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Interplanetary medium monitoring with LISA: lessons from LISA Pathfinder

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be the first low-frequency gravitational-wave observatory orbiting the Sun at 1 AU. The LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission, aiming at testing of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 A. Cesarini , C. Grimani , S. Benella , M. Fabi , F. Sabbatini , M. Villani , D. Telloni

The FMOS-COSMOS survey of star-forming galaxies at z~1.6 III. Survey design, performance, and sample characteristics

We present a spectroscopic survey of galaxies in the COSMOS field using the Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS), a near-infrared instrument on the Subaru Telescope. Our survey is specifically designed to detect the Halpha emission line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 J. D. Silverman , D. Kashino , D. Sanders , J. Kartaltepe , N. Arimoto , A. Renzini , G. Rodighiero , E. Daddi , J. Zahid , T. Nagao , L. J. Kewley , S. J. Lilly , N. Sugiyama , I. Baronchelli , P. Capak , C. M. Carollo , J. Chu , G. Hasinger , O. Ilbert , S. Juneau , M. Kajisawa , A. M. Koekemoer , K. Kovac , O. Le Fevre , D. Masters , H. J. McCracken , M. Onodera , N. Scoville , V. Strazzullo , Y. Taniguchi

The Effelsberg Bonn HI Survey EBHIS

The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS) covers the whole sky north of Dec(2000) = -5 deg. on a fully sampled angular grid. Using state-of-the-art FPGA-spectrometers we perform a Milky Way and an extragalactic HI survey in parallel. Moreover,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Kerp , B. Winkel , P. M. W. Kalberla

Planck pre-launch status: Design and description of the Low Frequency Instrument

In this paper we present the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI), designed and developed as part of the Planck space mission, the ESA program dedicated to precision imaging of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Planck-LFI will observe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Bersanelli , N. Mandolesi , R. C. Butler , A. Mennella , F. Villa , B. Aja , E. Artal , E. Artina , C. Baccigalupi , M. Balasini , G. Baldan , A. Banday , P. Bastia , P. Battaglia , T. Bernardino , E. Blackhurst , L. Boschini , C. Burigana , G. Cafagna , B. Cappellini , F. Cavaliere , F. Colombo , G. Crone , F. Cuttaia , O. D'Arcangelo , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , L. De Angelis , G. C. De Gasperis , L. De La Fuente , A. De Rosa , G. De Zotti , M. C. Falvella , F. Ferrari , R. Ferretti , L. Figini , S. Fogliani , C. Franceschet , E. Franceschi , T. Gaier , S. Garavaglia , F. Gomez , K. Gorski , A. Gregorio , P. Guzzi , J. M. Herreros , S. R. Hildebrandt , R. Hoyland , N. Hughes , M. Janssen , P. Jukkala , D. Kettle , V. H. Kilpia , M. Laaninen , P. M. Lapolla , C. R. Lawrence , J. P. Leahy , R. Leonardi , P. Leutenegger , S. Levin , P. B. Lilje , S. R. Lowe , D. Lawson P. M. Lubin , D. Maino , M. Malaspina , M. Maris , J. Marti-Canales , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , A. Mediavilla , P. Meinhold , M. Miccolis , G. Morgante , P. Natoli , R. Nesti , L. Pagan , C. Paine , B. Partridge , J. P. Pascual , F. Pasian , D. Pearson , M. Pecora , F. Perrotta , P. Platania , M. Pospieszalski , T. Poutanen , M. Prina , R. Rebolo , N. Roddis , J. A. Rubino-Martin , n M. J. Salmon , M. Sandri , M. Seiffert , R. Silvestri , A. Simonetto , P. Sjoman , G. F. Smoot , C. Sozzi , L. Stringhetti , E. Taddei , J. Tauber , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , J. Tuovinen , L. Valenziano , J. Varis , N. Vittorio , L. A. Wade , A. Wilkinson , F. Winder , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey: Data reduction

Starting in winter 2008/2009 an L-band 7-Feed-Array receiver is used for a 21-cm line survey performed with the 100-m telescope, the Effelsberg-Bonn HI survey (EBHIS). The EBHIS will cover the whole northern hemisphere for decl.>-5 deg…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 B. Winkel , P. M. W. Kalberla , J. Kerp , L. Floeer

Forecasting Polarized Radio Sources for CMB observations

We combine the latest datasets obtained with different surveys to study the frequency dependence of polarized emission coming from Extragalactic Radio Sources (ERS). We consider data over a very wide frequency range starting from $1.4$ GHz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 G. Puglisi , V. Galluzzi , L. Bonavera , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , A. Lapi , M. Massardi , F. Perrotta , C. Baccigalupi , A. Celotti , L. Danese

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

The Simons Observatory: gain, bandpass and polarization-angle calibration requirements for B-mode searches

