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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…