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physics.ins-det2021

Trajectories of long duration balloons launched from McMurdo Station in Antarctica

Christopher Geach, Shaul Hanany, Chiou Yang Tan +1

The Columbia Scientific Ballooning Facility operates stratospheric balloon flights out of McMurdo Station in Antarctica. We use balloon trajectory data from 40 flights between 1991…

astro-ph.IM2018

Intensity-Coupled-Polarization in Instruments with a Continuously Rotating Half-Wave Plate

Joy Didier, Amber D. Miller, Derek Araujo +31

We discuss a systematic effect associated with measuring polarization with a continuously rotating half-wave plate. The effect was identified with the data from the E and B Experim…

astro-ph.IM2018

The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Detectors and Readout

The EBEX Collaboration, Maximilian Abitbol, Asad M. Aboobaker +37

EBEX was a long-duration balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The experiment had three frequency bands centered at 150, 250, and…

astro-ph.IM2017

The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Optics, Receiver, and Polarimetry

The EBEX Collaboration, Asad M. Aboobaker, Peter Ade +35

The E and B Experiment (EBEX) was a long-duration balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarimeter that flew over Antarctica in 2013. We describe the experiment's optical syst…

astro-ph.IM2016

Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment

Francois Aubin, Asad M. Aboobaker, Peter Ade +40

The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation and to characterize the polarization…