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20142024
most citedCLASS: The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor

159 citations · 507 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Superfluid-tight cryogenic receiver with continuous sub-Kelvin cooling for EXCLAIM

Sumit Dahal, Peter A. R. Ade, Christopher J. Anderson +67

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to survey star formation over cosmological time scales using intensity…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

SOFIA - HIRMES: Looking forward to the HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer

Samuel N. Richards, Samuel H. Moseley, Gordon Stacey +48

The HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer (HIRMES) is the 3rd Generation Instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), currently in development a…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 17 cited

Design and characterization of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 93 GHz focal plane

Sumit Dahal, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel +44

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) aims to detect and characterize the primordial B-mode signal and make a sample-variance-limited measurement of the optical depth…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 22 cited

A Compact Cryogenic Thermal Source for Detector Array Characterization

David T. Chuss, Karwan Rostem, Edward J. Wollack +5

We describe the design, fabrication, and validation of a cryogenically-compatible quasioptical thermal source designed to be used for characterization of detector arrays. The sourc…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 18 cited

Silicon-Based Antenna-Coupled Polarization-Sensitive Millimeter-Wave Bolometer Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Instruments

Karwan Rostem, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel +15

We describe feedhorn-coupled polarization-sensitive detector arrays that utilize monocrystalline silicon as the dielectric substrate material. Monocrystalline silicon has a low-los…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 81 cited

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor

Kathleen Harrington, Tobias Marriage, Aamir Ali +33

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a four telescope array designed to characterize relic primordial gravitational waves from inflation and the optical depth to r…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 10 cited

Fabrication of Feedhorn-Coupled Transition Edge Sensor Arrays for Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Kevin L. Denis, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel +11

Characterization of the minute cosmic microwave background polarization signature requires multi-frequency, high-throughput precision instrument systems. We have previously describ…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 12 cited

Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Focal Plane Development

D. T. Chuss, A. Ali, M. Amiri +28

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background to search for and characterize the polarized signature of inflat…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 4 cited

Scalable background-limited polarization-sensitive detectors for mm-wave applications

Karwan Rostem, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel +12

We report on the status and development of polarization-sensitive detectors for millimeter-wave applications. The detectors are fabricated on single-crystal silicon, which function…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 31 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 159 cited

CLASS: The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor

Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Aamir Ali, Mandana Amiri +41

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is an experiment to measure the signature of a gravita-tional-wave background from inflation in the polarization of the cosmic mi…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 25 cited

Precision control of thermal transport in cryogenic single-crystal silicon devices

Karwan Rostem, David T. Chuss, Felipe A. Colazo +6

We report on the diffusive-ballistic thermal conductance of multi-moded single-crystal silicon beams measured below 1 K. It is shown that the phonon mean-free-path is a stro…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 125 cited

Gemini multi-conjugate adaptive optics system review II: Commissioning, operation and overall performance

Benoit Neichel, François Rigaut, Fabrice Vidal +30

The Gemini Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics System - GeMS, a facility instrument mounted on the Gemini South telescope, delivers a uniform, near diffraction limited images at near i…