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The absolute temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has been measured at a frequency of 1280 MHz. The observation was made with a modified version of the L-band receiver used in the Giant Metre wavelength Radio Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Raghunathan , R. Subrahmanyan

We describe the design and performance of polarization selective antenna-coupled TES arrays that will be used in several upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments: SPIDER, BICEP-2/SPUD. The fully lithographic polarimeter arrays…

Using the Cosmic Background Imager, a 13-element interferometer array operating in the 26-36 GHz frequency band, we have observed 40 sq deg of sky in three pairs of fields, each ~ 145 x 165 arcmin, using overlapping pointings (mosaicing).…

We present Spitzer 70 and 160 micron observations of the COSMOS Spitzer survey (S-COSMOS). The data processing techniques are discussed for the publicly released products consisting of images and source catalogs. We present accurate 70 and…

A digital frequency multiplexing (DfMUX) system has been developed and used to tune large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers read out with SQUID arrays for mm-wavelength cosmology telescopes. The DfMUX system multiplexes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. MacDermid , P. Hyland , F. Aubin , E. Bissonnette , M. Dobbs , J. Hubmayr , G. Smecher , S. Warraich

We developed a scanning DC SQUID microscope with novel readout electronics capable of wideband sensing RF magnetic fields from 50 to 200 MHz and simultaneously providing closed-loop response at kHz frequencies. To overcome the 20 MHz…

We have designed and characterized a micro-SQUID with dispersive readout for use in low temperature scanning probe microscopy systems. The design features a capacitively shunted RF SQUID with a tunable resonance frequency from 5 to 12 GHz,…

(Abridged) We present the analysis of the first 18 months of data obtained with the COSMOSOMAS experiment at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife). Three maps have been obtained at 12.7, 14.7 and 16.3 GHz covering 9000 square degrees each with a…

We show that the cumulative CO emission from galaxies throughout cosmic history distorts the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at a level that is well above the detection limit of future instruments, such as the Primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Natalie Mashian , Abraham Loeb , Amiel Sternberg

We present details of the design, simulation, and initial test results of prototype detectors for the fourth-generation receiver of the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Optimized for the detection of key secondary anisotropies of the cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Karia Dibert , Pete Barry , Zhaodi Pan , Adam Anderson , Bradford Benson , Clarence Chang , Kirit Karkare , Juliang Li , Tyler Natoli , Maclean Rouble , Erik Shirokoff , Antony Stark

The SLAC Microresonator Radio Frequency (SMuRF) electronics is being deployed as the readout for the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) telescopes of the Simons Observatory (SO). A Radio Frequency System-on-Chip (RFSoC) based readout of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Chao Liu , Zeeshan Ahmed , Shawn W. Henderson , Ryan Herbst , Larry Ruckman , Thomas Satterthwaite

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collected during the second season of observations (2013-2014) to…

Superconducting microcalorimeters, such as superconducting transition-edge sensors and magnetic microcalorimeters, have emerged as state-of-the-art detectors for X-ray emission spectroscopy by combining near-unity quantum efficiency with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-29 Jodok Zeuner , Constantin Schuster , Sebastian Kempf

Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) microscopy has excellent magnetic field sensitivity, but suffers from modest spatial resolution when compared with other scanning probes. This spatial resolution is determined by both the…

A milestone of modern cosmology was the prediction and serendipitous discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the radiation left over after decoupling from matter in the early evolutionary stages of the Universe. A prediction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. Noterdaeme , P. Petitjean , R. Srianand , C. Ledoux , S. Lopez

There is currently fundamental and technological interest in measuring and manipulating nanoscale magnets, particularly in the quantum coherent regime. To observe the dynamics of such systems one requires a magnetometer with not only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Hatridge , R. Vijay , D. H. Slichter , J. Clarke , I. Siddiqi

The highly sensitive millimeter-wave telescope is an important tool for accurate measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, and its core component is a detector array located in a cryogenic focal plane. The feasibility of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 Ye Chai , Shibo Shu , Yongping Li , Jiamin Sun , Zhouhui Liu , Yu Xu , Daikang Yan , Zhengwei Li , Yang Liu , Yiwen Wang , Weijie Guo , Juexian Cao , Congzhan Liu