We quantify the calibration requirements for systematic uncertainties for next-generation ground-based observatories targeting the large-angle $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, with a focus on the Simons Observatory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Maximilian H. Abitbol , David Alonso , Sara M. Simon , Jack Lashner , Kevin T. Crowley , Aamir M. Ali , Susanna Azzoni , Carlo Baccigalupi , Darcy Barron , Michael L. Brown , Erminia Calabrese , Julien Carron , Yuji Chinone , Jens Chluba , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin D. Crowley , Mark Devlin , Jo Dunkley , Josquin Errard , Valentina Fanfani , Nicholas Galitzki , Martina Gerbino , J. Colin Hill , Bradley R. Johnson , Baptiste Jost , Brian Keating , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Thibaut Louis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Heather McCarrick , Jeffrey McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , Federico Nati , Haruki Nishino , Lyman A. Page , Davide Poletti , Giuseppe Puglisi , Michael J. Randall , Aditya Rotti , Jacob Spisak , Aritoki Suzuki , Grant P. Teply , Clara Vergès , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Mario Zannoni

Multi-Resolution Electron Spectrometer Array for Future Free-Electron Laser Experiments

We report the design of an angular array of electron Time-of-Flight (eToF) spectrometers intended for non-invasive spectral, temporal, and polarization characterization of single shots of high-repetition rate, quasi-continuous,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-18 Peter Walter , Andrei Kamalov , Averell Gatton , Taran Driver , Dileep Bhogadi , Jean-Charles Castagna , Xianchao Cheng , Hongliang Shi , James Cryan , Wolfram Helml , Markus Ilchen , Ryan N. Coffee

The POLARBEAR-2 and the Simons Array Experiment

We present an overview of the design and status of the \Pb-2 and the Simons Array experiments. \Pb-2 is a Cosmic Microwave Background polarimetry experiment which aims to characterize the arc-minute angular scale B-mode signal from weak…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 A. Suzuki , P. Ade , Y. Akiba , C. Aleman , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , B. Barch , D. Barron , A. Bender , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , A. Ducout , R. Dunner , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. Feeney , C. Feng , T. Fujino , G. Fuller , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , T. De Haan , G. Hall , N. Halverson , T. Hamada , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , C. Hill , W. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , F. Irie , G. Jaehnig , A. Jaffe , O. Jeong , N. Katayama , J. Kaufman , K. Kazemzadeh , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , A. Kusaka , M. Le Jeune , A. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , N. Miller , K. Mizukami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , G. Rebeiz , C. Raum , C. Reichardt , P. Richards , C. Ross , K. Rotermund , Y. Segawa , B. Sherwin , I. Shirley , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takada , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , A. Tikhomirov , T. Tomaru , B. Westbrook , N. Whitehorn , T. Yamashita , A. Zahn , O. Zahn

Development of the Low Frequency Telescope Focal Plane Detector Modules for LiteBIRD

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led strategic large-class satellite mission designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and Galactic foregrounds from 34 to 448 GHz across the entire sky from L2 in the late 2020s. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Benjamin Westbrook , Christopher Raum , Shawn Beckman , Adrian T. Lee , Nicole Farias , Andrew Bogdan , Amber Hornsby , Aritoki Suzuki , Kaja Rotermund , Tucker Elleflot , Jason E. Austermann , James A. Beall , Shannon M. Duff , Johannes Hubmayr , Michael R. Vissers , Michael J. Link , Greg Jaehnig , Nils Halverson , Tomasso Ghigna , Masashi Hazumi , Samantha Stever , Yuto Minami , Keith L. Thompson , Megan Russell , Kam Arnold , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver

The Low Frequency Instrument in the ESA Planck mission

Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) allow high precision observation of the cosmic plasma at redshift z~1100. After the success of the NASA satellite COBE, that in 1992 provided the first detection of the CMB anisotropy,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mennella , M. Bersanelli , B. Cappellini , D. Maino , P. Platania , S. Garavaglia , R. C. Butler , N. Mandolesi F. Pasian , O. D'arcangelo , A. Simonetto , C. Sozzi

Diffuse polarized emission in the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey

Faraday tomography allows us to map diffuse polarized synchrotron emission from our Galaxy and use it to interpret the magnetic field in the interstellar medium (ISM). We have applied Faraday tomography to 60 observations from the LOFAR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-12 C. L. Van Eck , M. Haverkorn , M. I. R. Alves , R. Beck , P. Best , E. Carretti , K. T. Chyży , T. Enßlin , J. S. Farnes , K. Ferrière , G. Heald , M. Iacobelli , V. Jelić , W. Reich , H. J. A. Röttgering , D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler

Progress report on the Large Scale Polarization Explorer

The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. Its goal is to constrain the background of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 L. Lamagna , G. Addamo , P. A. R. Ade , C. Baccigalupi , A. M. Baldini , P. M. Battaglia , E. Battistelli , A. Baù , M. Bersanelli , M. Biasotti , C. Boragno , A. Boscaleri , B. Caccianiga , S. Caprioli , F. Cavaliere , F. Cei , K. A. Cleary , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , D. Corsini , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , M. De Petris , F. Del Torto , V. Fafone , Z. Farooqui , F. Farsian , F. Fontanelli , C. Franceschet , T. C. Gaier , F. Gatti , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , M. Grassi , D. Grosso , R. Gualtieri , F. Incardona , M. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , N. Krachmalnicoff , R. Mainini , D. Maino , S. Mandelli , M. Maris , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , A. May , P. Mena , A. Mennella , R. Molina , D. Molinari , G. Morgante , F. Nati , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Paonessa , A. Passerini , M. Perez-de-Taoro , O. A. Peverini , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , D. Poletti , G. Presta , S. Realini , N. Reyes , A. Rocchi , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , M. Sandri , S. Sartor , A. Schillaci , G. Signorelli , B. Siri , M. Soria , F. Spinella , V. Tapia , A. Tartari , A. Taylor , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , C. Tucker , D. Vaccaro , D. M. Vigano , F. Villa , G. Virone , N. Vittorio , A. Volpe , B. Watkins , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

The Simons Observatory: Detector Polarization Angle Calibration using Sparse Wire Grid with Initial Data Sets of the Small Aperture Telescope

Improved measurements of $B$-modes in the cosmic microwave background can be obtained through accurate calibration of the orientation of detector antennas as projected onto the sky. Miscalibration of the detector polarization angle leads to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Hironobu Nakata , Shunsuke Adachi , Kyohei Yamada , Michael Randall , Yutaro Kasai , Kam Arnold , Bryce Bixler , Yuji Chinone , Kevin T. Crowley , Nadia Dachlythra , Samuel Day-Weiss , Nicholas Galitzki , Serena Giardiello , Bradley R. Johnson , Brian Keating , Brian J. Koopman , Akito Kusaka , Jack Lashner , Federico Nati , Lyman Page , Daichi Sasaki , Yoshinori Sueno , Junya Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Tran Tsan

A New Model for the Extragalactic Radio Sky at Low Frequency Calibrated Using the LOFAR Two-metre Survey

Building the radio sky template are crucial for detecting the 21 cm emission line signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), as well as for other cosmological research endeavors. Utilizing data from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Jinyang Lin , Zhenghao Zhu , Renyi Ma , Anna Bonaldi , Huanyuan Shan

High-impedence NbSi TES sensors for studying the cosmic microwave background radiation

Precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are crucial in cosmology, because any proposed model of the universe must account for the features of this radiation. Of all CMB measurements that the scientific community has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Claudia Nones , Stefanos Marnieros , Alain Benoit , Laurent Bergé , Aurelien Bideau , Philippe Camus , Louis Dumoulin , Alessandro Monfardini , Olivier Rigaut

Using low-frequency pulsar observations to study the 3-D structure of the Galactic magnetic field

The Galactic magnetic field (GMF) plays a role in many astrophysical processes and is a significant foreground to cosmological signals, such as the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), but is not yet well understood. Dispersion and Faraday rotation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 C. Sobey , the LOFAR , MWA collaborations

The ELFIN Mission

The Electron Loss and Fields Investigation with a Spatio-Temporal Ambiguity-Resolving option (ELFIN-STAR, or simply: ELFIN) mission comprises two identical 3-Unit (3U) CubeSats on a polar (~93deg inclination), nearly circular, low-Earth…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 V. Angelopoulos , E. Tsai , L. Bingley , C. Shaffer , D. L. Turner , A. Runov , W. Li , J. Liu , A. V. Artemyev , X. -J. Zhang , R. J. Strangeway , R. E. Wirz , Y. Y. Shprits , V. A. Sergeev , R. P. Caron , M. Chung , P. Cruce , W. Greer , E. Grimes , K. Hector , M. J. Lawson , D. Leneman , E. V. Masongsong , C. L. Russell , C. Wilkins , D. Hinkley , J. B. Blake , N. Adair , M. Allen , M. Anderson , M. Arreola-Zamora , J. Artinger , J. Asher , D. Branchevsky , M. R. Capitelli , R. Castro , G. Chao , N. Chung , M. Cliffe , K. Colton , C. Costello , D. Depe , B. W. Domae , S. Eldin , L. Fitzgibbon , A. Flemming , I. Fox , D. M. Frederick , A. Gilbert , A. Gildemeister , A. Gonzalez , B. Hesford , S. Jha , N. Kang , J. King , R. Krieger , K. Lian , J. Mao , E. McKinney , J. P. Miller , A. Norris , M. Nuesca , A. Palla , E. S. Y. Park , C. E. Pedersen , Z. Qu , R. Rozario , E. Rye , R. Seaton , A. Subramanian , S. R. Sundin , A. Tan , W. Turner , A. J. Villegas , M. Wasden , G. Wing , C. Wong , E. Xie , S. Yamamoto , R. Yap , A. Zarifian , G. Y. Zhang

Imaging the Southern Sky at 159MHz using Spherical Harmonics with the Engineering Development Array 2

One of the major priorities of international radio astronomy is to study the early universe through the detection of the 21 cm HI line from the epoch of reionisation (EoR). Due to the weak nature of the 21 cm signal, an important part in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Michael A. Kriele , Randall B. Wayth , Mark J. Bentum , Budi Juswardy , Cathryn M. Trott