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most citedThe Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters

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24 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Laser-micromachined silicon-platelet feedhorns for large-scale submillimeter and millimeter-wave focal planes

Jason E. Austermann, James Beall, Andrew Forsman +10

We present the fabrication and characterization of the first silicon-platelet feedhorn arrays produced using laser micromachining. First, we present a demonstration of the technolo…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Silicon-Platelet Feedhorns for Submillimeter Wavelengths

Jason Austermann, James Beall, James R. Burgoyne +12

Silicon-platelet feedhorn arrays are an established technology at millimeter wavelengths that, for some applications, can provide significant advantages over traditional direct-mac…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

In-Flight Performance of Spider's 280 GHz Receivers

Elle C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +84

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the cosmic microwave background at degree-angular scales in the presence of Galactic foregrounds. SPIDER has mapped a large sky…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

CCAT-prime: The 850 GHz camera for Prime-Cam on FYST

Scott C. Chapman, Anthony I. Huber, Adrian K. Sinclair +23

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the Cerro-Chajnantor Atacama Telescope prime (CCAT- prime) Facility will host Prime-Cam as a powerful, first generation camera with…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 50 cited

The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design

Heather McCarrick, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed +56

Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducti…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 132 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Modeling the Gas Thermodynamics in BOSS CMASS galaxies from Kinematic and Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurements

Stefania Amodeo, Nicholas Battaglia, Emmanuel Schaan +52

The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ, kSZ) probe the thermodynamic properties of the circumgalactic and intracluster medium (CGM and ICM) of galaxies, groups,…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 47 cited

Probing galaxy evolution in massive clusters using ACT and DES: splashback as a cosmic clock

Susmita Adhikari, Tae-hyeon Shin, Bhuvnesh Jain +113

We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmolo…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 7 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Delensed Power Spectra and Parameters

Dongwon Han, Neelima Sehgal, Amanda MacInnis +39

We present LCDM cosmological parameter constraints obtained from delensed microwave background power spectra. Lensing maps from a subset of DR4 data from the Atacama Cosmology Tele…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 271 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 629 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters

Simone Aiola, Erminia Calabrese, Loïc Maurin +138

We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013…

physics.ins-det2018★ 8 cited

Tile-and-trim micro-resonator array fabrication optimized for high multiplexing factors

Christopher M. McKenney, Jason E. Austermann, Jim Beall +9

We present a superconducting micro-resonator array fabrication method that is scalable, reconfigurable, and has been optimized for high multiplexing factors. The method uses unifor…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 11 cited

280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the SPIDER-2 Suborbital Polarimeter

A. S. Bergman, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +76

We describe the construction and characterization of the 280 GHz bolometric focal plane units (FPUs) to be deployed on the second flight of the balloon-borne SPIDER instrument. The…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 135 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Lensing Power Spectrum

Blake D. Sherwin, Alexander van Engelen, Neelima Sehgal +43

We report a measurement of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from two seasons of Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) CMB data. The CMB le…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 15 cited

Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER

Johannes Hubmayr, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall +40

We describe 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER. A primary science goal of SPIDER is to measure the large-scale B-mode polarizat…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 98 cited

Detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with BOSS DR11 and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

F. De Bernardis, S. Aiola, E. M. Vavagiakis +55

We present a new measurement of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 244 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The polarization-sensitive ACTPol instrument

R. J. Thornton, P. A. R. Ade, S. Aiola +53

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is designed to make high angular resolution measurements of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at millimeter wavelengths. W…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 343 cited

Advanced ACTPol Cryogenic Detector Arrays and Readout

S. W. Henderson, R. Allison, J. Austermann +54

Advanced ACTPol is a polarization-sensitive upgrade for the 6 m aperture Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), adding new frequencies and increasing sensitivity over the previous ACTP…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 50 cited

The Next Generation BLAST Experiment

Nicholas Galitzki, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè +38

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) was a suborbital experiment designed to map magnetic fields in order to study their role in star…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 17 cited

The next-generation BLASTPol experiment

Bradley Dober, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter Ashton +36

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role magnetic fields play in star forma…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 62 cited

Photon-noise limited sensitivity in titanium nitride kinetic inductance detectors

Johannes Hubmayr, Jim Beall, Dan Becker +14

We demonstrate photon-noise limited performance at sub-millimeter wavelengths in feedhorn-coupled, microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) made of a TiN/Ti/TiN trilayer supe…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 37 cited

Horn Coupled Multichroic Polarimeters for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization Experiment

Rahul Datta, Johannes Hubmayr, Charles Munson +17

Multichroic polarization sensitive detectors enable increased sensitivity and spectral coverage for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). An array optimized for du…