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Empirical modelling of the BLASTPol achromatic half-wave plate for precision submillimetre polarimetry

A cryogenic achromatic half-wave plate (HWP) for submillimetre astronomical polarimetry has been designed, manufactured, tested, and deployed in the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol). The design…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lorenzo Moncelsi , Peter Ade , Francesco Elio Angile , Steven Benton , Mark Devlin , Laura Fissel , Natalie Gandilo , Joshua Gundersen , Tristan Matthews , C. Barth Netterfield , Giles Novak , David Nutter , Enzo Pascale , Frederick Poidevin , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Juan Soler , Locke Spencer , Matthew Truch , Gregory Tucker , Jin Zhang

A Polarization Sensitive Bolometric Detector for Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background

We have developed a bolometric detector that is intrinsically sensitive to linear polarization which is optimized for making measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The receiver consists of a pair of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 W. C. Jones , R. S. Bhatia , J. J. Bock , A. E. Lange

Detection of Thermal Emission at Millimeter Wavelengths from Low-Earth Orbit Satellites

The detection of artificial satellite thermal emission at millimeter wavelengths is presented using data from the 3rd-Generation receiver on the South Pole Telescope (SPT-3G). This represents the first reported detection of thermal emission…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 A. Foster , A. Chokshi , A. J. Anderson , B. Ansarinejad , M. Archipley , L. Balkenhol , K. Benabed , A. N. Bender , D. R. Barron , B. A. Benson , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , E. Camphuis , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , P. M. Chichura , T. -L. Chou , A. Coerver , T. M. Crawford , C. Daley , T. de Haan , K. R. Dibert , M. A. Dobbs , A. Doussot , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , K. Fichman , 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 , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , A. Hryciuk , N. Huang , F. Kéruzoré , A. R. Khalife , L. Knox , M. Korman , K. Kornoelje , C. -L. Kuo , 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 , Y. Omori , 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 , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , C. Tandoi , B. Thorne , C. Trendafilova , C. Umilta , J. D. Vieira , A. Vitrier , Y. Wan , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , M. R. Young , J. A. Zebrowski

Development of MKIDs for measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the South Pole Telescope

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

A Dual-polarized Broadband Planar Antenna and Channelizing Filter Bank for Millimeter Wavelengths

We describe the design, fabrication, and testing of a broadband log-periodic antenna coupled to multiple cryogenic bolometers. This detector architecture, optimized here for astrophysical observations, simultaneously receives two linear…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Roger OBrient , Peter Ade , Kam Arnold , Jennifer Edwards , Greg Engargiola , William L Holzapfel , Adrian T Lee , Michael J Myers , Erin Quealy , Gabriel Rebeiz , Paul Richards , Aritoki Suzuki

The BLAST Survey of the Vela Molecular Cloud: Physical Properties of the Dense Cores in Vela-D

The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) carried out a 250, 350 and 500 micron survey of the galactic plane encompassing the Vela Molecular Ridge, with the primary goal of identifying the coldest dense cores possibly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Luca Olmi , Peter A. R. Ade , Daniel Angles-Alcazar , James J. Bock , Edward L. Chapin , Massimo De Luca , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Davide Elia , Giovanni G. Fazio , Teresa Giannini , Matthew Griffin , Joshua O. Gundersen , Mark Halpern , Peter C. Hargrave , David H. Hughes , Jeff Klein , Dario Lorenzetti , Massimo Marengo , Gaelen Marsden , Peter G. Martin , Fabrizio Massi , Philip Mauskopf , Calvin B. Netterfield , Guillaume Patanchon , Marie Rex , Alberto Salama , Douglas Scott , Christopher Semisch , Howard A. Smith , Francesco Strafella , Nicholas Thomas , Matthew D. P. Truch , Carole Tucker , Gregory S. Tucker , Marco P. Viero , Donald V. Wiebe

A Constraint on Primordial $B$-Modes from the First Flight of the SPIDER Balloon-Borne Telescope

We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of SPIDER, an experiment designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales. Results from these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 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 , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , 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 , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

