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astro-ph.IM2025
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…
astro-ph.IM2024
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…
astro-ph.IM2024
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…