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Millimetric Ground-based Observations of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy

First results of a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy experiment conducted at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain) are presented. The instrument is a four channel (3.1, 2.1, 1.3 and 1.1 mm) $^3$He bolometer system coupled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Piccirillo , B. Femenia , N. Kachwala , R. Rebolo , M. Limon , C. M. Guttierrez , J. Nicholas , R. K. Schaefer , R. A. Watson

Bandwidth and Aliasing in the Microwave SQUID Multiplexer

The microwave SQUID multiplexer (umux) has enabled higher bandwidth or higher channel counts across a wide range of experiments in particle physics, astronomy, and spectroscopy. The large multiplexing factor coupled with recent commercial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-24 Cyndia Yu , Zeeshan Ahmed , Jake A. Connors , J. Mitch D'Ewart , Bradley Dober , Josef C. Frisch , Shawn W. Henderson , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Stephen E. Kuenstner , J. A. Ben Mates , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Joel N. Ullom , Leila R. Vale , Dan Van Winkle , Edward Young

An Impedance-Modulated Code-Division Microwave SQUID Multiplexer

Large arrays of cryogenic detectors, including transition-edge sensors (TESs) or magnetic micro-calorimeters (MMCs), are needed for future experiments across a wide range of applications. Complexities in integration and cryogenic wiring…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-10 C. Yu , A. Ames , S. Chaudhuri , C. Dawson , K. D. Irwin , S. E. Kuenstner , D. Li , C. J. Titus

On-sky performance of the SPT-3G frequency-domain multiplexed readout

Frequency-domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a unique AC voltage bias that is selected by a resonant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. N. Bender , A. J. Anderson , J. S. Avva , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , B. A. Benson , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , J. F. Cliche , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , K. R. Ferguson , A. Foster , J. Fu , J. Gallicchio , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , A. Gilbert , J. C. Groh , S. Guns , R. Guyser , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , T. S. Khaire , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , 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 , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , W. Quan , A. Rahlin , D. Riebel , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , 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

A Measurement of the Degree Scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR

We present a measurement of the $B$-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. The CMB power spectra are measured using observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 S. Adachi , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , S. Beckman , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , J. Carron , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , H. El Bouhargani , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , N. Halverson , T. Hamada , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. A. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. Jaehnig , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , S. Kikuchi , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. N. Lowry , A. Mangu , F. Matsuda , Y. Minami , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , Y. Segawa , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , C. Tsai , C. Verges , B. Westbrook , Y. Zhou

Conceptual Design of the Modular Detector and Readout System for the CMB-S4 survey experiment

We present the conceptual design of the modular detector and readout system for the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4) ground-based survey experiment. CMB-S4 will map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the millimeter-wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-05 D. R. Barron , Z. Ahmed , J. Aguilar , A. J. Anderson , C. F. Baker , P. S. Barry , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , R. W. Besuner , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , S. C. Chapman , G. E. Chesmore , G. Derylo , W. B. Doriese , S. M. Duff , T. Elleflot , J. P. Filippini , B. Flaugher , J. G. Gomez , P. K. Grimes , R. Gualtieri , I. Gullett , G. Haller , S. W. Henderson , D. Henke , R. Herbst , A. I. Huber , J. Hubmayr , M. Jonas , J. Joseph , C. L. King , J. M. Kovac , D. Kubik , M. Lisovenko , J. J. McMahon , L. Moncelsi , J. M. Nagy , B. Osherson , B. Reese , J. E. Ruhl , L. Sapozhnikov , A. Schillaci , S. M. Simon , A. Suzuki , G. Wang , B. Westbrook , V. Yefremenko , J. Zhang

Thermal and Electrical Properties of Prototype Readout Components for CMB-S4

CMB-S4 is the fourth-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background project, designed to probe the early universe and cosmic inflation. CMB-S4 would achieve its science goals in part by dramatically increasing the number of transition…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Wilber Dominguez , Darcy R. Barron , Zeeshan Ahmed , Amy N. Bender , Sandra Diez , Malcolm Durkin , Tristan A. Eggenberger , Gunther Haller , Shawn W. Henderson , Katherine Hewey , Johannes Hubmayr , Christopher Rooney , Robinjeet Singh , Michael Vissers

Readout noise of digital frequency multiplexed TES detectors for CUPID

Superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors have been the standard in Cosmic Microwave Background experiments for almost two decades and are now being adapted for use in nuclear physics, such as neutrinoless double beta decay…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-08 Michel Adamič , Joseph Camilleri , Chiara Capelli , Matt Dobbs , Tucker Elleflot , Yury G. Kolomensky , Daniel Mayer , Joshua Montgomery , Valentine Novosad , Vivek Singh , Graeme Smecher , Aritoki Suzuki , Bradford Welliver

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

Simulating Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy measurements for Microwave Kinetic Inductance Devices

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Devices (MKIDs) are poised to allow for massively and natively multiplexed photon detectors arrays and are a natural choice for the next-generation CMB-Stage 4 experiment which will require 105 detectors. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-06 Ritoban Basu Thakur , Jason Henning , Peter Stuart Barry , Erik Shirokoff , Qing Yang Tang

Commercially fabricated antenna-coupled Transition Edge Sensor bolometer detectors for next generation Cosmic Microwave Background polarimetry experiment

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. The orders of magnitude increase in detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Aritoki Suzuki , Nicholas Cothard , Adrian T. Lee , Michael D. Niemack , Christopher Raum , Mario Renzullo , Trevor Sasse , Jason Stevens , Patrick Truitt , Eve Vavagiakis , John Vivalda , Benjamin Westrook , Daniel Yohannes

