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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

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

Forecast B-modes detection at large scales in presence of noise and foregrounds

We investigate the detectability of the primordial CMB polarization B-mode power spectrum on large scales in the presence of instrumental noise and realistic foreground contamination. We have worked out a method to estimate the errors on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Bonaldi , S. Ricciardi

Deep 1.4-GHz observations of diffuse polarized emission

Polarized diffuse emission observations at 1.4-GHz in a high Galactic latitude area of the northern Celestial hemisphere are presented. The 3.2 X 3.2 deg^2 field, centred at RA = 10h 58m, Dec = +42deg 18' (B1950), has Galactic coordinates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Carretti , S. Poppi , W. Reich , P. Reich , E. Fuerst , G. Bernardi , S. Cortiglioni , C. Sbarra

The BOOMERANG North America Instrument: a balloon-borne bolometric radiometer optimized for measurements of cosmic background radiation anisotropies from 0.3 to 4 degrees

We describe the BOOMERANG North America (BNA) instrument, a balloon-borne bolometric radiometer designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation with 0.3 deg resolution over a significant portion of the sky. This receiver…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Piacentini , P. A. R. Ade , R. Bathia , J. J. Bock , A. Boscaleri , P. Cardoni , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , H. Del Castillo , G. de Troia , P. Farese , M. Giacometti , E. F. Hivon , V. V. Hristov , A. Iacoangeli , A. E. Lange , S. Masi , P. D. Mauskopf , L. Miglio , C. B. Netterfield , P. Palangio , E. Pascale , A. Raccanelli , S. Rao , G. Romeo , J. Ruhl , F. Scaramuzzi

Characterization of foreground emission at degree angular scale for CMB B-modes observations. Thermal Dust and Synchrotron signal from Planck and WMAP data

We quantify the contamination from polarized diffuse Galactic synchrotron and thermal dust emissions to the B-modes of the CMB anisotropies on the degree angular scale, using data from the Planck and WMAP satellites. We compute power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 N. Krachmalnicoff , C. Baccigalupi , J. Aumont , M. Bersanelli , A. Mennella

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

Development of the 220/270 GHz Receiver of BICEP Array

Measurements of B-mode polarization in the CMB sourced from primordial gravitational waves would provide information on the energy scale of inflation and its potential form. To achieve these goals, one must carefully characterize the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Keck Collaboration , Y. Nakato , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , B. Cantrall , J. R. Cheshire , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , B. D. Elwood , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , A. Fortes , M. Gao , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , M. Lautzenhiser , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. G. Megerian , M. Miller , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , A. Patel , M. Petroff , A. R. Polish , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , T. Romand , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , A. Steiger , B. Steinbach , R. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Vergès , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

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

Maximum likelihood, parametric component separation and CMB B-mode detection in suborbital experiments

We investigate the performance of the parametric Maximum Likelihood component separation method in the context of the CMB B-mode signal detection and its characterization by small-scale CMB suborbital experiments. We consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 F. Stivoli , J. Grain , S. M. Leach , M. Tristram , C. Baccigalupi , R. Stompor

Concept Design of Low Frequency Telescope for CMB B-mode Polarization satellite LiteBIRD

LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization over the full sky at large angular scales. The challenges of LiteBIRD are the wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-19 Y. Sekimoto , P. A. R. Ade , A. Adler , E. Allys , K. Arnold , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , R. Aurlien , J. Austermann , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. Banerji , R. B. Barreiro , S. Basak , J. Beall , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Bermejo , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , J. Bonis , J. Borrill , F. Boulanger , S. Bounissou , M. Brilenkov , M. Brown , M. Bucher , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , A. Challinor , V. Chan , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , J. F. Cliche , L. Colombo , F. Columbro , J. Cubas , A. Cukierman , D. Curtis , G. D'Alessandro , N. Dachlythra , M. De Petris , C. Dickinson , P. Diego-Palazuelos , M. Dobbs , T. Dotani , L. Duband , S. Duff , J. M. Duval , K. Ebisawa , T. Elleflot , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , T. Essinger-Hileman , F. Finelli , R. Flauger , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , M. Galloway , K. Ganga , J. R. Gao , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , E. Gjerløw , M. L. Gradziel , J. Grain , F. Grupp , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , P. Hargrave , T. Hasebe , M. Hasegawa , M. Hattori , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , D. Herman , D. Herranz , C. A. Hill , G. Hilton , Y. Hirota , E. Hivon , R. A. Hlozek , Y. Hoshino , E. de la Hoz , J. Hubmayr , K. Ichiki , T. iida , H. Imada , K. Ishimura , H. Ishino , G. Jaehnig , T. Kaga , S. Kashima , N. Katayama , A. Kato , T. Kawasaki , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , Y. Kobayashi , N. Kogiso , A. Kogut , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , K. Komatsu , K. Konishi , N. Krachmalnicoff , I. Kreykenbohm , C. L. Kuo , A. Kushino , L. Lamagna , J. V. Lanen , M. Lattanzi , A. T. Lee , C. Leloup , F. Levrier , E. Linder , T. Louis , G. Luzzi , T. Maciaszek , B. Maffei , D. Maino , M. Maki , S. Mandelli , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , S. Masi , T. Matsumura , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , Y. Minanmi , K. Mitsuda , J. Montgomery , L. Montier , G. Morgante , B. Mot , Y. Murata , J. A. Murphy , M. Nagai , Y. Nagano , T. Nagasaki , R. Nagata , S. Nakamura , T. Namikawa , P. Natoli , S. Nerval , T. Nishibori , H. Nishino , C. O'Sullivan , H. Ogawa , H. Ogawa , S. Oguri , H. Ohsaki , I. S. Ohta , N. Okada , N. Okada , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , J. Peloton , F. Piacentini , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , D. Poletti , T. Prouvé , G. Puglisi , D. Rambaud , C. Raum , S. Realini , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , G. Roudil , J. A. Rubino-Martin , M. Russell , H. Sakurai , Y. Sakurai , M. Sandri , M. Sasaki , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. Seibert , B. Sherwin , K. Shinozaki , M. Shiraishi , P. Shirron , G. Signorelli , G. Smecher , S. Stever , R. Stompor , H. Sugai , S. Sugiyama , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , T. L. Svalheim , E. Switzer , R. Takaku , H. Takakura , S. Takakura , Y. Takase , Y. Takeda , A. Tartari , E. Taylor , Y. Terao , H. Thommesen , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , T. Toda , M. Tomasi , M. Tominaga , N. Trappe , M. Tristram , M. Tsuji , M. Tsujimoto , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , G. Vermeulen , P. Vielva , F. Villa , M. Vissers , N. Vittorio , I. Wehus , J. Weller , B. Westbrook , J. Wilms , B. Winter , E. J. Wollack , N. Y. Yamasaki , T. Yoshida , J. Yumoto , M. Zannoni , A. Zonca

