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Design and characterization of the POLARBEAR-2b and POLARBEAR-2c cosmic microwave background cryogenic receivers

The POLARBEAR-2/Simons Array Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment is an upgrade and expansion of the existing POLARBEAR-1 (PB-1) experiment, located in the Atacama desert in Chile. Along with the CMB temperature and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-15 Logan Howe , Calvin Tsai , Lindsay Lowry , Kam Arnold , Gabriele Coppi , John Groh , Xiaoyu Guo , Brian Keating , Adrian Lee , Andrew J. May , Lucio Piccirillo , Nathan Stebor , Grant Teply

The POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Focal Plane Fabrication Status

We present on the status of POLARBEAR-2 A (PB2-A) focal plane fabrication. The PB2-A is the first of three telescopes in the Simon Array (SA), which is an array of three cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization sensitive telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 B. Westbrook , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguilar , Y. Akiba , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , S. Beckman , A. N. Bender , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , G. Coppi , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , T. de , R. Dünner , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. M. Feeney , C. Feng , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , N. W. Halverson , T. Hamada , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. A. Hill , W. Holzapfel , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. Jaehnig , A. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , M. Le , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. Lowry , A. Madurowicz , D. Mak , F. Matsuda , A. May , N. J. Miller , Y. Minami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , J. Peloton , A. Pham , L. Piccirillo , D. Plambeck , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. Raum , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , H. Roberts , C. Ross , K. M. Rotermund , Y. Segawa , B. Sherwin , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , R. Tat , G. P. Teply , A. Tikhomirov , T. Tomaru , C. Tsai , N. Whitehorn , A. Zahn

POLARBEAR-2: an instrument for CMB polarization measurements

POLARBEAR-2 (PB-2) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiment that will be located in the Atacama highland in Chile at an altitude of 5200 m. Its science goals are to measure the CMB polarization signals originating from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Y. Inoue , P. Ade , Y. Akiba , C. Aleman , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , B. Barch , D. Barron , A. Bender , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , A. Ducout , R. Dunner , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. Feeney , C. Feng , G. Fuller , A. J. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , N. Halverson , T. Hamada , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , C. Hill , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , L. Howe , F. Irie , G. Jaehnig , A. Jaffe , O. Jeongh , N. Katayama , J. P. Kaufman , K. Kazemzadeh , B. G. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskital , T. Kisner , A. Kusaka , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. V. Linder , L. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , N. Miller , K. Mizukami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. R. Raum , G. M. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , K. M. Rotermund , Y. Segaw , B. D. Sherwin , I. Shirley , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takada , S. Takatori , G. P. Teply , A. Tikhomirol , T. Tomaru , N. Whitehorn , A. Zahn , O. Zahn

Development and characterization of the readout system for POLARBEAR-2

POLARBEAR-2 is a next-generation receiver for precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)). Scheduled to deploy in early 2015, it will observe alongside the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 D. Barron , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , C. Aleman , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , A. Bender , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , N. Katayama , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , E. Linder , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , H. Morii , M. J. Myers , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , T. Okamura , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , C. Raum , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , K. Rotermund , D. E. Schenck , B. D. Sherwin , I. Shirley , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , G. Smecher , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , S. Takada , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , B. Wilson , A. Yadav , H. Yamaguchi , O. Zahn

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

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 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

Calibration of detector time constant with a thermal source for the POLARBEAR-2A CMB polarization experiment

The Simons Array (SA) project is a ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment. The SA observes the sky using three telescopes, and POLARBEAR-2A (PB-2A) is the receiver system on the first telescope. For the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-31 S. Takatori , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , A. T. Lee , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , T. Adkins , D. Barron , Y. Chinone , K. T. Crowley , T. de Haan , T. Elleflot , N. Farias , C. Feng , T. Fujino , J. C. Groh , H. Hirose , F. Matsuda , H. Nishino , Y. Segawa , P. Siritanasak , A. Suzuki , K. Yamada

A cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate for the POLARBEAR-2b cosmic microwave background receiver

We present the design and laboratory evaluation of a cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate (CHWP) for the POLARBEAR-2b (PB-2b) cosmic microwave background (CMB) receiver, the second installment of the Simons Array. PB-2b will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 C. A. Hill , A. Kusaka , P. Ashton , P. Barton , T. Adkins , K. Arnold , B. Bixler , S. Ganjam , A. T. Lee , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Sakurai , R. Tat , Y. Zhou

Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment from the Atacama Desert in Chile comprising three small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large-aperture telescope (LAT). In total, SO will field over 60,000…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-29 Kenji Kiuchi , Shunsuke Adachi , Aamir M. Ali , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Andrew Bazako , James A. Beall , Yuji Chinone , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Shannon M. Duff , Giulio Fabbian , Nicholas Galitzki , Joseph E. Golec , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Makoto Hattori , Charles A. Hill , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Bradley R. Johnson , Daisuke Kaneko , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Akito Kusaka , Jack Lashner , Adrian T. Lee , Frederick Matsuda , Heather McCarrick , Masaaki Murata , Federico Nati , Yume Nishinomiya , Lyman Page , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Christian L. Reichardt , Kana Sakaguri , Yuki Sakurai , Joseph Seibert , Jacob Spisak , Osamu Tajima , Grant P. Teply , Tomoki Terasaki , Tran Tsan , Samantha Walker , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Kyohei Yamada , Mario Zannoni , Ningfeng Zhu

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: Detector Re-biasing With Bias-step Measurements

The Simons Observatory is a ground-based cosmic microwave background survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope, sited at an elevation of 5200 m in the Atacama Desert in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Yuhan Wang , Tanay Bhandarkar , Steve K. Choi , Kevin T. Crowley , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , John Groh , Kathleen Harrington , Erin Healy , Bradley Johnson , Jack Lashner , Yaqiong Li , Max Silva-Feaver , Rita Sonka , Suzanne T. Staggs , Samantha Walker , Kaiwen Zheng

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…

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The POLARBEAR Fourier Transform Spectrometer Calibrator and Spectroscopic Characterization of the POLARBEAR Instrument

We describe the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) used for in-field testing of the POLARBEAR receiver, an experiment located in the Atacama Desert of Chile which measures the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-28 Frederick Matsuda , Lindsay Lowry , Aritoki Suzuki , Mario Aguilar Faundez , Kam Arnold , Darcy Barron , Federico Bianchini , Kolen Cheung , Yuji Chinone , Tucker Elleflot , Giulio Fabbian , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Masaya Hasegawa , Daisuke Kaneko , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Adrian Lee , Martin Navaroli , Haruki Nishino , Hans Paar , Giuseppe Puglisi , Paul Richards , Joseph Seibert , Praween Siritanasak , Osamu Tajima , Sayuri Takatori , Calvin Tsai , Ben Westbrook

The bolometric focal plane array of the Polarbear CMB experiment

The Polarbear Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment is currently observing from the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. It will characterize the expected B-mode polarization due to gravitational lensing of the CMB, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Arnold , P. A. R. Ade , A. E. Anthony , 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 , Z. Kermish , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , N. J. Miller , X. Meng , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , H. Nishino , H. Paar , E. Quealy , C. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , O. Zahn

The Simons Observatory: laboratory beam characterization for the first small aperture telescope

The Simons Observatory is a ground-based telescope array located at an elevation of 5200 meters, in the Atacama Desert in Chile, designed to measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. It comprises four…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Remington G. Gerras , Thomas Alford , Michael J. Randall , Joseph Seibert , Grace Chesmore , Kevin T. Crowley , Nicholas Galitzki , Jon Gudmundsson , Kathleen Harrington , Bradley R. Johnson , J. B. Lloyd , Amber D. Miller , Max Silva-Feaver

The Simons Observatory: Production-level Fabrication of the Mid- and Ultra-High-Frequency Wafers

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background instrumentation suite in the Atacama Desert of Chile. More than 65,000 polarization-sensitive transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers will be fielded in the frequency range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Shannon M. Duff , Jason Austermann , James A. Beall , David P. Daniel , Johannes Hubmayr , Greg C. Jaehnig , Bradley R. Johnson , Dante Jones , Michael J. Link , Tammy J. Lucas , Rita F. Sonka , Suzanne T. Staggs , Joel Ullom , Yuhan Wang

The Simons Observatory: Instrument Overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular scales between 1 arcminute and tens of degrees, contain over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Nicholas Galitzki , Aamir Ali , Kam S. Arnold , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Darcy Barron , James A. Beall , Shawn Beckman , Sarah Marie M. Bruno , Sean Bryan , Paolo G. Calisse , Grace E. Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Steve K. Choi , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Shannon M. Duff , Jo Dunkley , Giulio Fabbian , Patricio A. Gallardo , Martina Gerbino , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Joseph E. Golec , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Erin E. Healy , Shawn Henderson , Charles A. Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Logan A. Howe , Johannes Hubmayr , Oliver Jeong , Brian Keating , Brian J. Koopman , Kenji Kuichi , Akito Kusaka , Jacob Lashner , Adrian T. Lee , Yaqiong Li , Michele Limon , Marius Lungu , Frederick Matsuda , Philip D. Mauskopf , Andrew J. May , Nialh McCallum , Jeff McMahon , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Stephen C. Parshley , Lucio Piccirillo , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Christopher Raum , Maria Salatino , Joseph S. Seibert , Carlos Sierra , Max Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason R. Stevens , Aritoki Suzuki , Grant Teply , Robert Thornton , Calvin Tsai , Joel N. Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R. Vissers , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

Design and development of an ambient-temperature continuously-rotating achromatic half-wave plate for CMB polarization modulation on the POLARBEAR-2 experiment

We describe the development of an ambient-temperature continuously-rotating half-wave plate (HWP) for study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization by the POLARBEAR-2 (PB2) experiment. Rapid polarization modulation suppresses…

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Antenna-coupled TES Bolometer Arrays for BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER

BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER are cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters targeting the B-mode polarization induced by primordial gravitational waves from inflation. They will be using planar arrays of polarization sensitive antenna-coupled…

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Small Aperture Telescopes for the Simons Observatory

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located on Cerro Toco, Chile, that will map the microwave sky in temperature and polarization in six frequency bands spanning 27 to 285 GHz. SO will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Aamir M. Ali , Shunsuke Adachi , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Andrew Bazarko , Yuji Chinone , Gabriele Coppi , Lance Corbett , Kevin D Crowley , Kevin T Crowley , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Shannon Duff , Chris Ellis , Nicholas Galitzki , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Kathleen Harrington , Erin Healy , Charles A Hill , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Brian Keating , Kenji Kiuchi , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T Lee , Michael Ludlam , Aashrita Mangu , Frederick Matsuda , Heather McCarrick , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Haruki Nishino , John Orlowski-Scherer , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Christopher Raum , Yuki Sakurai , Maria Salatino , Trevor Sasse , Joseph Seibert , Carlos Sierra , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Jacob Spisak , Sara M Simon , Suzanne Staggs , Osamu Tajima , Grant Teply , Tran Tsan , Edward Wollack , Bejamin Westbrook , Zhilei Xu , Mario Zannoni , Ningfeng Zhu