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BICEP2 II: Experiment and Three-Year Data Set

We report on the design and performance of the BICEP2 instrument and on its three-year data set. BICEP2 was designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales of 1 to 5 degrees ($\ell$=40-200),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-18 BICEP2 Collaboration , P. A. R Ade , R. W. Aikin , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , G. Davis , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , K. S. Karkare , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , N. Llombart , M. Lueker , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , A. Orlando , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , K. T. Story , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , J. E. Tolan , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , P. Wilson , C. L. Wong , K. W. Yoon

Shape from Polarization of Thermal Emission and Reflection

Shape estimation for transparent objects is challenging due to their complex light transport. To circumvent these difficulties, we leverage the Shape from Polarization (SfP) technique in the Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) spectrum, where most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kazuma Kitazawa , Tsuyoshi Takatani

Measurements of E-Mode Polarization and Temperature-E-Mode Correlation in the Cosmic Microwave Background from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We present measurements of $E$-mode polarization and temperature-$E$-mode correlation in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the first season of observations with SPTpol, the polarization-sensitive receiver currently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. T. Crites , J. W. Henning , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , T. M. Crawford , T. De Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J Gallicchio , J. Gao , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , D. Hanson , N. Harrington , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , C. Liang , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , O. Zahn

The Instrument of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

While X-ray Spectroscopy, Timing and Imaging have improved verymuch since 1962, when the first astronomical non-solar source was discovered, especially with the launch of Newton/X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission, Rossi/X-ray Timing Explorer and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Paolo Soffitta , Luca Baldini , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Enrico Costa , Luca Latronico , Fabio Muleri , Ettore Del Monte , Sergio Fabiani , Massimo Minuti , Michele Pinchera , Carmelo Sgrò , Gloria Spandre , Alessio Trois , Fabrizio Amici , Hans Andersson , Primo Attinà , Matteo Bachetti , Mattia Barbanera , Fabio Borotto , Alessandro Brez , Daniele Brienza , Ciro Caporale , Claudia Cardelli , Rita Carpentiero , Simone Castellano , Marco Castronuovo , Luca Cavalli , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Marco Ceccanti , Mauro Centrone , Stefano Ciprini , Saverio Citraro , Fabio D' Amico , Elisa D' Alba , Sergio Di Cosimo , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Giuseppe Di Persio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Yuri Evangelista , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Asami Hayato , Takao Kitaguchi , Fabio La Monaca , Carlo Lefevre , Pasqualino Loffredo , Paolo Lorenzi , Leonardo Lucchesi , Carlo Magazzu , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Elio Mangraviti , Marco Marengo , Giorgio Matt , Paolo Mereu , Alfredo Morbidini , Federico Mosti , Toshio Nakano , Hikmat Nasimi , Barbara Negri , Seppo Nenonen , Alessio Nuti , Leonardo Orsini , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce Rollins , Raffaele Piazzolla , Maura Pilia , Alessandro Profeti , Simonetta Puccetti , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Alda Rubini , Francesco Santoli , Paolo Sarra , Emanuele Scalise , Andrea Sciortino , Toru Tamagawa , Marcello Tardiola , Antonino Tobia , Marco Vimercati , Fei Xie

Optical aspects of Near-Infrared Imager Spectrometer and Polarimeter instrument (NISP)

As a Near-IR instrument to PRL's upcoming 2.5 m telescope, NISP is designed indigeniously at PRL to serve as a multifaceted instrument. Optical, Mechanical and Electronics subsystems are being designed and developed in-house at PRL. It will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Archita Rai , Shashikiran Ganesh , Sukamal K. Paul , Prashanth K. Kasarla , Prachi V. Prajapati , Deekshya R. Sarkar , Alka Singh , Pitambar S. Patwal , Hitesh K L Adalja , Satya N. Mathur , Sachindra Naik , Amish B. Shah , Kiran S. Baliyan

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

The QUIJOTE experiment: project overview and first results

QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) is a new polarimeter aimed to characterize the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and other Galactic and extragalactic signals at medium and large angular scales in the frequency range 10-40 GHz.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 R. Génova-Santos , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , R. Rebolo , M. Aguiar , F. Gómez-Reñasco , C. Gutiérrez , R. J. Hoyland , C. López-Caraballo , A. E. Peláez-Santos , M. R. Pérez de Taoro , F. Poidevin , V. Sánchez de la Rosa , D. Tramonte , A. Vega-Moreno , T. Viera-Curbelo , R. Vignaga , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro , B. Casaponsa , F. J. Casas , J. M. Diego , R. Fernández-Cobos , D. Herranz , M. López-Caniego , D. Ortiz , P. Vielva , E. Artal , B. Aja , J. Cagigas , J. L. Cano , L. de la Fuente , A. Mediavilla , J. V. Terán , E. Villa , L. Piccirillo , Davies , R. J. Davis , C. Dickinson , K. Grainge , S. Harper , B. Maffei , M. McCulloch , S. Melhuish , G. Pisano , R. A. Watson , A. Lasenby , M. Ashdown , M. Hobson , Y. Perrott , N. Razavi-Ghods , R. Saunders , D. Titterington , P. Scott

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER)

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter designed to search for evidence of inflation by measuring the large-angular scale CMB polarization signal. BICEP2…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Justin Lazear , Peter A. R. Ade , Dominic Benford , Charles L. Bennett , David T. Chuss , Jessie L. Dotson , Joseph R. Eimer , Dale J. Fixsen , Mark Halpern , Gene Hilton , James Hinderks , Gary F. Hinshaw , Kent Irwin , Christine Jhabvala , Bradley Johnson , Alan Kogut , Luke Lowe , Jeff J. McMahon , Timothy M. Miller , Paul Mirel , S. Harvey Moseley , Samelys Rodriguez , Elmer Sharp , Johannes G. Staguhn , Eric R. Switzer , Carole E. Tucker , Amy Weston , Edward J. Wollack

Superfluid Liquid Helium Control for the Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer Balloon Payload

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a stratospheric balloon payload to measure polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Twin telescopes mounted within an open-aperture bucket dewar couple the sky to bolometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 A. Kogut , T. Essinger-Hileman , D. Fixsen , L. Lowe , P. Mirel , E. Switzer , E. Wollack

Instrumental and Analytic Methods for Bolometric Polarimetry

We discuss instrumental and analytic methods that have been developed for the first generation of bolometric cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters. The design, characterization, and analysis of data obtained using Polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 W. C. Jones , T. E. Montroy , B. P. Crill , C. R. Contaldi , T. S. Kisner , A. E. Lange , C. J. MacTavish , C. B. Netterfield , J. E. Ruhl

A Constraint on Primordial $B$-Modes from the First Flight of the SPIDER Balloon-Borne Telescope

We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of SPIDER, an experiment designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales. Results from these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 SPIDER Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , O. Doré , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , J. S. -Y. Leung , S. Li , D. S. Y. Mak , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , R. O'Brient , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , A. S. Rahlin , C. Reintsema , 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. F. van der List , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

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

The Atacama B-Mode Search: CMB Polarimetry with Transition-Edge-Sensor Bolometers

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-26 T. Essinger-Hileman , J. W. Appel , J. A. Beall , H. M. Cho , J. Fowler , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , K. D. Irwin , T. A. Marriage , M. D. Niemack , L. Page , L. P. Parker , S. Pufu , S. T. Staggs , O. Stryzak , C. Visnjic , K. W. Yoon , Y. Zhao

X-ray polarimetry as a new tool to discriminate reflection from absorption scenarios -- Predictions for MCG-6-30-15

We present modelling of X-ray polarisation spectra emerging from the two competing scenarios that are proposed to explain the broad Fe K{\alpha} line in the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15. The polarisation signature of complex absorption is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Marin , R. W. Goosmann , M. Dovciak , F. Muleri , D. Porquet , N. Grosso , V. Karas , G. Matt

Preliminary Design of The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a NASA MIDEX mission, will survey the entire sky in four bands from 3.3 to 23 microns with a sensitivity 1000 times greater than the IRAS survey. The WISE survey will extend the Two Micron All…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. K. Mainzer , P. Eisenhardt , E. L. Wright , F. Liu , W. Irace , I. Heinrichsen , R. Cutri , V. Duval

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

PASIPHAE: A high-Galactic-latitude, high-accuracy optopolarimetric survey

PASIPHAE (the Polar-Areas Stellar Imaging in Polarization High-Accuracy Experiment) is an optopolarimetric survey aiming to measure the linear polarization from millions of stars, and use these to create a three-dimensional tomographic map…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Konstantinos Tassis , Anamparambu N. Ramaprakash , Anthony C. S. Readhead , Stephen B. Potter , Ingunn K. Wehus , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Dmitry Blinov , Hans Kristian Eriksen , Brandon Hensley , Ata Karakci , John A. Kypriotakis , Siddharth Maharana , Evangelia Ntormousi , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Timothy J. Pearson , Raphael Skalidis

SPT-3G: A Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Experiment on the South Pole Telescope

We describe the design of a new polarization sensitive receiver, SPT-3G, for the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT). The SPT-3G receiver will deliver a factor of ~20 improvement in mapping speed over the current receiver, SPTpol. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 B. A. Benson , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , S. W. Allen , K. Arnold , J. E. Austermann , A. N. Bender , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. M. Cho , S. T. Ciocys , J. F. Cliche , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , D. Hanson , N. L. Harrington , K. Hattori , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , K. D. Irwin , R. Keisler , L. Knox , D. Kubik , C. L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , M. McDonald , S. S. Meyer , J. Montgomery , M. Myers , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , V. Novosad , S. Padin , Z. Pan , J. Pearson , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , G. Simard , G. Smecher , J. T. Sayre , E. Shirokoff , A. A. Stark , K. Story , A. Suzuki , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , G. Wang , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon

The Polatron: A Millimeter-Wave Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter for the OVRO 5.5 m Telescope

We describe the development of a bolometric receiver designed to measure the arcminute-scale polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The Polatron will be mounted at the Cassegrain focus of the 5.5 m telescope at the Owens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. Philhour , B. G. Keating , P. A. R. Ade , R. S. Bhatia , J. J. Bock , S. E. Church , J. Glenn , J. R. Hinderks , V. V. Hristov , W. C. Jones , M. Kamionkowski , D. E. Kumar , A. E. Lange , J. R. Leong , D. P. Marrone , B. S. Mason , P. V. Mason , M. M. Shuman , G. I. Sirbi

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