Foregrounds and Forecasts for the Cosmic Microwave Background

One of the main challenges facing upcoming CMB experiments will be to distinguish the cosmological signal from foreground contamination. We present a comprehensive treatment of this problem and study how foregrounds degrade the accuracy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Wayne Hu , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa

The POLARBEAR Experiment

We present the design and characterization of the POLARBEAR experiment. POLARBEAR will measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales ranging from the experiment's 3.5 arcminute beam size to several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Z. Kermish , P. Ade , A. Anthony , K. Arnold , K. Arnold , D. Barron , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , M. A. Dobbs , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , D. Flanigan , G. Fuller , A. Ghribi , W. Grainger , N. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Howard , P. Hyland , A. Jaffe , B. Keating , T. Kisner , A. T. Lee , M. Le Jeune , E. Linder , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , N. J. Miller , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , H. Nishino , H. Paar , E. Quealy , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , A. Shimizu , M. Shimon , C. Shimmin , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , O. Zahn

Recovering Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Signals with Machine Learning

Primordial B-mode detection is one of the main goals of current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. However, the weak B-mode signal is overshadowed by several Galactic polarized emissions, such as thermal dust emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Ye-Peng Yan , Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yu Li , Jun-Qing Xia

Impact of polarised extragalactic sources on the measurement of CMB B-mode anisotropies

One of the main goals of Cosmology is to search for the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the CMB polarisation field, to probe inflationary theories. One of the obstacles toward the detection of the primordial signal is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 G. Lagache , M. Bethermin , L. Montier , P. Serra , M. Tucci

A Measurement of the Degree Scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR

We present a measurement of the $B$-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. The CMB power spectra are measured using observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 S. Adachi , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , S. Beckman , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , J. Carron , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , H. El Bouhargani , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , N. Halverson , T. Hamada , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. A. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. Jaehnig , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , S. Kikuchi , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. N. Lowry , A. Mangu , F. Matsuda , Y. Minami , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , Y. Segawa , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , C. Tsai , C. Verges , B. Westbrook , Y. Zhou

Search for Gravitational Waves in the CMB After WMAP3: Foreground Confusion and The Optimal Frequency Coverage for Foreground Minimization

B-modes of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization can be created by a primordial gravitational wave background. If this background was created by Inflation, then the amplitude of the polarization signal is proportional the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexandre Amblard , Asantha Cooray , Manoj Kaplinghat

Detecting the B-mode Polarisation of the CMB with Clover

We describe the objectives, design and predicted performance of Clover, which is a ground-based experiment to measure the faint ``B-mode'' polarisation pattern in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To achieve this goal, clover will make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-03 C. E. North , B. R. Johnson , P. A. R. Ade , M. D. Audley , C. Baines , R. A. Battye , M. L. Brown , P. Cabella , P. G. Calisse , A. D. Challinor , W. D. Duncan , P. G. Ferreira , W. K. Gear , D. Glowacka , D. J. Goldie , P. K. Grimes , M. Halpern , V. Haynes , G. C. Hilton , K. D. Irwin , M. E. Jones , A. N. Lasenby , P. J. Leahy , J. Leech , B. Maffei , P. Mauskopf , S. J. Melhuish , D. O'Dea , S. M. Parsley , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , C. D. Reintsema , G. Savini , R. Sudiwala , D. Sutton , A. C. Taylor , G. Teleberg , D. Titterington , V. Tsaneva , C. Tucker , R. Watson , S. Withington , G. Yassin , J. Zhang

Simple foreground cleaning algorithm for detecting primordial B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background

We reconsider the pixel-based, "template" polarized foreground removal method within the context of a next-generation, low-noise, low-resolution (0.5 degree FWHM) space-borne experiment measuring the cosmological B-mode polarization signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nobuhiko Katayama , Eiichiro Komatsu

Forecast analysis and focal plane optimization for a multi-frequency CMB B-modes polarization experiment: the case of LSPE

We present an optimization scheme for the focal plane of a multi-frequency CMB B-modes experiment with a fixed number of detectors and apply it to the specific case of LSPE experiment. Optimal focal planes are identified on the ground of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-20 Roberto Mainini , Massimo Gervasi , Mario Zannoni , Luca Lamagna