QUBIC IV: Performance of TES Bolometers and Readout Electronics

A prototype version of the Q & U bolometric interferometer for cosmology (QUBIC) underwent a campaign of testing in the laboratory at Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology laboratory in Paris (APC). The detection chain is currently made of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 M. Piat , G. Stankowiak , E. S. Battistelli , P. de Bernardis , G. D Alessandro , M. De Petris , L. Grandsire , J. -Ch. Hamilton , T. D. Hoang , S. Marnieros , S. Masi , A. Mennella , L. Mousset , C. O Sullivan , D. Prele , A. Tartari , J. -P. Thermeau , S. A. Torchinsky , F. Voisin , M. Zannoni , P. Ade , J. G. Alberro , A. Almela , G. Amico , L. H. Arnaldi , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , S. Azzoni , S. Banfi , B. Belier , A. Bau , D. Bennett , L. Berge , J. -Ph. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , J. Bonaparte , J. Bonis , E. Bunn , D. Burke , D. Buzi , F. Cavaliere , P. Chanial , C. Chapron , R. Charlassier , A. C. Cobos Cerutti , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , S. Dheilly , C. Duca , L. Dumoulin , A. Etchegoyen , A. Fasciszewski , L. P. Ferreyro , D. Fracchia , C. Franceschet , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , K. M. Ganga , B. Garcia , M. E. Garcia Redondo , M. Gaspard , D. Gayer , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , V. Gilles , Y. Giraud-Heraud , M. Gomez Berisson , M. Gonzalez , M. Gradziel , M. R. Hampel , D. Harari , S. Henrot-Versille , F. Incardona , E. Jules , J. Kaplan , C. Kristukat , L. Lamagna , S. Loucatos , T. Louis , B. Maffei , W. Marty , A. Mattei , A. May , M. McCulloch , L. Mele , D. Melo , L. Montier , L. M. Mundo , J. A. Murphy , J. D. Murphy , F. Nati , E. Olivieri , C. Oriol , A. Paiella , F. Pajot , A. Passerini , H. Pastoriza , A. Pelosi , C. Perbost , M. Perciballi , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , M. Platino , G. Polenta , R. Puddu , D. Rambaud , E. Rasztocky , P. Ringegni , G. E. Romero , J. M. Salum , A. Schillaci , C. G. Scoccola , S. Scully , S. Spinelli , M. Stolpovskiy , A. D. Supanitsky , P. Timbie , M. Tomasi , C. Tucker , G. Tucker , D. Vigano , N. Vittorio , F. Wicek , M. Wright , A. Zullo

Full-scale Microwave SQUID Multiplexer Readout System for Magnetic Microcalorimeters

The deployment of large cryogenic detector arrays, comprising hundreds to thousands of individual detectors, is highly beneficial for various cutting-edge applications, requiring large statistics, angular resolution or imaging capabilities.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-10 M. Neidig , T. Muscheid , R. Gartmann , L. E. Ardila Perez , M. Wegner , O. Sander , S. Kempf

Advances in the Fabrication of On-chip Superconducting Integral Field Units for CMB and Line-Intensity Astronomy

Studying the polarization and spectral distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in tandem with intensity fluctuations of the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) allows us to verify our assumptions on cosmic inflation and investigate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-18 L. G. G. Olde Scholtenhuis , D. Perez Capelo , K. Karatsu , D. J. Thoen , A. J. van der Linden , S. O. Dabironezare , L. H. Marting , J. J. A. Baselmans , S. Vollebregt , A. Endo

Digital frequency multiplexing with sub-Kelvin SQUIDs

Digital frequency multiplexing (dfMux) is a readout architecture for transition edge sensor-based detector arrays and is used on telescopes including SPT-3G, POLARBEAR-2, and LiteBIRD. Here, we present recent progress and plans for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-17 Amy E. Lowitz , Amy N. Bender , Matthew A. Dobbs , Adam J. Gilbert

The Square Kilometer Array as a Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment

Contemporary cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments typically have observing bands covering the range 20 - 800 GHz. Certain science goals, including the detection of $\mu$-type distortions to the CMB spectrum and the characterization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 David Zegeye , Thomas Crawford , Jens Chluba , Mathieu Remazeilles , Keith Grainge

Measurement of the CMB Polarization at 95 GHz from QUIET

(Abridged) Despite the great success of precision cosmology, cosmologists cannot fully explain the initial conditions of the Universe. Inflation, an exponential expansion in the first 10^-36s, is a promising potential explanation. A generic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-07 Immanuel Buder

Antenna-coupled TES bolometers used in BICEP2, Keck array, and SPIDER

We have developed antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers for a wide range of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry experiments, including BICEP2, Keck Array, and the balloon borne SPIDER. These detectors have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 P. A. R. Ade , R. W. Aikin , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , J. A. Bonetti , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , G. Chattopadhyay , G. Davis , P. K. Day , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , V. Hristov , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , K. S. Karkare , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , H. G. Leduc , E. M. Leitch , N. Llombart , M. Lueker , P. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , A. Orlando , C. Pryke , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , M. C. Runyan , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , J. E. Tolan , A. Trangsrud , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , P. Wilson , C. L. Wong , K. W. Yoon , J. Zmuidzinas

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

Design and characterization of TES bolometers and SQUID readout electronics for a balloon-borne application

We present measurements of the electrical and thermal properties of new arrays of bolometeric detectors that were fabricated as part of a program to develop bolometers optimized for the low photon background of the EBEX balloon-borne…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Johannes Hubmayr , Francois Aubin , Eric Bissonnette , Matt Dobbs , Shaul Hanany , Adrian T. Lee , Kevin MacDermid , Xiaofan Meng , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher