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astro-ph.IM2016★ 81 cited

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor

Kathleen Harrington, Tobias Marriage, Aamir Ali +33

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a four telescope array designed to characterize relic primordial gravitational waves from inflation and the optical depth to r…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 16 cited

Optical modeling and polarization calibration for CMB measurements with ACTPol and Advanced ACTPol

Brian Koopman, Jason Austermann, Hsiao-Mei Cho +21

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) is a polarization sensitive upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. Located at an elevation of 5190 m, ACTPol measures the…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 30 cited

Readout of two-kilopixel transition-edge sensor arrays for Advanced ACTPol

Shawn W. Henderson, Jason R. Stevens, Mandana Amiri +30

Advanced ACTPol is an instrument upgrade for the six-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 8 cited

Polarization Sensitive Multi-Chroic MKIDs

Bradley R. Johnson, Daniel Flanigan, Maximilian H. Abitbol +18

We report on the development of scalable prototype microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays tailored for future multi-kilo-pixel experiments that are designed to simulta…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 39 cited

Survey strategy optimization for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

F. De Bernardis, J. R. Stevens, M. Hasselfield +34

In recent years there have been significant improvements in the sensitivity and the angular resolution of the instruments dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Backg…

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.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…