonelli , Spencer Antoniak , Primo Attina' , Mattia Barbanera , Matteo Bachetti , Randy M. Baggett , Jeff Bladt , Alessandro Brez , Raffaella Bonino , Christopher Boree , Fabio Borotto , Shawn Breeding , Daniele Brienza , H. Kyle Bygott , Ciro Caporale , Claudia Cardelli , Rita Carpentiero , Simone Castellano , Marco Castronuovo , Luca Cavalli , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Marco Ceccanti , Mauro Centrone , Saverio Citraro , Fabio D' Amico , Elisa D'Alba , Laura Di Gesu , Ettore Del Monte , Kurtis L. Dietz , Niccolo' Di Lalla , Giuseppe Di Persio , David Dolan , Immacolata Donnarumma , Yuri Evangelista , Kevin Ferrant , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , MacKenzie Ferrie , Joseph Footdale , Brent Forsyth , Michelle Foster , Benjamin Garelick , Shuichi Gunji , Eli Gurnee , Michael Head , Grant Hibbard , Samantha Johnson , Erik Kelly , Kiranmayee Kilaru , Carlo Lefevre , Shelley Le Roy , Pasqualino Loffredo , Paolo Lorenzi , Leonardo Lucchesi , Tyler Maddox , Guido Magazzu , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Elio Mangraviti , Marco Marengo , Alessandra Marrocchesi , Francesco Massaro , David Mauger , Jeffrey McCracken , Michael McEachen , Rondal Mize , Paolo Mereu , Scott Mitchell , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Alfredo Morbidini , Federico Mosti , Hikmat Nasimi , Barbara Negri , Michela Negro , Toan Nguyen , Isaac Nitschke , Alessio Nuti , Mitch Onizuka , Chiara Oppedisano , Leonardo Orsini , Darren Osborne , Richard Pacheco , Alessandro Paggi , Will Painter , Steven D. Pavelitz , Christina Pentz , Raffaele Piazzolla , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Colin Peterson , Maura Pilia , Alessandro Profeti , Simonetta Puccetti , Jaganathan Ranganathan , Ajay Ratheesh , Lee Reedy , Noah Root , Alda Rubini , Stephanie Ruswick , Javier Sanchez , Paolo Sarra , Francesco Santoli , Emanuele Scalise , Andrea Sciortino , Christopher Schroeder , Tim Seek , Kalie Sosdian , Gloria Spandre , Chet O. Speegle , Toru Tamagawa , Marcello Tardiola , Antonino Tobia , Nicholas E. Thomas , Robert Valerie , Marco Vimercati , Amy L. Walden , Bruce Weddendorf , Jeffrey Wedmore , David Welch , Davide Zanetti , Francesco Zanetti

Polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background

In this work we present an extension of the ROMA map-making code for data analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization, with particular attention given to the inflationary polarization B-modes. The new algorithm takes into account a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-08 Alessandro Buzzelli , Paolo Cabella , Giancarlo de Gasperis , Nicola Vittorio

CMB polarimetry with BICEP: instrument characterization, calibration, and performance

BICEP is a ground-based millimeter-wave bolometric array designed to target the primordial gravity wave signature on the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at degree angular scales. Currently in its third year of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuki D. Takahashi , Denis Barkats , John O. Battle , Evan M. Bierman , James J. Bock , H. Cynthia Chiang , C. Darren Dowell , Eric F. Hivon , William L. Holzapfel , Viktor V. Hristov , William C. Jones , J. P. Kaufman , Brian G. Keating , John M. Kovac , Chao-Lin Kuo , Andrew E. Lange , Erik M. Leitch , Peter V. Mason , Tomotake Matsumura , Hien T. Nguyen , Nicolas Ponthieu , Graca M. Rocha , Ki Won Yoon , P. Ade , L. Duband

