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Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum from Two Years of POLARBEAR Data

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing deflection power spectrum reconstructed with two seasons cosmic microwave background polarization data from the POLARBEAR experiment. Observations were taken at 150 GHz from 2012 to 2014…

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Current Status and Perspectives of Cosmic Microwave Background Observations

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation provide a unique opportunity for a direct study of the primordial cosmic plasma at redshift z ~1000. The angular power spectra of temperature and polarisation fluctuations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Bersanelli , Davide Maino , Aniello Mennella

Benchmark Parameters for CMB Polarization Experiments

The recently detected polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) holds the potential for revealing the physics of inflation and gravitationally mapping the large-scale structure of the universe, if so called B-mode signals below…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Wayne Hu , Matthew M. Hedman , Matias Zaldarriaga

BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales

(abridged for arXiv) We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gravitational waves in the B-mode power spectrum around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-24 P. A. R Ade , R. W. Aikin , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , 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 , M. Lueker , P. Mason , 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 , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , J. E. Tolan , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , C. L. Wong , K. W. Yoon

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…

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SPIDER: A Balloon-borne Large-scale CMB Polarimeter

Spider is a balloon-borne experiment that will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background over a large fraction of a sky at 1 degree resolution. Six monochromatic refracting millimeter-wave telescopes with large arrays of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. P. Crill , P. A. R. Ade , E. S. Battistelli , S. Benton , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Brevik , S. Bryan , C. R. Contaldi , O. Dore , M. Farhang , L. Fissel , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. Irwin , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , C. Lawrie , C. J. MacTavish , T. G. Martin , P. Mason , T. E. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , D. Riley , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , A. Turner , M. Viero , D. Wiebe

Measurement of a Peak in the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum from the North American test flight of BOOMERANG

We describe a measurement of the angular power spectrum of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from 0.3 degrees to ~10 degrees from the North American test flight of the BOOMERANG experiment. BOOMERANG is a balloon-borne…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. D. Mauskopf , P. A. R. Ade , P. de Bernardis , J. J. Bock , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , B. P. Crill , G. DeGasperis , G. De Troia , P. Farese , P. G. Ferreira , K. Ganga , M. Giacometti , S. Hanany , V. V. Hristov , A. Iacoangeli , A. H. Jaffe , A. E. Lange , A. T. Lee , S. Masi , A. Melchiorri , F. Melchiorri , L. Miglio , T. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , F. Piacentini , P. L. Richards , G. Romeo , J. E. Ruhl , E. Scannapieco , F. Scaramuzzi , R. Stompor , N. Vittorio

QUBIC: the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology

The Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, QUBIC, is an innovative experiment designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and in particular the signature left therein by the inflationary expansion of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 E. S. Battistelli , P. Ade , J. G. Alberro , A. Almela , G. Amico , L. H. Arnaldi , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , S. Azzoni , S. Banfi , P. Battaglia , A. Baù , B. Bèlier , D. Bennett , L. Bergè , J. -Ph. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , N. Bleurvacq , J. Bonaparte , J. Bonis , A. Bottani , E. Bunn , D. Burke , D. Buzi , A. Buzzelli , F. Cavaliere , P. Chanial , C. Chapron , R. Charlassier , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , M. De Petris , S. Dheilly , A. Di Donato , L. Dumoulin , A. Etchegoyen , A. Fasciszewski , L. P. Ferreyro , D. Fracchia , C. Franceschet , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , K. Ganga , B. Garcìa , M. E. Garcìa Redondo , M. Gaspard , A. Gault , D. Gayer , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , V. Gilles , Y. Giraud-Heraud , M. Gòmez Berisso , M. Gonzàlez , M. Gradziel , L. Grandsire , J. -Ch. Hamilton , D. Harari , V. Haynes , S. Henrot-Versillè , D. T. Hoang , F. Incardona , E. Jules , J. Kaplan , A. Korotkov , C. Kristukat , L. Lamagna , S. Loucatos , T. Louis , R. Luterstein , B. Maffei , S. Marnieros , W. Marty , S. Masi , A. Mattei , A. May , M. McCulloch , M. C. Medina , L. Mele , S. Melhuish , A. Mennella , L. Montier , L. Mousset , L. M. Mundo , J. A. Murphy , J. D. Murphy , F. Nati , E. Olivieri , C. Oriol , C. O'Sullivan , A. Paiella , F. Pajot , A. Passerini , H. Pastoriza , A. Pelosi , C. Perbost , M. Perciballi , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , M. Platino , G. Polenta , D. Prèle , R. Puddu , D. Rambaud , P. Ringegni , G. E. Romero , M. Salatino , J. M. Salum , A. Schillaci , C. Scòccola , S. Scully , S. Spinelli , G. Stankowiak , M. Stolpovskiy , F. Suarez , A. Tartari , J. -P. Thermeau , P. Timbie , M. Tomasi , S. Torchinsky , M. Tristram , C. Tucker , G. Tucker , S. Vanneste , D. Viganò , N. Vittorio , F. Voisin , B. Watson , F. Wicek , M. Zannoni , A. Zullo

Multi-chroic dual-polarization bolometric detectors for studies of the Cosmic Microwave Background

We are developing multi-chroic antenna-coupled TES detectors for CMB polarimetry. Multi-chroic detectors increase the mapping speed per focal plane area and provide greater discrimination of polarized galactic foregrounds with no increase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-01 Aritoki Suzuki , Kam Arnold , Jennifer Edwards , Greg Engargiola , Adnan Ghribi , William Holzapfel , Adrian T. Lee , Xiao Fan Meng , Michael J. Myers , Roger O'Brient , Erin Quealy , Gabriel Rebeiz , Paul Richards , Darin Rosen , Praween Siritanasak

