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Mission design of LiteBIRD

LiteBIRD is a next-generation satellite mission to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. On large angular scales the B-mode polarization of the CMB carries the imprint of primordial gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-24 T. Matsumura , Y. Akiba , J. Borrill , Y. Chinone , M. Dobbs , H. Fuke , A. Ghribi , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. Holzapfel , Y. Inoue , K. Ishidoshiro , H. Ishino , H. Ishitsuka , K. Karatsu , N. Katayama , I. Kawano , A. Kibayashi , Y. Kibe , K. Kimura , N. Kimura , K. Koga , M. Kozu , E. Komatsu , A. Lee , H. Matsuhara , S. Mima , K. Mitsuda , K. Mizukami , H. Morii , T. Morishima , S. Murayama , M. Nagai , R. Nagata , S. Nakamura , M. Naruse , K. Natsume , T. Nishibori , H. Nishino , A. Noda , T. Noguchi , H. Ogawa , S. Oguri , I. Ohta , C. Otani , P. Richards , S. Sakai , N. Sato , Y. Sato , Y. Sekimoto , A. Shimizu , K. Shinozaki , H. Sugita , T. Suzuki , A. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takada , S. Takakura , Y. Takei , T. Tomaru , Y. Uzawa , T. Wada , H. Watanabe , N. Yamasaki , M. Yoshida , T. Yoshida , K. Yotsumoto

The balloon-borne large-aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry: BLAST-Pol

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLAST-Pol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLAST-Pol is the reconstructed BLAST…

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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

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

PEBS - Positron Electron Balloon Spectrometer

The best measurement of the cosmic ray positron flux available today was performed by the HEAT balloon experiment more than 10 years ago. Given the limitations in weight and power consumption for balloon experiments, a novel approach was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. von Doetinchem , H. Gast , T. Kirn , G. Roper Yearwood , S. Schael

SPOrt: an Experiment Aimed at Measuring the Large Scale Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

SPOrt (Sky Polarization Observatory) is a space experiment to be flown on the International Space Station during Early Utilization Phase aimed at measuring the microwave polarized emission with FWHM = 7deg, in the frequency range 22-90 GHz.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Carretti , S. Cortiglioni , G. Bernardi , S. Cecchini , C. Macculi , C. Sbarra , J. Monari , A. Orfei , M. Poloni , S. Poppi , G. Boella , S. Bonometto , M. Gervasi , G. Sironi , M. Zannoni , M. Tucci , M. Baralis , O. A. Peverini , R. Tascone , G. Virone , R. Fabbri , L. Nicastro , K. -W. Ng , V. A. Razin , E. N. Vinyajkin , M. V. Sazhin , I. A. Strukov

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE): Mission Design and Science Goals

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure the energy spectrum and linear polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). A single cryogenic Fourier transform spectrometer compares the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Alan Kogut , Eric Switzer , Dale Fixsen , Nabila Aghanim , Jens Chluba , Dave Chuss , Jacques Delabrouille , Cora Dvorkin , Brandon Hensley , Colin Hill , Bruno Maffei , Anthony Pullen , Aditya Rotti , Alina Sabyr , Leander Thiele , Ed Wollack , Ioana Zelko

