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We present the first radio polarimetric observations of a fast-rising blue optical transient, AT2018cow. Two epochs of polarimetry with additional coincident photometry were performed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…

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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

Design and characterization of 90 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES polarimeter pixels in the SPTpol camera

The SPTpol camera is a two-color, polarization-sensitive bolometer receiver, and was installed on the 10 meter South Pole Telescope in January 2012. SPTpol is designed to study the faint polarization signals in the Cosmic Microwave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 J. T. Sayre , P. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , D. Becker , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. Britton , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H-M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , A. Datesman , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , A. Ewall-Wice , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , M. Karfunkle , R. Keisler , J. Kennedy , A. T. Lee , E. Leitch , D. Li , M. Lueker , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. Montgomery , T. E. Montroy , J. Nagy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , M. D. Niemack , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , K. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , R. Williamson , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , E. Young

Multi-Chroic Feed-Horn Coupled TES Polarimeters

Multi-chroic polarization sensitive detectors offer an avenue to increase both the spectral coverage and sensitivity of instruments optimized for observations of the cosmic-microwave background (CMB) or sub-mm sky. We report on an effort to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. McMahon , J. Beall , D. Becker , H. M. Cho , R. Datta. A. Fox , N. Halverson , J. Hubmayr , K. Irwin , J. Nibarger , M. Niemack , H. Smith

Feedhorn-coupled TES polarimeter camera modules at 150 GHz for CMB polarization measurements with SPTpol

The SPTpol camera is a dichroic polarimetric receiver at 90 and 150 GHz. Deployed in January 2012 on the South Pole Telescope (SPT), SPTpol is looking for faint polarization signals in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The camera…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 J. W. Henning , P. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , D. Becker , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. Britton , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , A. Datesman , T. de Haan , M A. Dobbs , W. Everett , A. Ewall-Wice , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , M. Karfunkle , R. Keisler , J. Kennedy , A. T. Lee , E. Leitch , D. Li , M. Lueker , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. Montgomery , T. E. Montroy , J. Nagy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , M. D. Niemack , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , K. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , R. Williamson , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , E. Young

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters

We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013-2016 at 98 and 150 GHz. The maps cover more than 17,000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Simone Aiola , Erminia Calabrese , Loïc Maurin , Sigurd Naess , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Graeme E. Addison , Peter A. R. Ade , David Alonso , Mandana Amiri , Stefania Amodeo , Elio Angile , Jason E. Austermann , Taylor Baildon , Nick Battaglia , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Daniel T. Becker , J Richard Bond , Sarah Marie Bruno , Victoria Calafut , Luis E. Campusano , Felipe Carrero , Grace E. Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Steve K. Choi , Susan E. Clark , Nicholas F. Cothard , Devin Crichton , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Rahul Datta , Edward V. Denison , Mark J. Devlin , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Max Fankhanel , Simone Ferraro , Anna E. Fox , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Yilun Guan , Kirsten Hall , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Matthew Hasselfield , Jakob M. Helton , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Leopoldo Infante , Kent Irwin , Rebecca Jackson , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Victoria Lakey , Dale Li , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Amanda MacInnis , Mathew Madhavacheril , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Danica Marsden , Jeff McMahon , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Tim Morton , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , John P. Nibarger , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Sherer , Lyman A. Page , Christine G. Pappas , Bruce Partridge , Phumlani Phakathi , Giampaolo Pisano , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Frank J. Qu , Jesus Rivera , Naomi Robertson , Felipe Rojas , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason Stevens , Emilie Storer , Dhaneshwar D. Sunder , Eric R. Switzer , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Carole Tucker , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Jonathan T. Ward , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Fernando Zago , Ningfeng Zhu

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 40 GHz optical design

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) instrument will measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background at 40, 90, and 150 GHz from Cerro Toco in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. In this paper, we describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-02 Joseph R. Eimer , Charles L. Bennett , David T. Chuss , Tobias A. Marriage , Edward J. Wollack , Lingzhen Zeng

Optical Characterization of the SPT-3G Focal Plane

The third-generation South Pole Telescope camera is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background across three frequency bands (95, 150 and 220 GHz) with ~16,000 transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each multichroic pixel on a…

