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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

Study of the Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC)-Intemediate Mission for NASA's Einstein Inflation Probe

Measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy have served as the best experimental probe of the early universe to date. The inflationary paradigm, inspired in part by the extreme isotropy of the CMB, is now a cornerstone in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-08 James Bock , Abdullah Aljabri , Alex Amblard , Daniel Baumann , Marc Betoule , Talso Chui , Loris Colombo , Asantha Cooray , Dustin Crumb , Peter Day , Clive Dickinson , Darren Dowell , Mark Dragovan , Sunil Golwala , Krzysztof Gorski , Shaul Hanany , Warren Holmes , Kent Irwin , Brad Johnson , Brian Keating , Chao-Lin Kuo , Adrian Lee , Andrew Lange , Charles Lawrence , Steve Meyer , Nate Miller , Hien Nguyen , Elena Pierpaoli , Nicolas Ponthieu , Jean-Loup Puget , Jeff Raab , Paul Richards , Celeste Satter , Mike Seiffert , Meir Shimon , Huan Tran , Brett Williams , Jonas Zmuidzinas

The Detector System for the Stratospheric Kinetic Inductance Polarimeter (SKIP)

The Stratospheric Kinetic Inductance Polarimeter (SKIP) is a proposed balloon-borne experiment designed to study the cosmic microwave background, the cosmic infrared background and Galactic dust emission by observing 1133 square degrees of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-29 B. R. Johnson , P. A. R. Ade , D. Araujo , K. J. Bradford , D. Chapman , P. K. Day , J. Didier , S. Doyle , H. K. Eriksen , D. Flanigan , C. Groppi , S. Hillbrand , G. Jones , M. Limon , P. Mauskopf , H. McCarrick , A. Miller , T. Mroczkowski , B. Reichborn-Kjennerud , B. Smiley , J. Sobrin , I. K. Wehus , J. Zmuidzinas

Constraining Inflation with Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Observations of the polarization of the cosmic microwave backround (CMB) have the potential to place much tighter constraints on cosmological parameters than observations of the fluctuations in temperature alone. We discuss using CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 William H. Kinney

Degree-Scale CMB Polarization Measurements from Three Years of BICEP1 Data

BICEP1 is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed specifically to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at degree angular scales. We present results from an analysis of the data acquired…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 BICEP1 Collaboration , D. Barkats , R. Aikin , C. Bischoff , I. Buder , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , M. Su , P. A. R. Ade , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , H. C. Chiang , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. Filippini , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , T. Matsumura , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , C. Pryke , S. Richter , G. Rocha , C. Sheehy , S. S. Kernasovskiy , Y. D. Takahashi , J. E. Tolan , K. W. Yoon

Primordial Gravitational Waves and Inflation: CMB and Direct Detection With Space-Based Laser Interferometers

The curl-modes of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization probe horizon-scale primordial gravitational waves related to inflation. A significant source of confusion is expected from a lensing conversion of polarization related to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray

Design and construction of a carbon fiber gondola for the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope

We introduce the light-weight carbon fiber and aluminum gondola designed for the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope. SPIDER is designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation with unprecedented sensitivity and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. D. Soler , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , C. Chiang , C. C. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , O. P. Doré , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , S. Golwala , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. C. Hilton , W. A. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , Z. D. Kermish , C. L. Kuo , C. J. MacTavish , P. V. Mason , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , R. O'Brient , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , J. A. Shariff , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

The STRIP instrument of the Large Scale Polarization Explorer: microwave eyes to map the Galactic polarized foregrounds

In this paper we discuss the latest developments of the STRIP instrument of the "Large Scale Polarization Explorer" (LSPE) experiment. LSPE is a novel project that combines ground-based (STRIP) and balloon-borne (SWIPE) polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 C. Franceschet , S. Realini , A. Mennella , G. Addamo , A. Baù , P. M. Battaglia , M. Bersanelli , B. Caccianiga , S. Caprioli , F. Cavaliere , K. A. Cleary , F. Cuttaia , F. Del Torto , V. Fafone , Z. Farooqui , R. T. Génova Santos , T. C. Gaier , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , F. Incardona , S. Iovenitti , M. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , R. Mainini , D. Maino , M. Maris , P. Mena , R. Molina , G. Morgante , A. Passerini , M. Perez-de-Taoro , O. A. Peverini , F. Pezzotta , C. Pincella , N. Reyes , A. Rocchi , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , M. Sandri , S. Sartor , M. Soria , V. Tapia , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , D. M. Viganó , F. Villa , G. Virone , A. Volpe , B. Watkins , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

EBEX: A balloon-borne CMB polarization experiment

EBEX is a NASA-funded balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Observations will be made using 1432 transition edge sensor (TES) bolometric detectors read out with frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Asad M. Aboobaker , Peter Ade , Françcois Aubin , Carlo Baccigalupi , Chaoyun Bao , Julian Borrill , Christopher Cantalupo , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Julien Grain , William Grainger , Shaul Hanany , Seth Hillbrand , Johannes Hubmayr , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , Terry Jones , Theodore Kisner , Jeff Klein , Andrei Korotkov , Sam Leach , Adrian Lee , Lorne Levinson , Michele Limon , Kevin MacDermid , Tomotake Matsumura , Xiaofan Meng , Amber Miller , Michael Milligan , Enzo Pascale , Daniel Polsgrove , Nicolas Ponthieu , Kate Raach , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher , Federico Stivoli , Radek Stompor , Huan Tran , Matthieu Tristram , Gregory S. Tucker , Yury Vinokurov , Amit Yadav , Matias Zaldarriaga , Kyle Zilic

Improved Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 Polarimeter is a small aperture, refracting telescope, dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 95GHz. It is designed to target degree angular scale polarization patterns, in particular the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 J. Cornelison , C. Vergès , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , D. Beck , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , 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 , D. C. Goldfinger , 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. Hubmayr , 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. Look , 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. Reinsema , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , 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

Design and performance of the Spider instrument

Here we describe the design and performance of the Spider instrument. Spider is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarization imager that will map part of the sky at 90, 145, and 280 GHz with sub-degree resolution and high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-14 M. C. Runyan , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. Benton , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , O. Dore , D. O'Dea , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. Fissel , N. Gandilo , S. R. Golwala , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Hasselfield , M. Halpern , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , C. J. MacTavish , P. V. Mason , T. A. Morford , T. E. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. A. Schenker , J. Shariff , J. D. Soler , A. Trangsrud , R. S. Tucker , C. Tucker , A. Turner

A cryogenic rotation stage with a large clear aperture for the half-wave plates in the Spider instrument

We describe the cryogenic half-wave plate rotation mechanisms built for and used in Spider, a polarization-sensitive balloon-borne telescope array that observed the Cosmic Microwave Background at 95 GHz and 150 GHz during a stratospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-11 Sean Bryan , Peter Ade , Mandana Amiri , Steven Benton , Richard Bihary , James Bock , J. Richard Bond , H. Cynthia Chiang , Carlo Contaldi , Brendan Crill , Olivier Dore , Benjamin Elder , Jeffrey Filippini , Aurelien Fraisse , Anne Gambrel , Natalie Gandilo , Jon Gudmundsson , Matthew Hasselfield , Mark Halpern , Gene Hilton , Warren Holmes , Viktor Hristov , Kent Irwin , William Jones , Zigmund Kermish , Craig Lawrie , Carrie MacTavish , Peter Mason , Krikor Megerian , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Thomas Montroy , Tracy Morford , Johanna Nagy , C. Barth Netterfield , Ivan Padilla , Alexandra S. Rahlin , Carl Reintsema , Daniel C. Riley , John Ruhl , Marcus Runyan , Benjamin Saliwanchik , Jamil Shariff , Juan Soler , Amy Trangsrud , Carole Tucker , Rebecca Tucker , Anthony Turner , Shyang Wen , Donald Wiebe , Edward Young

Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-14 J. Cornelison , 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 , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. A. 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 , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , N. Precup , 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. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , 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 , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Detectability of Inflationary Gravitational Waves with Microwave Background Polarization

Inflation predicts specific relations between the amplitudes and spectral indices of the primordial spectrum of density (scalar metric) perturbations and gravitational waves (tensor metric perturbations). Detection of a stochastic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky

Considerations in optimizing CMB polarization experiments to constrain inflationary physics

We quantify the limiting factors in optimizing current-technology cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments in order to learn about inflationary physics. We consider space-based, balloon-borne and ground-based experiments.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Licia Verde , Hiranya Peiris , Raul Jimenez

Optical Design of PICO, a Concept for a Space Mission to Probe Inflation and Cosmic Origins

The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is a probe-class mission concept currently under study by NASA. PICO will probe the physics of the Big Bang and the energy scale of inflation, constrain the sum of neutrino masses, measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-07 Karl Young , Marcelo Alvarez , Nicholas Battaglia , Jamie Bock , Julian Borrill , David Chuss , Brendan Crill , Jacques Delabrouille , Mark Devlin , Laura Fissel , Raphael Flauger , Daniel Green , Kris Gorski , Shaul Hanany , Richard Hills , Johannes Hubmayr , Bradley Johnson , Bill Jones , Lloyd Knox , Al Kogut , Charles Lawrence , Tomotake Matsumura , Jim McGuire , Jeff McMahon , Roger O'Brient , Clem Pryke , Brian M. Sutin , Xin Zhi Tan , Amy Trangsrud , Qi Wen , Gianfranco de Zotti

The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission - Sub-Kelvin Instrument

Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth, provides convincing explanation for cosmological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 A. Suzuki , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , D. Alonso , K. Arnold , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , S. Basak , S. Beckman , J. Borrill , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , E. Calabrese , Y. Chinone , H-M. Cho , A. Cukierman , D. W. Curtis , T. de Haan , M. Dobbs , A. Dominjon , T. Dotani , L. Duband , A. Ducout , J. Dunkley , J. M. Duval , T. Elleflot , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , J. Fischer , T. Fujino , T. Funaki , U. Fuskeland , K. Ganga , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Grain , N. W. Halverson , T. Hamada , T. Hasebe , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hattori , L. Hayes , M. Hazumi , N. Hidehira , C. A. Hill , G. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , K. Ichiki , T. Iida , H. Imada , M. Inoue , Y. Inoue , K. D. , H. Ishino , O. Jeong , H. Kanai , D. Kaneko , S. Kashima , N. Katayama , T. Kawasaki , S. A. Kernasovskiy , R. Keskitalo , A. Kibayashi , Y. Kida , K. Kimura , T. Kisner , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , K. Komatsu , C. L. Kuo , N. A. Kurinsky , A. Kusaka , A. Lazarian , A. T. Lee , D. Li , E. Linder , B. Maffei , A. Mangilli , M. Maki , T. Matsumura , S. Matsuura , D. Meilhan , S. Mima , Y. Minami , K. Mitsuda , L. Montier , M. Nagai , T. Nagasaki , R. Nagata , M. Nakajima , S. Nakamura , T. Namikawa , M. Naruse , H. Nishino , T. Nitta , T. Noguchi , H. Ogawa , S. Oguri , N. Okada , A. Okamoto , T. Okamura , C. Otani , G. Patanchon , G. Pisano , G. Rebeiz , M. Remazeilles , P. L. Richards , S. Sakai , Y. Sakurai , Y. Sato , N. Sato , M. Sawada , Y. Segawa , Y. Sekimoto , U. Seljak , B. D. Sherwin , T. Shimizu , K. Shinozaki , R. Stompor , H. Sugai , H. Sugita , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takada , R. Takaku , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , E. Taylor , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , T. Tomaru , T. Tomida , N. Tomita , M. Tristram , C. Tucker , P. Turin , M. Tsujimoto , S. Uozumi , S. Utsunomiya , Y. Uzawa , F. Vansyngel , I. K. Wehus , B. Westbrook , M. Willer , N. Whitehorn , Y. Yamada , R. Yamamoto , N. Yamasaki , T. Yamashita , M. Yoshida

Polarization of the Microwave Background in Inflationary Cosmology

We evaluate the large scale polarization of the cosmic microwave background induced, via Thomson scattering prior to decoupling, by nearly scale-invariant spectra of scalar and tensor metric perturbations, such as those predicted by most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Diego Harari , Matias Zaldarriaga

Simulation of the Far-Infrared Polarimetry Approach Envisioned for the PRIMA Mission

Interest in the study of magnetic fields and the properties of interstellar dust, explored through increasingly capable far-IR/submillimeter polarimetry, along with maturing detector technology, have set the stage for a transformative leap…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 C. Darren Dowell , Brandon S. Hensley , Marc Sauvage

PRIMAger General Observer programs: a {\Large $\pi$}-sr Infrared Survey and other General Observer wide-field programs

The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) is a cryogenically-cooled, far-infrared (far-IR) observatory expected to begin serving the astronomical community by early 2030. The mission features two advanced instruments: PRIMAger…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-23 Denis Burgarella , Matthieu Bethermin , Alessandro Boselli , James Donnelan , Charles Darren Dowell , Guilaine Lagache , Seb Oliver , Herve Dole