Related papers: The POLARBEAR-2 and the Simons Array Experiment

Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) polarization with QUIET

A major goal of upcoming experiments measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) is to reveal the subtle signature of inflation in the polarization pattern which requires unprecedented sensitivity and control of systematics.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Dorothea Samtleben

A large-diameter cryogenic rotation stage for half-wave plate polarization modulation on the POLARBEAR-2 experiment

We describe the design of a cryogenic rotation stage (CRS) for use with the cryogenic half-wave plate (CHWP) polarization modulator on the POLARBEAR-2b and POLARBEAR-2c (PB2b/c) cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, the second and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-29 Charles A. Hill , Akito Kusaka , Paul Barton , Bryce Bixler , Alex G. Droster , Mael Flament , Suhas Ganjam , Arian Jadbabaie , Oliver Jeong , Adrian T. Lee , Alex Madurowicz , Fred T. Matsuda , Tomotake Matsumura , Adam Rutkowski , Yuki Sakurai , Danielle R. Sponseller , Aritoki Suzuki , Raymond Tat

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collected during the second season of observations (2013-2014) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguilar , Y. Akiba , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , A. Ducout , R. Dünner , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. M. Feeney , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , T. Hamada , G. Hall , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , Y. Segawa , B. D. Sherwin , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , N. Whitehorn , A. Zahn

The Simons Observatory: gain, bandpass and polarization-angle calibration requirements for B-mode searches

We quantify the calibration requirements for systematic uncertainties for next-generation ground-based observatories targeting the large-angle $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, with a focus on the Simons Observatory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Maximilian H. Abitbol , David Alonso , Sara M. Simon , Jack Lashner , Kevin T. Crowley , Aamir M. Ali , Susanna Azzoni , Carlo Baccigalupi , Darcy Barron , Michael L. Brown , Erminia Calabrese , Julien Carron , Yuji Chinone , Jens Chluba , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin D. Crowley , Mark Devlin , Jo Dunkley , Josquin Errard , Valentina Fanfani , Nicholas Galitzki , Martina Gerbino , J. Colin Hill , Bradley R. Johnson , Baptiste Jost , Brian Keating , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Thibaut Louis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Heather McCarrick , Jeffrey McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , Federico Nati , Haruki Nishino , Lyman A. Page , Davide Poletti , Giuseppe Puglisi , Michael J. Randall , Aditya Rotti , Jacob Spisak , Aritoki Suzuki , Grant P. Teply , Clara Vergès , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Mario Zannoni

The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) Integration and Validation Results

The Simons Observatory (SO) will observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The observatory consists of three 0.5 m Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) and one 6 m Large Aperture Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Zhilei Xu , Tanay Bhandarkar , Gabriele Coppi , Anna M. Kofman , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Ningfeng Zhu , Aamir M. Ali , Kam Arnold , Jason E. Austermann , Steve K. Choi , Jake Connors , Nicholas F. Cothard , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Shannon M. Duff , Giulio Fabbian , Nicholas Galitzki , Saianeesh K. Haridas , Kathleen Harrington , Erin Healy , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , Jack Lashner , Yaqiong Li , Michele Limon , Brian J. Koopman , Heather McCarrick , Jenna Moore , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Christian L. Reichardt , Karen Perez Sarmiento , Joseph Seibert , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Rita F. Sonka , Suzanne Staggs , Robert J. Thornton , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R. Vissers , Samantha Walker , Yuhan Wang , Edward J. Wollack , Kaiwen Zheng

POLAR-2 -- Latest Developments of the Next Generation GRB Polarimeter

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic events in the Universe. Despite over 50 years of research and measurements their prompt emission remains poorly understood, with key questions surrounding the structure of relativistic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Johannes Hulsman , Philipp Azzarello , Joerg Bayer , Franck Cadoux , Mariachiara Celato , Nicolas De Angelis , Yannick Favre , Aaron Feder , Jochen Greiner , Alejandro Guzman , Coralie Husi , Vishal Kumar , Hancheng Li , Mobin Mobaseri , Gabriel Pelleriti , Agnieszka Pollo , Nicolas Produit , Dominik Rybka , Andrea Santangelo , Jianchao Sun , Chris Tenzer , Xin Wu , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Calibration Measurements of the BICEP3 and BICEP Array CMB Polarimeters from 2017 to 2024

The BICEP3 and BICEP Array polarimeters are small-aperture refracting telescopes located at the South Pole designed to measure primordial gravitational wave signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization, predicted by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 Christos Giannakopoulos , Clara Vergès , P. A. R. Ade , Zeeshan Ahmed , Mandana Amiri , Denis Barkats , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Colin A. Bischoff , Dominic Beck , James J. Bock , Hans Boenish , Victor Buza , James R. Cheshire , Jake Connors , James Cornelison , Michael Crumrine , Ari Jozef Cukierman , Edward Denison , Marion Dierickx , Lionel Duband , Miranda Eiben , Brodi D. Elwood , Sofia Fatigoni , Jeff P. Filippini , Antonio Fortes , Min Gao , Neil Goeckner-Wald , David C. Goldfinger , James A. Grayson , Paul K. Grimes , Grantland Hall , George Halal , Mark Halpern , Emma Hand , Sam A. Harrison , Shawn Henderson , Johannes Hubmayr , Howard Hui , Kent D. Irwin , Jae Hwan Kang , Kirit S. Karkare , Sinan Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , Chao-Lin Kuo , King Lau , Margaret Lautzenhiser , Amber Lennox , Tongtian Liu , Koko G. Megerian , Oliver Miller , Lorenzo Minutolo , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Yuka Nakato , H. T. Nguyen , Roger O'brient , Anika Patel , Matthew A. Petroff , Anna R. Polish , Nathan Precup , Thomas Prouve , Clement Pryke , Carl D. Reintsema , Thibault Romand , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin Schmitt , Baibhav Singari , Ahmed Soliman , Tyler St Germaine , Aaron Steiger , Bryan Steinbach , Rashmi Sudiwala , Keith L. Thompson , Calvin Tsai , Carole Tucker , Anthony D. Turner , Abigail G. Vieregg , Albert Wandui , Alexis C. Weber , Justin Willmert , Wai Ling K. Wu , Hung-I Yang , Cyndia Yu , Lingzhen Zeng , Cheng Zhang , Silvia Zhang

Commercialization of micro-fabrication of antenna-coupled Transition Edge Sensor bolometer detectors for studies of the Cosmic Microwave Background

We report on the development of commercially fabricated multi-chroic antenna coupled Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimetry experiments. CMB polarimetry experiments have deployed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 Aritoki Suzuki , Chris Bebek , Maurice Garcia-Sciveres , Stephen Holland , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Nicholas Palaio , Natalie Roe , Leo Steinmetz

Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver Design Overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover angular scales between one arcminute and tens of degrees and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-31 Ningfeng Zhu , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Zhilei Xu , Aamir Ali , Kam S. Arnold , Peter C. Ashton , Gabriele Coppi , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Shawn W. Henderson , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Brian Keating , Adrian T. Lee , Michele Limon , Marius Lungu , Philip D. Mauskopf , Andrew J. May , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Lucio Piccirillo , Giuseppe Puglisi , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Maria Salatino , Max Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne Staggs , Robert Thornton , Joel N. Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack

Cooldown Strategies and Transient Thermal Simulations for the Simons Observatory

The Simons Observatory (SO) will provide precision polarimetry of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover angular scales from arc-minutes to tens of degrees, contain over 60,000 detectors, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-27 Gabriele Coppi , Zhilei Xu , Aamir Ali , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Brian Keating , Michele Limon , Marius Longu , Andrew J. May , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Jack L. Orlowski-Scherer , Lucio Piccirillo , Giuseppe Puglisi , Maria Salatino , Sara M. Simon , Grant Teply , Robert Thornton , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Ningfeng Zhu

The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough discoveries in fundamental physics, cosmology, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-10 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Shunsuke Adachi , Peter Ade , James Aguirre , Zeeshan Ahmed , Simone Aiola , Aamir Ali , David Alonso , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Zachary Atkins , Jason Austermann , Humna Awan , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Anton Baleato Lizancos , Darcy Barron , Nick Battaglia , Richard Battye , Eric Baxter , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Dominic Beck , Shawn Beckman , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Sanah Bhimani , Federico Bianchini , Steven Boada , David Boettger , Boris Bolliet , J. Richard Bond , Julian Borrill , Michael L. Brown , Sarah Marie Bruno , Sean Bryan , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Paolo Calisse , Julien Carron , Fred. M Carl , Juan Cayuso , Anthony Challinor , Grace Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Jens Chluba , Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho , Steve Choi , Susan Clark , Philip Clarke , Carlo Contaldi , Gabriele Coppi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , Will Coulton , Devin Crichton , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , John M. D'Ewart , Rolando Dünner , Tijmen de Haan , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon Duff , Adri Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Hamza El Bouhargani , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Stephen Feeney , James Fergusson , Simone Ferraro , Pedro Fluxà , Katherine Freese , Josef C. Frisch , Andrei Frolov , George Fuller , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi , Jiansong Gao , Eric Gawiser , Martina Gerbino , Vera Gluscevic , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Joseph Golec , Sam Gordon , Megan Gralla , Daniel Green , Arpi Grigorian , John Groh , Chris Groppi , Yilun Guan , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Matthew Hasselfield , Makoto Hattori , Victor Haynes , Masashi Hazumi , Erin Healy , Shawn W. Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervias-Caimapo , Charles A. Hill , J. Colin Hill , Gene Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Gary Hinshaw , Renée Hložek , Shirley Ho , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Thuong D. Hoang , Jonathan Hoh , Selim C. Hotinli , Zhiqi Huang , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Anna Ijjas , Margaret Ikape , Kent Irwin , Andrew H. Jaffe , Bhuvnesh Jain , Oliver Jeong , Matthew Johnson , Daisuke Kaneko , Ethan D. Karpel , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Reijo Keskitalo , Theodore Kisner , Kenji Kiuchi , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Anna Kofman , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Akito Kusaka , Phil LaPlante , Jacob Lashner , Adrian Lee , Eunseong Lee , Antony Lewis , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Eric Linder , Jia Liu , Carlos Lopez-Caraballo , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Daisy Mak , Felipe Maldonado , Hamdi Mani , Ben Mates , Frederick Matsuda , Loïc Maurin , Phil Mauskopf , Andrew May , Nialh McCallum , Heather McCarrick , Chris McKenney , Jeff McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , James Mertens , Joel Meyers , Amber Miller , Mark Mirmelstein , Kavilan Moodley , Jenna Moore , Moritz Munchmeyer , Charles Munson , Masaaki Murata , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Martin Navaroli , Laura Newburgh , Ho Nam Nguyen , Andrina Nicola , Mike Niemack , Haruki Nishino , Yume Nishinomiya , John Orlowski-Scherer , Luca Pagano , Bruce Partridge , Francesca Perrotta , Phumlani Phakathi , Lucio Piccirillo , Elena Pierpaoli , Giampaolo Pisano , Davide Poletti , Roberto Puddu , Giuseppe Puglisi , Chris Raum , Christian L. Reichardt , Mathieu Remazeilles , Yoel Rephaeli , Dominik Riechers , Felipe Rojas , Aditya Rotti , Anirban Roy , Sharon Sadeh , Yuki Sakurai , Maria Salatino , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Lauren Saunders , Emmanuel Schaan , Marcel Schmittfull , Neelima Sehgal , Joseph Seibert , Uros Seljak , Paul Shellard , Blake Sherwin , Meir Shimon , Carlos Sierra , Jonathan Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Adrian Sinclair , Kendrick Smith , Wuhyun Sohn , Rita Sonka , David Spergel , Jacob Spisak , Suzanne T. Staggs , George Stein , Jason R. Stevens , Radek Stompor , Aritoki Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Satoru Takakura , Grant Teply , Daniel B. Thomas , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Calvin Tsai , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Sunny Vagnozzi , Alexander van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Daniel D. Van Winkle , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Clara Vergès , Michael Vissers , Kasey Wagoner , Samantha Walker , Yuhan Wang , Jon Ward , Ben Westbrook , Nathan Whitehorn , Jason Williams , Joel Williams , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Siavash Yasini , Edward Young , Byeonghee Yu , Cyndia Yu , Fernando Zago , Mario Zannoni , Hezi Zhang , Kaiwen Zheng , Ningfeng Zhu , Andrea Zonca

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 Simons Observatory: Development and Optical Evaluation of Achromatic Half-Wave Plates

The Simons Observatory (SO) experiment is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The SO' s small aperture telescopes (SATs) consist of three telescopes designed for precise CMB polarimetry at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Junna Sugiyama , Tomoki Terasaki , Kana Sakaguri , Bryce Bixler , Yuki Sakurai , Kam Arnold , Kevin T. Crowley , Rahul Datta , Nicholas Galitzki , Masaya Hasegawa , Bradley R. Johnson , Brian Keating , Akito Kusaka , Adrian Lee , Tomotake Matsumura , Jeffrey Mcmahon , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Yuhan Wang , Kyohei Yamada

Millimeter-wave bolometer array receiver for the Atacama pathfinder experiment Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (APEX-SZ) instrument

