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The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter designed to search for evidence of inflation by measuring the large-angular scale CMB polarization signal. BICEP2…

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a stratospheric balloon payload to measure polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Twin telescopes mounted within an open-aperture bucket dewar couple the sky to bolometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 A. Kogut , T. Essinger-Hileman , D. Fixsen , L. Lowe , P. Mirel , E. Switzer , E. Wollack

Measuring the faint polarization signal of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) not only requires high optical throughput and instrument sensitivity but also control over systematic effects. Polarimetric cameras or receivers used in this…

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a balloon-borne telescope mission to search for inflationary gravitational waves from the early universe. PIPER employs two 32x40 arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensors,…

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission to measure the gravity-wave signature of primordial inflation through its distinctive imprint on the linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The…

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We present the results of integration and characterization of the SPIDER instrument after the 2013 pre-flight campaign. SPIDER is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to probe the primordial gravitational wave signal in the degree-scale…

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure the energy spectrum and linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). A single cryogenic Fourier transform spectrometer compares the…

We describe SPIDER, a balloon-borne instrument to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky with degree angular resolution. Spider consists of six monochromatic refracting telescopes, each illuminating a focal plane of large-format…

Spider is a balloon-borne experiment that will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background over a large fraction of a sky at 1 degree resolution. Six monochromatic refracting millimeter-wave telescopes with large arrays of…

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…

The Primordial Anisotropy Polarization Pathfinder Array (PAPPA) is a balloon-based instrument to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and search for the signal from gravity waves excited during an inflationary epoch…

We evaluate the ability of SPIDER, a balloon-borne polarimeter, to detect a divergence-free polarization pattern ("B-modes") in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In the inflationary scenario, the amplitude of this signal is…

Spider is a balloon-borne array of six telescopes that will observe the Cosmic Microwave Background. The 2400 antenna-coupled bolometers in the instrument will make a polarization map of the CMB with ~degree resolution at 150 GHz and 95…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-12 Sean Bryan

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure cosmological signals from both linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background and spectral distortions from a perfect blackbody. The targeted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-08 A. Kogut , D. J. Fixsen

[Abridged] The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is one of the current frontiers in cosmology. In particular, the detection of the primordial B-modes, could reveal the presence of gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 The LSPE collaboration , G. Addamo , P. A. R. Ade , C. Baccigalupi , A. M. Baldini , P. M. Battaglia , E. S. Battistelli , A. Baù , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , M. Biasotti , A. Boscaleri , B. Caccianiga , S. Caprioli , F. Cavaliere , F. Cei , K. A. Cleary , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , G. De Gasperis , M. De Petris , V. Fafone , F. Farsian , L. Ferrari Barusso , F. Fontanelli , C. Franceschet , T. C. Gaier , L. Galli , F. Gatti , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , D. Grosso , A. Gruppuso , R. Gualtieri , F. Incardona , M. E. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , N. Krachmalnicoff , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. H. López-Caraballo , M. Lumia , R. Mainini , D. Maino , S. Mandelli , M. Maris , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , A. May , L. Mele , P. Mena , A. Mennella , R. Molina , D. Molinari , G. Morgante , U. Natale , F. Nati , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Panico , F. Paonessa , S. Paradiso , A. Passerini , M. Perez-de-Taoro , O. A. Peverini , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , G. Presta , S. Realini , N. Reyes , J. A. Rubino-Martin , M. Sandri , S. Sartor , F. Pezzotta , G. Polenta , A. Rocchi , A. Schillaci , G. Signorelli , B. Siri , M. Soria , F. Spinella , V. Tapia , A. Tartari , A. C. Taylor , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , C. Tucker , D. Vaccaro , D. M. Vigano , F. Villa , G. Virone , N. Vittorio , A. Volpe , R. E. J. Watkins , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

The LSPE is a balloon-borne mission aimed at measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales, and in particular to constrain the curl component of CMB polarization (B-modes) produced by tensor…

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
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