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg$^2$ of the 2013-2016 survey, which covers $>$15000 deg$^2$ at 98 and 150 GHz. For this analysis we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Steve K. Choi , Matthew Hasselfield , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Brian Koopman , Marius Lungu , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Graeme E. Addison , Peter A. R. Ade , Simone Aiola , David Alonso , Mandana Amiri , Stefania Amodeo , Elio Angile , Jason E. Austermann , Taylor Baildon , Nick Battaglia , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Daniel T. Becker , J Richard Bond , Sarah Marie Bruno , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Luis E. Campusano , Felipe Carrero , Grace E. Chesmore , Hsiao-mei Cho , Susan E. Clark , Nicholas F. Cothard , Devin Crichton , Kevin T. Crowley , Omar Darwish , Rahul Datta , Edward V. Denison , Mark J. Devlin , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Rolando Dünner , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Max Fankhanel , Simone Ferraro , Anna E. Fox , Brittany Fuzia , Patricio A. Gallardo , Vera Gluscevic , Joseph E. Golec , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Yilun Guan , Kirsten Hall , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Shawn Henderson , Brandon Hensley , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hložek , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Leopoldo Infante , Kent Irwin , Rebecca Jackson , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Arthur Kosowsky , Victoria Lakey , Dale Li , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Martine Lokken , Thibaut Louis , Amanda MacInnis , Mathew Madhavacheril , Felipe Maldonado , Maya Mallaby-Kay , Danica Marsden , Loïc Maurin , Jeff McMahon , Felipe Menanteau , Kavilan Moodley , Tim Morton , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , John P. Nibarger , Andrina Nicola , Michael D. Niemack , Michael R. Nolta , John Orlowski-Sherer , Lyman A. Page , Christine G. Pappas , Bruce Partridge , Phumlani Phakathi , Heather Prince , Roberto Puddu , Frank J. Qu , Jesus Rivera , Naomi Robertson , Felipe Rojas , Maria Salatino , Emmanuel Schaan , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Neelima Sehgal , Blake D. Sherwin , Carlos Sierra , Jon Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason Stevens , Emilie Storer , Dhaneshwar D. Sunder , Eric R. Switzer , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Carole Tucker , Leila R. Vale , Alexander Van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Kasey Wagoner , Yuhan Wang , Jonathan T. Ward , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Fernando Zago , Ningfeng Zhu

SPTpol: an instrument for CMB polarization measurements with the South Pole Telescope

SPTpol is a dual-frequency polarization-sensitive camera that was deployed on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope in January 2012. SPTpol will measure the polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 J. E. Austermann , K. A. Aird , J. A. Beall , D. Becker , A. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. Britton , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H. M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , A. Datesman , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , R. Keisler , J. Kennedy , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. Leitch , D. Li , M. Lueker , D. P. Marrone , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , M. D. Niemack , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , A. A. Stark , K. Story , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , R. Williamson , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , O. Zahn

Survey strategy optimization for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

In recent years there have been significant improvements in the sensitivity and the angular resolution of the instruments dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). ACTPol is the first polarization receiver for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-22 F. De Bernardis , J. R. Stevens , M. Hasselfield , D. Alonso , J. R. Bond , E. Calabrese , S. K. Choi , K. T. Crowley , M. Devlin , J. Dunkley , P. A. Gallardo , S. W. Henderson , M. Hilton , R. Hlozek , S. P. Ho , K. Huffenberger , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , T. Louis , M. S. Madhavacheril , J. McMahon , S. Naess , F. Nati , L. Newburgh , M. D. Niemack , L. A. Page , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , N. Sehgal , J. L. Sievers , S. M. Simon , D. N. Spergel , S. T. Staggs , A. van Engelen , E. M. Vavagiakis , E. J. Wollack

Far Sidelobes from Baffles and Telescope Support Structures in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is a 6 m telescope located in the Atacama Desert, designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with arcminute resolution. ACT, with its third generation polarization sensitive array,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Patricio A. Gallardo , Nicholas F. Cothard , Roberto Puddu , Rolando Dünner , Brian J. Koopman , Michael D. Niemack , Sara M. Simon , Edward J. Wollack

