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astro-ph.IM2021

Next Generation Observatories -- Report from the Dawn VI Workshop; October 5-7 2021

D. H. Shoemaker, Stefan Ballmer, Matteo Barsuglia +33

The workshop Dawn VI: Next Generation Observatories took place online over three days, 5-7 October, 2021. More than 200 physicists and astronomers attended to contribute to, and le…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 21 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Measurement and Analysis of 1D Beams for DR4

Marius Lungu, Emilie R. Storer, Matthew Hasselfield +28

We describe the measurement and treatment of the telescope beams for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope's fourth data release, DR4. Observations of Uranus are used to measure the cent…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

In-flight gain monitoring of SPIDER's transition-edge sensor arrays

J. P. Filippini, A. E. Gambrel, A. S. Rahlin +67

Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain variations with minimal loss of observing time. We propose a sens…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Plastic Laminate Antireflective Coatings for Millimeter-wave Optics in BICEP Array

Marion Dierickx, P. A. R. Ade, Zeeshan Ahmed +82

The BICEP/Keck series of experiments target the Cosmic Microwave Background at degree-scale resolution from the South Pole. Over the next few years, the "Stage-3" BICEP Array (BA)…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

Probing the role of magnetic fields in star-forming filaments: NIKA2-Pol commissioning results toward OMC-1

H. Ajeddig, R. Adam, P. Ade +43

Dust polarization observations are a powerful, practical tool to probe the geometry (and to some extent, the strength) of magnetic fields in star-forming regions. In particular, Pl…

astro-ph.IM2021

Design of SPT-SLIM focal plane; a spectroscopic imaging array for the South Pole Telescope

P. S. Barry, A. Anderson, B. Benson +15

The Summertime Line Intensity Mapper (SLIM) is a mm-wave line-intensity mapping (mm-LIM) experiment for the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The goal of SPT-SLIM is to serve as a techni…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 34 cited

SPT-SLIM: A Line Intensity Mapping Pathfinder for the South Pole Telescope

K. S. Karkare, A. J. Anderson, P. S. Barry +15

The South Pole Telescope Summertime Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM) is a pathfinder experiment that will demonstrate the use of on-chip filter-bank spectrometers for mm-wave line…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Observations with KIDs Interferometer Spectrum Survey(KISS)

A. Fasano, A. Catalano, J. F. Macías-Pérez +33

We describe the preliminary on-sky results of the KIDs Interferometer Spectrum Survey (KISS), a spectral imager with a 1 deg field of view (FoV). The instrument operates in the ran…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 19 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Modeling Bulk Atmospheric Motion

Thomas W. Morris, Ricardo Bustos, Erminia Calabrese +17

Fluctuating atmospheric emission is a dominant source of noise for ground-based millimeter-wave observations of the CMB temperature anisotropy at angular scales $\gtrsim 0.5^{\circ…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

The Simulation and Design of an On-Chip Superconducting Millimetre Filter-Bank Spectrometer

Gethin Robson, Adam J. Anderson, Peter S. Barry +2

Superconducting on-chip filter-banks provide a scalable, space saving solution to create imaging spectrometers at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths. We present an easy to r…

astro-ph.IM2021

CCAT-prime: Characterization of the First 280 GHz MKID Array for Prime-Cam

Steve K. Choi, Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann +20

The Prime-Cam receiver on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope for the CCAT-prime project aims to address important astrophysical and cosmological questions with sensitive broadb…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 10 cited

Accurate sky signal reconstruction for ground-based spectroscopy with kinetic inductance detectors

A. Fasano., J. F. Macías-Pérez, A. Benoit +33

Context. Wide-field spectrometers are needed to deal with current astrophysical challenges that require multiband observations at millimeter wavelengths. An example of these is the…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 11 cited

CONCERTO at APEX: installation and technical commissioning

A. Monfardini, A. Beelen, A. Benoit +41

We describe the deployment and first tests on Sky of CONCERTO, a large field-of-view (18.6arc-min) spectral-imaging instrument. The instrument operates in the range 130-310GHz from…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 134 cited

Gaia Photometric Science Alerts

S. T. Hodgkin, D. L. Harrison, E. Breedt +108

Since July 2014, the Gaia mission has been engaged in a high-spatial-resolution, time-resolved, precise, accurate astrometric, and photometric survey of the entire sky. Aims: We pr…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 91 cited

PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing

James. W. Nightingale, Richard G. Hayes, Ashley Kelly +14

Strong gravitational lensing, which can make a background source galaxy appears multiple times due to its light rays being deflected by the mass of one or more foreground lens gala…

astro-ph.IM2021

The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G

J. A. Sobrin, A. J. Anderson, A. N. Bender +120

SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 25 cited

Tree-based solvers for adaptive mesh refinement code FLASH -- II: radiation transport module TreeRay

Richard Wünsch, Stefanie Walch, František Dinnbier +5

The treatment of radiative transfer with multiple radiation sources is a critical challenge in simulations of star formation and the interstellar medium. In this paper we present t…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Design and experimental investigation of a planar metamaterial Silicon based lenslet

Thomas Gascard, Giampaolo Pisano, Simon Doyle +9

The next generations of ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments will require polarisation sensitive, multichroic pixels of large focal planes comprising several thousa…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Simulating instrumental systematics of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments with s4cmb

Giulio Fabbian, Julien Peloton

The observation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies is one of the key probes of physical cosmology. The weak nature of this signal has driven the construction of incr…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 48 cited

The Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver

Ningfeng Zhu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi +68

The Simons Observatory (SO) Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) will be coupled to the Large Aperture Telescope located at an elevation of 5,200 m on Cerro Toco in Chile. The…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 15 cited

Performance and characterization of the SPT-3G digital frequency-domain multiplexed readout system using an improved noise and crosstalk model

J. Montgomery, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +118

The third generation South Pole Telescope camera (SPT-3G) improves upon its predecessor (SPTpol) by an order of magnitude increase in detectors on the focal plane. The technology u…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission

L. Montier, B. Mot, P. de Bernardis +232

LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Univer…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 143 cited

LiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization

M. Hazumi, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +233

LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Overview and status of EXCLAIM, the experiment for cryogenic large-aperture intensity mapping

Giuseppe Cataldo, Peter Ade, Christopher Anderson +41

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne far-infrared telescope that will survey star formation history over cosmological time sca…