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most citedDetection of B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope

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astro-ph.IM2025

Improved Absolute Polarization Calibrator for BICEP CMB Polarimeters

A. R. Polish, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +89

Cosmic birefringence is a hypothesized parity violation in electromagnetism that predicts a frequency-independent polarization rotation as light propagates. This would rotate the l…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…

astro-ph.IM2024

BICEP/Keck XIX: Extremely Thin Composite Polymer Vacuum Windows for BICEP and Other High Throughput Millimeter Wave Telescopes

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +90

Millimeter-wave refracting telescopes targeting the degree-scale structure of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have recently grown to diffraction-limited apertures of over 0.5…

astro-ph.IM2022

2022 Upgrade and Improved Low Frequency Camera Sensitivity for CMB Observation at the South Pole

A. Soliman, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +83

Constraining the Galactic foregrounds with multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations is an essential step towards ultimately reaching the sensitivity to measur…

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.IM2017★ 20 cited

Magnetic Sensitivity of AlMn TESes and Shielding Considerations for Next-Generation CMB Surveys

E. M. Vavagiakis, S. W. Henderson, K. Zheng +17

In the next decade, new ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments such as Simons Observatory (SO), CCAT-prime, and CMB-S4 will increase the number of detectors obs…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 10 cited

A Study of Al-Mn Transition Edge Sensor Engineering for Stability

E. M. George, J. E. Austermann, J. A. Beall +32

The stability of Al-Mn transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers is studied as we vary the engineered TES transition, heat capacity, and/or coupling between the heat capacity and TES…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 34 cited

Multi-Chroic Feed-Horn Coupled TES Polarimeters

J. McMahon, J. Beall, D. Becker +8

Multi-chroic polarization sensitive detectors offer an avenue to increase both the spectral coverage and sensitivity of instruments optimized for observations of the cosmic-microwa…