QUBIC: the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology

The Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, QUBIC, is an innovative experiment designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and in particular the signature left therein by the inflationary expansion of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 E. S. Battistelli , P. Ade , J. G. Alberro , A. Almela , G. Amico , L. H. Arnaldi , D. Auguste , J. Aumont , S. Azzoni , S. Banfi , P. Battaglia , A. Baù , B. Bèlier , D. Bennett , L. Bergè , J. -Ph. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , M. -A. Bigot-Sazy , N. Bleurvacq , J. Bonaparte , J. Bonis , A. Bottani , E. Bunn , D. Burke , D. Buzi , A. Buzzelli , F. Cavaliere , P. Chanial , C. Chapron , R. Charlassier , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , M. De Leo , M. De Petris , S. Dheilly , A. Di Donato , L. Dumoulin , A. Etchegoyen , A. Fasciszewski , L. P. Ferreyro , D. Fracchia , C. Franceschet , M. M. Gamboa Lerena , K. Ganga , B. Garcìa , M. E. Garcìa Redondo , M. Gaspard , A. Gault , D. Gayer , M. Gervasi , M. Giard , V. Gilles , Y. Giraud-Heraud , M. Gòmez Berisso , M. Gonzàlez , M. Gradziel , L. Grandsire , J. -Ch. Hamilton , D. Harari , V. Haynes , S. Henrot-Versillè , D. T. Hoang , F. Incardona , E. Jules , J. Kaplan , A. Korotkov , C. Kristukat , L. Lamagna , S. Loucatos , T. Louis , R. Luterstein , B. Maffei , S. Marnieros , W. Marty , S. Masi , A. Mattei , A. May , M. McCulloch , M. C. Medina , L. Mele , S. Melhuish , A. Mennella , L. Montier , L. Mousset , L. M. Mundo , J. A. Murphy , J. D. Murphy , F. Nati , E. Olivieri , C. Oriol , C. O'Sullivan , A. Paiella , F. Pajot , A. Passerini , H. Pastoriza , A. Pelosi , C. Perbost , M. Perciballi , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , M. Platino , G. Polenta , D. Prèle , R. Puddu , D. Rambaud , P. Ringegni , G. E. Romero , M. Salatino , J. M. Salum , A. Schillaci , C. Scòccola , S. Scully , S. Spinelli , G. Stankowiak , M. Stolpovskiy , F. Suarez , A. Tartari , J. -P. Thermeau , P. Timbie , M. Tomasi , S. Torchinsky , M. Tristram , C. Tucker , G. Tucker , S. Vanneste , D. Viganò , N. Vittorio , F. Voisin , B. Watson , F. Wicek , M. Zannoni , A. Zullo

B-Pol: Detecting Primordial Gravitational Waves Generated During Inflation

B-Pol is a medium-class space mission aimed at detecting the primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation through high accuracy measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization. We discuss the scientific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Paolo de Bernardis , Martin Bucher , Carlo Burigana , Lucio Piccirillo

The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarization: BLAST-pol

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital experiment designed to study the process of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky Way) and in galaxies at cosmological distances. Using a 2-m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Marsden , P. A. R. Ade , S. Benton , J. J. Bock , E. L. Chapin , J. Chung , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , L. Fissel , M. Griffin , J. O. Gundersen , M. Halpern , P. C. Hargrave , D. H. Hughes , J. Klein , A. Korotkov , C. J. MacTavish , P. G. Martin , T. G. Martin , T. G. Matthews , P. Mauskopf , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , E. Pascale , L. Olmi , G. Patanchon , M. Rex , G. Savini , D. Scott , C. Semisch , N. Thomas , M. D. P. Truch , C. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , M. P. Viero , D. Ward-Thompson , D. V. Wiebe

BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set

We report on the design and performance of the BICEP3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. BICEP3 is a 52cm aperture, refracting telescope designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Keck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , D. Beck , C. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Halal , G. Hall , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. Turner , C. Umilta , C. Verges , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

The POLARBEAR Experiment

We present the design and characterization of the POLARBEAR experiment. POLARBEAR will measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales ranging from the experiment's 3.5 arcminute beam size to several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Z. Kermish , P. Ade , A. Anthony , K. Arnold , K. Arnold , 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 , T. Kisner , A. T. Lee , M. Le Jeune , E. Linder , M. Lungu , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , N. J. Miller , H. Morii , S. Moyerman , M. J. Myers , H. Nishino , H. Paar , E. Quealy , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , A. Shimizu , M. Shimon , C. Shimmin , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , H. Spieler , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , T. Tomaru , C. Tucker , O. Zahn

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-25 The Polarbear Collaboration , J. Errard , P. A. R. Ade , A. Anthony , K. Arnold , F. Aubin , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , C. Cantalupo , M. A. Dobbs , D. Flanigan , A. Ghribi , N. Halverson , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , J. Howard , P. Hyland , A. Jaffe , B. Keating , T. Kisner , Z. Kermish , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , M. Lungu , T. Matsumura , N. Miller , X. Meng , M. Myers , H. Nishino , R. O'Brient , D. O'Dea , C. Reichardt , I. Schanning , A. Shimizu , C. Shimmin , M. Shimon , H. Spieler , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , T. Tomaru , H. T. Tran , C. Tucker , E. Quealy , P. L. Richards , O. Zahn

Study of the Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC)-Intemediate Mission for NASA's Einstein Inflation Probe

Measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy have served as the best experimental probe of the early universe to date. The inflationary paradigm, inspired in part by the extreme isotropy of the CMB, is now a cornerstone in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-08 James Bock , Abdullah Aljabri , Alex Amblard , Daniel Baumann , Marc Betoule , Talso Chui , Loris Colombo , Asantha Cooray , Dustin Crumb , Peter Day , Clive Dickinson , Darren Dowell , Mark Dragovan , Sunil Golwala , Krzysztof Gorski , Shaul Hanany , Warren Holmes , Kent Irwin , Brad Johnson , Brian Keating , Chao-Lin Kuo , Adrian Lee , Andrew Lange , Charles Lawrence , Steve Meyer , Nate Miller , Hien Nguyen , Elena Pierpaoli , Nicolas Ponthieu , Jean-Loup Puget , Jeff Raab , Paul Richards , Celeste Satter , Mike Seiffert , Meir Shimon , Huan Tran , Brett Williams , Jonas Zmuidzinas

Characterizing the Sensitivity of 40 GHz TES Bolometers for BICEP Array

The BICEP/Keck (BK) experiment aims to detect the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization, which would be direct evidence of the inflation theory. While the tensor-to-scalar ratio has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 C. Zhang , 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. O'Brient , S. Palladino , N. Precup , T. Prouvé , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , B. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , 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

The Impact of the Spectral Response of an Achromatic Half-Wave Plate on the Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

We study the impact of the spectral dependence of the linear polarization rotation induced by an achromatic half-wave plate on measurements of cosmic microwave background polarization in the presence of astrophysical foregrounds. We focus…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-16 C. Bao , B. Gold , C. Baccigalupi , J. Didier , S. Hanany , A. Jaffe , B. R. Johnson , S. Leach , T. Matsumura , A. Miller , D. O'Dea

BICEP3: a 95 GHz refracting telescope for degree-scale CMB polarization

BICEP3 is a 550 mm-aperture refracting telescope for polarimetry of radiation in the cosmic microwave background at 95 GHz. It adopts the methodology of BICEP1, BICEP2 and the Keck Array experiments - it possesses sufficient resolution to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , I. Buder , E. Bullock , J. Connors , J. P. Filippini , J. A. Grayson , M. Halpern , G. C. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , K. L. Thompson , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , W. L. K. Wu , K. W. Yoon

BICEP/Keck XVIII: Measurement of BICEP3 polarization angles and consequences for constraining cosmic birefringence and inflation

We use a custom-made calibrator to measure individual detectors' polarization angles of BICEP3, a small aperture telescope observing the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95GHz from the South Pole. We describe our calibration strategy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Keck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , D. Beck , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. Denison , L. Duband , M. Eiben , B. D. Elwood , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , A. Fortes , M. Gao , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , A. Greathouse , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. H. Kang , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. Kuo , K. Lau , M. Lautzenhiser , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'brient , A. Patel , M. A. Petroff , A. R. Polish , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , T. Romand , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. Schmitt , B. Singari , K. Sjoberg , A. Soliman , T. St Germaine , A. Steiger , B. Steinbach , R. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Vergès , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

Observing low elevation sky and the CMB Cold Spot with BICEP3 at the South Pole

BICEP3 is a 520 mm aperture on-axis refracting telescope at the South Pole, which observes the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95 GHz to search for the B-mode signal from inflationary gravitational waves. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-21 J. Kang , 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. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

The Next Generation BLAST Experiment

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) was a suborbital experiment designed to map magnetic fields in order to study their role in star formation processes. BLASTPol made detailed polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 Nicholas Galitzki , Peter A. R. Ade , Francesco E. Angilè , Peter Ashton , James A. Beall , Dan Becker , Kristi J. Bradford , George Che , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Mark J. Devlin , Bradley J. Dober , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Jiansong Gao , Christopher E. Groppi , Seth Hillbrand , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Jeffrey Klein , Jeff Van Lanen , Dale Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Hamdi Mani , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Fumitaka Nakamura , Giles Novak , David P. Pappas , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Fabio P. Santos , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Sara Stanchfield , Carole Tucker , Joel N. Ullom , Matthew Underhill , Michael R. Vissers , Derek Ward-Thompson