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The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission - Sub-Kelvin Instrument

Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth, provides convincing explanation for cosmological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 A. Suzuki , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , D. Alonso , K. Arnold , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , D. Barron , S. Basak , S. Beckman , J. Borrill , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , E. Calabrese , Y. Chinone , H-M. Cho , A. Cukierman , D. W. Curtis , T. de Haan , M. Dobbs , A. Dominjon , T. Dotani , L. Duband , A. Ducout , J. Dunkley , J. M. Duval , T. Elleflot , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , J. Fischer , T. Fujino , T. Funaki , U. Fuskeland , K. Ganga , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. Grain , N. W. Halverson , T. Hamada , T. Hasebe , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hattori , L. Hayes , M. Hazumi , N. Hidehira , C. A. Hill , G. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , K. Ichiki , T. Iida , H. Imada , M. Inoue , Y. Inoue , K. D. , H. Ishino , O. Jeong , H. Kanai , D. Kaneko , S. Kashima , N. Katayama , T. Kawasaki , S. A. Kernasovskiy , R. Keskitalo , A. Kibayashi , Y. Kida , K. Kimura , T. Kisner , K. Kohri , E. Komatsu , K. Komatsu , C. L. Kuo , N. A. Kurinsky , A. Kusaka , A. Lazarian , A. T. Lee , D. Li , E. Linder , B. Maffei , A. Mangilli , M. Maki , T. Matsumura , S. Matsuura , D. Meilhan , S. Mima , Y. Minami , K. Mitsuda , L. Montier , M. Nagai , T. Nagasaki , R. Nagata , M. Nakajima , S. Nakamura , T. Namikawa , M. Naruse , H. Nishino , T. Nitta , T. Noguchi , H. Ogawa , S. Oguri , N. Okada , A. Okamoto , T. Okamura , C. Otani , G. Patanchon , G. Pisano , G. Rebeiz , M. Remazeilles , P. L. Richards , S. Sakai , Y. Sakurai , Y. Sato , N. Sato , M. Sawada , Y. Segawa , Y. Sekimoto , U. Seljak , B. D. Sherwin , T. Shimizu , K. Shinozaki , R. Stompor , H. Sugai , H. Sugita , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takada , R. Takaku , S. Takakura , S. Takatori , D. Tanabe , E. Taylor , K. L. Thompson , B. Thorne , T. Tomaru , T. Tomida , N. Tomita , M. Tristram , C. Tucker , P. Turin , M. Tsujimoto , S. Uozumi , S. Utsunomiya , Y. Uzawa , F. Vansyngel , I. K. Wehus , B. Westbrook , M. Willer , N. Whitehorn , Y. Yamada , R. Yamamoto , N. Yamasaki , T. Yamashita , M. Yoshida

Electron Bernstein waves emission in the TJ-II Stellarator

Taking advantage of the electron Bernstein waves heating (EBWH) system of the TJ-II stellarator, an electron Bernstein emission (EBE) diagnostic was installed. Its purpose is to investigate the B-X-O radiation properties in the zone where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. M. García-Regaña , Á. Cappa , F. Castejón , J. B. O Caughman , M. Tereshchenko , A. Ros , D. A. Rasmussen , J. B. Wilgen

Multi-Chroic Feed-Horn Coupled TES Polarimeters

Multi-chroic polarization sensitive detectors offer an avenue to increase both the spectral coverage and sensitivity of instruments optimized for observations of the cosmic-microwave background (CMB) or sub-mm sky. We report on an effort to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. McMahon , J. Beall , D. Becker , H. M. Cho , R. Datta. A. Fox , N. Halverson , J. Hubmayr , K. Irwin , J. Nibarger , M. Niemack , H. Smith

XL-Calibur -- a second-generation balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission

XL-Calibur is a hard X-ray (15-80 keV) polarimetry mission operating from a stabilised balloon-borne platform in the stratosphere. It builds on heritage from the X-Calibur mission, which observed the accreting neutron star GX 301-2 from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 Q. Abarr , H. Awaki , M. G. Baring , R. Bose , G. De Geronimo , P. Dowkontt , M. Errando , V. Guarino , K. Hattori , K. Hayashida , F. Imazato , M. Ishida , N. K. Iyer , F. Kislat , M. Kiss , T. Kitaguchi , H. Krawczynski , L. Lisalda , H. Matake , Y. Maeda , H. Matsumoto , T. Mineta , T. Miyazawa , T. Mizuno , T. Okajima , M. Pearce , B. F. Rauch , F. Ryde , C. Shreves , S. Spooner , T. -A. Stana , H. Takahashi , M. Takeo , T. Tamagawa , K. Tamura , H. Tsunemi , N. Uchida , Y. Uchida , A. T. West , E. A. Wulf , R. Yamamoto

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

Robust forecasts on fundamental physics from the foreground-obscured, gravitationally-lensed CMB polarization

[Abridged] Recent results from the BICEP, Keck Array and Planck Collaborations demonstrate that Galactic foregrounds are an unavoidable obstacle in the search for evidence of inflationary gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Josquin Errard , Stephen M. Feeney , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew H. Jaffe

Optimization of the half wave plate configuration for the LSPE-SWIPE experiment

The search for the B-mode polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the new frontier of observational Cosmology. A B-mode detection would give an ultimate confirmation to the existence of a primordial Gravitational Wave (GW)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Alessandro Buzzelli , Giancarlo de Gasperis , Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi , Nicola Vittorio

The Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC): A Mission Concept Study for NASA's Einstein Inflation Probe

This is the Phase 1 Report on the Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC), a mission concept study for NASA's Einstein Inflation Probe. When we began our study we sought to answer five fundamental implementation questions: 1)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-29 James Bock , Asantha Cooray , Shaul Hanany , Brian Keating , Adrian Lee , Tomotake Matsumura , Michael Milligan , Nicolas Ponthieu , Tom Renbarger , Huan Tran

Status of CMB Polarization Measurements from DASI and Other Experiments

We review the current status and future plans for polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation, as well as the cosmology these measurements will address. After a long period of increasingly sensitive upper limits,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. E. Carlstrom , J. Kovac , E. M. Leitch , C. Pryke

Calibration and performance studies of the balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimeter PoGO+

Polarimetric observations of celestial sources in the hard X-ray band stand to provide new information on emission mechanisms and source geometries. PoGO+ is a Compton scattering polarimeter (20-150 keV) optimised for the observation of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-23 M. Chauvin , M. Friis , M. Jackson , T. Kawano , M. Kiss , V. Mikhalev , N. Ohashi , T. Stana , H. Takahashi , M. Pearce

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

eXTP -- enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry Mission

eXTP is a science mission designed to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. Primary targets include isolated and binary neutron stars, strong magnetic field systems like magnetars, and…

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The Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment (IMaX) for the Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory

The Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment (IMaX) is a spectropolarimeter built by four institutions in Spain that flew on board the Sunrise balloon-borne telesocope in June 2009 for almost six days over the Arctic Circle. As a polarimeter IMaX…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. Martinez Pillet , J. C. del Toro Iniesta , A. Alvarez-Herrero , V. Domingo , J. A. Bonet , L. Gonzalez Fernandez , A. Lopez Jimenez , C. Pastor , J. L. Gasent Blesa , P. Mellado , J. Piqueras , B. Aparicio , M. Balaguer , E. Ballesteros , T. Belenguer , L. R. Bellot Rubio , T. Berkefeld , M. Collados , W. Deutsch , A. Feller , F. Girela , B. Grauf , R. L. Heredero , M. Herranz , J. M. Jeronimo , H. Laguna , R. Meller , M. Menendez , R. Morales , D. Orozco Suarez , G. Ramos , M. Reina , J. L. Ramos , P. Rodriguez , A. Sanchez , N. Uribe-Patarroyo , P. Barthol , A. Gandorfer , M. Knoelker , W. Schmidt , S. K. Solanki , S. Vargas Dominguez

Detecting Electron Density Fluctuations from Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization using a Bispectrum Approach

Recent progress in high sensitivity Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiments opens up a window on large scale structure (LSS), as CMB polarization fluctuations on small angular scales can arise from a combination of LSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Chang Feng , Gilbert Holder

