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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…
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…
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…
Cross-Slot Metal-Mesh Bandpass Filters for Far-Infrared Astronomy
Joanna Perido, Kevin Denis, Jason Glenn +7
The far-infrared (IR) region is rich with information needed to characterize interstellar dust and to investigate the cold outer planets of the solar system and their icy moons. Th…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fabrication of phononic filter structures for far-IR/sub-mm detector applications
Kevin L. Denis, Karwan Rostem, Marco A. Sagliocca +2
A photon noise limited sub-mm/far-IR cold telescope in space will require detectors with noise equivalent power (NEP) less than 1x10-19 W/Hz1/2 for imaging applications and at leas…
On-sky performance of the CLASS Q-band telescope
John W. Appel, Zhilei Xu, Ivan L. Padilla +34
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is mapping the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales () in search of a…
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…
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…
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…
SiAl Alloy Feedhorn Arrays: Material Properties, Feedhorn Design, and Astrophysical Applications
Aamir M. Ali, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Tobias Marriage +10
We present here a study of the use of the SiAl alloy CE7 for the packaging of silicon devices at cryogenic temperatures. We report on the development of baseplates and feedhorn arr…
Multimode bolometer development for the PIXIE instrument
Peter C. Nagler, Kevin T. Crowley, Kevin L. Denis +6
The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept designed to measure the polarization and absolute intensity of the cosmic microwave background. In th…
Superconducting Vacuum-Gap Crossovers for High Performance Microwave Applications
Kevin L. Denis, Ari D. Brown, Meng-Ping Chang +3
The design and fabrication of low-loss wide-bandwidth superconducting vacuum-gap crossovers for high performance millimeter wave applications are described. In order to reduce ohmi…
Silicon-Based Antenna-Coupled Polarization-Sensitive Millimeter-Wave Bolometer Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Instruments
Karwan Rostem, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel +15
We describe feedhorn-coupled polarization-sensitive detector arrays that utilize monocrystalline silicon as the dielectric substrate material. Monocrystalline silicon has a low-los…
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor
Kathleen Harrington, Tobias Marriage, Aamir Ali +33
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a four telescope array designed to characterize relic primordial gravitational waves from inflation and the optical depth to r…