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astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

Design and pre-flight performance of SPIDER 280 GHz receivers

E. C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +79

In this work we describe upgrades to the Spider balloon-borne telescope in preparation for its second flight, currently planned for December 2021. The Spider instrument is optimize…

astro-ph.IM2020

Pre-deployment Verification and Predicted Mapping Speed of MUSCAT

T. L. R. Brien, P. A. R. Ade, P. S. Barry +20

The Mexico-UK Submillimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a 1.1 mm receiver consisting of 1,500 lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) for the Large Millimeter Tel…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 10 cited

Optical Design of the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)

Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Danny Chmaytelli, Trevor Oxholm +23

This work describes the design and implementation of optics for EXCLAIM, the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping. EXCLAIM is a balloon-borne telescope that wi…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 45 cited

QUBIC I: Overview and ScienceProgram

J. -Ch. Hamilton, L. Mousset, E. S. Battistelli +127

The Q U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a novel kind of polarimeter optimized for the measurement of the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Backgro…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 16 cited

QUBIC II: Spectro-Polarimetry with Bolometric Interferometry

L. Mousset, M. M. Gamboa Lerena, E. S. Battistelli +128

Bolometric interferometry is a novel technique that has the ability to perform spectral imaging. A bolometric interferometer observes the sky in a wide frequency band and can recon…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 31 cited

The Simons Observatory: Modeling Optical Systematics in the Large Aperture Telescope

Jon E. Gudmundsson, Patricio A. Gallardo, Roberto Puddu +35

We present geometrical and physical optics simulation results for the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope. This work was developed as part of the general design process for…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 55 cited

ArielRad: the Ariel Radiometric Model

Lorenzo V. Mugnai, Enzo Pascale, Billy Edwards +2

ArielRad, the Ariel radiometric model, is a simulator developed to address the challenges in optimising the space mission science payload and to demonstrate its compliance with the…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 18 cited

Real-Time Detection of Unmodelled Gravitational-Wave Transients Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Vasileios Skliris, Michael R. K. Norman, Patrick J. Sutton

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated potential for the real-time analysis of data from gravitational-wave detector networks for the specific case of signals from…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 415 cited

Sensitivity and Performance of the Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Third Observing Run

LIGO Instrument Science List, :, A. Buikema +197

On April 1st, 2019, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO), joined by the Advanced Virgo detector, began the third observing run, a year-long dedi…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

QUBIC VII: The feedhorn-switch system of the technological demonstrator

F. Cavaliere, A. Mennella, M. Zannoni +128

We present the design, manufacturing and performance of the horn-switch system developed for the technological demonstrator of QUBIC (the \& Bolometric Interferometer for Cos…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 53 cited

The large scale polarization explorer (LSPE) for CMB measurements: performance forecast

The LSPE collaboration, G. Addamo, P. A. R. Ade +102

[Abridged] The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is one of the current frontiers in cosmology. In particular, the detection of the primor…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 12 cited

QUBIC VI: cryogenic half wave plate rotator, design and performances

G. D'Alessandro, L. Mele, F. Columbro +126

Inflation Gravity Waves B-Modes polarization detection is the ultimate goal of modern large angular scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments around the world. A big effo…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 17 cited

QUBIC V: Cryogenic system design and performance

S. Masi, E. S. Battistelli, P. de Bernardis +126

Current experiments aimed at measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) use cryogenic detector arrays and cold optical systems to boost the mapping speed o…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 17 cited

QUBIC VIII: Optical design and performance

C. O'Sullivan, M. De Petris, G. Amico +126

The Q and U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a ground-based experiment that aims to detect B-mode polarisation anisotropies in the CMB at angular scales around th…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 13 cited

QUBIC III: Laboratory Characterization

S. A. Torchinsky, J. -Ch. Hamilton, M. Piat +125

A prototype version of the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) underwent a campaign of testing in the laboratory at Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology in Paris.…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 76 cited

A wide field-of-view low-resolution spectrometer at APEX: instrument design and science forecast

The CONCERTO collaboration, P. Ade, M. Aravena +36

Characterise the large-scale structure in the Universe from present times to the high redshift epoch of reionisation is essential to constraining the cosmology, the history of star…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 8 cited

The long duration cryogenic system of the OLIMPO balloon--borne experiment: design and in--flight performance

A. Coppolecchia, L. Lamagna, S. Masi +18

We describe the design and in--flight performance of the cryostat and the self-contained He refrigerator for the OLIMPO balloon--borne experiment, a spectrophotometer to meas…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 112 cited

Reducing Scattered Light in LIGO's Third Observing Run

S Soni, C Austin, A Effler +195

Noise due to scattered light has been a frequent disturbance in the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors, hindering the detection of gravitational waves. The non stationary s…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 99 cited

Omicron: a tool to characterize transient noise in gravitational-wave detectors

Florent Robinet, Nicolas Arnaud, Nicolas Leroy +3

The Omicron software is a tool developed to perform a multi-resolution time-frequency analysis of data from gravitational-wave detectors: the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA detectors. Omic…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 110 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR5 maps of 18,000 square degrees of the microwave sky from ACT 2008-2018 data

Sigurd Naess, Simone Aiola, Jason E. Austermann +59

This paper presents a maximum-likelihood algorithm for combining sky maps with disparate sky coverage, angular resolution and spatially varying anisotropic noise into a single map…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 20 cited

LEKID sensitivity for space applications between 80 and 600 GHz

A. Catalano, A. Bideaud, O. Bourrion +8

We report the design, fabrication and testing of Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKID) showing performance in line with the requirements of the next generation space…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 4 cited

Development and application of metamaterial-based Half-Wave Plates for the NIKA and NIKA2 polarimeters

G. Pisano, A. Ritacco, A. Monfardini +11

CONTEXT.Large field-of-view imaging/polarimetry instruments operating at millimeter and submm wavelengths are fundamental tools to understand the role of magnetic fields (MF) in ch…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 4 cited

The Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer Spectral Feature Finder I. The Spectral Feature Finder and Catalogue

R. Hopwood, I. Valtchanov, Locke D. Spencer +11

We provide a detailed description of the Herschel-SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) Spectral Feature Finder (FF). The FF is an automated process designed to extract signif…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 109 cited

PESummary: the code agnostic Parameter Estimation Summary page builder

Charlie Hoy, Vivien Raymond

PESummary is a Python software package for processing and visualising data from any parameter estimation code. The easy to use Python executable scripts and extensive online docume…