BLAST: Resolving the Cosmic Submillimeter Background

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) has made one square degree, deep, confusion limited maps at three different bands, centered on the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey South field. By calculating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 Gaelen Marsden , Peter A. R. Ade , James J. Bock , Edward L. Chapin , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , Matthew Griffin , Joshua O. Gundersen , Mark Halpern , Peter C. Hargrave , David H. Hughes , Jeff Klein , Philip Mauskopf , Benjamin Magnelli , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Calvin B. Netterfield , Henry Ngo , Luca Olmi , Enzo Pascale , Guillaume Patanchon , Marie Rex , Douglas Scott , Christopher Semisch , Nicholas Thomas , Matthew D. P. Truch , Carole Tucker , Gregory S. Tucker , Marco P. Viero , Donald V. Wiebe

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2005: A 4 sq. deg Galactic Plane Survey in Vulpecula (l=59)

We present the first results from a new 250, 350, and 500 micron Galactic Plane survey taken with the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) in 2005. This survey's primary goal is to identify and characterize high-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 E. L. Chapin , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , C. Brunt , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , M. Griffin , J. O. Gundersen , M. Halpern , P. C. Hargrave , D. H. Hughes , J. Klein , G. Marsden , P. G. Martin , P. Mauskopf , C. B. Netterfield , L. Olmi , E. Pascale , G. Patanchon , M. Rex , D. Scott , C. Semisch , M. D. P. Truch , C. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , M. P. Viero , D. V. Wiebe

RadioAstron Space VLBI Imaging of the jet in M87: I. Detection of high brightness temperature at 22 GHz

We present results from the first 22 GHz space very-long-baseline interferometric (VLBI) imaging observations of M87 by RadioAstron. As a part of the Nearby AGN Key Science Program, the source was observed in Feb 2014 at 22 GHz with 21…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-18 Jae-Young Kim , Tuomas Savolainen , Petr Voitsik , Evgeniya V. Kravchenko , Mikhail M. Lisakov , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Hendrik Müller , Andrei P. Lobanov , Kirill V. Sokolovsky , Gabriele Bruni , Philip G. Edwards , Cormac Reynolds , Uwe Bach , Leonid I. Gurvits , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Kazuhiro Hada , Marcello Giroletti , Monica Orienti , James M. Anderson , Sang-Sung Lee , Bong Won Sohn , J. Anton Zensus

Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Balloon Flight Data Handling Overview

The GLAST Balloon Flight Engineering Model (BFEM) represents one of 16 towers that constitute the Large Area Telescope (LAT), a high-energy (>20 MeV) gamma-ray pair-production telescope being built by an international partnership of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. H. Burnett , A. Chekhtman , E. do Couto e Silva , R. Dubois , D. Flath , I. Gable , J. E. Grove , R. Hartman , T. Kamae , A. Kavelaars , H. Kelly , T. Kotani , M. Kuss , D. Lauben , T. Lindner , N. Lumb , T. Mizuno , A. Moiseev , M. Ozaki , L. S. Rochester , R. Schaefer , G. Spandre , D. J. Thompson , T. Usher , K. Young

Submillimeter Number Counts From Statistical Analysis of BLAST Maps

We describe the application of a statistical method to estimate submillimeter galaxy number counts from confusion limited observations by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST). Our method is based on a maximum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 Guillaume Patanchon , Peter A. R. Ade , James J. Bock , Edward L. Chapin , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , Matthew Griffin , Joshua O. Gundersen , Mark Halpern , Peter C. Hargrave , David H. Hughes , Jeff Klein , Gaelen Marsden , Philip Mauskopf , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Calvin B. Netterfield , Luca Olmi , Enzo Pascale , Marie Rex , Douglas Scott , Christopher Semisch , Nicholas Thomas , Matthew D. P. Truch , Carole Tucker , Gregory S. Tucker , Marco P. Viero , Donald V. Wiebe

Deconvolution of Images from BLAST 2005: Insight into the K3-50 and IC 5146 Star-Forming Regions

We present an implementation of the iterative flux-conserving Lucy-Richardson (L-R) deconvolution method of image restoration for maps produced by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST). We have analyzed its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Arabindo Roy , Peter A. R. Ade , James J. Bock , Christopher M. Brunt , Edward L. Chapin , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , Kevin France , Andrew G. Gibb , Matthew Griffin , Joshua O. Gundersen , Mark Halpern , Peter C. Hargrave , David H. Hughes , Jeff Klein , Gaelen Marsden , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Calvin B. Netterfield , Luca Olmi , Guillaume Patanchon , Marie Rex , Douglas Scott , Christopher Semisch , Matthew D. P. Truch , Carole Tucker , Gregory S. Tucker , Marco P. Viero , Donald V. Wiebe

