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Comparing complex impedance and bias step measurements of Simons Observatory transition edge sensors

The Simons Observatory (SO) will perform ground-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several small and large aperture telescopes, each outfitted with thousands to tens of thousands of superconducting aluminum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 Nicholas F. Cothard , Aamir M. Ali , Jason E. Austermann , Steve K. Choi , Kevin T. Crowley , Bradley J. Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Patricio Gallardo , Gene C. Hilton , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Michael J. Link , Michael D. Niemack , Rita F. Sonka , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

On the recovery of ISW fluctuations using large-scale structure tracers and CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies

In this work we present a method to extract the signal induced by the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It makes use of the Linear Covariance-Based filter introduced by Barreiro et al., and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 L. Bonavera , R. B. Barreiro , A. Marcos-Caballero , P. Vielva

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data

We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collected during the second season of observations (2013-2014) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 The POLARBEAR Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Aguilar , Y. Akiba , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , A. Ducout , R. Dünner , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. M. Feeney , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , T. Hamada , G. Hall , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , Y. Segawa , B. D. Sherwin , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , N. Whitehorn , A. Zahn

CMB Polarimetry using Correlation Receivers with the PIQUE and CAPMAP Experiments

The Princeton IQU Experiment (PIQUE) and the Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper (CAPMAP) are experiments designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on sub-degree scales in an area within 1 degree of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Barkats , C. Bischoff , P. Farese , T. Gaier , J. O. Gundersen , M. M. Hedman , L. Hyatt , J. J. McMahon , D. Samtleben , S. T. Staggs , E. Stefanescu , K. Vanderlinde , B. Winstein

CMB Lensing Reconstruction on the Full Sky

Gravitational lensing of the microwave background by the intervening dark matter mainly arises from large-angle fluctuations in the projected gravitational potential and hence offers a unique opportunity to study the physics of the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Takemi Okamoto , Wayne Hu

A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Galaxy Clusters Using Data from the South Pole Telescope

Clusters of galaxies are expected to gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and thereby generate a distinct signal in the CMB on arcminute scales. Measurements of this effect can be used to constrain the masses of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-25 E. J. Baxter , R. Keisler , S. Dodelson , K. A. Aird , S. W. Allen , M. L. N. Ashby , M. Bautz , M. Bayliss , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , S. Bocquet , M. Brodwin , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , I. Chiu , H-M. Cho , A. Clocchiatti , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , R. J. Foley , W. R. Forman , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , C. Hennig , H. Hoekstra , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , C. Jones , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , J. Liu , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , A. Mantz , D. P. Marrone , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , L. M. Mocanu , S. S. Murray , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , A. Saro , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , J. Song , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , S. A. Stanford , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

Bias to CMB lensing from lensed foregrounds

Extragalactic foregrounds are known to constitute a limiting systematic in temperature-based CMB lensing with AdvACT, SPT-3G, Simons Observatory and CMB S4. Furthermore, since these foregrounds are emitted at cosmological distances, they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-09 Nishant Mishra , Emmanuel Schaan

The Simons Observatory: laboratory beam characterization for the first small aperture telescope

The Simons Observatory is a ground-based telescope array located at an elevation of 5200 meters, in the Atacama Desert in Chile, designed to measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. It comprises four…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Remington G. Gerras , Thomas Alford , Michael J. Randall , Joseph Seibert , Grace Chesmore , Kevin T. Crowley , Nicholas Galitzki , Jon Gudmundsson , Kathleen Harrington , Bradley R. Johnson , J. B. Lloyd , Amber D. Miller , Max Silva-Feaver

Systematic Effects in Interferometric Observations of the CMB Polarization

The detection of the primordial $B$-mode spectrum of the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal may provide a probe of inflation. However, observation of such a faint signal requires excellent control of systematic errors.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ata Karakci , Le Zhang , P. M. Sutter , Emory F. Bunn , Andrei Korotkov , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Variable-delay Polarization Modulators for the CLASS Telescopes