Optimization of the half wave plate configuration for the LSPE-SWIPE experiment

The search for the B-mode polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the new frontier of observational Cosmology. A B-mode detection would give an ultimate confirmation to the existence of a primordial Gravitational Wave (GW)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Alessandro Buzzelli , Giancarlo de Gasperis , Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi , Nicola Vittorio

Broadband Fizeau Interferometers for Astrophysics

Measurements of the 2.7 K cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation now provide the most stringent constraints on cosmological models. The power spectra of the temperature anisotropies and the $E$-mode polarization of the CMB are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-01 Siddharth Savyasachi Malu , Peter T Timbie

Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Since the first detection by the DASI experiment in 2002, measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have grown into an important role in testing our understanding of conditions in the early universe and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 M. Rahimi , C. L. Reichardt

ACTPol: A polarization-sensitive receiver for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. D. Niemack , P. A. R. Ade , J. Aguirre , F. Barrientos , J. A. Beall , J. R. Bond , J. Britton , H. M. Cho , S. Das , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , J. Dunkley , R. Dunner , J. W. Fowler , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. C. Hilton , M. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , J. P. Hughes , L. Infante , K. D. Irwin , N. Jarosik , J. Klein , A. Kosowsky , T. A. Marriage , J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , K. Moodley , J. P. Nibarger , M. R. Nolta , L. A. Page , B. Partridge , E. D. Reese , J. Sievers , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , R. Thornton , C. Tucker , E. Wollack , K. W. Yoon

A Measurement of the CMB <EE> Spectrum from the 2003 Flight of BOOMERANG

We report measurements of the CMB polarization power spectra from the January 2003 Antarctic flight of BOOMERANG. The primary results come from six days of observation of a patch covering 0.22% of the sky centered near R.A. = 82.5 deg.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 T. E. Montroy , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , P. Cabella , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , A. de Oliveira-Costa , G. De Troia , G. di Stefano , E. Hivon , A. H. Jaffe , T. S. Kisner , W. C. Jones , A. E. Lange , S. Masi , P. D. Mauskopf , C. J. MacTavish , A. Melchiorri , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , F. Piacentini , D. Pogosyan , G. Polenta , S. Prunet , S. Ricciardi , G. Romeo , J. E. Ruhl , P. Santini , M. Tegmark , M. Veneziani , N. Vittorio

The Simons Observatory: Design, Optimization, and Performance of Low Frequency Detectors

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make precise temperature and polarization measurements over six spectral bands ranging from 27 to 285 GHz. Three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Aashrita Mangu , Benjamin Westbrook , Shawn Beckman , Lance Corbett , Kevin T. Crowley , Daniel Dutcher , Bradley R. Johnson , Adrian T. Lee , Varun Kabra , Bhoomija Prasad , Suzanne T. Staggs , Aritoki Suzuki , Yuhan Wang , Kaiwen Zheng

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

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

Studies of Systematic Uncertainties for Simons Observatory: Optical Effects and Sensitivity Considerations

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new experiment that aims to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. SO will measure the polarized sky over a large range of microwave frequencies and angular scales…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-16 Patricio A. Gallardo , Jon Gudmundsson , Brian J. Koopman , Frederick T. Matsuda , Sara M. Simon , Aamir Ali , Sean Bryan , Yuji Chinone , Gabriele Coppi , Nicholas Cothard , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Giulio Fabbian , Nicholas Galitzki , Charles A. Hill , Brian Keating , Akito Kusaka , Jacob Lashner , Adrian T. Lee , Michele Limon , Philip D. Mauskopf , Jeff McMahon , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Stephen C. Parshley , Giuseppe Puglisi , Christian L Reichardt , Maria Salatino , Suzanne Staggs , Aritoki Suzuki , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

Mission design of LiteBIRD

LiteBIRD is a next-generation satellite mission to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. On large angular scales the B-mode polarization of the CMB carries the imprint of primordial gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-24 T. Matsumura , Y. Akiba , J. Borrill , Y. Chinone , M. Dobbs , H. Fuke , A. Ghribi , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. Holzapfel , Y. Inoue , K. Ishidoshiro , H. Ishino , H. Ishitsuka , K. Karatsu , N. Katayama , I. Kawano , A. Kibayashi , Y. Kibe , K. Kimura , N. Kimura , K. Koga , M. Kozu , E. Komatsu , A. Lee , H. Matsuhara , S. Mima , K. Mitsuda , K. Mizukami , H. Morii , T. Morishima , S. Murayama , M. Nagai , R. Nagata , S. Nakamura , M. Naruse , K. Natsume , T. Nishibori , H. Nishino , A. Noda , T. Noguchi , H. Ogawa , S. Oguri , I. Ohta , C. Otani , P. Richards , S. Sakai , N. Sato , Y. Sato , Y. Sekimoto , A. Shimizu , K. Shinozaki , H. Sugita , T. Suzuki , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takada , S. Takakura , Y. Takei , T. Tomaru , Y. Uzawa , T. Wada , H. Watanabe , N. Yamasaki , M. Yoshida , T. Yoshida , K. Yotsumoto

Observing the polarized cosmic microwave background from the Earth: scanning strategy and polarimeters test for the LSPE/STRIP instrument

Detecting B-mode polarization anisotropies on large angular scales in the CMB polarization pattern is one of the major challenges in modern observational cosmology since it would give us an important evidence in favor of the inflationary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Federico Incardona