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Fulfilling the science goals of the Simons Observatory, a state-of-the-art cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment, has required deploying tens of thousands of superconducting bolometers. Reading out data from the observatory's more…

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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…

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Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compton-$y$ distortion due to the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 William R. Coulton , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , J. Colin Hill , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , Tommy Alford , Mandana Amiri , Stefania Amodeo , Rui An , Zachary Atkins , Jason E. Austermann , Nicholas Battaglia , Elia Stefano Battistelli , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Emily Biermann , Boris Bolliet , J Richard Bond , Hongbo Cai , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Valentina Capalbo , Felipe Carrero , Grace E. Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Susan E. Clark , Rodrigo Córdova Rosado , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , Kevin T. Crowley , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Peter Doze , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Valentina Fanfani , Max Fankhanel , Gerrit Farren , Simone Ferraro , Rodrigo Freundt , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Xavier Garrido , Jahmour Givans , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Yilun Guan , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Matthew Hasselfield , Erin Healy , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Kent Irwin , Giovanni Isopi , Hidde T. Jense , Ben Keller , Joshua Kim , Kenda Knowles , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Darby Kramer , Aleksandra Kusiak , Adrien La Posta , Victoria Lakey , Eunseong Lee , Zack Li , Yaqiong Li , Michele Limon , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Niall MacCrann , Amanda MacInnis , Diego Maldonado , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Gabriela A. Marques , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Fiona McCarthy , Jeff McMahon , Yogesh Mehta , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Thomas W. Morris , Tony Mroczkowski , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Scherer , Lyman A. Page , Shivam Pandey , Bruce Partridge , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Frank J. Qu , Federico Radiconi , Naomi Robertson , Felipe Rojas , Tai Sakuma , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Shabbir Shaikh , Blake D. Sherwin , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristóbal Sifón , Sara Simon , Rita Sonka , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie Storer , Eric R. Switzer , Niklas Tampier , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Cristian Vargas , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Lukas Wenzl , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Fernando Zago , Kaiwen Zheng

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over $9400$ sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) CMB dataset, which consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Frank J. Qu , Blake D. Sherwin , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Dongwon Han , Kevin T. Crowley , Irene Abril-Cabezas , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , Tommy Alford , Mandana Amiri , Stefania Amodeo , Rui An , Zachary Atkins , Jason E. Austermann , Nicholas Battaglia , Elia Stefano Battistelli , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Emily Biermann , Boris Bolliet , J Richard Bond , Hongbo Cai , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Valentina Capalbo , Felipe Carrero , Julien Carron , Anthony Challinor , Grace E. Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Susan E. Clark , Rodrigo Córdova Rosado , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , William Coulton , Roohi Dalal , Omar Darwish , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Peter Doze , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Valentina Fanfani , Max Fankhanel , Gerrit Farren , Simone Ferraro , Rodrigo Freundt , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Xavier Garrido , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Yilun Guan , Mark Halpern , Ian Harrison , Matthew Hasselfield , Erin Healy , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Kent Irwin , Giovanni Isopi , Hidde T. Jense , Ben Keller , Joshua Kim , Kenda Knowles , Brian J. Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Darby Kramer , Aleksandra Kusiak , Adrien La Posta , Alex Lague , Victoria Lakey , Eunseong Lee , Zack Li , Yaqiong Li , Michele Limon , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Niall MacCrann , Amanda MacInnis , Diego Maldonado , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Gabriela A. Marques , Jeff McMahon , Yogesh Mehta , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Thomas W. Morris , Tony Mroczkowski , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Scherer , Lyman A. Page , Shivam Pandey , Bruce Partridge , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Federico Radiconi , Naomi Robertson , Felipe Rojas , Tai Sakuma , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Shabbir Shaikh , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristóbal Sifón , Sara Simon , Rita Sonka , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Emilie Storer , Eric R. Switzer , Niklas Tampier , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Carole Tucker , Joel Ulluom , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Joshiwa van Marrewijk , Cristian Vargas , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Lukas Wenzl , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Fernando Zago , Kaiwen Zhang

The C-Band All-Sky Survey C-BASS is a high-sensitivity all-sky radio survey at an angular resolution of 45 arcmin and a frequency of 4.7 GHz. We present a total intensity 4.7 GHz map of the North Celestial Pole (NCP) region of sky, above…

Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) is a third generation polarization upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, designed to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB). AdvACT expands on the 90 and 150 GHz transition edge sensor (TES) bolometer…

Fluctuating atmospheric emission is a dominant source of noise for ground-based millimeter-wave observations of the CMB temperature anisotropy at angular scales $\gtrsim 0.5^{\circ}$. We present a model of the atmosphere as a discrete set…

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

Archeops is a balloon-borne instrument dedicated to measuring cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies at high angular resolution (8 arcminutes) over a large fraction (25%) of the sky in the millimetre domain. Based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 A. Benoit , P. Ade , A. Amblard , R. Ansari , E. Aubourg , J. Bartlett

We report the results of an effort to measure the low frequency portion of the spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB), using a balloon-borne instrument called ARCADE (Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Fixsen , A. Kogut , S. Levin , M. Limon , P. Lubin , P. Mirel , M. Seiffert , E. Wollack

We describe BOOMERANG; a balloon-borne microwave telescope designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at a resolution of 10' from the Long Duration Balloon (LDB) platform. The millimeter-wave receiver employs new technology in…

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Polarization plays an important role in current cosmological studies. CMB B-mode polarization is the most effective probe to primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) and a test of the inflation as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-28 Yong-Ping Li , Yang Liu , Si-Yu Li , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

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…