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The Sky Polarization Observatory

SPOrt is an ASI-funded experiment specifically designed to measure the sky polarization at 22, 32 and 90 GHz, which was selected in 1997 by ESA to be flown on the International Space Station. Starting in 2006 and for at least 18 months, it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Cortiglioni , G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , L. Casarini , S. Cecchini , C. Macculi , M. Ramponi , C. Sbarra , J. Monari , A. Orfei , M. Poloni , S. Poppi , G. Boella , S. Bonometto , L. Colombo , M. Gervasi , G. Sironi , M. Zannoni , M. Baralis , O. A. Peverini , R. Tascone , G. Virone , R. Fabbri , V. Natale , L. Nicastro , K-W. Ng , E. N. Vinyajkin , V. A. Razin , M. V. Sazhin , I. A. Strukov , B. Negri

HX-POL - A Balloon-Borne Hard X-Ray Polarimeter

We report on the design and estimated performance of a balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimeter called HX-POL. The experiment uses a combination of Si and Cadmium Zinc Telluride detectors to measure the polarization of 50 keV-400 keV X-rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-07 H. Krawczynski , A. Garson , Q. Li , M. Beilicke , P. Dowkontt , E. Wulf , J. Kurfess , E. Novikova , G. De Geronimo , M. G. Baring , A. K. Harding , J. Grindlay , J. S. Hong

Pre-flight integration and characterization of the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. S. Rahlin , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , O. 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. F. Hasselfield , G. 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. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , R. O'Brient , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

Measuring CMB Polarization with BOOMERANG

BOOMERANG is a balloon-borne telescope designed for long duration (LDB) flights around Antarctica. The second LDB Flight of BOOMERANG took place in January 2003. The primary goal of this flight was to measure the polarization of the CMB.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Montroy , P. A. R. Ade , A. Balbi , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , P. Cabella , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , A. de Oliveira-Costa , G. De Troia , G. di Stefano , K. Ganga , E. Hivon , V. V. Hristov , A. Iacoangeli , A. H. Jaffe , T. S. Kisner , W. C. Jones , A. E. Lange , S. Masi , P. D. Mauskopf , C. MacTavish , A. Melchiorri , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , F. Piacentini , D. Pogosyan , G. Polenta , S. Prunet , S. Ricciardi , G. Romeo , J. E. Ruhl , E. Torbet , M. Tegmark , N. Vittorio

Balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry with PoGOLite

PoGOLite is a hard X-ray polarimeter operating in the 25-100 keV energy band. The instrument design is optimised for the observation of compact astrophysical sources. Observations are conducted from a stabilised stratospheric balloon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Mark Pearce , Hans-Gustav Florén , Miranda Jackson , Tune Kamae , Mózsi Kiss , Merlin Kole , Elena Moretti , Göran Olofsson , Stefan Rydström , Jan-Erik Strömberg , Hiromitsu Takahashi

The Science Case for PILOT I: Summary and Overview

PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.5 m optical/infrared telescope to be located at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau. Conditions at Dome C are known to be exceptional for astronomy. The seeing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. S. Lawrence , M. C. B. Ashley , J. Bailey , D. Barrado y Navascues , T. Bedding , J. Bland-Hawthorn , I. Bond , F. Boulanger , R. Bouwens , H. Bruntt , A. Bunker , D. Burgarella , M. G. Burton , M. Busso , D. Coward , M. -R. Cioni , G. Durand , C. Eiroa , N. Epchtein , N. Gehrels , P. Gillingham , K. Glazebrook , R. Haynes , L. Kiss , P. O. Lagage , T. Le Bertre , C. Mackay , J. P. Maillard , A. McGrath , V. Minier , A. Mora , K. Olsen , P. Persi , K. Pimbblet , R. Quimby , W. Saunders , B. Schmidt , D. Stello , J. W. V. Storey , C. Tinney , P. Tremblin , J. C. Wheeler , P. Yoc

Polarized pulse pair observations during a long duration interstellar communication experiment

In prior work, conducted since 2017, two celestial pointing directions have been observed to be associated with the measurement of anomalous high counts of narrow bandwidth, short duration, polarized radio frequency pulse pairs. The prior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 William J. Crilly

In-flight measurement of Planck telescope emissivity

The Planck satellite in orbit mission ended in October 2013. Between the end of Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) routine mission operations and the satellite decommissioning, a dedicated test was also performed to measure the Planck telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 F. Cuttaia , L. Terenzi , G. Morgante , M. Sandri , F. Villa , A. De Rosa , E. Franceschi , M. Frailis , S. Galeotta , A. Gregorio , P. Delannoy , S. Foley , B. Gandolfo , A. Neto , C. Watson , F. Pajot , M. Bersanelli , R. C. Butler , N. Mandolesi , A. Mennella , J. Tauber , A. Zacchei

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: Performance and results from the 2012 Antarctic flight

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment, designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLASTPol observes polarized light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Galitzki , P. A. R. Ade , F. E. Angilé , S. J. Benton , M. J. Devlin , B. Dober , L. M. Fissel , Y. Fukui , N. N. Gandilo , J. Klein , A. L. Korotkov , T. G. Matthews , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , D. Nutter , E. Pascale , F. Poidevin , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , C. E. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , D. Ward-Thompson

Analysis of Polarized Dust Emission Using Data from the First Flight of SPIDER

Using data from the first flight of SPIDER and from Planck HFI, we probe the properties of polarized emission from interstellar dust in the SPIDER observing region. Component separation algorithms operating in both the spatial and harmonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-16 SPIDER Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , O. Doré , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , J. P. Filippini , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , S. Gourapura , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , J. S. -Y. Leung , S. Li , D. S. Y. Mak , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , R. O'Brient , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , A. S. Rahlin , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , E. C. Shaw , C. Shiu , J. D. Soler , X. Song , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. F. van der List , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

PoGOLite - A High Sensitivity Balloon-Borne Soft Gamma-ray Polarimeter

We describe a new balloon-borne instrument (PoGOLite) capable of detecting 10% polarisation from 200mCrab point-like sources between 25 and 80keV in one 6 hour flight. Polarisation measurements in the soft gamma-ray band are expected to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Tuneyoshi Kamae , Viktor Andersson , Makoto Arimoto , Magnus Axelsson , Cecilia Marini Bettolo , Claes-Ingvar Björnsson , Gilles Bogaert , Per Carlson , William Craig , Tomas Ekeberg , Olle Engdegård , Yasushi Fukazawa , Shuichi Gunji , Linnea Hjalmarsdotter , Bianca Iwan , Yoshikazu Kanai , Jun Kataoka , Nobuyuki Kawai , Jaroslav Kazejev , Mózsi Kiss , Wlodzimierz Klamra , Stefan Larsson , Grzegorz Madejski , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Johnny Ng , Mark Pearce , Felix Ryde , Markus Suhonen , Hiroyasu Tajima , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Tadayuki Takahashi , Takuya Tanaka , Timothy Thurston , Masaru Ueno , Gary Varner , Kazuhide Yamamoto , Yuichiro Yamashita , Tomi Ylinen , Hiroaki Yoshida

Pathfinder flight of the Polarized Gamma-ray Observer (PoGOLite) in 2013

The Polarized Gamma-ray Observer (PoGOLite) is a balloon-borne instrument that can measure polarization in the energy range 25--240 keV. The instrument adopts an array of well-type "phoswich" detectors in order to suppress backgrounds.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Takafumi Kawano

The design and flight performance of the PoGOLite Pathfinder balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimeter

In the 50 years since the advent of X-ray astronomy there have been many scientific advances due to the development of new experimental techniques for detecting and characterising X-rays. Observations of X-ray polarisation have, however,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 M. Chauvin , H. -G. Florén , M. Jackson , T. Kamae , T. Kawano , M. Kiss , M. Kole , V. Mikhalev , E. Moretti , G. Olofsson , S. Rydström , H. Takahashi , J. Lind , J. -E. Strömberg , O. Welin , A. Iyudin , D. Shifrin , M. Pearce

Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment

The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation and to characterize the polarization of galactic dust. EBEX was launched December 29, 2012 and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-01 Francois Aubin , Asad M. Aboobaker , Peter Ade , Derek Araujo , Carlo Baccigalupi , Chaoyun Bao , Julian Borrill , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Stephen Feeney , Christopher Geach , Shaul Hanany , Kyle Helson , Seth Hillbrand , Gene Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , Terry Jones , Theodore Kisner , Jeff Klein , Andrei Korotkov , Adrian Lee , Lorne Levinson , Michele Limon , Kevin Macdermid , Valerie Marchenko , Amber D. Miller , Michael Milligan , Enzo Pascale , Giuseppe Puglisi , Kate Raach , Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Carl Reintsema , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher , Radek Stompor , Matthieu Tristram , Gregory S. Tucker , Ben Westbrook , Karl Young , Kyle Zilic

In-flight calibration system of Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

