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First Results from the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver

We review the first science results from the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR); a multifrequency millimeter-wave receiver optimized for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. C. Runyan , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , C. Cantalupo , C. R. Contaldi , M. D. Daub , J. H. Goldstein , P. L. Gomez , W. L. Holzapfel , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , M. Lueker , M. Newcomb , J. B. Peterson , D. Pogosyan , A. K. Romer , J. Ruhl , E. Torbet , D. Woolsey

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Gravitational Lensing Potential from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) gravitational lensing potential using data from the first two seasons of observations with SPTpol, the polarization-sensitive receiver currently installed on the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 K. T. Story , D. Hanson , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , T. de Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J. Gallicchio , J. Gao , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , N. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , S. Hoover , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , N. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Li , C. Liang , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , T. E. Montroy , T. Natoli , J. P. Nibarger , V. Novosad , S. Padin , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , G. Smecher , A. A. Stark , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , O. Zahn

Constraints on the CMB Temperature Evolution using Multi-Band Measurements of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect with the South Pole Telescope

The adiabatic evolution of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a key prediction of standard cosmology. We study deviations from the expected adiabatic evolution of the CMB temperature of the form $T(z)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Saro , J. Liu , J. J. Mohr , K. A. Aird , M. L. N. Ashby , 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 , T. de Haan , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , M. A. Dobbs , K. Dolag , J. P. Dudley , R. J. Foley , D. Gangkofner , E. M. George , M. D. Gladders , A. H. Gonzalez , N. W. Halverson , C. Hennig , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , C. Jones , R. Keisler , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , A. Mantz , D. P. Marrone , M. McDonald , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , L. Mocanu , T. E. Montroy , S. S. Murray , D. Nurgaliev , S. Padin , A. Patej , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , A. Rest , J. Ruel , J. E. Ruhl , B. R. Saliwanchik , J. T. Sayre , K. K. Schaffer , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , B. Stalder , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Story , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , A. Vikhlinin , R. Williamson , O. Zahn , A. Zenteno

COSMOSOMAS Observations of the CMB and Galactic Foregrounds at 11 GHz: Evidence for anomalous microwave emission at high Galactic Latitude

We present observations with the new 11 GHz radiometer of the COSMOSOMAS experiment at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife). The sky region between 0 deg <= RA <= 360 deg and 26 deg <= DEC 49 deg (ca. 6500 square degrees) was observed with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. R. Hildebrandt , R. Rebolo , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , R. A. Watson , C. M. Gutiérrez , R. J. Hoyland , E. S. Battistelli

Alignment and signed-intensity anomalies in WMAP data

Significant alignment and signed-intensity anomalies of local features of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are detected on the three-year WMAP data, through a decomposition of the signal with steerable wavelets on the sphere. Firstly,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Vielva , Y. Wiaux , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , P. Vandergheynst

The bolometric focal plane array of the Polarbear CMB experiment

The Polarbear Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment is currently observing from the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. It will characterize the expected B-mode polarization due to gravitational lensing of the CMB, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Arnold , P. A. R. Ade , A. E. Anthony , D. Barron , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , M. A. Dobbs , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , D. Flanigan , G. Fuller , A. Ghribi , W. Grainger , N. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Howard , P. Hyland , A. Jaffe , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , N. J. Miller , X. Meng , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , H. Nishino , H. Paar , E. Quealy , C. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , O. Zahn

MAXIMA-1: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy on angular scales of 10 arcminutes to 5 degrees

We present a map and an angular power spectrum of the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the first flight of MAXIMA. MAXIMA is a balloon-borne experiment with an array of 16 bolometric photometers operated at 100 mK.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Hanany , P. Ade , A. Balbi , J. Bock , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , P. de Bernardis , P. G. Ferreira , V. V. Hristov , A. H. Jaffe , A. E. Lange , A. T. Lee , P. D. Mauskopf , C. B. Netterfield , S. Oh , E. Pascale , B. Rabii , P. L. Richards , G. F. Smoot , R. Stompor , C. D. Winant , J. H. P. Wu

Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment from the Atacama Desert in Chile comprising three small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large-aperture telescope (LAT). In total, SO will field over 60,000…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-29 Kenji Kiuchi , Shunsuke Adachi , Aamir M. Ali , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Andrew Bazako , James A. Beall , Yuji Chinone , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Shannon M. Duff , Giulio Fabbian , Nicholas Galitzki , Joseph E. Golec , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Makoto Hattori , Charles A. Hill , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Bradley R. Johnson , Daisuke Kaneko , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Akito Kusaka , Jack Lashner , Adrian T. Lee , Frederick Matsuda , Heather McCarrick , Masaaki Murata , Federico Nati , Yume Nishinomiya , Lyman Page , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Christian L. Reichardt , Kana Sakaguri , Yuki Sakurai , Joseph Seibert , Jacob Spisak , Osamu Tajima , Grant P. Teply , Tomoki Terasaki , Tran Tsan , Samantha Walker , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Kyohei Yamada , Mario Zannoni , Ningfeng Zhu

A full sky, low foreground, high resolution CMB map from WMAP

The WMAP satellite has made available high quality maps of the sky in five frequency bands ranging from 22 to 94 GHz, with the main scientific objective of studying the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). These maps,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Delabrouille , J. -F. Cardoso , M. Le Jeune , M. Betoule , G. Fay , F. Guilloux

Optical Design and Characterization of 40-GHz Detector and Module for the BICEP Array

Families of cosmic inflation models predict a primordial gravitational-wave background that imprints B-mode polarization pattern in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). High sensitivity instruments with wide frequency coverage and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-14 A. Soliman , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. OBrient , S. Palladino , T. Prouve , N. Precup , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , B. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Schillaci , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umilta , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , C. Zhang

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

The Simons Observatory: Design, integration, and testing of the small aperture telescopes

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that includes small-aperture telescopes (SATs) observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO SATs will cover six spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-13 Nicholas Galitzki , Tran Tsan , Jake Spisak , Michael Randall , Max Silva-Feaver , Joseph Seibert , Jacob Lashner , Shunsuke Adachi , Sean M. Adkins , Thomas Alford , Kam Arnold , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Carlo Baccigalupi , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Sanah Bhimani , Bryce Bixler , Gabriele Coppi , Lance Corbett , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Samuel Day-Weiss , Simon Dicker , Peter N. Dow , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Remington G. Gerras , John C. Groh , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Erin Healy , Shawn W. Henderson , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , Bradley R. Johnson , Brian Keating , Ben Keller , Kenji Kiuchi , Anna M. Kofman , Brian J. Koopman , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Richard A. Lew , Lawrence T. Lin , Michael J Link , Tammy J. Lucas , Marius Lungu , Aashrita Mangu , Jeffrey J McMahon , Amber D. Miller , Jenna E. Moore , Magdy Morshed , Hironobu Nakata , Federico Nati , Laura B. Newburgh , David V. Nguyen , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Kana Sakaguri , Yuki Sakurai , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Lauren J. Saunders , Jordan E. Shroyer , Junna Sugiyama , Osamu Tajima , Atsuto Takeuchi , Refilwe Tanah Bua , Grant Teply , Tomoki Terasaki , Joel N. Ullom , Jeffrey L. Van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R Vissers , Liam Walters , Yuhan Wang , Zhilei Xu , Kyohei Yamada , Kaiwen Zheng

A cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate for the POLARBEAR-2b cosmic microwave background receiver

We present the design and laboratory evaluation of a cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate (CHWP) for the POLARBEAR-2b (PB-2b) cosmic microwave background (CMB) receiver, the second installment of the Simons Array. PB-2b will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 C. A. Hill , A. Kusaka , P. Ashton , P. Barton , T. Adkins , K. Arnold , B. Bixler , S. Ganjam , A. T. Lee , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Sakurai , R. Tat , Y. Zhou

A measurement of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

We present measurements of secondary cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and cosmic infrared background (CIB) fluctuations using data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) covering the complete 2540 sq.deg. SPT-SZ survey area. Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 E. M. George , C. L. Reichardt , 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 , N. W. Halverson , N. L. Harrington , G. P. Holder , W. L. Holzapfel , Z. Hou , J. D. Hrubes , R. Keisler , L. Knox , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , M. Millea , L. M. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , T. E. Montroy , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , L. Shaw , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , A. van Engelen , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , R. Williamson , O. Zahn

Improved Measurements of the CMB Power Spectrum with ACBAR

We report improved measurements of temperature anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation made with the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR). In this paper, we use a new analysis technique and include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 C. L. Kuo , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , C. R. Contaldi , M. D. Daub , J. H. Goldstein , W. L. Holzapfel , A. E. Lange , M. Lueker , M. Newcomb , J. B. Peterson , C. Reichardt , J. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , Z. Staniszweski

MAXIMA: A Balloon-Borne Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment

We describe the Millimeter wave Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array (MAXIMA), a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) on angular scales of 10' to 5 degrees . MAXIMA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. Rabii , C. D. Winant , M. E. Abroe , P. Ade , A. Balbi , J. J. Bock , J. Borrill , A. Boscaleri , P. de Bernardis , J. S. Collins , P. G. Ferreira , S. Hanany , V. V. Hristov , A. H. Jaffe , B. R. Johnson , A. E. Lange , A. T. Lee , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , P. L. Richards , G. F. Smoot , R. Stompor , J. H. P. Wu

CMB Observational Techniques and Recent Results

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) consists of photons that were last created about 2 months after the Big Bang, and last scattered about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The spectrum of the CMB is very close to a blackbody at 2.725 K…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. L. Wright

Degree Scale Anisotropy: SP94 Results

We present results from 2 observations of the CMB performed from the South Pole during the 93-94 austral summer. Each observation employed a 3$^{\circ}$ peak to peak sinusoidal, single difference chop and consisted of a $20^{\circ}\times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gundersen , M. Lim , J. Staren , C. Wuensche , N. Figueiredo , T. Gaier T. Koch , P. Meinhold , M. Seiffert , G. Cook , A. Segale , P. Lubin

The QMAP and MAT/TOCO Experiments for Measuring Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background

We describe two related experiments that measured the anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). QMAP was a balloon-borne telescope that flew twice in 1996, collecting data on degree angular scales with an array of six high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Miller , J. Beach , S. Bradley , M. J. Devlin , R. Caldwell , H. Chapman , W. B. Dorwart , T. Herbig , D. Jones , G. Monnelly , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , L. A. Page , J. Puchalla , T. Robertson , E. Torbet , H. T. Tran , W. E. Vinje

First results from the Very Small Array -- II. Observations of the CMB

We have observed the cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations in eight fields covering three separated areas of sky with the Very Small Array at 34 GHz. A total area of 101 square degrees has been imaged, with sensitivity on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Angela C. Taylor , Pedro Carreira , Kieran Cleary , Rod D. Davies , Richard J. Davis , Clive Dickinson , Keith Grainge , Carlos M. Gutierrez , Michael P. Hobson , Michael E. Jones , Rudiger Kneissl , Anthony Lasenby , J. P. Leahy , Klaus Maisinger , Guy G. Pooley , Rafael Rebolo , Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin , Ben Rusholme , Richard D. E. Saunders , Richard Savage , Paul F. Scott , Anze Slosar , Pedro J. Sosa Molina , David Titterington , Elizabeth Waldram , Robert A. Watson , Althea Wilkinson