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The QUIJOTE Experiment was developed to study the polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over the frequency range of 10-50 GHz. Its first instrument, the Multi Frequency Instrument (MFI), measures in the range 10-20 GHz which…
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The LSST focal plane consists of 21 autonomous modules ("Raft Tower Modules", RTM), each of which contains nine thick, fully-depleted 4K x 4K CCDs with associated control and readout electronics. To enable LSST's repetitive short-exposure…
Aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) sensitive to millimeter-wave photons have been shown to exhibit high quality factors, making them highly sensitive and multiplexable. The superconducting gap of aluminum limits…