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Measurements of E-Mode Polarization and Temperature-E-Mode Correlation in the Cosmic Microwave Background from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

We present measurements of $E$-mode polarization and temperature-$E$-mode correlation in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the first season of observations with SPTpol, the polarization-sensitive receiver currently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. T. Crites , J. W. Henning , P. A. R. Ade , K. A. Aird , J. E. Austermann , J. A. Beall , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carstrom , C. L. Chang , H. C. Chiang , H-M. Cho , R. Citron , T. M. Crawford , T. De Haan , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , J Gallicchio , J. Gao , E. M. George , A. Gilbert , N. W. Halverson , D. Hanson , N. Harrington , 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 , K. T. Story , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , O. Zahn

A dual output polarimeter devoted to the study of the Cosmic Microwave Background

We have developed a correlation radiometer at 33 GHz devoted to the search for residual polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The two instruments`s outputs are linear combination of two Stokes Parameters (Q and U or U and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Gervasi , G. Boella , F. Cavaliere , G. Grossetti , A. Passerini , G. Sironi , A. Tartari , M. Zannoni

A measurement of the CMB E-mode angular power spectrum at subdegree scales from 670 square degrees of POLARBEAR data

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experiment. We reach an effective polarization map noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 S. Adachi , M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez , K. Arnold , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , D. Beck , F. Bianchini , S. Chapman , K. Cheung , Y. Chinone , K. Crowley , M. Dobbs , H. El Bouhargani , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , T. Fujino , N. Galitzki , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Groh , G. Hall , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , H. Hirose , A. H. Jaffe , O. Jeong , D. Kaneko , N. Katayama , B. Keating , S. Kikuchi , T. Kisner , A. Kusaka , A. T. Lee , D. Leon , E. Linder , L. N. Lowry , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , Y. Minami , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , A. T. P. Pham , D. Poletti , C. L. Reichardt , Y. Segawa , P. Siritanasak , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , G. P. Teply , C. Tsai , C. Vergès , B. Westbrook , Y. Zhou

An Instrument for Investigating the Large Angular Scale Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

We describe the design and performance of a microwave polarimeter used to make precision measurements of polarized astrophysical radiation in three microwave frequency bands spanning 26-36 GHz. The instrument uses cooled HEMT amplifiers in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Brian G. Keating , Christopher W. O'Dell , Joshua O. Gundersen , Lucio Piccirillo , Nate Stebor , Peter T. Timbie

The Black Hole Explorer: Instrument System Overview

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a space very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission concept that is currently under development. BHEX will study supermassive black holes at unprecedented resolution, isolating the signature of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Daniel P. Marrone , Janice Houston , Kazunori Akiyama , Bryan Bilyeu , Don Boroson , Paul Grimes , Kari Haworth , Robert Lehmensiek , Eliad Peretz , Hannah Rana , Laura C. Sinclair , Sridharan Tirupati Kumara , Ranjani Srinivasan , Edward Tong , Jade Wang , Jonathan Weintroub , Michael D. Johnson

First Detection of Polarization of the Submillimetre Diffuse Galactic Dust Emission by Archeops

We present the first determination of the Galactic polarized emission at 353 GHz by Archeops. The data were taken during the Arctic night of February 7, 2002 after the balloon--borne instrument was launched by CNES from the Swedish Esrange…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Benoit , P. Ade , A. Amblard , R. Ansari , E. Aubourg , S. Bargot , J. G. Bartlett , J. -Ph. Bernard , R. S. Bhatia , A. Blanchard , J. J. Bock , A. Boscaleri , F. R. Bouchet , A. Bourrachot , P. Camus , F. Couchot , P. de Bernardis , J. Delabrouille , F. -X. Desert , O. Doré , M. Douspis , L. Dumoulin , X. Dupac , P. Filliatre , P. Fosalba , K. Ganga , F. Gannaway , B. Gautier , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Heraud , R. Gispert , L. Guglielmi , J. -Ch. Hamilton , S. Hanany , S. Henrot-Versille , J. Kaplan , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. E. Lange , J. F. Macias-Perez , K. Madet , B. Maffei , Ch. Magneville , D. P. Marrone , S. Masi , F. Mayet , A. Murphy , F. Naraghi , F. Nati , G. Patanchon , G. Perrin , M. Piat , N. Ponthieu , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , C. Renault , C. Rosset , D. Santos , A. Starobinsky , I. Strukov , R. V. Sudiwala , R. Teyssier , M. Tristram , C. Tucker , J. -C. Vanel , D. Vibert , E. Wakui , D. Yvon

