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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…
SPT-3G+: A Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment for the South Pole Telescope
T. Natoli, Z. Ahmed, H. Athreya +72
SPT-3G+ is the next survey receiver planned to be installed in early 2029 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT). This new receiver will feature 6,020 polarization-sensitive di…
The SPT-3G+ receiver design
H. Athreya, Z. Ahmed, J. E. Austermann +71
We present the thermo-mechanical design of the cryostat and camera optics for SPT-3G+, a new receiver being developed for the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The receiver consists of 1…
A Measurement of the Largest-Scale CMB E-mode Polarization with CLASS
Yunyang Li, Joseph Eimer, John Appel +34
We present measurements of large-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) E-mode polarization from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 90 GHz data. Using 115 det-yr o…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On-sky performance of new 90 GHz detectors for the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)
Carolina Núñez, John W. Appel, Michael K. Brewer +18
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 and designed to measu…
Construction of a Large Diameter Reflective Half-Wave Plate Modulator for Millimeter Wave Applications
Joseph R. Eimer, Michael K. Brewer, David T. Chuss +14
Polarization modulation is a powerful technique to increase the stability of measurements by enabling the distinction of a polarized signal from dominant slow system drifts and unp…
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…
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…
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…
Testing CMB Anomalies in E-mode Polarization with Current and Future Data
Rui Shi, Tobias A. Marriage, John W. Appel +15
In this paper, we explore the power of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization (E-mode) data to corroborate four potential anomalies in CMB temperature data: the lack of…
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…
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…
Anti-reflection Coated Vacuum Window for the Primordial Inflation Polarization ExploreR (PIPER) balloon-borne instrument
Rahul Datta, David T. Chuss, Joseph Eimer +12
Measuring the faint polarization signal of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) not only requires high optical throughput and instrument sensitivity but also control over systemat…
Confirming ALMA Calibration using Planck and ACT Observations
Gerrit S. Farren, Bruce Partridge, Rüdiger Kneissl +4
We test the accuracy of ALMA flux density calibration by comparing ALMA flux density measurements of extragalactic sources to measurements made by the Planck mission; Planck is abs…
Two Year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: Long Timescale Stability Achieved with a Front-End Variable-delay Polarization Modulator at 40 GHz
Kathleen Harrington, Rahul Datta, Keisuke Osumi +33
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a four-telescope array observing the largest angular scales () of the cosmic microwave backgroun…
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…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR5 maps of 18,000 square degrees of the microwave sky from ACT 2008-2018 data
Sigurd Naess, Simone Aiola, Jason E. Austermann +59
This paper presents a maximum-likelihood algorithm for combining sky maps with disparate sky coverage, angular resolution and spatially varying anisotropic noise into a single map…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz
Steve K. Choi, Matthew Hasselfield, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho +136
We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg of the 2013-2016 survey, which cove…