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Thermal Testing for Cryogenic CMB Instrument Optical Design

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background rely on cryogenic instrumentation with cold detectors, readout, and optics providing the low noise performance and instrumental stability required to make more sensitive measurements. It is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-05 D. C. Goldfinger , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , D. Beck , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. I. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Grayson , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayk , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. Palladino , M. A. Petroff , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , A. G. Smith , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , C. Vergès , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Fast far-sidelobe modeling for centimeter to sub-millimeter astrophysical observations

Next-generation centimeter to sub-millimeter telescopes require exquisite control over instrumental far-sidelobe response to accurately measure faint signals like the Cosmic Microwave Background B modes. Because existing electromagnetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Oliver Jeong , Jacques Delabrouille , Michel Piat

In situ Performance of the Low Frequency Arrayfor Advanced ACTPol

The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) \cite{thornton} is an upgrade for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Yaqiong Li , Jason E. Austermann , James A. Beall , Sarah Marie Bruno , Steve K. Choi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin T. Crowley , Shannon M. Duff , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Joseph E. Golec , Gene C. Hilton , Matthew Hasselfield , Johannes Hubmay , Brian J. Koopman , Marius Lungu , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , LymanA. Page , Maria Salatino , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason R. Stevens , Joel N. Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Yuhan Wang , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

ASTEP South: a first photometric analysis

The ASTEP project aims at detecting and characterizing transiting planets from Dome C, Antarctica, and qualifying this site for photometry in the visible. The first phase of the project, ASTEP South, is a fixed 10 cm diameter instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Crouzet , T. Guillot , D. Mékarnia , J. Szulágyi , L. Abe , A. Agabi , Y. Fanteï-Caujolle , I. Gonçalves , M. Barbieri , F. -X. Schmider , J. -P. Rivet , E. Bondoux , Z. Challita , C. Pouzenc , F. Fressin , F. Valbousquet , A. Blazit , S. Bonhomme , J. -B. Daban , C. Gouvret , D. Bayliss , G. Zhou , the ASTEP team

TES imaging array technology for CLOVER

CLOVER is an experiment which aims to detect the signature of gravitational waves from inflation by measuring the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background. CLOVER consists of three telescopes operating at 97, 150, and 220 GHz.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-26 Michael D. Audley , Robert W. Barker , Michael Crane , Roger Dace , Dorota Glowacka , David J. Goldie , Anthony N. Lasenby , Howard M. Stevenson , Vassilka Tsaneva , Stafford Withington , Paul Grimes , Bradley Johnson , Ghassan Yassin , Lucio Piccirillo , Giampaolo Pisano , William D. Duncan , Gene C. Hilton , Kent D. Irwin , Carl D. Reintsema , Mark Halpern

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The polarization-sensitive ACTPol instrument

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is designed to make high angular resolution measurements of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at millimeter wavelengths. We describe ACTPol, an upgraded receiver for ACT, which uses…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 R. J. Thornton , P. A. R. Ade , S. Aiola , F. E. Angile , M. Amiri , J. A. Beall , D. T. Becker , H-M. Cho , S. K. Choi , P. Corlies , K. P. Coughlin , R. Datta , M. J. Devlin , S. R. Dicker , R. Dunner , J. W. Fowler , A. E. Fox , P. A. Gallardo , J. Gao , E. Grace , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , S. W. Henderson , G. C. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , S. P. Ho , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , J. Klein , B. Koopman , Dale Li , T. Louis , M. Lungu , L. Maurin , J. McMahon , C. D. Munson , S. Naess , F. Nati , L. Newburgh , J. Nibarger , M. D. Niemack , P. Niraula , M. R. Nolta , L. A. Page , C. G. Pappas , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , N. Sehgal , J. L. Sievers , S. M. Simon , S. T. Staggs , C. Tucker , M. Uehara , J. van Lanen , J. T. Ward , E. J. Wollack

Design and Bolometer Characterization of the SPT-3G First-year Focal Plane

During the austral summer of 2016-17, the third-generation camera, SPT-3G, was installed on the South Pole Telescope, increasing the detector count in the focal plane by an order of magnitude relative to the previous generation. Designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 W. Everett , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , A. J. Anderson , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , R. Basu Thakur , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. Cecil , C. L. Chang , J. F. Cliche , A. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , T. de Haan , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , D. Dutcher , A. Foster , R. N. Gannon , A. Gilbert , J. C. Groh , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , T. Khaire , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , A. E. Lowitz , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , Z. Pan , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , A. Rahlin , J. E. Ruhl , L. J. Saunders , J. T. Sayre , I. Shirley , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , Q. Y. Tang , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young

HARP/ACSIS: A submillimetre spectral imaging system on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

This paper describes a new Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme (HARP) and Auto-Correlation Spectral Imaging System (ACSIS) that have recently been installed and commissioned on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The 16-element…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. V. Buckle , R. E. Hills , H. Smith , W. R. F. Dent , G. Bell , E. I. Curtis , R. Dace , H. Gibson , S. F. Graves , J. Leech , J. S. Richer , R. Williamson , S. Withington , G. Yassin , R. Bennett , P. Hastings , I. Laidlaw , J. F. Lightfoot , T. Burgess , P. E. Dewdney , G. Hovey , A. G. Willis , R. Redman , B. Wooff , D. S. Berry , B. Cavanagh , G. R. Davis , J. Dempsey , P. Friberg , T. Jenness , R. Kackley , N. P. Rees , R. Tilanus , C. Walther , W. Zwart , T. M. Klapwijk , M. Kroug , T. Zijlstra

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

ACTPol: A polarization-sensitive receiver for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

