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Publications (10)

astro-ph.IM2018

Design and characterization of the POLARBEAR-2b and POLARBEAR-2c cosmic microwave background cryogenic receivers

Logan Howe, Calvin Tsai, Lindsay Lowry +10

The POLARBEAR-2/Simons Array Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment is an upgrade and expansion of the existing POLARBEAR-1 (PB-1) experiment, located in the Ata…

astro-ph.CO2019

Evidence for the Cross-correlation between Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing from POLARBEAR and Cosmic Shear from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

Toshiya Namikawa, Yuji Chinone, Hironao Miyatake +72

We present the first measurement of cross-correlation between the lensing potential, reconstructed from cosmic microwave background (CMB) {\it polarization} data, and the cosmic sh…

astro-ph.CO2019

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…

physics.ins-det2025

Picosecond Josephson Samplers: Modeling and Measurements

Logan Howe, Bart van Zeghbroeck, David Olaya +4

Measurement of signals generated by superconducting Josephson junction (JJ) circuits require ultra-fast components located in close proximity to the generating circuitry. We report…

astro-ph.IM2018

Measurements of tropospheric ice clouds with a ground-based CMB polarization experiment, POLARBEAR

Satoru Takakura, Mario A. O. Aguilar-Faúndez, Yoshiki Akiba +45

The polarization of the atmosphere has been a long-standing concern for ground-based experiments targeting cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. Ice crystals in upper tro…

astro-ph.IM2017

Performance of a continuously rotating half-wave plate on the POLARBEAR telescope

Satoru Takakura, Mario Aguilar, Yoshiki Akiba +50

A continuously rotating half-wave plate (CRHWP) is a promising tool to improve the sensitivity to large angular scales in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization measurement…

astro-ph.CO2016

POLARBEAR Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence and Primordial Magnetic Fields

POLARBEAR Collaboration, Peter A. R. Ade, Kam Arnold +84

We constrain anisotropic cosmic birefringence using four-point correlations of even-parity -mode and odd-parity -mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background measurem…

quant-ph2026

Multi-stage Quantum Amplifier Readout Chain

Logan Howe, Andrea Giachero, Michael Vissers +5

Multi-stage cryogenic readout chains with a wide bandwidth and added noise within a few quanta of the quantum limit are frequently constructed using traveling-wave parametric ampli…

quant-ph2025

Compact Superconducting Kinetic Inductance Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers with On-chip rf Components

Logan Howe, Andrea Giachero, Michael Vissers +4

Quantum computing systems and fundamental physics experiments using superconducting technologies frequently require signal amplification chains operating near the quantum limit of…

astro-ph.IM2016

Making maps of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization for B-mode studies: the POLARBEAR example

Davide Poletti, Giulio Fabbian, Maude Le Jeune +46

Analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) datasets typically requires some filtering of the raw time-ordered data. Filtering is frequently used to minimize the impact of low fr…