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Publications (14)

astro-ph.EP2021

Venus Observations at 40 and 90 GHz with CLASS

Sumit Dahal, Michael K. Brewer, John W. Appel +30

Using the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor, we measure the disk-averaged absolute Venus brightness temperature to be 432.3 2.8 K and 355.6 1.3 K in the Q and W fr…

astro-ph.IM2020

Two Year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: Long Timescale Stability Achieved with a Front-End Variable-delay Polarization Modulator at 40 GHz

Kathleen Harrington, Rahul Datta, Keisuke Osumi +33

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a four-telescope array observing the largest angular scales () of the cosmic microwave backgroun…

astro-ph.CO2019

Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A Measurement of Circular Polarization at 40 GHz

Ivan L. Padilla, Joseph R. Eimer, Yunyang Li +32

We report circular polarization measurements from the first two years of observation with the 40 GHz polarimeter of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS). CLASS is con…

astro-ph.IM2020

Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A First Detection of Atmospheric Circular Polarization at Q Band

Matthew A. Petroff, Joseph R. Eimer, Kathleen Harrington +27

The Earth's magnetic field induces Zeeman splitting of the magnetic dipole transitions of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere, which produces polarized emission in the millimeter-wa…

astro-ph.IM2022

Calibration of Transition-edge Sensor (TES) Bolometer Arrays with Application to CLASS

John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett, Michael K. Brewer +24

The current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments fielding kilo-pixel arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers require accurate and robust gain calibrat…

astro-ph.IM2014

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 38 GHz detector array of bolometric polarimeters

John W. Appel, Aamir Ali, Mandana Amiri +41

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) experiment aims to map the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at angular scales larger than a few degrees. Ope…