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most citedFirst Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters

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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★ 23 cited

Attitude determination for balloon-borne experiments

N. N. Gandilo, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +64

An attitude determination system for balloon-borne experiments is presented. The system provides pointing information in azimuth and elevation for instruments flying on stratospher…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 26 cited

Pre-flight integration and characterization of the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope

A. S. Rahlin, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +45

We present the results of integration and characterization of the SPIDER instrument after the 2013 pre-flight campaign. SPIDER is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to probe the…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 29 cited

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER)

Justin Lazear, Peter A. R. Ade, Dominic Benford +25

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter designed to search for evidence of inflation by measuring th…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 4 cited

BLASTbus electronics: general-purpose readout and control for balloon-borne experiments

S. J. Benton, P. A. Ade, M. Amiri +66

We present the second generation BLASTbus electronics. The primary purposes of this system are detector readout, attitude control, and cryogenic housekeeping, for balloon-borne tel…