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POLAMI: Polarimetric Monitoring of Active Galactic Nuclei at Millimetre Wavelengths. I. The program, calibration, and calibrators data products

We describe the POLAMI program for the monitoring of all four Stokes parameters of a sample of bright radio-loud active galactic nuclei with the IRAM 30m telescope at 3.5 and 1.3mm. The program started in October 2006 and accumulated, until…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Ivan Agudo , Clemens Thum , Sol N. Molina , Carolina Casadio , Helmut Wiesemeyer , David Morris , Gabriel Paubert , Jose L. Gomez , Carsten Kramer

Self-Calibrated Atom-Interferometer Gyroscope by Modulating Atomic Velocities

Atom-interferometer gyroscopes have attracted much attention for their potential superior long-term stability and extremely low drift. For such high precision instrument, a self-calibration to achieve an absolute rotation measurement is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Hong-Hui Chen , Zhan-Wei Yao , Ze-Xi Lu , Si-Bin Lu , Min Jiang , Shao-Kang Li , Xiao-Li Chen , Chuan Sun , Yin-Fei Mao , Yang Li , Run-Bing Li , Jin Wang , Ming-Sheng Zhan

SPT-3G: A Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Experiment on the South Pole Telescope

We describe the design of a new polarization sensitive receiver, SPT-3G, for the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT). The SPT-3G receiver will deliver a factor of ~20 improvement in mapping speed over the current receiver, SPTpol. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 B. A. Benson , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , S. W. Allen , K. Arnold , J. E. Austermann , A. N. Bender , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. M. Cho , S. T. Ciocys , J. F. Cliche , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , D. Hanson , N. L. Harrington , K. Hattori , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , K. D. Irwin , R. Keisler , L. Knox , D. Kubik , C. L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , M. McDonald , S. S. Meyer , J. Montgomery , M. Myers , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , V. Novosad , S. Padin , Z. Pan , J. Pearson , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , G. Simard , G. Smecher , J. T. Sayre , E. Shirokoff , A. A. Stark , K. Story , A. Suzuki , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , G. Wang , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon

Prospects for GeV Neutrino Transient Searches with the IceCube Upgrade

The recent detection of TeV neutrino sources by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory demonstrates the detector's advanced capabilities in detecting high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. At lower energies, down to the GeV range, a variety of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Yukiho Kobayashi

High Voltage CMOS Control Interface for Astronomy - Grade Charged Coupled Devices

The Pan-STARRS telescope consists of an array of smaller mirrors viewed by a Gigapixel arrays of CCDs. These focal planes employ Orthogonal Transfer CCDs (OTCCDs) to allow on-chip image stabilization. Each OTCCD has advanced logic features…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Elena Martin , Gary Varner , Aaron Koga , Larry Ruckman , Peter Onaka , John Tonry , Aaron Lee

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

Euclid. IV. The NISP Calibration Unit

The near-infrared calibration unit (NI-CU) on board Euclid's Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) is the first astronomical calibration lamp based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to be operated in space. Euclid is a mission in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Euclid Collaboration , F. Hormuth , K. Jahnke , M. Schirmer , C. G. -Y. Lee , T. Scott , R. Barbier , S. Ferriol , W. Gillard , F. Grupp , R. Holmes , W. Holmes , B. Kubik , J. Macias-Perez , M. Laurent , J. Marpaud , M. Marton , E. Medinaceli , G. Morgante , R. Toledo-Moreo , M. Trifoglio , Hans-Walter Rix , A. Secroun , M. Seiffert , P. Stassi , S. Wachter , C. M. Gutierrez , C. Vescovi , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , R. Casas , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , J. Dinis , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , F. Ducret , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , S. Farrens , F. Faustini , S. Fotopoulou , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , I. Hook , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , M. Jhabvala , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , R. Kohley , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , M. Moresco , P. W. Morris , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , C. Padilla , K. Paech , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , B. Rusholme , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Sauvage , J. A. Schewtschenko , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , E. Sefusatti , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , G. Smadja , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , A. Biviano , M. Bolzonella , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , M. Calabrese , D. Di Ferdinando , J. A. Escartin Vigo , R. Farinelli , J. Gracia-Carpio , M. V. Kazandjian , N. Mauri , V. Scottez , M. Tenti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , S. Anselmi , E. Aubourg , M. Ballardini , M. Bethermin , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , E. Borsato , S. Bruton , R. Cabanac , A. Calabro , G. Canas-Herrera , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , P. Casenove , T. Castro , K. C. Chambers , Y. Charles , S. Contarini , A. R. Cooray , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , B. De Caro , S. de la Torre , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , H. Dole , S. Escoffier , A. G. Ferrari , P. G. Ferreira , I. Ferrero , F. Finelli , A. Fontana , F. Fornari , L. Gabarra , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , G. Gozaliasl , A. Hall , W. G. Hartley , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , M. Huertas-Company , O. Ilbert , J. Jacobson , A. Jimenez Muñoz , S. Joudaki , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , C. C. Kirkpatrick , F. Laudisio , L. Legrand , G. Libet , A. Loureiro , G. Maggio , M. Magliocchetti , C. Mancini , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , R. B. Metcalf , M. Miluzio , C. Moretti , S. Nadathur , Nicholas A. Walton , L. Patrizii , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , V. Popa , C. Porciani , D. Potter , I. Risso , P. -F. Rocci , R. P. Rollins , M. Sahlén , C. Scarlata , A. Schneider , M. Schultheis , M. Sereno , A. Shulevski , A. Silvestri , P. Simon , A. Spurio Mancini , J. Stadel , C. Tao , G. Testera , R. Teyssier , S. Toft , S. Tosi , A. Troja , M. Tucci , C. Valieri , J. Valiviita , D. Vergani , G. Verza , L. Zalesky , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , T. Bouvard , F. Caro , P. Dimauro , Y. Fang , A. M. N. Ferguson , A. Finoguenov , T. Gasparetto , A. M. C. Le Brun , J. Le Graet , T. I. Liaudat , A. Montoro , C. Murray , M. Oguri , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , E. Sarpa , K. Tanidis , F. Vernizzi , A. Viitanen , I. Kova{č}ić , J. Lesgourgues , J. Martín-Fleitas , A. Mora

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

Optically Pumped Polarized $^3$He$^{++}$ Ion Source Development for RHIC/EIC

The proposed polarized $^3$He$^{++}$ acceleration in RHIC and the future Electron-Ion Collider will require about $2\times10^{11}$ ions in the source pulse. A new technique had been proposed for production of high intensity polarized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-11 A. Zelenski , G. Atoian , E. Beebe , S. Ikeda , T. Kanesue , S. Kondrashev , J. Maxwell , R. Milner , M. Musgrave , M. Okamura , A. A. Poblaguev , D. Raparia , J. Ritter , A. Sukhanov , S. Trabocchi

Laser stabilisation to neutral Yb in a discharge with polarization enhanced frequency modulation spectroscopy

Isotope selective optical excitation of atoms is important for experiments with neutral atoms, metrology, and work with trapped ions, including quantum information processing. Polarization-enhanced absorption spectroscopy is used to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Valdis Blums , Jordan Scarabel , Kenji Shimizu , Moji Ghadimi , Steven C. Connell , Sylvi Händel , Benjamin G. Norton , Elizabeth M. Bridge , David Kielpinski , Mirko Lobino , Erik W. Streed

DECal: A Spectrophotometric Calibration System For DECam

DECal is a new calibration system for the CTIO 4 m Blanco telescope. It is currently being installed as part of the Dark Energy Survey and will provide both broadband flat fields and narrowband (about 1 nm bandwidth) spectrophotometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 J. L. Marshall , Jean-Philippe Rheault , D. L. DePoy , Travis Prochaska , Richard Allen , Tyler W. Behm , Emily C. Martin , Brannon Veal , Steven Villanueva, , Patrick Williams , Jason Wise

Systems design, assembly, integration and lab testing of WALOP-South Polarimeter

Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South is the first wide-field and survey-capacity polarimeter in the optical wavelengths. On schedule for commissioning in 2024, it will be mounted on the 1 m SAAO telescope in Sutherland…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Siddharth Maharana , A. N. Ramaprakash , Chaitanya Rajarshi , Pravin Khodade , Bhushan Joshi , Pravin Chordia , Abhay Kohok , Ramya M. Anche , Deepa Modi , John A. Kypriotakis , Amit Deokar , Aditya Kinjawadekar , Stephen B. Potter , Dmitry Blinov , Hans Kristian Eriksen , Myrto Falalaki , Hitesh Gajjar , Tuhin Ghosh , Eirik Gjerløw , Sebastain Kiehlmann , Ioannis Liodakis , Nikolaos Mandarakas , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Timothy J. Pearson , Vincent Pelgrims , Anthony C. S. Readhead , Raphael Skalidis , Konstantinos Tassis , Namita Uppal , Ingunn K. Wehus

Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-14 J. Cornelison , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Resolution Limiting Factors in Low-Energy Cascade Zenith Angle Reconstruction with the IceCube Upgrade

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory includes low energy extensions such as the existing DeepCore subarray and the upcoming IceCube Upgrade, which will consist of seven new strings of photosensors with denser instrumentation than the existing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-24 Kaustav Dutta , Sebastian Böser , Jan Weldert , Martin Rongen

Feasibility of acoustic neutrino detection in ice: First results from the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS)

Astrophysical neutrinos in the EeV range (particularly those generated by the interaction of cosmic rays with the cosmic microwave background) promise to be a valuable tool to study astrophysics and particle physics at the highest energies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-16 S. Böser , C. Bohm , F. Descamps , J. Fischer , A. Hallgren , R. Heller , S. Hundertmark , K. Krieger , R. Nahnhauer , M. Pohl , P. B. Price , K. -H. Sulanke , D. Tosi , J. Vandenbroucke

Future exoplanet direct imaging instruments: Simulating spatial light modulator-based pixelated focal-plane coronagraphy

The programmable Liquid-crystal Active Coronagraphic Imager for the DAG Telescope (PLACID) instrument will be installed on the Turkish 4-m Telescope by the fall of 2024 and is expected to be on-sky by the end of the year. PLACID will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Liurong Lin , Axel Potier , Ruben Tandon , Jonas G. Kühn

The polarization-encoded self-coherent camera

The exploration of circumstellar environments by means of direct imaging to search for Earth-like exoplanets is one of the challenges of modern astronomy. One of the current limitations are evolving non-common path aberrations (NCPA) that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Steven P. Bos

Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations in IceCube

We present the results of an analysis of data collected by IceCube/DeepCore in 2010-2011 resulting in the first significant detection of neutrino oscillations in a high-energy neutrino telescope. A low-energy muon neutrino sample (20-100…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Andreas Groß

Status Report on the Hydrodynamic Simulations of a Tapered Plasma Lens for Optical Matching at the ILC $e^+$ Source

The International Linear Collider is a planned electron-positron linear collider with its positron source producing positrons by aiming undulator radiation onto a rotating target. The resulting, highly divergent positron beam requires…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 M. Formela , N. Hamann , G. Moortgat-Pick , G. Loisch , M. Mewes , M. Thévenet , J. Osterhoff , G. Boyle

HADES - Hydrophone for Acoustic Detection at South Pole

The South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS) is located in the upper part of the optical neutrino observatory IceCube, currently under construction. SPATS consists of four strings at depths between 80 m and 500 m below the surface of the ice…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Benjamin Semburg