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astro-ph.IM2019★ 6 cited

Observing with NIKA2Pol from the IRAM 30m telescope. Early results on the commissioning phase

A. Ritacco, R. Adam, P. Ade +41

The NIKA2 polarization channel at 260 GHz (1.15 mm) has been proposed primarily to observe galactic star-forming regions and probe the critical scales between 0.01-0.05 pc at which…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 30 cited

The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)

P. A. R. Ade, C. J. Anderson, E. M. Barrentine +33

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument that will survey galaxy and star formation history over cosmological…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 13 cited

The KISS experiment

A. Fasano, M. Aguiar, A. Benoit +30

Mapping millimetre continuum emission has become a key issue in modern multi-wavelength astrophysics. In particular, spectrum-imaging at low frequency resolution is an asset for ch…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

NIKA2 mapping and cross-instrument SED extraction of extended sources with Scanamorphos

H. Roussel, N. Ponthieu, R. Adam +38

The steps taken to tailor to NIKA2 observations the Scanamorphos algorithm (initially developed to subtract low-frequency noise from Herschel on-the-fly observations) are described…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 15 cited

Baryon acoustic oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations: Broadband corrugated horn construction and testing

C. A. Wuensche, L. Reitano, M. W. Peel +13

The Baryon acoustic oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations (BINGO) telescope is a 40-m~class radio telescope under construction that has been designed to measure the…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 6 cited

KISS: a spectrometric imager for millimetre cosmology

A. Fasano, M. Aguiar, A. Benoit +27

Clusters of galaxies are used to map the large-scale structures in the universe and as probe of universe evolution. They can be observed through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect.…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 88 cited

Calibration and Performance of the NIKA2 camera at the IRAM 30-meter Telescope

L. Perotto, N. Ponthieu, J. -F. Macías-Pérez +45

NIKA2 is a dual-band millimetric continuum camera of 2900 Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID), operating at and , installed at the IRAM 30-meter telescope. We p…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

Sub-Kelvin cooling for two kilopixel bolometer arrays in the PIPER receiver

E. R. Switzer, P. A. R. Ade, T. Baildon +30

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a balloon-borne telescope mission to search for inflationary gravitational waves from the early universe. PIPER employs tw…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 22 cited

Microwave multiplexing on the Keck Array

Ari Cukierman, Zeeshan Ahmed, Shawn Henderson +82

We describe an on-sky demonstration of a microwave-multiplexing readout system in one of the receivers of the Keck Array, a polarimetry experiment observing the cosmic microwave ba…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 15 cited

Performance of Al-Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G

A. J. Anderson, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +86

SPT-3G is a polarization-sensitive receiver, installed on the South Pole Telescope, that measures the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from degree to arcminute s…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 15 cited

On-sky performance of the SPT-3G frequency-domain multiplexed readout

A. N. Bender, A. J. Anderson, J. S. Avva +86

Frequency-domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

Astrobites as a Community-led Model for Education, Science Communication, and Accessibility in Astrophysics

Gourav Khullar, Susanna Kohler, Tarini Konchady +21

Support for early career astronomers who are just beginning to explore astronomy research is imperative to increase retention of diverse practitioners in the field. Since 2010, Ast…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 49 cited

First light demonstration of the integrated superconducting spectrometer

Akira Endo, Kenichi Karatsu, Yoichi Tamura +36

Ultra-wideband 3D imaging spectrometry in the millimeter-submillimeter (mm-submm) band is an essential tool for uncovering the dust-enshrouded portion of the cosmic history of star…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 122 cited

Novel signatures of dark matter in laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detectors

H. Grote, Y. V. Stadnik

Dark matter may induce apparent temporal variations in the physical "constants", including the electromagnetic fine-structure constant and fermion masses. In particular, a coherent…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 23 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array XI: Beam Characterization and Temperature-to-Polarization Leakage in the BK15 Dataset

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +76

Precision measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization require extreme control of instrumental systematics. In a companion paper we have presented cosmological co…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

Observing exoplanets in the near-infrared from a high altitude balloon platform

Peter C. Nagler, Billy Edwards, Brian Kilpatrick +8

Although there exists a large sample of known exoplanets, little spectroscopic data exists that can be used to study their global atmospheric properties. This deficiency can be add…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 49 cited

Classifying the unknown: discovering novel gravitational-wave detector glitches using similarity learning

S B Coughlin, S Bahaadini, N Rohani +17

The observation of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences by LIGO and Virgo has begun a new era in astronomy. A critical challenge in making detections is determining…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 8 cited

Design and Bolometer Characterization of the SPT-3G First-year Focal Plane

W. Everett, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +73

During the austral summer of 2016-17, the third-generation camera, SPT-3G, was installed on the South Pole Telescope, increasing the detector count in the focal plane by an order o…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 31 cited

Kinetic Inductance Detectors for the OLIMPO experiment: in--flight operation and performance

S. Masi, P. de Bernardis, A. Paiella +22

We report on the performance of lumped--elements Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID) arrays for mm and sub--mm wavelengths, operated at 0.3K during the stratospheric flight of the OL…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 30 cited

QUBIC: Exploring the primordial Universe with the Q\&U Bolometric Interferometer

Aniello Mennella, Peter Ade, Giorgio Amico +127

In this paper we describe QUBIC, an experiment that will observe the polarized microwave sky with a novel approach, which combines the sensitivity of state-of-the art bolometric de…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 116 cited

Exploring the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors to neutron star physics

Denis Martynov, Haixing Miao, Huan Yang +14

The physics of neutron stars can be studied with gravitational waves emitted from coalescing binary systems. Tidal effects become significant during the last few orbits and can be…