Submillimeter Number Counts at 250, 350 and 500 microns in BLAST data

BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope) performed the first deep and wide extragalactic survey at 250, 350 and 500 um. The extragalactic number counts at these wavelengths are important constraints for modeling the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-06 M. Béthermin , H. Dole , M. Cousin , N. Bavouzet

The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G

SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 J. A. Sobrin , A. J. Anderson , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , D. Dutcher , A. Foster , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , A. Rahlin , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , E. Anderes , M. Archipley , J. E. Austermann , J. S. Avva , K. Aylor , L. Balkenhol , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , K. Benabed , F. Bianchini , L. E. Bleem , F. R. Bouchet , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , P. Chaubal , G. Chen , H. -M. Cho , T. -L. Chou , J. -F. Cliche , T. M. Crawford , A. Cukierman , C. Daley , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , K. Dibert , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , C. Feng , K. R. Ferguson , J. Fu , S. Galli , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , R. Gualtieri , S. Guns , N. Gupta , R. Guyser , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , E. Hivon , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , J. C. Hood , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , T. S. Khaire , L. Knox , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. E. Lowitz , C. Lu , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , M. Millea , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , Y. Omori , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , K. Prabhu , W. Quan , C. L. Reichardt , D. Riebel , B. Riedel , M. Rouble , J. E. Ruhl , B. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , E. Schiappucci , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , C. Tandoi , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , C. Tucker , C. Umilta , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , W. L. K. Wu , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young

The BaR-SPOrt Experiment

BaR-SPOrt (Balloon-borne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation Observations) is an experiment to measure the linearly polarized emission of sky patches at 32 and 90 GHz with sub-degree angular resolution. It is equipped with high sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Zannoni , S. Cortiglioni , G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , S. Cecchini , C. Macculi , E. Morelli , C. Sbarra , G. Ventura , L. Nicastro , J. Monari , M. Poloni , S. Poppi , V. Natale , M. Baralis , O. Peverini , R. Tascone , G. Virone , A. Boscaleri , E. Pascale , G. Boella , S. Bonometto , M. Gervasi , G. Sironi , M. Tucci , R. Nesti , R. Fabbri , P. de Bernardis , M. De Petris , S. Masi , M. V. Sazhin , E. N. Vinyajkin

Design of the on-board data compression for the bolometer data of LiteBIRD

LiteBIRD is a space-borne experiment dedicated to detecting large-scale $B$-mode anisotropies in the linear polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) predicted by the theory of inflation. It is planned to be launched in the late…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Mayu Tominaga , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Graeme Smecher , Hirokazu Ishino

BLAST: the Redshift Survey

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) has recently surveyed ~8.7 deg^2 centered on GOODS-South at 250, 350, and 500 microns. In Dye et al. (2009) we presented the catalogue of sources detected at 5-sigma in at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 Stephen Eales , Edward L. Chapin , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dye , Mark Halpern , David H. Hughes , Gaelen Marsden , Philip Mauskopf , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Calvin B. Netterfield , Enzo Pascale , Guillaume Patanchon , Gwenifer Raymond , Marie Rex , Douglas Scott , Christopher Semisch , Brian Siana , Matthew D. P. Truch , Marco P. Viero

280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the SPIDER-2 Suborbital Polarimeter

We describe the construction and characterization of the 280 GHz bolometric focal plane units (FPUs) to be deployed on the second flight of the balloon-borne SPIDER instrument. These FPUs are vital to SPIDER's primary science goal of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 A. S. Bergman , P. A. R. Ade , S. Akers , M. Amiri , J. A. Austermann , J. A. Beall , D. T. Becker , S. J. Benton , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , R. S Domagalski , O. Doré , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , A. Grigorian , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Khan , 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 , S. Redmond , C. Reintsema , L. J. Romualdez , 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. Ullom , J. F. van der List , J. Van Lanen , M. R. Vissers , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

Development of an MKID frequency-to-pixel LED mapper for SPT-3G+

SPT-3G+ is the next-generation camera for the South Pole Telescope (SPT). SPT is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the mm/sub-mm sky. The planned focal plane consists of 34,000 microwave kinetic inductance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 E. S. Martsen , P. S. Barry , B. A. Benson , K. R. Dibert , K. N. Fichman , T. Natoli , M. Rouble , C. Yu