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Multi-mode TES bolometer optimization for the LSPE-SWIPE instrument

In this paper we explore the possibility of using transition edge sensor (TES) detectors in multi-mode configuration in the focal plane of the Short Wavelength Instrument for the Polarization Explorer (SWIPE) of the balloon-borne…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-26 R. Gualtieri , E. S. Battistelli , A. Cruciani , P. de Bernardis , M. Biasotti , D. Corsini , F. Gatti , L. Lamagna , S. Masi

BICEP2/Keck Array IV: Optical Characterization and Performance of the BICEP2 and Keck Array Experiments

BICEP2 and the Keck Array are polarization-sensitive microwave telescopes that observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the South Pole at degree angular scales in search of a signature of inflation imprinted as B-mode polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 The BICEP2 , Keck Array Collaborations , : , P. A. R. Ade , R. W. Aikin , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , K. J. Bradford , 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 , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. H. Kang , K. S. Karkare , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , A. Orlando , C. Pryke , S. Richter , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. C. Weber , C. L. Wong , K. W. Yoon

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

Correlating Visual Characteristics and Cryogenic Performance of Superconducting Detectors

Cryogenic characterization of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers is a time- and labor-intensive process. As new experiments deploy larger and larger arrays of TES bolometers, the testing process will become more of a bottleneck. Thus…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 K. R. Ferguson , A. N. Bender , N. Whitehorn , T. W. Cecil

Development of highly sensitive nanoscale transition edge sensors for gigahertz astronomy and dark matter search

Terahertz and sub-terahertz band detection has a key role both in fundamental interactions physics and technological applications, such as medical imaging, industrial quality control and homeland security. In particular, transition edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-20 Federico Paolucci , Vittorio Buccheri , Gaia Germanese , Nadia Ligato , Riccardo Paoletti , Giovanni Signorelli , Massimiliano Bitossi , Paolo Spagnolo , Paolo Falferi , Mauro Rajteri , Claudio Gatti , Francesco Giazotto

Calibration of Transition-edge Sensor (TES) Bolometer Arrays with Application to CLASS

The current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments fielding kilo-pixel arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers require accurate and robust gain calibration methods. We simplify and refactor the standard TES model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , Michael K. Brewer , Ricardo Bustos , Manwei Chan , David T. Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Jullianna D. Couto , Sumit Dahal , Rahul Datta , Kevin Denis , Joseph Eimer , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Kathleen Harrington , Jeffrey Iuliano , Yunyang Li , Tobias A. Marriage , Carolina Núñez , Keisuke Osumi , Ivan L. Padilla , Matthew A. Petroff , Karwan Rostem , Deniz A. N. Valle , Duncan J. Watts , Janet L. Weiland , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

TES Bolometer Design and Testing for the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment Millimeter Array

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

BICEP2 / Keck Array V: Measurements of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales and 150 GHz by the Keck Array

The Keck Array is a system of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters, each similar to the BICEP2 experiment. In this paper we report results from the 2012 and 2013 observing seasons, during which the Keck Array consisted of five…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-06 The BICEP2 , Keck Array Collaborations , : , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , R. W. Aikin , K. D. Alexander , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , B. P. Crill , C. D. Dowell , C. Dvorkin , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , K. S. Karkare , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , P. Mason , K. G. Megerian , 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 , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. C. Weber , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , K. W. Yoon

Hierarchical sinuous-antenna phased array for millimeter wavelengths

We present the design, fabrication and measured performance of a hierarchical sinuous-antenna phased array coupled to superconducting transition-edge-sensor (TES) bolometers for millimeter wavelengths. The architecture allows for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-30 Ari Cukierman , Adrian T. Lee , Christopher Raum , Aritoki Suzuki , Benjamin Westbrook