The QUIJOTE experiment: project overview and first results

QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) is a new polarimeter aimed to characterize the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and other Galactic and extragalactic signals at medium and large angular scales in the frequency range 10-40 GHz.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 R. Génova-Santos , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , R. Rebolo , M. Aguiar , F. Gómez-Reñasco , C. Gutiérrez , R. J. Hoyland , C. López-Caraballo , A. E. Peláez-Santos , M. R. Pérez de Taoro , F. Poidevin , V. Sánchez de la Rosa , D. Tramonte , A. Vega-Moreno , T. Viera-Curbelo , R. Vignaga , E. Martínez-González , R. B. Barreiro , B. Casaponsa , F. J. Casas , J. M. Diego , R. Fernández-Cobos , D. Herranz , M. López-Caniego , D. Ortiz , P. Vielva , E. Artal , B. Aja , J. Cagigas , J. L. Cano , L. de la Fuente , A. Mediavilla , J. V. Terán , E. Villa , L. Piccirillo , Davies , R. J. Davis , C. Dickinson , K. Grainge , S. Harper , B. Maffei , M. McCulloch , S. Melhuish , G. Pisano , R. A. Watson , A. Lasenby , M. Ashdown , M. Hobson , Y. Perrott , N. Razavi-Ghods , R. Saunders , D. Titterington , P. Scott

Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is our richest source of cosmological information; the standard cosmological model was largely established thanks to study of the temperature anisotropies. By the end of the decade, the Planck…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 James G. Bartlett

Expected performance of a hard X-ray polarimeter (POLAR) by Monte Carlo Simulation

Polarization measurements of the prompt emission in Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) can provide diagnostic information for understanding the nature of the central engine. POLAR is a compact polarimeter dedicated to the polarization measurement of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shaolin Xiong , Nicolas Produit , Bobing Wu

Detection of X-ray Polarization from the Blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Observations of linear polarization in the 2-8 keV energy range with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) explore the magnetic field geometry and dynamics of the regions generating non-thermal radiation in relativistic jets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-26 Manel Errando , Ioannis Liodakis , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Riccardo Middei , Michela Negro , Abel Lawrence Peirson , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Pazit L. Rabinowitz , Iván Agudo , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Sergey S. Savchenko , Dmitry Blinov , Ioakeim G. Bourbah , Sebastian Kiehlmann , Evangelos Kontopodis , Nikos Mandarakas , Stylianos Romanopoulos , Raphael Skalidis , Anna Vervelaki , Francisco José Aceituno , Maria I. Bernardos , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Beatriz Agís-González , César Husillos , Alessandro Marchini , Alfredo Sota , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , Carolina Casadio , Juan Escudero , Ioannis Myserlis , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Mark Gurwell , Garrett K. Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Adam Ingram , Francesco Massaro , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Raffaella Bonino , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Nicolò Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Laura Di Gesu , Federico Di Pierro , Immacolata Donnarumma , Steven R. Ehlert , Francesco Fenu , Ephraim Gau , Vladimir Karas , Dawoon E. Kim , Henric Krawczynski , Marco Laurenti , Lindsey Lisalda , Rubén López-Coto , Grzegorz Madejski , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Fabio Muleri , Luigi Pacciani , Alessandro Paggi , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Nicole Rodriguez Cavero , Roger W. Romani , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Stefano Tugliani , Kinwah Wu , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Philip Kaaret , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Giorgio Matt , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

Extragalactic Science with the Experiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne cryogenic telescope that will survey the spectrum of diffuse emission from both the Milky Way and the cosmic web to probe star formation, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Anthony R. Pullen , Patrick C. Breysse , Trevor Oxholm , Eric R. Switzer , Christopher J. Anderson , Emily Barrentine , Alberto D. Bolatto , Giuseppe Cataldo , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Abhishek Maniyar , Thomas Stevenson , Rachel S. Somerville , Carrie Volpert , Edward Wollack , Shengqi Yang , L. Y. Aaron Yung , Zilu Zhou

Using the Crab Nebula as a high precision calibrator for Cosmic Microwave Background polarimeters

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a plethora of information about the early universe. Most notably, gravitational waves from the Inflationary epoch (the leading explanation of the origin of the universe)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-02 Jonathan Kaufman , Brian Keating , David Leon