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The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarization: BLAST-pol
G. Marsden, P. A. R. Ade, S. Benton +35
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital experiment designed to study the process of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky…
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2005: Calibration and Targeted Sources
M. D. P. Truch, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +23
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 100-hour flight from northern Sweden in June 2005 (BLAST05). As part of the calibrat…
New Measurements of Fine-Scale CMB Polarization Power Spectra from CAPMAP at Both 40 and 90 GHz
CAPMAP Collaboration, C. Bischoff, L. Hyatt +12
We present new measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization from the final season of the Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper (CAPMAP). The data set was obta…
SANEPIC: A Map-Making Method for Timestream Data From Large Arrays
G. Patanchon, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +23
We describe a map-making method which we have developed for the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) experiment, but which should have general application t…
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2005: A 4 sq. deg Galactic Plane Survey in Vulpecula (l=59)
E. L. Chapin, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +24
We present the first results from a new 250, 350, and 500 micron Galactic Plane survey taken with the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) in 2005. This sur…
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope: BLAST
E. Pascale, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +27
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital surveying experiment designed to study the evolutionary history and processes of star formation in…
BLAST Autonomous Daytime Star Cameras
Marie Rex, Edward Chapin, Mark J. Devlin +4
We have developed two redundant daytime star cameras to provide the fine pointing solution for the balloon-borne submillimeter telescope, BLAST. The cameras are capable of providin…
The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) -- I. Survey motivation, design and data processing
A. M. J. Mortier, S. Serjeant, J. S. Dunlop +2
The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) is a major blank-field extragalactic sub-mm survey underway at the James Clerk Maxwell telescope.SHADES aims to cover half a squ…
CMB Polarimetry using Correlation Receivers with the PIQUE and CAPMAP Experiments
D. Barkats, C. Bischoff, P. Farese +10
The Princeton IQU Experiment (PIQUE) and the Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper (CAPMAP) are experiments designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background…
First measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation at small angular scales from CAPMAP
D. Barkats, C. Bischoff, P. Farese +10
Polarization results from the Cosmic Anisotropy Polarization MAPper (CAPMAP) experiment are reported. These are based upon 433 hours, after cuts, observing a 2 square degree patch…
COMPASS: An Upper Limit on CMB Polarization at an Angular Scale of 20 arc minutes
Philip C. Farese, Giorgio Dall'Oglio, Joshua O. Gundersen +10
COMPASS is an on-axis 2.6 meter telescope coupled to a correlation polarimeter operating at a wavelength of 1 cm. The entire instrument was built specifically for CMB polarization…
COMPASS: An Instrument for Measuring the Polarization of the CMB on Intermediate Angular Scales
Philip C. Farese, Giorgio Dall'Oglio, Josh Gundersen +9
COMPASS is an on-axis 2.6 meter telescope coupled to a correlation polarimeter. The entire instrument was built specifically for CMB polarization studies. Careful attention was giv…
The Ku-band Polarization Identifier
J. O. Gundersen
The Ku-band Polarization Identifier (KUPID) will integrate a very low noise 12-18 GHz, correlation polarimeter onto the Crawford Hill seven meter, millimeter-wave antenna. The prim…
New Limits on the Polarized Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background at Subdegree Angular Scales
M. M. Hedman, D. Barkats, J. O. Gundersen +3
We update the limit from the 90 GHz PIQUE ground-based polarimeter on the magnitude of any polarized anisotropy of the cosmic microwave radiation. With a second year of data, we ha…
First attempt at measuring the CMB cross-polarization
Angelica de Oliveira-Costa, Max Tegmark, Matias Zaldarriaga +5
We compute upper limits on CMB cross-polarization by cross-correlating the PIQUE and Saskatoon experiments. We also discuss theoretical and practical issues relevant to measuring c…
Breaking the Redshift Deadlock - I: Constraining the star formation history of galaxies with sub-millimetre photometric redshifts
D. H. Hughes, I. Aretxaga, E. L. Chapin +10
Future extragalactic sub-millimetre and millimetre surveys have the potential to provide a sensitive census of the level of obscured star formation in galaxies at all redshifts. Wh…
An Instrument for Investigating the Large Angular Scale Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Brian G. Keating, Christopher W. O'Dell, Joshua O. Gundersen +3
We describe the design and performance of a microwave polarimeter used to make precision measurements of polarized astrophysical radiation in three microwave frequency bands spanni…
A Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
Mark J. Devlin
A new generation of sub-orbital platforms will be operational in the next few years. These new telescopes will operate from airborne and balloon-borne platforms where the atmospher…
A Limit on the Polarized Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background at Subdegree Angular Scales
M. M. Hedman, D. Barkats, J. O. Gundersen +2
A ground-based polarimeter, PIQUE, operating at 90 GHz has set a new limit on the magnitude of any polarized anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background. The combination of the s…
Cosmic Background Radiation Polarization Experiments
S. T. Staggs, J. O. Gundersen, S. E. Church
A handful of new experiments aimed at measuring the as-yet-undetected polarization of the cosmic background radiation are described, with somewhat more detail given for three exper…
The Second Measurement of Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation at 0\fdg5 Scales near the Star Mu Pegasi
M. A. Lim, A. C. Clapp, M. J. Devlin +11
During the fifth flight of the Microwave Anisotropy Experiment (MAX5), we revisited a region with significant dust emission near the star Mu Pegasi. A 3.5 cm low frequency c…
UCSB South Pole 1994 CMB anisotropy measurement constraints on open and flat-Lambda CDM cosmogonies
Ken Ganga, Bharat Ratra, Josh Gundersen +1
We develop methods to account for experimental and observational uncertainties in likelihood analyses of data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy experiments and appl…
Degree Scale Anisotropy: SP94 Results
J. Gundersen, M. Lim, J. Staren +8
We present results from 2 observations of the CMB performed from the South Pole during the 93-94 austral summer. Each observation employed a 3 peak to peak sinusoidal, si…
Measurements of Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation at Degree Angular Scales Near the Stars Sigma Hercules and Iota Draconis
A. C. Clapp, M. J. Devlin, J. O. Gundersen +11
We present results from two four-frequency observations centered near the stars Sigma Hercules and Iota Draconis during the fourth flight of the Millimeter-wave Anisotropy eXperime…