Characterization and Improvement of the Thermal Stability of TES Bolometers

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

Crosstalk effects in microwave SQUID multiplexed TES bolometer readout

Transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers are broadly used for background-limited astrophysical measurements from the far-infrared to mm-waves. Many planned future instruments require increasingly large detector arrays, but their scalability…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 John C. Groh , Zeeshan Ahmed , Shawn W. Henderson , Johannes Hubmayr , John A. B. Mates , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Joel Ullom , Cyndia Yu

The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Detectors and Readout

EBEX was a long-duration balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The experiment had three frequency bands centered at 150, 250, and 410 GHz and was the first to use a kilo-pixel array of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 The EBEX Collaboration , Maximilian Abitbol , Asad M. Aboobaker , Peter Ade , Derek Araujo , François Aubin , Carlo Baccigalupi , Chaoyun Bao , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Stephen M. Feeney , Christopher Geach , Will Grainger , Shaul Hanany , Kyle Helson , Seth Hillbrand , Gene Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent Irwin , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , Terry Jones , Jeff Klein , Andrei Korotkov , Adrian Lee , Lorne Levinson , Michele Limon , Kevin MacDermid , Amber D. Miller , Michael Milligan , Kate Raach , Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Carl Reintsema , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin Westbrook , Karl Young , Kyle Zilic

BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set

We report on the design and performance of the BICEP3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. BICEP3 is a 52cm aperture, refracting telescope designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Keck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , D. Beck , C. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Halal , G. Hall , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. Turner , C. Umilta , C. Verges , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

The Keck Array: a pulse tube cooled CMB polarimeter

The Keck Array is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter that will begin observing from the South Pole in late 2010. The initial deployment will consist of three telescopes similar to BICEP2 housed in ultra-compact, pulse tube…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-02 C. D. Sheehy , P. A. R. Ade , R. W. Aikin , M. Amiri , S. Benton , C. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Bonetti , J. A. Brevik , B. Burger , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , K. Irwin , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. W. Ogburn , A. Orlando , C. L. Pryke , C. Reintsema , S. Richter , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , Z. Staniszewski , S. Stokes , R. Sudiwala , G. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , A. D. Turner , P. Wilson , C. L. Wong

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

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

Demonstration of a 1820 channel multiplexer for transition-edge sensor bolometers

The scalability of most transition-edge sensor arrays is limited by the multiplexing technology which combines their signals over a reduced number of wires and amplifiers. In this Letter, we present and demonstrate a multiplexer design…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-21 J. C. Groh , Z. Ahmed , J. Austermann , J. Beall , D. Daniel , S. M. Duff , S. W. Henderson , J. Hubmayr , R. Lew , M. Link , T. J. Lucas , J. A. B. Mates , M. Silva-Feaver , R. Singh , J. Ullom , L. Vale , J. Van Lanen , M. Vissers , C. Yu

High-impedence NbSi TES sensors for studying the cosmic microwave background radiation

Precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are crucial in cosmology, because any proposed model of the universe must account for the features of this radiation. Of all CMB measurements that the scientific community has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Claudia Nones , Stefanos Marnieros , Alain Benoit , Laurent Bergé , Aurelien Bideau , Philippe Camus , Louis Dumoulin , Alessandro Monfardini , Olivier Rigaut

Comparing complex impedance and bias step measurements of Simons Observatory transition edge sensors

The Simons Observatory (SO) will perform ground-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several small and large aperture telescopes, each outfitted with thousands to tens of thousands of superconducting aluminum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 Nicholas F. Cothard , Aamir M. Ali , Jason E. Austermann , Steve K. Choi , Kevin T. Crowley , Bradley J. Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Patricio Gallardo , Gene C. Hilton , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Michael J. Link , Michael D. Niemack , Rita F. Sonka , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

The Simons Observatory: Differentiating Thermal and Optical Effects in Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensing Bolometers

The Simons Observatory aims to field 70,000 Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background. With so many detectors, rapid but accurate validation of their properties prior to their integration into…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-21 Rita F. Sonka , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , Suzanne T. Staggs