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The balloon-borne LSPE mission is optimized to measure the linear polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background at large angular scales. The Short Wavelength Instrument for the Polarization Explorer (SWIPE) is composed of 3 arrays of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. de Bernardis , S. Aiola , G. Amico , E. Battistelli , A. Coppolecchia , A. Cruciani , A. D' Addabbo , G. D' Alessandro , S. De Gregori , M. De Petris , D. Goldie , R. Gualtieri , V. Haynes , L. Lamagna , B. Maffei , S. Masi , F. Nati , M. Wah Ng , L. Pagano , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , G. Romeo , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , E. Tommasi , S. Withington

Measuring CMB Polarization with BOOMERANG

BOOMERANG is a balloon-borne telescope designed for long duration (LDB) flights around Antarctica. The second LDB Flight of BOOMERANG took place in January 2003. The primary goal of this flight was to measure the polarization of the CMB.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Montroy , P. A. R. Ade , A. Balbi , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , P. Cabella , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , A. de Oliveira-Costa , G. De Troia , G. di Stefano , K. Ganga , E. Hivon , V. V. Hristov , A. Iacoangeli , A. H. Jaffe , T. S. Kisner , W. C. Jones , A. E. Lange , S. Masi , P. D. Mauskopf , C. MacTavish , A. Melchiorri , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , F. Piacentini , D. Pogosyan , G. Polenta , S. Prunet , S. Ricciardi , G. Romeo , J. E. Ruhl , E. Torbet , M. Tegmark , N. Vittorio

The BaR-SPOrt Experiment

BaR-SPOrt (Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations) is an experiment to measure the linearly polarized emission of sky patches at 32 and 90 GHz with sub-degree angular resolution. It is equipped with high sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Zannoni , S. Cortiglioni , G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , S. Cecchini , C. Macculi , E. Morelli , C. Sbarra , G. Ventura , L. Nicastro , J. Monari , M. Poloni , S. Poppi , V. Natale , M. Baralis , O. Peverini , R. Tascone , G. Virone , A. Boscaleri , E. Pascale , G. Boella , S. Bonometto , M. Gervasi , G. Sironi , M. Tucci , R. Nesti , R. Fabbri , P. de Bernardis , M. De Petris , S. Masi , M. V. Sazhin , E. N. Vinyajkin

Results from the Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) Experiment

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) is an experiment designed to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization at large angular scales ($\ell>40$). It operated from the ACT site at 5190~m elevation in northern Chile at 145 GHz with a…

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In-Orbit Instrument Performance Study and Calibration for POLAR Polarization Measurements

POLAR is a compact space-borne detector designed to perform reliable measurements of the polarization for transient sources like Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50-500keV. The instrument works based on the Compton Scattering principle…

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XL-Calibur -- a second-generation balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission

XL-Calibur is a hard X-ray (15-80 keV) polarimetry mission operating from a stabilised balloon-borne platform in the stratosphere. It builds on heritage from the X-Calibur mission, which observed the accreting neutron star GX 301-2 from…

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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…

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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

PILOT balloon-borne experiment in-flight performance

The Polarized Instrument for Long-wavelength Observation of the Tenuous interstellar medium (PILOT) is a balloon-borne experiment aiming at measuring the polarized emission of thermal dust at a wavelength of 240 mm (1.2 THz). A first PILOT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 A. Mangilli , G. Foënard , J. Aumont , A. Hughes , B. Mot , J-Ph. Bernard , A. Lacourt , I. Ristorcelli , Y. Longval , P. Ade , Y. André , L. Bautista , P. deBernardis , O. Boulade , F. Bousqet , M. Bouzit , V. Buttice , M. Charra , B. Crane , E. Doumayrou , J. P. Dubois , C. Engel , M. Griffin , S. Grabarnik , P. Hargrave , R. Laureijs , B. Leriche , S. Maestre , B. Maffei , C. Marty , W. Marty , S. Masi , R. Misawa , J. Montel , L. Montier , J. Narbonne , F. Pajot , E. Pérot , J. Pimentao , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , L. Rodriguez , G. Roudil , M. Salatino , G. Savini , O. Simonella , M. Saccoccio , S. Stever , J. Tauber , C. Tibbs , C. Tucker

High-energy electron observations by PPB-BETS flight in Antarctica

We have observed cosmic-ray electrons from 10 GeV to 800 GeV by a long duration balloon flight using Polar Patrol Balloon (PPB) in Antarctica. The observation was carried out for 13 days at an average altitude of 35 km in January 2004. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-05 S. Torii , T. Yamagami , T. Tamura , K. Yoshida , H. Kitamura , K. Anraku , J. Chang , M. Ejiri , I. Iijima , A. Kadokura , K. Kasahara , Y. Katayose , T. Kobayashi , Y. Komori , Y. Matsuzaka , K. Mizutani , H. Murakami , M. Namiki , J. Nishimura , S. Ohta , Y. Saito , M. Shibata , N. Tateyama , H. Yamagishi , T. Yamashita , T. Yuda

The Annulus-Filtered E and B Modes in CMBR Polarization

Although it has previously been recognized that the CMB polarization measurement on a sky ring is able to separate the B and E-mode patterns, we show that the rotational symmetry of the CMB polarization measurement is indeed unique, in that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tzihong Chiueh , Cheng-Jiun Ma

The Robinson Gravitational Wave Background Telescope (BICEP): a bolometric large angular scale CMB polarimeter

The Robinson Telescope (BICEP) is a ground-based millimeter-wave bolometric array designed to study the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) and galactic foreground emission. Such measurements probe the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. W. Yoon , P. A. R. Ade , D. Barkats , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , J. A. Brevik , H. C. Chiang , A. Crites , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , G. S. Griffin , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , Y. D. Takahashi , T. Renbarger , L. C. Weintraub , D. Woolsey

