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SWIPE: a bolometric polarimeter for the Large-Scale Polarization Explorer

The balloon-borne LSPE mission is optimized to measure the linear polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background at large angular scales. The Short Wavelength Instrument for the Polarization Explorer (SWIPE) is composed of 3 arrays of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. de Bernardis , S. Aiola , G. Amico , E. Battistelli , A. Coppolecchia , A. Cruciani , A. D' Addabbo , G. D' Alessandro , S. De Gregori , M. De Petris , D. Goldie , R. Gualtieri , V. Haynes , L. Lamagna , B. Maffei , S. Masi , F. Nati , M. Wah Ng , L. Pagano , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , G. Romeo , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , E. Tommasi , S. Withington

SPIDER: a balloon-borne CMB polarimeter for large angular scales

We describe SPIDER, a balloon-borne instrument to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky with degree angular resolution. Spider consists of six monochromatic refracting telescopes, each illuminating a focal plane of large-format…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-13 J. P. Filippini , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , B. Burger , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , O. Doré , M. Farhang , L. M. Fissel , N. N. Gandilo , S. R. Golwala , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , C. J. MacTavish , P. V. Mason , T. E. Montroy , T. A. Morford , C. B. Netterfield , D. T. O'Dea , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , M. A. Schenker , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner

Anti-reflection Coated Vacuum Window for the Primordial Inflation Polarization ExploreR (PIPER) balloon-borne instrument

Measuring the faint polarization signal of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) not only requires high optical throughput and instrument sensitivity but also control over systematic effects. Polarimetric cameras or receivers used in this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Rahul Datta , David T. Chuss , Joseph Eimer , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Natalie N. Gandilo , Kyle Helson , Alan J. Kogut , Luke Lowe , Paul Mirel , Karwan Rostem , Marco Sagliocca , Danielle Sponseller , Eric R. Switzer , Peter A. Taraschi , Edward J. Wollack

Prospects for gravitational-wave polarization test from compact binary mergers with future ground-based detectors

There exist six possible polarization modes of gravitational waves in general metric theory of gravity, while two tensor polarization modes are allowed in general relativity. The properties and number of polarization modes depend on gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Hiroki Takeda , Atsushi Nishizawa , Koji Nagano , Yuta Michimura , Kentaro Komori , Masaki Ando , Kazuhiro Hayama

A Catalogue of Solar-Like Oscillators Observed by TESS in 120-second and 20-second Cadence

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has provided photometric light curves for stars across nearly the entire sky. This allows for the application of asteroseismology to a pool of potential solar-like oscillators that is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Emily Hatt , Martin B. Nielsen , William J. Chaplin , Warrick H. Ball , Guy R. Davies , Timothy R. Bedding , Derek L. Buzasi , Ashley Chontos , Daniel Huber , Cenk Kayhan , Yaguang Li , Timothy R. White , Chen Cheng , Travis S. Metcalfe , Dennis Stello

The Simons Observatory: Differentiating Thermal and Optical Effects in Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensing Bolometers

The Simons Observatory aims to field 70,000 Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background. With so many detectors, rapid but accurate validation of their properties prior to their integration into…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-21 Rita F. Sonka , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , Suzanne T. Staggs

The Robinson Gravitational Wave Background Telescope (BICEP): a bolometric large angular scale CMB polarimeter

The Robinson Telescope (BICEP) is a ground-based millimeter-wave bolometric array designed to study the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) and galactic foreground emission. Such measurements probe the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. W. Yoon , P. A. R. Ade , D. Barkats , J. O. Battle , E. M. Bierman , J. J. Bock , J. A. Brevik , H. C. Chiang , A. Crites , C. D. Dowell , L. Duband , G. S. Griffin , E. F. Hivon , W. L. Holzapfel , V. V. Hristov , B. G. Keating , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , E. M. Leitch , P. V. Mason , H. T. Nguyen , N. Ponthieu , Y. D. Takahashi , T. Renbarger , L. C. Weintraub , D. Woolsey

Improved measurement of polarization state in terahertz polarization spectroscopy

A calibration scheme is presented for improved polarization state measurement of terahertz pulses. In this scheme the polarization response of a two-contact terahertz photoconductive detector is accurately measured, and is used to correct…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-25 M. Neshat , N. P. Armitage

Frequency Multiplexed SQUID Readout of Large Bolometer Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements

A technological milestone for experiments employing Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers operating at sub-kelvin temperature is the deployment of detector arrays with 100s--1000s of bolometers. One key technology for such arrays is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. A. Dobbs , M. Lueker , K. A. Aird , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , J. E. Carlstrom , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , J. Clarke , T. M. Crawford , A. T. Crites , D. I. Flanigan , T. de Haan , E. M. George , N. W. Halverson , W. L. Holzapfel , J. D. Hrubes , B. R. Johnson , J. Joseph , R. Keisler , J. Kennedy , Z. Kermish , T. M. Lanting , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , D. Luong-Van , J. J. McMahon , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , T. E. Montroy , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , P. L. Richards , J. E. Ruhl , K. K. Schaffer , D. Schwan , E. Shirokoff , H. G. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , C. Vu , B. Westbrook , R. Williamson

A large-diameter cryogenic rotation stage for half-wave plate polarization modulation on the POLARBEAR-2 experiment