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

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

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

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

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

Performance and on-sky optical characterization of the SPTpol instrument

In January 2012, the 10m South Pole Telescope (SPT) was equipped with a polarization-sensitive camera, SPTpol, in order to measure the polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Measurements of the polarization of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 E. M. George , P. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , D. Becker , A. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. Britton , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , A. Datesman , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , A. Ewall-Wice , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , M. Karfunkle , R. Keisler , J. Kennedy , A. T. Lee , E. Leitch , D. Li , M. Lueker , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. Montgomery , T. E. Montroy , J. Nagy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , M. D. Niemack , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , K. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , R. Williamson , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , E. Young

Assessment of the Projection-induced Polarimetry Technique for Constraining the Foreground Spectrum in Global 21 cm Cosmology

Detecting the cosmological sky-averaged (global) 21 cm signal as a function of observed frequency will provide a powerful tool to study the ionization and thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the early Universe ($\sim$ 400…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Bang D. Nhan , David D. Bordenave , Richard F. Bradley , Jack O. Burns , Keith Tauscher , David Rapetti , Patricia J. Klima

SPHERE / ZIMPOL high resolution polarimetric imager. I. System overview, PSF parameters, coronagraphy, and polarimetry

We describe the Zurich Imaging Polarimeter (ZIMPOL), the visual focal plane subsystem of the SPHERE "VLT planet finder", which pushes the limits of current AO systems to shorter wavelengths, higher spatial resolution, and much improved…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 H. M. Schmid , A. Bazzon , R. Roelfsema , D. Mouillet , J. Milli , F. Menard , D. Gisler , S. Hunziker , J. Pragt , C. Dominik , A. Boccaletti , C. Ginski , L. Abe , S. Antoniucci , H. Avenhaus , A. Baruffolo , P. Baudoz , J. L. Beuzit , M. Carbillet , G. Chauvin , R. Claudi , A. Costille , J. B. Daban , M. de Haan , S. Desidera , K. Dohlen , M. Downing , E. Elswijk , N. Engler , M. Feldt , T. Fusco , J. H. Girard , R. Gratton , H. Hanenburg , Th. Henning , N. Hubin , F. Joos , M. Kasper , C. U. Keller , M. Langlois , E. Lagadec , P. Martinez , E. Mulder , A. Pavlov , L. Podio , P. Puget , S. Quanz , F. Rigal , B. Salasnich , J. F. Sauvage , M. Schuil , R. Siebenmorgen , E. Sissa , F. Snik , M. Suarez , Ch. Thalmann , M. Turatto , S. Udry , A. van Duin , R. van Holstein , A. Vigan , F. Wildi

Development and characterization of the readout system for POLARBEAR-2

POLARBEAR-2 is a next-generation receiver for precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)). Scheduled to deploy in early 2015, it will observe alongside the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 D. Barron , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , C. Aleman , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , A. Bender , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , N. Katayama , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , E. Linder , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , H. Morii , M. J. Myers , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , T. Okamura , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , C. Raum , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , K. Rotermund , D. E. Schenck , B. D. Sherwin , I. Shirley , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , G. Smecher , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , S. Takada , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , B. Wilson , A. Yadav , H. Yamaguchi , O. Zahn

Construction of a Large Diameter Reflective Half-Wave Plate Modulator for Millimeter Wave Applications

Polarization modulation is a powerful technique to increase the stability of measurements by enabling the distinction of a polarized signal from dominant slow system drifts and unpolarized foregrounds. Furthermore, when placed as close to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 Joseph R. Eimer , Michael K. Brewer , David T. Chuss , John Karakla , Rui Shi , John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , Joseph Cleary , Sumit Dahal , Rahul Datta , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Tobias A. Marriage , Carolina Núñez , Matthew A. Petroff , Duncan J. Watts , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

PICSARR: high-precision polarimetry using CMOS image sensors

We have built and tested a compact, low-cost, but very-high-performance astronomical polarimeter based on a continuously rotating half-wave plate and a high-speed imaging detector. The polarimeter is suitable for small telescopes up to ~1 m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jeremy Bailey , Daniel V. Cotton , Ain De Horta , Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer , Om Shastri