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The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 40 GHz optical design

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) instrument will measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background at 40, 90, and 150 GHz from Cerro Toco in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. In this paper, we describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-02 Joseph R. Eimer , Charles L. Bennett , David T. Chuss , Tobias A. Marriage , Edward J. Wollack , Lingzhen Zeng

Ultra High Energy Cosmology with POLARBEAR

Observations of the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lend support to an inflationary origin of the universe, yet no direct evidence verifying inflation exists. Many current experiments are focussing on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-11 B. Keating , S. Moyerman , D. Boettger , J. Edwards , G. Fuller , F. Matsuda , N. Miller , H. Paar , G. Rebeiz , I. Schanning , M. Shimon , N. Stebor , K. Arnold , D. Flanigan , W. Holzapfel , J. Howard , Z. Kermish , A. Lee , M. Lungu , M. Myers , H. Nishino , R. O'Brient , E. Quealy , C. Reichardt , P. Richards , C. Shimmin , B. Steinbach , A. Suzuki , O. Zahn , J. Borrill , C. Cantalupo , E. Kisner , E. Linder , M. Sholl , H. Spieler , A. Anthony , N. Halverson , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , M. Le Jeune , R. Stompor , A. Jaffe , D. O'Dea , Y. Chinone , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , T. Matsumura , H. Morii , A. Shimizu , T. Tomaru , P. Hyland , M. Dobbs , P. Ade , W. Grainger , C. Tucker

POLARBEAR-2: an instrument for CMB polarization measurements

POLARBEAR-2 (PB-2) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiment that will be located in the Atacama highland in Chile at an altitude of 5200 m. Its science goals are to measure the CMB polarization signals originating from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Y. Inoue , 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 , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , A. Ducout , R. Dunner , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , S. Feeney , C. Feng , G. Fuller , A. J. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , N. Halverson , T. Hamada , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , C. Hill , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , L. Howe , F. Irie , G. Jaehnig , A. Jaffe , O. Jeongh , N. Katayama , J. P. Kaufman , K. Kazemzadeh , B. G. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskital , T. Kisner , A. Kusaka , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. V. Linder , L. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , N. Miller , K. Mizukami , J. Montgomery , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. R. Raum , G. M. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , K. M. Rotermund , Y. Segaw , B. D. Sherwin , I. Shirley , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takada , S. Takatori , G. P. Teply , A. Tikhomirol , T. Tomaru , N. Whitehorn , A. Zahn , O. Zahn

Cosmic Microwave Background Science at Commercial Airline Altitudes

Obtaining high-sensitivity measurements of degree-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is the most direct path to detecting primordial gravitational waves. Robustly recovering any primordial signal from the dominant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-20 Stephen M. Feeney , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Hiranya V. Peiris , Licia Verde , Josquin Errard

The CMB power spectrum at l=30-200 from QMASK

We measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum on angular scales l~30-200 (1-6 degrees) from the QMASK map, which combines the data from the QMAP and Saskatoon experiments. Since the accuracy of recent measurements leftward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Yongzhong Xu , Max Tegmark , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa

Probing the Universe's Tilt with the Cosmic Infrared Background Dipole

Conventional interpretation of the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) dipole is that all of it is produced by local peculiar motions. Alternative explanations requiring part of the dipole to be primordial have received support from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-03 D. J. Fixsen , A. Kashlinsky

First Intrinsic Anisotropy Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

We present the first results of observations of the intrinsic anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation with the Cosmic Background Imager from a site at 5080 m altitude in northern Chile. Our observations show a sharp decrease…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Padin , J. K. Cartwright , B. S. Mason , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , M. C. Shepherd , J. Sievers , P. S. Udomprasert , W. L. Holzapfel , S. T. Myers , J. E. Carlstrom , E. M. Leitch , M. Joy , L. Bronfman , J. May

Dissecting the Cosmic Infrared Background with 3D Instruments

The cosmic infrared background (CIB) consists of emission from distant, dusty, star-forming galaxies. Energetically, the CIB is very important as it contains as much energy as the extragalactic optical background. The nature and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. L. Clements , K. G. Isaak , S. C. Madden , C. Pearson

High resolution CMB power spectrum from the complete ACBAR data set

In this paper, we present results from the complete set of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation temperature anisotropy observations made with the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR) operating at 150 GHz. We include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 C. L. Reichardt , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Brevik , C. R. Contaldi , M. D. Daub , J. T. Dempsey , J. H. Goldstein , W. L. Holzapfel , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , M. Lueker , M. Newcomb , J. B. Peterson , J. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , Z. Staniszewski

QUBIC: using NbSi TESs with a bolometric interferometer to characterize the polarisation of the CMB

QUBIC (Q \& U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology) is an international ground-based experiment dedicated in the measurement of the polarized fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). It is based on bolometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-10 M. Piat , B. Bélier , L. Bergé , N. Bleurvacq , C. Chapron , S. Dheilly , L. Dumoulin , M. González , L. Grandsire , J. -Ch. Hamilton , S. Henrot-Versillé , D. T. Hoang , S. Marnieros , W. Marty , L. Montier , E. Olivieri , C. Oriol , C. Perbost , D. Prêle , D. Rambaud , M. Salatino , G. Stankowiak , J. -P. Thermeau , S. Torchinsky , F. Voisin , P. Ade , J. G. Alberro , A. Almela , G. Amico , L. H. Arnaldi , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , S. Azzoni , S. Banfi , P. Battaglia , E. S. Battistelli , A. Baù , D. Bennett , J. -Ph. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , J. Bonaparte , J. Bonis , A. Bottani , E. Bunn , D. Burke , D. Buzi , A. Buzzelli , F. Cavaliere , P. Chanial , R. Charlassier , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , M. De Petris , A. Di Donato , A. Etchegoyen , A. Fasciszewski , L. P. Ferreyro , D. Fracchia , C. Franceschet , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , K. Ganga , B. García , M. E. García Redondo , M. Gaspard , A. Gault , D. Gayer , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , V. Gilles , Y. Giraud-Heraud , M. Gómez Berisso , M. Gradziel , D. Harari , V. Haynes , F. Incardona , E. Jules , J. Kaplan , A. Korotkov , C. Kristukat , L. Lamagna , S. Loucatos , T. Louis , R. Luterstein , B. Maffei , S. Masi , A. Mattei , A. May , M. McCulloch , M. C. Medina , L. Mele , S. Melhuish , A. Mennella , L. Mousset , L. M. Mundo , J. A. Murphy , J. D. Murphy , F. Nati , C. O'Sullivan , A. Paiella , F. Pajot , A. Passerini , H. Pastoriza , A. Pelosi , M. Perciballi , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , M. Platino , G. Polenta , R. Puddu , P. Ringegni , G. E. Romero , J. M. Salum , A. Schillaci , C. Scóccola , S. Scully , S. Spinelli , M. Stolpovskiy , F. Suarez , A. Tartari , P. Timbie , M. Tomasi , C. Tucker , G. Tucker , S. Vanneste , D. Viganò , N. Vittorio , B. Watson , F. Wicek , M. Zannoni , A. Zullo

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment

We are developing a rocket-borne instrument (the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment, or CIBER) to search for signatures of primordial galaxy formation in the cosmic near-infrared extra-galactic background. CIBER consists of a wide-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James Bock , John Battle , Asantha Cooray , Mitsunobu Kawada , Brian Keating , Andrew Lange , Dae-Hea Lee , Toshio Matsumoto , Shuji Matsuura , Soojong Pak , Tom Renbarger , Ian Sullivan , Kohji Tsumura , Takehiko Wada , Toyoki Watabe

Impact of foregrounds on Cosmic Microwave Background maps

We discuss the possible impact of astrophysical foregrounds on three recent exciting results of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments: the WMAP measurements of the temperature-polarization (TE) correlation power spectrum, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. De Zotti , C. Burigana , C. Baccigalupi , R. Ricci

A Measurement of the Degree Scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR

We present a measurement of the $B$-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. The CMB power spectra are measured using observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 S. Adachi , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , S. Beckman , F. Bianchini , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , J. Carron , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , H. El Bouhargani , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , N. Halverson , T. Hamada , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , C. A. Hill , L. Howe , Y. Inoue , G. Jaehnig , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , R. Keskitalo , S. Kikuchi , T. Kisner , N. Krachmalnicoff , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. N. Lowry , A. Mangu , F. Matsuda , Y. Minami , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , G. Puglisi , C. L. Reichardt , Y. Segawa , M. Silva-Feaver , P. Siritanasak , N. Stebor , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , C. Tsai , C. Verges , B. Westbrook , Y. Zhou

GroundBIRD : A CMB polarization experiment with MKID arrays

GroundBIRD is a ground-based experiment for the precise observation of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To achieve high sensitivity at large angular scale, we adopt three features in this experiment: fast rotation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Kyungmin Lee , Jihoon Choi , Ricardo Tanausú Génova-Santos , Makoto Hattori , Masashi Hazumi , Shunsuke Honda , Takuji Ikemitsu , Hidesato Ishida , Hikaru Ishitsuka , Yonggil Jo , Kenichi Karatsu , Kenji Kiuchi , Junta Komine , Ryo Koyano , Hiroki Kutsuma , Satoru Mima , Makoto Minowa , Joonhyeok Moon , Makoto Nagai , Taketo Nagasaki , Masato Naruse , Shugo Oguri , Chiko Otani , Michael Peel , Rafael Rebolo , José Alberto Rubiño-Martín , Yutaro Sekimoto , Junya Suzuki , Tohru Taino , Osamu Tajima , Nozomu Tomita , Tomohisa Uchida , Eunil Won , Mitsuhiro Yoshida

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Lensing of CMB Temperature and Polarization Derived from Cosmic Infrared Background Cross-Correlation

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields obtained by cross-correlating the reconstructed convergence signal from the first season of ACTPol data at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Alexander van Engelen , Blake D. Sherwin , Neelima Sehgal , Graeme E. Addison , Rupert Allison , Nick Battaglia , Francesco de Bernardis , Erminia Calabrese , Kevin Coughlin , Devin Crichton , J. Richard Bond , Rahul Datta , Rolando Dunner , Joanna Dunkley , Emily Grace , Megan Gralla , Amir Hajian , Matthew Hasselfield , Shawn Henderson , J. Colin Hill , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Renée Hlozek , Kevin M. Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Loic Maurin , Jeff McMahon , Kavilan Moodley , Charles Munson , Sigurd Naess , Federico Nati , Laura Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Mike Nolta , Lyman A. Page , Bruce Partridge , Christine Pappas , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Jonathan L. Sievers , Sara Simon , David N. Spergel , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eric R. Switzer , Jonathan T. Ward , Edward J. Wollack

Another look to distortions of the CMB spectrum

We review aspects of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectral distortions which do not appear to have been fully explored in the literature. In particular, implications of recent evidences of heating of the intergalactic medium (IGM) by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 G. De Zotti , M. Negrello , G. Castex , A. Lapi , M. Bonato

The Atacama B-Mode Search: CMB Polarimetry with Transition-Edge-Sensor Bolometers

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) experiment is a 145 GHz polarimeter designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales. The ABS instrument will ship to the Atacama Desert of Chile…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-26 T. Essinger-Hileman , J. W. Appel , J. A. Beall , H. M. Cho , J. Fowler , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , K. D. Irwin , T. A. Marriage , M. D. Niemack , L. Page , L. P. Parker , S. Pufu , S. T. Staggs , O. Stryzak , C. Visnjic , K. W. Yoon , Y. Zhao

CMB Spectral Distortions: A Multimessenger Probe of the Primordial Universe

The frequency spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a relatively untapped source of data which can allow us to peer beyond the surface of last scattering. Small deviations away from a perfect blackbody shape will encode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Bryce Cyr

A Measurement of the Medium-Scale Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Observations from the first flight of the Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement (MSAM) are analyzed to place limits on Gaussian fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). This instrument chops a 30\arcmin\ beam in a 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 E. S. Cheng , D. A. Cottingham , D. J. Fixsen , C. A. Inman , M. S. Kowitt , S. S. Meyer , L. A. Page , J. L. Puchalla , R. F. Silverberg

A New Upper Limit on the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) is an invaluable probe of the conditions of the early universe. Recent measurements of its spatial anisotropy have allowed accurate determinations of several fundamental cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Christopher O'Dell