We describe the design of a cryogenic rotation stage (CRS) for use with the cryogenic half-wave plate (CHWP) polarization modulator on the POLARBEAR-2b and POLARBEAR-2c (PB2b/c) cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, the second and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-29 Charles A. Hill , Akito Kusaka , Paul Barton , Bryce Bixler , Alex G. Droster , Mael Flament , Suhas Ganjam , Arian Jadbabaie , Oliver Jeong , Adrian T. Lee , Alex Madurowicz , Fred T. Matsuda , Tomotake Matsumura , Adam Rutkowski , Yuki Sakurai , Danielle R. Sponseller , Aritoki Suzuki , Raymond Tat

Boosting Photon-Number-Resolved Detection Rates of Transition-Edge Sensors by Machine Learning

Transition-Edge Sensors (TESs) are very effective photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors that have enabled many photonic quantum technologies. However, their relatively slow thermal recovery time severely limits their operation rate in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Zhenghao Li , Matthew J. H. Kendall , Gerard J. Machado , Ruidi Zhu , Ewan Mer , Hao Zhan , Aonan Zhang , Shang Yu , Ian A. Walmsley , Raj B. Patel

Sub-Kelvin Cooling for the BICEP Array Project

In the field of astrophysics, the faint signal from distant galaxies and other dim cosmological sources at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths require the use of high-sensitivity experiments. Cryogenics and the use of low-temperature…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-22 Lionel Duband , Thomas Prouve , James Bock , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Alessandro Schillaci

BICEP3 performance overview and planned Keck Array upgrade

BICEP3 is a 520 mm aperture, compact two-lens refractor designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95 GHz. Its focal plane consists of modularized tiles of antenna-coupled transition edge sensors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 J. A. Grayson , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , K. D. Alexander , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , S. J. Benton , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , R. Bowens-Rubin , I. Buder , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. Connors , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , M. Halpern , S. Harrison , G. C. Hilton , V. V. Hristov , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , E. M. Leitch , M. Lueker , K. G. Megerian , V. Monticue , T. Namikawa , C. B. Netterfield , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , C. Pryke , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , R. Schwarz , C. Sorensen , C. D. Sheehy , Z. K. Staniszewski , B. Steinbach , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , K. W. Yoon

In-Flight Performance of Spider's 280 GHz Receivers

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the cosmic microwave background at degree-angular scales in the presence of Galactic foregrounds. SPIDER has mapped a large sky area in the Southern Hemisphere using more than 2000…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Elle C. Shaw , P. A. R. Ade , S. Akers , M. Amiri , J. Austermann , J. Beall , D. T. Becker , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , R. S. Domagalski , O. Doré , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , S. M. Gibbs , S. Gourapura , A. Grigorian , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Kahn , Z. D. Kermish , C. King , C. L. Kuo , A. R. Lennox , J. S. -Y. Leung , S. Li , T. V. Luu , P. V. Mason , J. May , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , R. Nie , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , A. S. Rahlin , S. Redmond , C. Reintsema , L. J. Romualdez , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , J. A. Shariff , C. Shiu , J. D. Soler , X. Song , S. Tartakovsky , H. Thommesen , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. Ullom , J. F. van der List , J. Van Lanen , M. R. Vissers , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

In-flight gain monitoring of SPIDER's transition-edge sensor arrays

Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain variations with minimal loss of observing time. We propose a sensitive and non-intrusive method for monitoring variations in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 J. P. Filippini , A. E. Gambrel , A. S. Rahlin , E. Y. Young , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , O. Dore , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , J. S. -Y. Leung , S. Li , D. S. Y. Mak , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , R. O'Brient , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , E. C. Shaw , C. Shiu , J. D. Soler , X. Song , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. F. van der List , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe

The EBEX Cryostat and Supporting Electronics

We describe the cryostat and supporting electronics for the EBEX experiment. EBEX is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The instrument includes a 1.5 meter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-20 Ilan Sagiv , Asad M. Aboobaker , Chaoyun Bao , Shaul Hanany , Terry Jones , Jeffrey Klein , Michael Milligan , Daniel E. Polsgrove , Kate Raach , Kyle Zilic , Andrei Korotkov , Gregory S. Tucker , Yuri Vinukurov , Tomotake Matsumura , Peter Ade , Will Grainger , Enzo Pascale , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Seth Hillbrand , Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Michele Limon , Amber Miller , Andrew Jaffe , Amit Yadav , Matias Zaldarriaga , Nicolas Ponthieu , Matthieu Tristram , Julian Borrill , Christopher Cantalupo , Ted Kisner , Francois Aubin , Matt Dobbs , Kevin MacDermid , Gene Hilton , Johhannes Hubmayr , Kent Irwin , Carl Reintsema , Carlo Baccigalupi , Sam Leach , Bradley Johnson , Adrian Lee , Huan Tran , Lorne Levinson

Statistics of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

We present a formalism for analyzing a full-sky temperature and polarization map of the cosmic microwave background. Temperature maps are analyzed by expanding over the set of spherical harmonics to give multipole moments of the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky , Albert Stebbins

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

Measurement of Top-Quark Polarization in t-channel Single-Top Production

The measurement of the top quark polarization, sensitive to the electroweak coupling structure, in t-channel single-top production is presented. Events are analyzed corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Matthias Komm

Polarized tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy at liquid He temperature in ultrahigh vacuum using an off-axis parabolic mirror

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) combines inelastic light scattering well below the diffraction limit down to the nanometer range and scanning probe microscopy and, possibly, spectroscopy. In this way, topographic and spectroscopic as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-06 Leander Peis , Ge He , Daniel Jost , Gabriele Rager , Rudi Hackl