Optical Characterization of the BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

BICEP3 is a small-aperture refracting cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescope designed to make sensitive polarization maps in pursuit of a potential B-mode signal from inflationary gravitational waves. It is the latest in the BICEP/Keck…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 K. S. Karkare , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , K. D. Alexander , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , R. Bowens-Rubin , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , J. P. Filippini , S. T. Fliescher , J. A. Grayson , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , G. C. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. H. Kang , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , V. Monticue , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , M. T. St. Germaine , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. Weber , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , K. W. Yoon

MAXIPOL: Data Analysis and Results

We present results from and the analysis of data from MAXIPOL, a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). MAXIPOL is the first CMB experiment to obtain results using a rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. H. P. Wu , J. Zuntz , M. E. Abroe , P. A. R. Ade , J. Bock , J. Borrill , J. Collins , S. Hanany , A. H. Jaffe , B. R. Johnson , T. Jones , A. T. Lee , T. Matsumura , B. Rabii , T. Renbarger , P. L. Richards , G. F. Smoot , R. Stompor , H. T. Tran , C. D. Winant

In-flight energy calibration of the space-borne Compton polarimeter POLAR

POLAR is a compact wide-field space-borne detector for precise measurements of the linear polarisation of hard X-rays emitted by transient sources in the energy range from 50 keV to 500 keV. It consists of a 40$\times$40 array of plastic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-01 Hualin Xiao , Wojtek Hajdas , Bobing Wu , Nicolas Produit , Jianchao Sun , Merlin Kole , Tianwei Bao , Tancredi Bernasconi , Tadeusz Batsch , Franck Cadoux , Junying Chai , Yongwei Dong , Ken Egli , Neal Gauvin , Minnan Kong , Reinhold Kramert , Siwei Kong , Hancheng Li , Lu Li , Zhengheng Li , Jiangtao Liu , Xin Liu , Radoslaw Marcinkowski , Silvio Orsi , Dominik K. Rybka , Martin Pohl , Haoli Shi , Liming Song , Shaolin Xiong , Jacek Szabelski , Patryk Socha , Ruijie Wang , Yuanhao Wang , Xing Wen , Xin Wu , Laiyu Zhang , Ping Zhang , Shuangnan Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhang , Yongjie Zhang , Yi Zhao , Anna Zwolinska

QUaD: A High-Resolution Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter

We describe the QUaD experiment, a millimeter-wavelength polarimeter designed to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from a site at the South Pole. The experiment comprises a 2.64 m Cassegrain telescope equipped with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 QUaD collaboration , J. R. Hinderks , P. Ade , J. Bock , M. Bowden , M. L. Brown , G. Cahill , J. E. Carlstrom , P. G. Castro , S. Church , T. Culverhouse , R. Friedman , K. Ganga , W. K. Gear , S. Gupta , J. Harris , V. Haynes , B. G. Keating , J. Kovac , E. Kirby , A. E. Lange , E. Leitch , O. E. Mallie , S. Melhuish , Y. Memari , J. A. Murphy , A. Orlando , R. Schwarz , C. O'Sullivan , L. Piccirillo , C. Pryke , N. Rajguru , B. Rusholme , A. N. Taylor , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. H. Turner , E. Y. S. Wu , M. Zemcov

POLAR: Final Calibration and In-Flight Performance of a Dedicated GRB Polarimeter

Gamma-ray polarimetry is a new powerful tool to study the processes responsible for the emission from astrophysical sources and the environments in which this emission takes place. Few successful polarimetric measurements have however been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 M. Kole , T. W. Bao , T. Batsch , T. Bernasconi , F. Cadoux , J. Y. Chai , Y. W. Dong , N. Gauvin , W. Hajdas , J. J. He , M. N. Kong , S. W. Kong , C. Lechanoine-Leluc , L. Li , Z. H. Li , J. T. Liu , X. Liu , R. Marcinkowski , S. Orsi , M. Pohl , N. Produit , D. Rapin , A. Rutczynska , D. Rybka , H. L. Shi , L. M. Song , J. C. Sun , J. Szabelski , R. J. Wang , Y. J. Wang , X. Wen , B. B. Wu , X. Wu , H. L. Xiao , S. L. Xiong , H. H. Xu , M. Xu , J. Zhang , L. Zhang , L. Y. Zhang , S. N. Zhang , X. F. Zhang , Y. J. Zhang , A. Zwolinska

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-26 T. Essinger-Hileman , J. W. Appel , J. A. Beall , H. M. Cho , J. Fowler , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , K. D. Irwin , T. A. Marriage , M. D. Niemack , L. Page , L. P. Parker , S. Pufu , S. T. Staggs , O. Stryzak , C. Visnjic , K. W. Yoon , Y. Zhao

A Constraint on Primordial $B$-Modes from the First Flight of the SPIDER Balloon-Borne Telescope

We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of SPIDER, an experiment designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales. Results from these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 SPIDER Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , O. Doré , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , J. S. -Y. Leung , S. Li , D. S. Y. Mak , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , R. O'Brient , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , A. S. Rahlin , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , E. C. Shaw , C. Shiu , 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 , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: Performance and results from the 2012 Antarctic flight

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment, designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLASTPol observes polarized light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Galitzki , P. A. R. Ade , F. E. Angilé , S. J. Benton , M. J. Devlin , B. Dober , L. M. Fissel , Y. Fukui , N. N. Gandilo , J. Klein , A. L. Korotkov , T. G. Matthews , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , D. Nutter , E. Pascale , F. Poidevin , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , C. E. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , D. Ward-Thompson