Updated design of the CMB polarization experiment satellite LiteBIRD

Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their application on future satellite CMB polarization experiments.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 H. Sugai , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , D. Alonso , K. Arnold , J. Aumont , J. Austermann , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. Banerji , R. B. Barreiro , S. Basak , J. Beall , S. Beckman , M. Bersanelli , J. Borrill , F. Boulanger , M. L. Brown , M. Bucher , A. Buzzelli , E. Calabrese , F. J. Casas , A. Challinor , V. Chan , Y. Chinone , J. -F. Cliche , F. Columbro , A. Cukierman , D. Curtis , P. Danto , P. de Bernardis , T. de Haan , M. De Petris , C. Dickinson , M. Dobbs , T. Dotani , L. Duband , A. Ducout , S. Duff , A. Duivenvoorden , J. -M. Duval , K. Ebisawa , T. Elleflot , H. Enokida , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , T. Essinger-Hileman , F. Finelli , R. Flauger , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , K. Ganga , J. -R. Gao , R. Génova-Santos , T. Ghigna , A. Gomez , M. L. Gradziel , J. Grain , F. Grupp , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , N. W. Halverson , P. Hargrave , T. Hasebe , M. Hasegawa , M. Hattori , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versille , D. Herranz , C. Hill , G. Hilton , Y. Hirota , E. Hivon , R. Hlozek , D. -T. Hoang , J. Hubmayr , K. Ichiki , T. Iida , H. Imada , K. Ishimura , H. Ishino , G. C. Jaehnig , M. Jones , T. Kaga , S. Kashima , Y. Kataoka , N. Katayama , T. Kawasaki , R. Keskitalo , A. Kibayashi , T. Kikuchi , K. Kimura , T. Kisner , Y. Kobayashi , N. Kogiso , A. Kogut , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , K. Komatsu , K. Konishi , N. Krachmalnicoff , C. L. Kuo , N. Kurinsky , A. Kushino , M. Kuwata-Gonokami , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , A. T. Lee , E. Linder , B. Maffei , D. Maino , M. Maki , A. Mangilli , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , R. Mathon , T. Matsumura , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , Y. Minami , K. Mistuda , D. Molinari , L. Montier , G. Morgante , B. Mot , Y. Murata , J. A. Murphy , M. Nagai , R. Nagata , S. Nakamura , T. Namikawa , P. Natoli , S. Nerva , T. Nishibori , H. Nishino , Y. Nomura , F. Noviello , C. O'Sullivan , H. Ochi , H. Ogawa , H. Ogawa , H. Ohsaki , I. Ohta , N. Okada , N. Okada , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , D. Paoletti , G. Patanchon , F. Piacentini , G. Pisano , G. Polenta , D. Poletti , T. Prouvé , G. Puglisi , D. Rambaud , C. Raum , S. Realini , M. Remazeilles , G. Roudil , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , M. Russell , H. Sakurai , Y. Sakurai , M. Sandri , G. Savini , D. Scott , Y. Sekimoto , B. D. Sherwin , K. Shinozaki , M. Shiraishi , P. Shirron , G. Signorelli , G. Smecher , P. Spizzi , S. L. Stever , R. Stompor , S. Sugiyama , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , E. Switzer , R. Takaku , H. Takakura , S. Takakura , Y. Takeda , A. Taylor , E. Taylor , Y. Terao , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , M. Tomasi , H. Tomida , N. Trappe , M. Tristram , M. Tsuji , M. Tsujimoto , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , S. Uozumi , S. Utsunomiya , J. Van Lanen , G. Vermeulen , P. Vielva , F. Villa , M. Vissers , N. Vittorio , F. Voisin , I. Walker , N. Watanabe , I. Wehus , J. Weller , B. Westbrook , B. Winter , E. Wollack , R. Yamamoto , N. Y. Yamasaki , M. Yanagisawa , T. Yoshida , J. Yumoto , M. Zannoni , A. Zonca

BICEP Array: a multi-frequency degree-scale CMB polarimeter

BICEP Array is the newest multi-frequency instrument in the BICEP/Keck Array program. It is comprised of four 550 mm aperture refractive telescopes observing the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 30/40, 95, 150 and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-03 Howard Hui , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , R. W. Aikin , K. D. Alexander , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , R. Bowens-Rubin , J. A. Brevik , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , J. Cornelison , B. P. Crill , M. Crumrine , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , C. Dvorkin , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , J. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , J. P. Kaufman , B. G. Keating , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , N. A. Larsen , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. OBrient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , C. Pryke , B. Racine , S. Richter , R. Schwarz , A. Schillaci , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umilta , 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 , C. Zhang

Systematic Effects in CMB Polarization Measurements

The cosmic microwave background polarization is rich of cosmological information complementary to those from temperature anisotropies. Linear polarization can be decomposed uniquely in two components of opposite parities, called E and B.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Rosset , the PLANCK-HFI Collaboration

