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Challenges and prospects for better measurements of the CMB intensity spectrum

Spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) offer the possibility of probing processes which occurred during the evolution of our Universe going back up to Z$\simeq 10^7$. Unfortunately all the attempts so far carried out…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Giorgio Sironi

Magnetic Sensitivity of AlMn TESes and Shielding Considerations for Next-Generation CMB Surveys

In the next decade, new ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments such as Simons Observatory (SO), CCAT-prime, and CMB-S4 will increase the number of detectors observing the CMB by an order of magnitude or more,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 E. M. Vavagiakis , S. W. Henderson , K. Zheng , H. -M. Cho , N. F. Cothard , B. Dober , S. M. Duff , P. A. Gallardo , G. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , B. J. Koopman , D. Li , F. Nati , M. D. Niemack , C. D. Reintsema , S. Simon , J. R. Stevens , A. Suzuki , B. Westbrook

Synergies between radio, optical and microwave observations at high redshift

We study synergies between three promising methods to measure $2<z<5$ large-scale structure in the next decade. Optical spectroscopic surveys are the most mature, but become increasingly difficult at $z>2$ and suffer from interloper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Shi-Fan Chen , Emanuele Castorina , Martin White , Anže Slosar

Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 90 GHz Telescope Pointing, Beam Profile, Window Function, and Polarization Performance

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a telescope array that observes the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over ~75% of the sky from the Atacama Desert, Chile, at frequency bands centered near 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Rahul Datta , Michael K. Brewer , Jullianna Denes Couto , Joseph Eimer , Yunyang Li , Zhilei Xu , Aamir Ali , John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , Ricardo Bustos , David T. Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Sumit Dahal , Francisco Espinoza , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Pedro Fluxá , Kathleen Harrington , Kyle Helson , Jeffrey Iuliano , John Karakla , Tobias A. Marriage , Sasha Novack , Carolina Núñez , Ivan L. Padilla , Lucas Parker , Matthew A. Petroff , Rodrigo Reeves , Karwan Rostem , Rui Shi , Deniz A. N. Valle , Duncan J. Watts , Janet L. Weiland , Edward J. Wollack , Lingzhen Zeng

The South Pole Telescope

A new 10 meter diameter telescope is being constructed for deployment at the NSF South Pole research station. The telescope is designed for conducting large-area millimeter and sub-millimeter wave surveys of faint, low contrast emission, as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 SPT Collaboration , J. E. Ruhl , P. A. R. Ade , J. E. Carlstrom , H. M. Cho , T. Crawford , M. Dobbs , C. H. Greer , N. W. Halverson , W. L. Holzapfel , T. M. Lantin , A. T. Lee , J. Leong , E. M. Leitch , W. Lu , M. Lueker , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. J. Mohr , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , D. Schwan , M. K. Sharp , M. C. Runyan , H. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark

Fundamental Physics from Future Weak-Lensing Calibrated Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Cluster Counts

Future high-resolution measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will produce catalogs of tens of thousands of galaxy clusters through the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. We forecast how well different configurations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-01 Mathew Madhavacheril , Nicholas Battaglia , Hironao Miyatake

Calibration of detector time constant with a thermal source for the POLARBEAR-2A CMB polarization experiment

The Simons Array (SA) project is a ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment. The SA observes the sky using three telescopes, and POLARBEAR-2A (PB-2A) is the receiver system on the first telescope. For the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-31 S. Takatori , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , A. T. Lee , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , T. Adkins , D. Barron , Y. Chinone , K. T. Crowley , T. de Haan , T. Elleflot , N. Farias , C. Feng , T. Fujino , J. C. Groh , H. Hirose , F. Matsuda , H. Nishino , Y. Segawa , P. Siritanasak , A. Suzuki , K. Yamada

The Robinson Gravitational Wave Background Telescope (BICEP): a bolometric large angular scale CMB polarimeter

The Robinson Telescope (BICEP) is a ground-based millimeter-wave bolometric array designed to study the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) and galactic foreground emission. Such measurements probe the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. W. Yoon , P. A. R. Ade , D. Barkats , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , J. A. Brevik , H. C. Chiang , A. Crites , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , G. S. Griffin , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , Y. D. Takahashi , T. Renbarger , L. C. Weintraub , D. Woolsey

Reconstructing Small Scale Lenses from the Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature Fluctuations

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the Universe. The standard quadratic estimator, which is typically used to measure the lensing signal, is known to be suboptimal for low-noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-26 Benjamin Horowitz , Simone Ferraro , Blake D. Sherwin

The case for an all-sky millimetre survey at sub-arcminute resolution

There are several new projects to survey the sky with millimetre eyes, the biggest being Simons Observatory and CMB-S4, in the Southern Hemisphere. The NIKA2 collaboration has acquired sufficient knowledge to build a large focal plane KID…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-04 François-Xavier Désert , Martino Calvo , Andrea Catalano , Samuel Leclercq , Juan Macias-Perez , Frédéric Mayet , Alessandro Monfardini , Laurence Perotto , Nicolas Ponthieu

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

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Gravitational Lensing Potential from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) gravitational lensing potential using data from the first two seasons of observations with SPTpol, the polarization-sensitive receiver currently installed on the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 K. T. Story , D. Hanson , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , J. Gao , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , C. Liang , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , O. Zahn

