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Development and characterization of a millimeter-wave circular polarization observation method using a quarter-wave plate with Simons Array
Kana Sakaguri, Darcy R. Barron, Yuji Chinone +17
We have developed and demonstrated a method for measuring circular polarization at 90 GHz by combining a quarter-wave plate (QWP) and a continuously rotating half-wave plate (HWP).…
The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes
Kathleen Harrington, Remington Gerras, Nicholas Galitzki +88
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO Small Aperture Tel…
The Simons Observatory: Overview of the Cryogenic Half-wave Plate Polarization Modulators
Junna Sugiyama, Kyohei Yamada, Bryce Bixler +5
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment that is located in the Atacama plateau. The Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) of SO are op…
The Simons Observatory: Rotation Performance of Cryogenic Half-Wave Plate Polarization Modulators
Kyohei Yamada, Bryce Bixler, Junna Sugiyama +10
We present the on-site rotation performance of the first three cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate (HWP) polarization modulators for the Simons Observatory small apertu…
The Simons Observatory: On-sky performance of radio-transparent multi-layer insulation (RT-MLI) using Styroace-II Styrofoam
Samuel Day-Weiss, Nicholas Galitzki, Atsuto Takeuchi +14
We present the on-sky performance of a Radio-Transparent Multi-Layer Insulation filter (RT-MLI) that uses Styroace-II styrofoam to reject ambient thermal radiation from entering a…
The Simons Observatory: Detector Polarization Angle Calibration using Sparse Wire Grid with Initial Data Sets of the Small Aperture Telescope
Hironobu Nakata, Shunsuke Adachi, Kyohei Yamada +22
Improved measurements of -modes in the cosmic microwave background can be obtained through accurate calibration of the orientation of detector antennas as projected onto the sky…
Constraints on the polarization angle oscillations of the Crab Nebula with the Simons Array and its applications to the search for axion-like particles
Tylor Adkins, Shahed Shayan Arani, Kam Arnold +27
We present a search for polarization oscillation of the Crab Nebula, also known as Tau A, at millimeter wavelengths using observations with the Simons Array, the successor experime…
The Simons Observatory: Large Diameter and Large Load-Capacity Superconducting Magnetic Bearing for a Millimeter-Wave Polarization Modulator
Daichi Sasaki, Junna Sugiyama, Kyohei Yamada +5
We present the design methodology and characterization of a superconducting magnetic bearing (SMB) system for the polarization modulator in the SAT-LF, one of the small aperture te…
The Simons Observatory: Design, integration, and testing of the small aperture telescopes
Nicholas Galitzki, Tran Tsan, Jake Spisak +77
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that includes small-aperture telescopes (SATs) observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Ata…
Exploration of the polarization angle variability of the Crab Nebula with POLARBEAR and its application to the search for axion-like particles
Shunsuke Adachi, Tylor Adkins, Carlo Baccigalupi +23
The Crab Nebula, also known as Tau A, is a polarized astronomical source at millimeter wavelengths. It has been used as a stable light source for polarization angle calibration in…
The Simons Observatory: Development and Optical Evaluation of Achromatic Half-Wave Plates
Junna Sugiyama, Tomoki Terasaki, Kana Sakaguri +16
The Simons Observatory (SO) experiment is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The SO' s small aperture telescopes (SATs) consist of…
Anti-reflection coating with mullite and Duroid for large-diameter cryogenic sapphire and alumina optics
Kana Sakaguri, Masaya Hasegawa, Yuki Sakurai +10
We developed a broadband two-layer anti-reflection (AR) coating for use on a sapphire half-wave plate (HWP) and an alumina infrared (IR) filter for the cosmic microwave background…
Development of readout electronics for POLARBEAR-2 Cosmic Microwave Background experiment
K. Hattori, Y. Akiba, K. Arnold +18
The readout of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers with a large multiplexing factor is key for the next generation Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment, Polarbear-2, ha…
Characterizing Atacama B-mode Search Detectors with a Half-Wave Plate
S. M. Simon, J. W. Appel, L. E. Campusano +11
The Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) instrument is a cryogenic (10 K) crossed-Dragone telescope located at an elevation of 5190 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile that observed for…
The QUIET Instrument
QUIET Collaboration, C. Bischoff, A. Brizius +52
The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) is designed to measure polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background, targeting the imprint of inflationary gravitational waves at large angula…
First Season QUIET Observations: Measurements of CMB Polarization Power Spectra at 43 GHz in the Multipole Range 25 <= ell <= 475
QUIET Collaboration, C. Bischoff, A. Brizius +48
The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) employs coherent receivers at 43GHz and 95GHz, operating on the Chajnantor plateau in the Atacama Desert in Chile, to measure the anisotropy in t…
Fast and precise map-making for massively multi-detector CMB experiments
D. Sutton, J. A. Zuntz, P. G. Ferreira +6
Future cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation experiments aim to measure an unprecedentedly small signal - the primordial gravity wave component of the polarisation field B…