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most citedQUBIC: The QU Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology

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astro-ph.IM2021★ 22 cited

QUBIC IV: Performance of TES Bolometers and Readout Electronics

M. Piat, G. Stankowiak, E. S. Battistelli +126

A prototype version of the Q & U bolometric interferometer for cosmology (QUBIC) underwent a campaign of testing in the laboratory at Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology laboratory…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 45 cited

QUBIC I: Overview and ScienceProgram

J. -Ch. Hamilton, L. Mousset, E. S. Battistelli +127

The Q U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a novel kind of polarimeter optimized for the measurement of the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Backgro…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 16 cited

QUBIC II: Spectro-Polarimetry with Bolometric Interferometry

L. Mousset, M. M. Gamboa Lerena, E. S. Battistelli +128

Bolometric interferometry is a novel technique that has the ability to perform spectral imaging. A bolometric interferometer observes the sky in a wide frequency band and can recon…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

QUBIC VII: The feedhorn-switch system of the technological demonstrator

F. Cavaliere, A. Mennella, M. Zannoni +128

We present the design, manufacturing and performance of the horn-switch system developed for the technological demonstrator of QUBIC (the \& Bolometric Interferometer for Cos…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 12 cited

QUBIC VI: cryogenic half wave plate rotator, design and performances

G. D'Alessandro, L. Mele, F. Columbro +126

Inflation Gravity Waves B-Modes polarization detection is the ultimate goal of modern large angular scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments around the world. A big effo…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 17 cited

QUBIC V: Cryogenic system design and performance

S. Masi, E. S. Battistelli, P. de Bernardis +126

Current experiments aimed at measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) use cryogenic detector arrays and cold optical systems to boost the mapping speed o…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 17 cited

QUBIC VIII: Optical design and performance

C. O'Sullivan, M. De Petris, G. Amico +126

The Q and U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a ground-based experiment that aims to detect B-mode polarisation anisotropies in the CMB at angular scales around th…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 13 cited

QUBIC III: Laboratory Characterization

S. A. Torchinsky, J. -Ch. Hamilton, M. Piat +125

A prototype version of the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) underwent a campaign of testing in the laboratory at Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology in Paris.…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 10 cited

QUBIC: the Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology

E. S. Battistelli, P. Ade, J. G. Alberro +136

The Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, QUBIC, is an innovative experiment designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background and in particular the…

astro-ph.IM2019

QUBIC: using NbSi TESs with a bolometric interferometer to characterize the polarisation of the CMB

M. Piat, B. Bélier, L. Bergé +135

QUBIC (Q \& U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology) is an international ground-based experiment dedicated in the measurement of the polarized fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwav…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 30 cited

QUBIC: Exploring the primordial Universe with the Q\&U Bolometric Interferometer

Aniello Mennella, Peter Ade, Giorgio Amico +127

In this paper we describe QUBIC, an experiment that will observe the polarized microwave sky with a novel approach, which combines the sensitivity of state-of-the art bolometric de…

astro-ph.IM2018

Thermal architecture for the QUBIC cryogenic receiver

A. J. May, C. Chapron, G. Coppi +127

QUBIC, the QU Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, is a novel forthcoming instrument to measure the B-mode polarization anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The detec…

astro-ph.CO2012

A template of atmospheric molecular oxygen circularly polarized emission for CMB experiments

Giulio Fabbian, Sebastiano Spinelli, Massimo Gervasi +2

We compute the polarized signal from atmospheric molecular oxygen due to Zeeman effect in the Earth magnetic field for various sites suitable for CMB measurements such as South Pol…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 18 cited

Intensity and polarization of the atmospheric emission at millimetric wavelengths at Dome Concordia

E. S. Battistelli, G. Amico, A. Baù +32

Atmospheric emission is a dominant source of disturbance in ground-based astronomy at mm wavelengths. The Antarctic plateau is recognized to be an ideal site for mm and sub-mm obse…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 14 cited

A template of atmospheric O2 circularly polarized emission for CMB experiments

Sebastiano Spinelli, Giulio Fabbian, Andrea Tartari +2

We compute the circularly polarized signal from atmospheric molecular oxygen. Polarization of O2 rotational lines is caused by Zeeman effect in the Earth magnetic field. We evaluat…

astro-ph.HE2010

On the detectability of cosmic ray electron spectral features in the microwave/mm-wave range

Andrea Tartari, Massimo Gervasi, Giorgio Sironi +2

Recent measurements of cosmic ray electron energy spectra suggest that above 10 GeV there may be deviations from a single power law spectrum. There are hints (ATIC) for a bump occu…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 66 cited

QUBIC: The QU Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology

The QUBIC collaboration, E. Battistelli, A. Baù +57

One of the major challenges of modern cosmology is the detection of B-mode polarization anisotropies in the CMB. These originate from tensor fluctuations of the metric produced dur…

astro-ph.CO2010

Cosmological observations in the radio domain: the contribution of extragalactic sources

Andrea Tartari, Mario Zannoni, Massimo Gervasi +2

The low frequency tail of the CMB spectrum, down along the radio range (~1 GHz), may carry weak spectral distortions which are fingerprints of processes occurred during different e…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 5 cited

SAGACE: the Spectroscopic Active Galaxies And Clusters Explorer

P. De Bernardis, D. Bagliani, A. Bardi +42

The SAGACE experiment consists of a mm/sub-mm telescope with a 3-m diameter primary mirror, coupled to a cryogenic multi-beam differential spectrometer. SAGACE explores the sky in…

astro-ph.IM2009

A demonstrator for bolometric interferometry

Adnan Ghribi, Andrea Tartari, Silvia Galli +6

Bolometric Interferometry (BI) is one of the most promising techniques for precise measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization. In this paper, we present the resul…