The Simons Observatory: impact of bandpass, polarization angle and calibration uncertainties on small-scale power spectrum analysis

We study the effects due to mismatches in passbands, polarization angles, and temperature and polarization calibrations in the context of the upcoming cosmic microwave background experiment Simons Observatory (SO). Using the SO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 S. Giardiello , M. Gerbino , L. Pagano , D. Alonso , B. Beringue , B. Bolliet , E. Calabrese , G. Coppi , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , I. Harrison , J. C. Hill , H. T. Jense , B. Keating , A. La Posta , M. Lattanzi , A. I. Lonappan , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , S. M. Simon

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Survey requirements and mission design

Future observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation have the potential to answer some of the most fundamental questions of modern physics and cosmology. In this paper, we list the requirements for a future CMB polarisation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Delabrouille , P. de Bernardis , F. R. Bouchet , A. Achúcarro , P. A. R. Ade , R. Allison , F. Arroja , E. Artal , M. Ashdown , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. Banerji , D. Barbosa , J. Bartlett , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , J. J. A. Baselmans , K. Basu , E. S. Battistelli , R. Battye , D. Baumann , A. Benoît , M. Bersanelli , A. Bideaud , M. Biesiada , M. Bilicki , A. Bonaldi , M. Bonato , J. Borrill , F. Boulanger , T. Brinckmann , M. L. Brown , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , A. Buzzelli , G. Cabass , Z. -Y. Cai , M. Calvo , A. Caputo , C. -S. Carvalho , F. J. Casas , G. Castellano , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , I. Charles , J. Chluba , D. L. Clements , S. Clesse , S. Colafrancesco , I. Colantoni , D. Contreras , A. Coppolecchia , M. Crook , G. D'Alessandro , G. D'Amico , A. da Silva , M. de Avillez , G. de Gasperis , M. De Petris , G. de Zotti , L. Danese , F. -X. Désert , V. Desjacques , E. Di Valentino , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , S. Doyle , R. Durrer , C. Dvorkin , H. -K. Eriksen , J. Errard , S. Feeney , R. Fernández-Cobos , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , S. Galli , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , E. Giusarma , A. Gomez , J. González-Nuevo , S. Grandis , J. Greenslade , J. Goupy , S. Hagstotz , S. Hanany , W. Handley , S. Henrot-Versillé , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , C. Hervias-Caimapo , M. Hills , M. Hindmarsh , E. Hivon , D. T. Hoang , D. C. Hooper , B. Hu , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , T. Kisner , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , L. Lamagna , A. Lapi , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , A. M. C. Le Brun , J. Lesgourgues , M. Liguori , V. Lindholm , J. Lizarraga , G. Luzzi , J. F. Macìas-Pérez , B. Maffei , N. Mandolesi , S. Martin , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Masi , M. Massardi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , D. McCarthy , A. Melchiorri , J. -B. Melin , A. Mennella , J. Mohr , D. Molinari , A. Monfardini , L. Montier , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , A. Notari , F. Noviello , F. Oppizzi , C. O'Sullivan , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , E. Pajer , D. Paoletti , S. Paradiso , R. B. Partridge , G. Patanchon , S. P. Patil , O. Perdereau , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , G. Pisano , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , A. Pollo , N. Ponthieu , V. Poulin , D. Prêle , M. Quartin , A. Ravenni , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , C. Ringeval , D. Roest , M. Roman , B. F. Roukema , J. -A. Rubino-Martin , L. Salvati , D. Scott , S. Serjeant , G. Signorelli , A. A. Starobinsky , R. Sunyaev , C. Y. Tan , A. Tartari , G. Tasinato , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , J. Torrado , D. Tramonte , N. Trappe , S. Triqueneaux , M. Tristram , T. Trombetti , M. Tucci , C. Tucker , J. Urrestilla , J. Väliviita , R. Van de Weygaert , B. Van Tent , V. Vennin , L. Verde , G. Vermeulen , P. Vielva , N. Vittorio , F. Voisin , C. Wallis , B. Wandelt , I. Wehus , J. Weller , K. Young , M. Zannoni

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

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

Beyond CMB cosmic variance limits on reionization with the polarized SZ effect

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys will soon make the first detection of the polarized Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, the linear polarization generated by the scattering of CMB photons on the free electrons present in collapsed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-04 Joel Meyers , P. Daniel Meerburg , Alexander van Engelen , Nicholas Battaglia

Performance and on-sky optical characterization of the SPTpol instrument

In January 2012, the 10m South Pole Telescope (SPT) was equipped with a polarization-sensitive camera, SPTpol, in order to measure the polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Measurements of the polarization of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 E. M. George , P. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , 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 , W. Everett , A. Ewall-Wice , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , N. Huang , 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

Galactic Synchrotron Foreground and the CMB Polarization Measurements

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)is a powerful observational tool at hand for modern cosmology. It allows to break the degeneracy of fundamental cosmological parameters one cannot obtain using only anisotropy data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Sazhin , G. Sironi , O. S. Khovanskaya

Consistency of CMB experiments beyond cosmic variance

The next generation of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments will produce cosmic variance limited observations over a large fraction of sky and for a large range of multipoles. In this work we discuss different consistency tests that can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 Thibaut Louis , Xavier Garrido , Adam Soussana , Matthieu Tristram , Sophie Henrot-Versillé , Sylvain Vanneste