The Atacama pathfinder experiment Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (APEX-SZ) instrument is a millimeter-wave cryogenic receiver designed to observe galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from the 12 m APEX telescope on the Atacama plateau in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-18 Daniel Schwan , Peter A. R. Ade , Kaustuv Basu , Amy N. Bender , Frank Bertoldi , Hsaio-Mei Cho , Guyong. Chon , John Clarke , Matt Dobbs , Daniel Ferrusca , Rolfe Gusten , Nils W. Halverson , William L. Holzapfel , Cathy Horellou , Daniel Johansson , Bradley R. Johnson , James Kennedy , Zigmund Kermish , Ruediger Kneissl , Trevor Lanting , Adrian T. Lee , Martin Lueker , Jared Mehl , Karl M. Menten , Dirk Muders , Florian Pacaud , Thomas Plagge , Christian L. Reichardt , Paul L. Richards , Rienhold Schaaf , Peter Schilke , Martin W. Sommer , Helmuth Spieler , Carole Tucker , Axel Weiss , Benjamin Westbrook , Oliver Zahn

Design and performance of the first BICEP Array receiver

Branches of cosmic inflationary models, such as slow-roll inflation, predict a background of primordial gravitational waves that imprints a unique odd-parity B-mode pattern in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at amplitudes that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-14 A. Schillaci , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. Palladino , N. Precup , T. Prouvé , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , B. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , C. Zhang

The CLASS 150/220 GHz Polarimeter Array: Design, Assembly, and Characterization

We report on the development of a polarization-sensitive dichroic (150/220 GHz) detector array for the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) delivered to the telescope site in June 2019. In concert with existing 40 and 90 GHz…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-20 Sumit Dahal , Mandana Amiri , John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , Lance Corbett , Rahul Datta , Kevin Denis , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Mark Halpern , Kyle Helson , Gene Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Benjamin Keller , Tobias Marriage , Carolina Nunez , Matthew Petroff , Carl Reintsema , Karwan Rostem , Kongpop U-Yen , Edward Wollack

Development of Calibration Strategies for the Simons Observatory

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a set of cosmic microwave background instruments that will be deployed in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The key science goals include setting new constraints on cosmic inflation, measuring large scale structure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-11 Sean A. Bryan , Sara M. Simon , Martina Gerbino , Grant Teply} , Aamir Ali , Yuji Chinone , Kevin Crowley , Giulio Fabbian , Patricio A. Gallardo , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Brian Keating , Brian Koopman , Akito Kusaka , Frederick Matsuda , Philip Mauskopf , Jeff McMahon , Federico Nati , Giuseppe Puglisi , Christian L Reichardt , Maria Salatino , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

Simons Observatory: Pre-deployment Performance of a Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tube in the 90 and 150 GHz Spectral Bands

The Simons Observatory will map the temperature and polarization over half of the sky, at millimeter wavelengths in six spectral bands from the Atacama Desert in Chile. These data will provide new insights into the genesis, content, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Carlos E. Sierra , Kathleen Harrington , Shreya Sutariya , Thomas Alford , Anna M. Kofman , Grace E. Chesmore , Jason E. Austermann , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Tanay Bhandarkar , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , Peter N. Dow , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , Nicholas Galitzki , Joseph E. Golec , John C. Groh , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Saianeesh K. Haridas , Erin Healy , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , Bradley R. Johnson , Claire S. Lessler , Richard A. Lew , Michael J. Link , Tammy J. Lucas , Jeffrey J. McMahon , Jenna E. Moore , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Max Silva-Feaver , Robinjeet Singh , Rita F. Sonka , Alex Thomas , Robert J. Thornton , Tran Tsan , Joel N. Ullom , Jeffrey L. Van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R. Vissers , Yuhan Wang , Kaiwen Zheng

POLAR-2, the next generation of GRB polarization detector

The POLAR-2 Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) Polarimetry mission is a follow-up to the successful POLAR mission. POLAR collected six months of data in 2016-2017 on board the Tiangong-2 Chinese Space laboratory. From a polarization study on 14 GRBs,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-04 Nicolas Produit , Merlin Kole , Xin Wu , Nicolas De Angelis , Hancheng Li , Dominik Rybka , Agnieszka Pollo , Slawomir Mianowski , Jochen Greiner , J. Michael Burgess , Jianchao Sun , Shuang-Nan Zhang

BICEP Array: a multi-frequency degree-scale CMB polarimeter

BICEP Array is the newest multi-frequency instrument in the BICEP/Keck Array program. It is comprised of four 550 mm aperture refractive telescopes observing the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 30/40, 95, 150 and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-03 Howard Hui , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , R. W. Aikin , K. D. Alexander , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , B. P. Crill , M. Crumrine , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , C. Dvorkin , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , N. A. Larsen , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. OBrient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , C. Pryke , B. Racine , S. Richter , R. Schwarz , A. Schillaci , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umilta , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , C. Zhang