BOOMERanG: a scanning telescope for 10 arcminutes resolution CMB maps

The BOOMERanG experiment is a stratospheric balloon telescope intended to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy at angular scales between a few degrees and ten arcminutes. The experiment features a wide focal plane with 16…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Masi , P. A. R. Ade , R. Artusa , J. J. Bock , A. Boscaleri , B. P. Crill , P. de Bernardis , G. De Troia , P. C. Farese , M. Giacometti , V. V. Hristov , A. Iacoangeli , A. E. Lange , A. T. Lee , L. Martinis , P. V. Mason , P. D. Mauskopf , F. Melchiorri , L. Miglio , T. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , E. Pascale , F. Piacentini , P. L. Richards , G. Romeo , J. E. Ruhl , F. Scaramuzzi

Multimode bolometer development for the PIXIE instrument

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept designed to measure the polarization and absolute intensity of the cosmic microwave background. In the following, we report on the design, fabrication, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Peter C. Nagler , Kevin T. Crowley , Kevin L. Denis , Archana M. Devasia , Dale J. Fixsen , Alan J. Kogut , George Manos , Scott Porter , Thomas R. Stevenson

A Double Vacuum Window Mechanism for Space-borne Applications

We present a vacuum window mechanism that is useful for applications requiring two different vacuum windows in series, with one of them movable and resealable. Such applications include space borne instruments that can benefit from a thin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-27 K. Zilic , A. Aboobaker , F. Aubin , C. Geach , S. Hanany , N. Jarosik , M. Milligan , I. Sagiv

Optical characterization of the Keck Array and BICEP3 CMB Polarimeters from 2016 to 2019

The BICEP/Keck experiment (BK) is a series of small-aperture refracting telescopes observing degree-scale Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization from the South Pole in search of a primordial $B$-mode signature. This $B$-mode signal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Keck Collaboration , T. St Germaine , 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 , S. Fliescher , J. A. Grayson , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , 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 , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umilta , 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 , C. Zhang

The Black Hole Explorer Cryocooling Instrument

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a space-based very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission aimed at precision black hole measurements, detecting the photon ring around black holes, exploring spacetime, spin, and mass properties, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Hannah Rana , Kazunori Akiyama , Edgar Canavan , Michael DiPirro , Mark Freeman , Peter Galison , Paul Grimes , Mareki Honma , Janice Houston , Michael Johnson , Mark Kimball , Daniel Marrone , Edward Tong

Scientific optimization of a ground-based CMB polarization experiment

We investigate the science goals achievable with the upcoming generation of ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background polarization experiments and calculate the optimal sky coverage for such an experiment including the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bowden , A. N. Taylor , K. M. Ganga , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , G. Cahill , J. E. Carlstrom , S. E. Church , W. K. Gear , J. R. Hinderks , W. Hu , B. G. Keating , J. Kovac , A . E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , O. E. Mallie , S. J. Melhuish , J. A. Murphy , L. Piccirillo , C. Pryke , B. A. Rusholme , C. O'Sullivan , K. Thompson

Simultaneous determination of the cosmic birefringence and miscalibrated polarisation angles from CMB experiments

We show that the cosmic birefringence and miscalibrated polarisation angles can be determined simultaneously by cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments using the cross-correlation between $E$- and $B$-mode polarisation data. This is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-30 Yuto Minami , Hiroki Ochi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Nobuhiko Katayama , Eiichiro Komatsu , Tomotake Matsumura

Design and performance of the first BICEP Array receiver

Branches of cosmic inflationary models, such as slow-roll inflation, predict a background of primordial gravitational waves that imprints a unique odd-parity B-mode pattern in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at amplitudes that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-14 A. Schillaci , 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 , 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 , C. Zhang

Deep 1.4-GHz observations of diffuse polarized emission

Polarized diffuse emission observations at 1.4-GHz in a high Galactic latitude area of the northern Celestial hemisphere are presented. The 3.2 X 3.2 deg^2 field, centred at RA = 10h 58m, Dec = +42deg 18' (B1950), has Galactic coordinates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Carretti , S. Poppi , W. Reich , P. Reich , E. Fuerst , G. Bernardi , S. Cortiglioni , C. Sbarra

Polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background

In this work we present an extension of the ROMA map-making code for data analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization, with particular attention given to the inflationary polarization B-modes. The new algorithm takes into account a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-08 Alessandro Buzzelli , Paolo Cabella , Giancarlo de Gasperis , Nicola Vittorio

Balloon-borne gamma-ray polarimetry

The physical processes postulated to explain the high-energy emission mechanisms of compact astrophysical sources often yield polarised soft gamma rays (X-rays). PoGOLite is a balloon-borne polarimeter operating in the 25-80 keV energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Mark Pearce