The search for inflationary primordial gravitational waves and the measurement of the optical depth to reionization, both through their imprint on the large angular scale correlations in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background…

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Destriping of Polarized Data in a CMB Mission with a Circular Scanning Strategy

A major problem in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy mapping, especially in a total-power mode, is the presence of low-frequency noise in the data streams. If unproperly processed, such low-frequency noise leads to striping in…

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Constraints on large-scale polarization in northern hemisphere

Present cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations have significantly advanced our understanding of the universe's origin, especially with primordial gravitational waves (PGWs). Currently, ground-based CMB telescopes are mainly located…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Dongdong Zhang , Bo Wang , Jia-Rui Li , Yi-Fu Cai , Chang Feng

Full Stokes polarimetric observations with a single-dish radio-telescope

The study of the linear and circular polarization in AGN allows one to gain detailed information about the properties of the magnetic fields in these objects. However, especially the observation of circular polarization (CP) with…

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A measurement of gravitational lensing of the microwave background using South Pole Telescope data

We use South Pole Telescope data from 2008 and 2009 to detect the non-Gaussian signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) produced by gravitational lensing and to measure the power spectrum of the projected gravitational potential.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. van Engelen , R. Keisler , O. Zahn , K. A. Aird , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. M. Cho , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , J. Dudley , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , M. Joy , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson

CMB-S4 Technology Book, First Edition

CMB-S4 is a proposed experiment to map the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to nearly the cosmic variance limit for angular scales that are accessible from the ground. The science goals and capabilities of CMB-S4 in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-07 Maximilian H. Abitbol , Zeeshan Ahmed , Darcy Barron , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Amy N. Bender , Bradford A. Benson , Colin A. Bischoff , Sean A. Bryan , John E. Carlstrom , Clarence L. Chang , David T. Chuss , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , Tijmen de Haan , Matt Dobbs , Tom Essinger-Hileman , Jeffrey P. Filippini , Ken Ganga , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Nils W. Halverson , Shaul Hanany , Shawn W. Henderson , Charles A. Hill , Shuay-Pwu P. Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent Irwin , Oliver Jeong , Bradley R. Johnson , Sarah A. Kernasovskiy , John M. Kovac , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Salatino Maria , Philip Mauskopf , Jeff J. McMahon , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Andrew W. Nadolski , Johanna M. Nagy , Michael D. Niemack , Roger C. O'Brient , Stephen Padin , Stephen C. Parshley , Clement Pryke , Natalie A. Roe , Karwan Rostem , John Ruhl , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Aritoki Suzuki , Eric R. Switzer , Osamu Tajima , Keith L. Thompson , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Joaquin D. Vieira , Abigail G. Vieregg , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack , Ki Won Yoon , Karl S. Young , Edward Y. Young

Revealing Cosmic Rotation

Cosmological Birefringence (CB), a rotation of the polarization plane of radiation coming to us from distant astrophysical sources, may reveal parity violation in either the electromagnetic or gravitational sectors of the fundamental…

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Detecting chiral gravity with the pure pseudospectrum reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background polarized anisotropies

We consider the possible detection of parity violation at the linear level in gravity using polarized anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background. Since such a parity violation would lead to non-zero TB and EB correlations, this makes…

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The new generation CMB B-mode polarization experiment: POLARBEAR

We describe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment called Polarbear. This experiment will use the dedicated Huan Tran Telescope equipped with a powerful 1,200-bolometer array receiver to map the CMB polarization with…

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Concept Design of Low Frequency Telescope for CMB B-mode Polarization satellite LiteBIRD

LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization over the full sky at large angular scales. The challenges of LiteBIRD are the wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-19 Y. Sekimoto , P. A. R. Ade , A. Adler , E. Allys , K. Arnold , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , R. Aurlien , J. Austermann , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. Banerji , R. B. Barreiro , S. Basak , J. Beall , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Bermejo , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , J. Bonis , J. Borrill , F. Boulanger , S. Bounissou , M. Brilenkov , M. Brown , M. Bucher , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , A. Challinor , V. Chan , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , J. F. Cliche , L. Colombo , F. Columbro , J. Cubas , A. Cukierman , D. Curtis , G. D'Alessandro , N. Dachlythra , M. De Petris , C. Dickinson , P. Diego-Palazuelos , M. Dobbs , T. Dotani , L. Duband , S. Duff , J. M. Duval , K. Ebisawa , T. Elleflot , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , T. Essinger-Hileman , F. Finelli , R. Flauger , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , M. Galloway , K. Ganga , J. R. Gao , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , E. Gjerløw , M. L. Gradziel , J. Grain , F. Grupp , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , T. de Haan , N. W. Halverson , P. Hargrave , T. Hasebe , M. Hasegawa , M. Hattori , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , D. Herman , D. Herranz , C. A. Hill , G. Hilton , Y. Hirota , E. Hivon , R. A. Hlozek , Y. Hoshino , E. de la Hoz , J. Hubmayr , K. Ichiki , T. iida , H. Imada , K. Ishimura , H. Ishino , G. Jaehnig , T. Kaga , S. Kashima , N. Katayama , A. Kato , T. Kawasaki , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , Y. Kobayashi , N. Kogiso , A. Kogut , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , K. Komatsu , K. Konishi , N. Krachmalnicoff , I. Kreykenbohm , C. L. Kuo , A. Kushino , L. Lamagna , J. V. Lanen , M. Lattanzi , A. T. Lee , C. Leloup , F. Levrier , E. Linder , T. Louis , G. Luzzi , T. Maciaszek , B. Maffei , D. Maino , M. Maki , S. Mandelli , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , S. Masi , T. Matsumura , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , Y. Minanmi , K. Mitsuda , J. Montgomery , L. Montier , G. Morgante , B. Mot , Y. Murata , J. A. Murphy , M. Nagai , Y. Nagano , T. Nagasaki , R. Nagata , S. Nakamura , T. Namikawa , P. Natoli , S. Nerval , T. Nishibori , H. Nishino , C. O'Sullivan , H. Ogawa , H. Ogawa , S. Oguri , H. Ohsaki , I. S. Ohta , N. Okada , N. Okada , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , J. Peloton , F. Piacentini , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , D. Poletti , T. Prouvé , G. Puglisi , D. Rambaud , C. Raum , S. Realini , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , G. Roudil , J. A. Rubino-Martin , M. Russell , H. Sakurai , Y. Sakurai , M. Sandri , M. Sasaki , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. Seibert , B. Sherwin , K. Shinozaki , M. Shiraishi , P. Shirron , G. Signorelli , G. Smecher , S. Stever , R. Stompor , H. Sugai , S. Sugiyama , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , T. L. Svalheim , E. Switzer , R. Takaku , H. Takakura , S. Takakura , Y. Takase , Y. Takeda , A. Tartari , E. Taylor , Y. Terao , H. Thommesen , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , T. Toda , M. Tomasi , M. Tominaga , N. Trappe , M. Tristram , M. Tsuji , M. Tsujimoto , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , G. Vermeulen , P. Vielva , F. Villa , M. Vissers , N. Vittorio , I. Wehus , J. Weller , B. Westbrook , J. Wilms , B. Winter , E. J. Wollack , N. Y. Yamasaki , T. Yoshida , J. Yumoto , M. Zannoni , A. Zonca

2022 Upgrade and Improved Low Frequency Camera Sensitivity for CMB Observation at the South Pole

Constraining the Galactic foregrounds with multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations is an essential step towards ultimately reaching the sensitivity to measure primordial gravitational waves (PGWs), the sign of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 A. Soliman , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. I. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kangh , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. Palladino , M. A. Petroff , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , C. Vergès , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang