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most citedFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

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astro-ph.IM2018★ 15 cited

Full-sky beam convolution for cosmic microwave background applications

Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Alexandra S. Rahlin

We introduce a publicly available full-sky beam convolution code library intended to inform the design of future cosmic microwave background (CMB) instruments and help current expe…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 47 cited

Year two instrument status of the SPT-3G cosmic microwave background receiver

A. N. Bender, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +86

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed for high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The SPT measures both the tem…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Characterization and performance of the second-year SPT-3G focal plane

D. Dutcher, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +68

The third-generation instrument for the 10-meter South Pole Telescope, SPT-3G, was first installed in January 2017. In addition to completely new cryostats, secondary telescope opt…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 15 cited

Design and characterization of the SPT-3G receiver

J. A. Sobrin, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +68

The SPT-3G receiver was commissioned in early 2017 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) to map anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). New optics, detector, an…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 10 cited

Broadband anti-reflective coatings for cosmic microwave background experiments

A. Nadolski, A. M. Kofman, J. D. Vieira +71

The desire for higher sensitivity has driven ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to employ ever larger focal planes, which in turn require larger reimaging o…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 18 cited

Optical Characterization of the SPT-3G Focal Plane

Zhaodi Pan, Peter Ade, Zeeshan Ahmed +73

The third-generation South Pole Telescope camera is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background across three frequency bands (95, 150 and 220 GHz) with ~16,000 transition-e…