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20162026
most citedFour-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: On-sky Receiver Performance at 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz Frequency Bands

42 citations · 237 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Improved Constraints on Cosmic Microwave Background Circular Polarization with CLASS

Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Caleigh Ryan, Yunyang Li +25

We present improved constraints on circular polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) experiment using data at 9…

astro-ph.IM2026

Detectors for CLASS-W2: The second 90 GHz telescope of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor

John W. Appel, Kyuyoung Bae, Charles L. Bennett +26

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization anisotropy on the largest angular scales (>1 degree) to probe the…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

High-Efficiency and Low-Noise Detectors for the Upgraded CLASS 90 GHz Focal Plane

Carolina Núñez, John W. Appel, Rahul Datta +22

We present the in-lab and on-sky performance for the upgraded 90 GHz focal plane of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS), which had four of its seven detector wafers…

astro-ph.IM2024

Design and characterization of a 60-cm reflective half-wave plate for the CLASS 90 GHz band telescope

Rui Shi, Michael K. Brewer, Carol Yan Yan Chan +14

Front-end polarization modulation enables improved polarization measurement stability by modulating the targeted signal above the low-frequency drifts associated with atmosph…

astro-ph.CO2024

Sensitivity-Improved Polarization Maps at 40 GHz with CLASS and WMAP data

Rui Shi, John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett +18

Improved polarization measurements at frequencies below 70 GHz with degree-level angular resolution are crucial for advancing our understanding of the Galactic synchrotron radiatio…

astro-ph.IM2023

CLASS Observations of Atmospheric Cloud Polarization at Millimeter Wavelengths

Yunyang Li, John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett +21

The dynamic atmosphere imposes challenges to ground-based cosmic microwave background observation, especially for measurements on large angular scales. The hydrometeors in the atmo…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

CLASS Angular Power Spectra and Map-Component Analysis for 40 GHz Observations through 2022

Joseph R. Eimer, Yunyang Li, Michael K. Brewer +31

Measurement of the largest angular scale () features of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization is a powerful way to constrain the optical depth to reionizati…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 7 cited

Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 90 GHz Telescope Pointing, Beam Profile, Window Function, and Polarization Performance

Rahul Datta, Michael K. Brewer, Jullianna Denes Couto +31

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a telescope array that observes the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over ~75% of the sky from the Atacama Desert, Chile, at…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

CLASS Data Pipeline and Maps for 40 GHz Observations through 2022

Yunyang Li, Joseph Eimer, Keisuke Osumi +33

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a telescope array that observes the cosmic microwave background over 75\% of the sky from the Atacama Desert, Chile, at freque…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 2 cited

Microwave Observations of Venus with CLASS

Sumit Dahal, Michael K. Brewer, Alex B. Akins +21

We report on the disk-averaged absolute brightness temperatures of Venus measured at four microwave frequency bands with the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS). We meas…

astro-ph.IM2022

Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): Pointing Stability and Beam Measurements at 90, 150, and 220 GHz

Rahul Datta, Michael K. Brewer, Jullianna D. Couto +16

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) telescope array surveys 75% of the sky from the Atacama desert in Chile at frequency bands centered near 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz…

astro-ph.IM2022

Design and characterization of new 90 GHz detectors for the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)

Carolina Núñez, John W. Appel, Sarah Marie Bruno +20

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a polarization-sensitive telescope array located at an altitude of 5,200 m in the Chilean Atacama Desert. CLASS is designed to…

astro-ph.IM2022

Long-Timescale Stability in CMB Observations at Multiple Frequencies using Front-End Polarization Modulation

Joseph Cleary, Rahul Datta, John W. Appel +17

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a telescope array observing the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at frequency bands centered near 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz. C…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 18 cited

Calibration of Transition-edge Sensor (TES) Bolometer Arrays with Application to CLASS

John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett, Michael K. Brewer +24

The current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments fielding kilo-pixel arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers require accurate and robust gain calibrat…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 42 cited

Four-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: On-sky Receiver Performance at 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz Frequency Bands

Sumit Dahal, John W. Appel, Rahul Datta +37

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) observes the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) over the angular scales of 1 90 with the…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 6 cited

Venus Observations at 40 and 90 GHz with CLASS

Sumit Dahal, Michael K. Brewer, John W. Appel +30

Using the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor, we measure the disk-averaged absolute Venus brightness temperature to be 432.3 2.8 K and 355.6 1.3 K in the Q and W fr…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 26 cited

Mass Outflow of the X-ray Emission Line Gas in NGC 4151

S. B. Kraemer, T. J. Turner, J. D. Couto +4

We have analysed Chandra/High Energy Transmission Gratings spectra of the X-ray emission line gas in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151. The zeroth order spectral images show extended H-…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 26 cited

Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: 40 GHz Telescope Pointing, Beam Profile, Window Function, and Polarization Performance

Zhilei Xu, Michael K. Brewer, Pedro Fluxá Rojas +33

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a telescope array that observes the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over 75% of the sky from the Atacama Desert, Chile, at f…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 19 cited

Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A First Detection of Atmospheric Circular Polarization at Q Band

Matthew A. Petroff, Joseph R. Eimer, Kathleen Harrington +27

The Earth's magnetic field induces Zeeman splitting of the magnetic dipole transitions of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere, which produces polarized emission in the millimeter-wa…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 25 cited

Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A Measurement of Circular Polarization at 40 GHz

Ivan L. Padilla, Joseph R. Eimer, Yunyang Li +32

We report circular polarization measurements from the first two years of observation with the 40 GHz polarimeter of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS). CLASS is con…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor Receiver Design

Jeffrey Iuliano, Joseph Eimer, Lucas Parker +42

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor consists of four instruments performing a CMB polarization survey. Currently, the 40 GHz and first 90 GHz instruments are deployed and ob…

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.IM2018★ 1 cited

Variable-delay Polarization Modulators for the CLASS Telescopes

Kathleen Harrington, Joseph Eimer, David T. Chuss +43

The search for inflationary primordial gravitational waves and the measurement of the optical depth to reionization, both through their imprint on the large angular scale correlati…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 25 cited

New Insights in the Spectral Variability and Physical Conditions of the X-ray Absorbers in NGC 4151

J. D. Couto, S. B. Kraemer, T. J. Turner +1

We investigate the relationship between the long term X-ray spectral variability in the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy NGC 4151 and its intrinsic absorption, by comparing the 2014 simultaneous…