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astro-ph.IM2018★ 47 cited

Year two instrument status of the SPT-3G cosmic microwave background receiver

A. N. Bender, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +86

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed for high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The SPT measures both the tem…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Characterization and performance of the second-year SPT-3G focal plane

D. Dutcher, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +68

The third-generation instrument for the 10-meter South Pole Telescope, SPT-3G, was first installed in January 2017. In addition to completely new cryostats, secondary telescope opt…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 15 cited

Design and characterization of the SPT-3G receiver

J. A. Sobrin, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +68

The SPT-3G receiver was commissioned in early 2017 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) to map anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). New optics, detector, an…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 10 cited

Broadband anti-reflective coatings for cosmic microwave background experiments

A. Nadolski, A. M. Kofman, J. D. Vieira +71

The desire for higher sensitivity has driven ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to employ ever larger focal planes, which in turn require larger reimaging o…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 72 cited

The Simons Observatory: Instrument Overview

Nicholas Galitzki, Aamir Ali, Kam S. Arnold +75

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1.5k cited

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 15 cited

A large-diameter cryogenic rotation stage for half-wave plate polarization modulation on the POLARBEAR-2 experiment

Charles A. Hill, Akito Kusaka, Paul Barton +15

We describe the design of a cryogenic rotation stage (CRS) for use with the cryogenic half-wave plate (CHWP) polarization modulator on the POLARBEAR-2b and POLARBEAR-2c (PB2b/c) co…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 18 cited

Optical Characterization of the SPT-3G Focal Plane

Zhaodi Pan, Peter Ade, Zeeshan Ahmed +73

The third-generation South Pole Telescope camera is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background across three frequency bands (95, 150 and 220 GHz) with ~16,000 transition-e…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 137 cited

The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission - Sub-Kelvin Instrument

A. Suzuki, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +149

Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth…