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Optical Characterization of the BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole
K. S. Karkare, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +56
BICEP3 is a small-aperture refracting cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescope designed to make sensitive polarization maps in pursuit of a potential B-mode signal from inflatio…
Precise Pointing and Stabilization Performance for the Balloon-borne Imaging Testbed (BIT): 2015 Test Flight
L. J. Romualdez, P. Clark, C. J. Damaren +5
Balloon-borne astronomy offers an attractive option for experiments that require precise pointing and attitude stabilization, due to a large reduction in the atmospheric interferen…
Initial Performance of BICEP3: A Degree Angular Scale 95 GHz Band Polarimeter
W. L. K. Wu, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +49
BICEP3 is a aperture telescope with cold, on-axis, refractive optics designed to observe at the band from the South Pole. It is the newest member of the BICEP/Kec…
BICEP2 III: Instrumental Systematics
BICEP2 Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin +42
In a companion paper we have reported a detection of degree scale -mode polarization at 150 GHz by the BICEP2 experiment. Here we provide a detailed study of potential in…
BICEP2/Keck Array IV: Optical Characterization and Performance of the BICEP2 and Keck Array Experiments
The BICEP2, Keck Array Collaborations, : +51
BICEP2 and the Keck Array are polarization-sensitive microwave telescopes that observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the South Pole at degree angular scales in search…
Antenna-coupled TES bolometers for the Keck Array, Spider, and Polar-1
R. O'Brient, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +50
Between the BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments, we have deployed over 1500 dual polarized antenna coupled bolometers to map the Cosmic Microwave Background's polarization. We have b…
BICEP2 and Keck Array operational overview and status of observations
R. W. Ogburn, P. A. R. Ade, R. W. Aikin +50
The BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments are designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales of 2-4 degrees (l=50-100). This is the reg…
Design and performance of the Spider instrument
M. C. Runyan, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +40
Here we describe the design and performance of the Spider instrument. Spider is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarization imager that will map part of the sky at 90,…