ATCA and CMB anisotropies

Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) observations in sky regions selected to be low in foreground confusion have been used to infer limits on arcmin-scale CMB anisotropy in total intensity and polarization. These deep searches have,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ravi Subrahmanyan

Development and characterization of the readout system for POLARBEAR-2

POLARBEAR-2 is a next-generation receiver for precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)). Scheduled to deploy in early 2015, it will observe alongside the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 D. Barron , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , C. Aleman , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , A. Bender , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , N. Katayama , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , E. Linder , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , H. Morii , M. J. Myers , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , T. Okamura , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , C. Raum , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , K. Rotermund , D. E. Schenck , B. D. Sherwin , I. Shirley , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , G. Smecher , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , S. Takada , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , B. Wilson , A. Yadav , H. Yamaguchi , O. Zahn

BICEP Array: 150 GHz detector module development

The BICEP/Keck Collaboration is currently leading the quest to the highest sensitivity measurements of the polarized CMB anisotropies on degree scale with a series of cryogenic telescopes, of which BICEP Array is the latest Stage-3 upgrade…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-30 A. Schillaci , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. 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 , K. G. Megerian , O. Y. Miller , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O' Brient , S. Palladino , M. Petroff , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltá , C. Verges , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

The Simons Observatory: Design, Optimization, and Performance of Low Frequency Detectors

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make precise temperature and polarization measurements over six spectral bands ranging from 27 to 285 GHz. Three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Aashrita Mangu , Benjamin Westbrook , Shawn Beckman , Lance Corbett , Kevin T. Crowley , Daniel Dutcher , Bradley R. Johnson , Adrian T. Lee , Varun Kabra , Bhoomija Prasad , Suzanne T. Staggs , Aritoki Suzuki , Yuhan Wang , Kaiwen Zheng

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Lensing Power Spectrum

We report a measurement of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from two seasons of Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) CMB data. The CMB lensing power spectrum is extracted from both temperature and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Blake D. Sherwin , Alexander van Engelen , Neelima Sehgal , Mathew Madhavacheril , Graeme E. Addison , Simone Aiola , Rupert Allison , Nicholas Battaglia , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , J. Richard Bond , Erminia Calabrese , Rahul Datta , Mark J. Devlin , Rolando Dunner , Joanna Dunkley , Anna E. Fox , Patricio Gallardo , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Shawn Henderson , J. Colin Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , John P. Hughes , Adam D. Hincks , Renee Hlozek , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Thibaut Louis , Loic Maurin , Jeff McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Sigurd Naess , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Jonathan Sievers , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Robert J. Thornton , Jeff Van Lanen , Eve Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack

Characterizing Atacama B-mode Search Detectors with a Half-Wave Plate

The Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) instrument is a cryogenic ($\sim$10 K) crossed-Dragone telescope located at an elevation of 5190 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile that observed for three seasons between February 2012 and October 2014. ABS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 S. M. Simon , J. W. Appel , L. E. Campusano , S. K. Choi , K. T. Crowley , T. Essinger-Hileman , P. Gallardo , S. P. Ho , A. Kusaka , F. Nati , G. A. Palma , L. A. Page , S. Raghunathan , S. T. Staggs

Mechanical design and development of TES bolometer detector arrays for the Advanced ACTPol experiment

The next generation Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) experiment is currently underway and will consist of four Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays, with three operating together, totaling ~5800 detectors on the sky. Building on experience…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Jonathan T. Ward , Jason Austermann , James A. Beall , Steve K. Choi , Kevin T. Crowley , Mark J. Devlin , Shannon M. Duff , Patricio M. Gallardo , Shawn W. Henderson , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Gene Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Niloufar Khavari , Jeffrey Klein , Brian J. Koopman , Dale Li , Jeffrey McMahon , Grace Mumby , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Robert Thornton , Joel N. Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack

Performance of Al-Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G

SPT-3G is a polarization-sensitive receiver, installed on the South Pole Telescope, that measures the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from degree to arcminute scales. The receiver consists of ten 150~mm-diameter detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. J. Anderson , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , J. S. Avva , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , A. N. Bender , 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