The NASA/ASI Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, which will be launched in 2021, will be the first instrument to perform spatially resolved X-ray polarimetry on several astronomical sources in the 2-8 keV energy band. These measurements are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Fabio Muleri , Carlo Lefevre , Alfredo Morbidini , Fabrizio Amici , Daniele Brienza , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Alessandro Di Marco , Giuseppe Di Persio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Sergio Fabiani , Fabio La Monaca , Pasqualino Loffredo , Luca Maiolo , Francesco Maita , Raffaele Piazzolla , Brian Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Alda Rubini , Paolo Sarra , Paolo Soffitta , Antonino Tobia , Fei Xie

SPIDER: CMB polarimetry from the edge of space

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky at large angular scales. SPIDER targets the B-mode signature of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 R. Gualtieri , J. P. Filippini , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , O. Doré , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , R. V. Gramillano , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , S. Li , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , A. S. Rahlin , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , X. Song , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. F. van der List , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarization: BLAST-pol

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital experiment designed to study the process of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky Way) and in galaxies at cosmological distances. Using a 2-m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Marsden , P. A. R. Ade , S. Benton , J. J. Bock , E. L. Chapin , J. Chung , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , L. Fissel , M. Griffin , J. O. Gundersen , M. Halpern , P. C. Hargrave , D. H. Hughes , J. Klein , A. Korotkov , C. J. MacTavish , P. G. Martin , T. G. Martin , T. G. Matthews , P. Mauskopf , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , E. Pascale , L. Olmi , G. Patanchon , M. Rex , G. Savini , D. Scott , C. Semisch , N. Thomas , M. D. P. Truch , C. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , M. P. Viero , D. Ward-Thompson , D. V. Wiebe

Design and test of a compact and high-resolution time-of-flight measurement device for cold neutron beams

A time-of-flight device was developed to characterize wavelength distribution and uniformity of a cold neutron beam. This device is very compact -- the distance of flight is $60$ cm -- but achieves very high resolution -- the intrinsic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-27 Damien Roulier , Valery Nesvizhevsky , Benoît Clément , Guilhem Freche , Guillaume Pignol , Dominique Rebreyend , Francis Vezzu , Stefan Baeßler , Alexander Strelkov

Measurement and Modeling of Polarized Atmosphere at the South Pole with SPT-3G

We present the detection and characterization of fluctuations in linearly polarized emission from the atmosphere above the South Pole. These measurements make use of data from the SPT-3G receiver on the South Pole Telescope in three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 A. Coerver , J. A. Zebrowski , S. Takakura , W. L. Holzapfel , P. A. R. Ade , A. J. Anderson , Z. Ahmed , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , L. Balkenhol , D. Barron , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , J. E. Carlstrom , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , P. M. Chichura , A. Chokshi , T. -L. Chou , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , A. Foster , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , F. Ge , N. Goeckner-Wald , R. Gualtieri , F. Guidi , S. Guns , N. W. Halverson , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , J. C. Hood , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , F. Keruzore , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , K. Levy , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , A. Maniyar , E. S. Martsen , F. Menanteau , M. Millea , J. Montgomery , Y. Nakato , T. Natoli , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , K. A. Phadke , A. W. Pollak , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , M. Rahimi , A. Rahlin , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , E. Schiappucci , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , A. Suzuki , C. Tandoi , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , J. D. Vieira , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , M. R. Young

The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT: Polarization Measurements of the Galactic Plane at 43 and 95 GHz

We present polarization observations of two Galactic plane fields centered on Galactic coordinates (l,b)=(0 deg,0 deg) and (329 deg, 0 deg) at Q- (43 GHz) and W-band (95 GHz), covering between 301 and 539 square degrees depending on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 QUIET Collaboration , T. M. Ruud , U. Fuskeland , I. K. Wehus , M. Vidal , D. Araujo , C. Bischoff , I. Buder , Y. Chinone , K. Cleary , R. N. Dumoulin , A. Kusaka , R. Monsalve , S. K. Naess , L. B. Newburgh , R. A. Reeves , J. T. L. Zwart , L. Bronfman , R. D. Davies , R. Davis , C. Dickinson , H. K. Eriksen , T. Gaier , J. O. Gundersen , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , K. M. Huffenberger , M. E. Jones , C. R. Lawrence , E. M. Leitch , M. Limon , A. D. Miller , T. J. Pearson , L. Piccirillo , S. J. E. Radford , A. C. S. Readhead , D. Samtleben , M. Seiffert , M. C. Shepherd , S. T. Staggs , O. Tajima , K. L. Thompson