no code implementations • 7 Jan 2021 • Yaqiong Li, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall, Sarah Marie Bruno, Steve K. Choi, Nicholas F. Cothard, Kevin T. Crowley, Shannon M. Duff, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Joseph E. Golec, Gene C. Hilton, Matthew Hasselfield, Johannes Hubmay, Brian J. Koopman, Marius Lungu, Jeff McMahon, Michael D. Niemack, LymanA. Page, Maria Salatino, Sara M. Simon, Suzanne T. Staggs, Jason R. Stevens, Joel N. Ullom, Eve M. Vavagiakis, YuHan Wang, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu
The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) \cite{thornton} is an upgrade for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies in multiple frequencies.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • Nicholas F. Cothard, Aamir M. Ali, Jason E. Austermann, Steve K. Choi, Kevin T. Crowley, Bradley J. Dober, Cody J. Duell, Shannon M. Duff, Patricio Gallardo, Gene C. Hilton, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Johannes Hubmayr, Michael J. Link, Michael D. Niemack, Rita F. Sonka, Suzanne T. Staggs, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu
The Simons Observatory (SO) will perform ground-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several small and large aperture telescopes, each outfitted with thousands to tens of thousands of superconducting aluminum manganese (AlMn) transition-edge sensor bolometers (TESs).
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • Ian Lowe, Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton, Jason E. Austermann, James Beall, Susan Clark, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Simon Dicker, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Brandon Hensley, Johannes Hubmayr, Steven Li, Zhi-Yun Li, Nathan P. Lourie, Peter G. Martin, Philip Mauskopf, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, L. Javier Romualdez, Adrian Sinclair, Juan D. Soler, Carole Tucker, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler, Paul A. Williams, Mario Zannoni
The BLAST Observatory is a proposed superpressure balloon-borne polarimeter designed for a future ultra-long duration balloon campaign from Wanaka, New Zealand.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • Ian Lowe, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton, Jason E. Austermann, Gabriele Coppi, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Samuel Gordon, Christopher E. Groppi, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Klein, Dale Li, Nathan P. Lourie, Hamdi Mani, Philip Mauskopf, Christopher McKenney, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, L. Javier Romualdez, Juan D. Soler, Adrian Sinclair, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Caleb Wheeler, Paul A. Williams
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 250, 350, and 500 microns during a 24-day Antarctic flight.
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