The six-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile was built to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at arcminute angular scales. We are building a new polarization sensitive receiver for ACT (ACTPol). ACTPol will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. D. Niemack , P. A. R. Ade , J. Aguirre , F. Barrientos , J. A. Beall , J. R. Bond , J. Britton , H. M. Cho , S. Das , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , J. Dunkley , R. Dunner , J. W. Fowler , A. Hajian , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. C. Hilton , M. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , J. P. Hughes , L. Infante , K. D. Irwin , N. Jarosik , J. Klein , A. Kosowsky , T. A. Marriage , J. McMahon , F. Menanteau , K. Moodley , J. P. Nibarger , M. R. Nolta , L. A. Page , B. Partridge , E. D. Reese , J. Sievers , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , R. Thornton , C. Tucker , E. Wollack , K. W. Yoon

QUIET - Measuring the CMB polarization with coherent detector arrays

The footprint of inflation in the polarization pattern of the CMB is expected at more than an order of magnitude below the limits of current polarization measurements. Large receiver arrays are mandatory for achieving the required…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Dorothea Samtleben

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

BICEP / Keck XII: Constraints on axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background

We present a search for axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with observations from the Keck Array. A local axion field induces an all-sky, temporally sinusoidal rotation of CMB polarization. A CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Keck Collaboration , 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. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , 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. 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 , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang

Readout of two-kilopixel transition-edge sensor arrays for Advanced ACTPol

Advanced ACTPol is an instrument upgrade for the six-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization with arcminute-scale angular resolution. To achieve its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Shawn W. Henderson , Jason R. Stevens , Mandana Amiri , Jason Austermann , James A. Beall , Saptarshi Chaudhuri , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin T. Crowley , Shannon M. Duff , Colin P. Fitzgerald , Patricio A. Gallardo , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Gene Hilton , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Brian J. Koopman , Dale Li , Yaqiong Li , Jeff McMahon , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Carl D. Reintsema , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Jonathan T. Ward

3D Printed Discrete Dielectric Lens With Improved Matching Layers

This paper presents a non-zoned discrete dielectric lens comprising two or three matching layers to reduce the 50-110 GHz frequency range reflections. Based on Chebyshev and binomial multi-section transformers, the designed models use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Juan Andrés Vásquez-Peralvo , José Manuel Fernández-González , Thomas Wong

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: The Instrument

We describe a space-borne, multi-band, multi-beam polarimeter aiming at a precise and accurate measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The instrument is optimized to be compatible with the strict budget…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. de Bernardis , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. A. Baselmans , E. S. Battistelli , A. Benoit , M. Bersanelli , A. Bideaud , M. Calvo , F. J. Casas , G. Castellano , A. Catalano , I. Charles , I. Colantoni , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , M. Crook , G. D'Alessandro , M. De Petris , J. Delabrouille , S. Doyle , C. Franceschet , A. Gomez , J. Goupy , S. Hanany , M. Hills , L. Lamagna , J. Macias-Perez , B. Maffei , S. Martin , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , S. Masi , D. McCarthy , A. Mennella , A. Monfardini , F. Noviello , A. Paiella , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , G. Pisano , G. Signorelli , C. Y. Tan , A. Tartari , N. Trappe , S. Triqueneaux , C. Tucker , G. Vermeulen , K. Young , M. Zannoni , A. Achúcarro , R. Allison , M. Ashdown , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. Banerji , J. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , A. Bonaldi , M. Bonato , J. Borrill , F. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , T. Brinckmann , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , A. Buzzelli , Z. Y. Cai , C. S. Carvalho , A. Challinor , J. Chluba , S. Clesse , G. De Gasperis , G. De Zotti , E. Di Valentino , J. M. Diego , J. Errard , S. Feeney , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , S. Galli , R. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , J. González-Nuevo , S. Hagstotz , J. Greenslade , W. Handley , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , C. Hervias-Caimapo , E. Hivon , K. Kiiveri , T. Kisner , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , J. Lesgourgues , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , V. Lindholm , G. Luzzi , C. J. A. P. Martins , A. Melchiorri , J. B. Melin , D. Molinari , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , A. Notari , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , A. Pollo , V. Poulin , M. Quartin , M. Remazeilles , M. Roman , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , L. Salvati , M. Tomasi , D. Tramonte , T. Trombetti , J. Väliviita , R. Van de Weijgaert , B. van Tent , V. Vennin , P. Vielva , N. Vittorio

Further Characterization of the JadePix-3 CMOS Pixel Sensor for the CEPC Vertex Detector: in Dependence of Substrate Reverse Bias

The Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), a proposed next-generation $e^+e^-$ collider to enable high-precision studies of the Higgs boson and potential new physics, imposes rigorous demands on detector technologies, particularly the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-02 Jiahao Hu , Ruiyang Zhang , Zhiliang Chen , Yunpeng Lu , Qun Ouyang , Lailin Xu

COMPASS: An Instrument for Measuring the Polarization of the CMB on Intermediate Angular Scales

COMPASS is an on-axis 2.6 meter telescope coupled to a correlation polarimeter. The entire instrument was built specifically for CMB polarization studies. Careful attention was given to receiver and optics design, stability of the pointing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Philip C. Farese , Giorgio Dall'Oglio , Josh Gundersen , Brian Keating , Slade Klawikowski , Lloyd Knox , Alan Levy , Chris O'Dell , Alan Peel , Lucio Piccirillo , John Ruhl , Peter Timbie

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

Development of Silicon Strip Detectors for a Medium Energy Gamma-ray Telescope

We report on the design, production, and testing of advanced double-sided silicon strip detectors under development at the Max-Planck-Institute as part of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) project. The detectors are designed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. F. Bloser , F. Schopper , R. Andritschke , G. Kanbach , A. Zoglauer , P. Lechner