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astro-ph.CO2018★ 492 cited

BICEP2 / Keck Array x: Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and New BICEP2/Keck Observations through the 2015 Season

Keck Array, BICEP2 Collaborations, : +78

We present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2/Keck CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2015 observing season. This includes the first Keck Ar…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 31 cited

Highly-multiplexed microwave SQUID readout using the SLAC Microresonator Radio Frequency (SMuRF) Electronics for Future CMB and Sub-millimeter Surveys

Shawn W. Henderson, Zeeshan Ahmed, Jason Austermann +29

The next generation of cryogenic CMB and submillimeter cameras under development require densely instrumented sensor arrays to meet their science goals. The readout of large number…

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.CO2018★ 1.5k cited

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 12 cited

Design and performance of wide-band corrugated walls for the BICEP Array detector modules at 30/40 GHz

A. Soliman, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +75

BICEP Array is a degree-scale Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment that will search for primordial B-mode polarization while constraining Galactic foregrounds. BICEP Array…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

Ultra-Thin Large-Aperture Vacuum Windows for Millimeter Wavelengths Receivers

Denis Barkats, Marion I. Dierickx, John M. Kovac +75

Targeting faint polarization patterns arising from Primordial Gravitational Waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background requires excellent observational sensitivity. Optical elements…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

BICEP Array cryostat and mount design

M. Crumrine, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +74

Bicep Array is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiment that will begin observing at the South Pole in early 2019. This experiment replaces the five Bicep2 style…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 93 cited

BICEP Array: a multi-frequency degree-scale CMB polarimeter

Howard Hui, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +75

BICEP Array is the newest multi-frequency instrument in the BICEP/Keck Array program. It is comprised of four 550 mm aperture refractive telescopes observing the polarization of th…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 26 cited

2017 upgrade and performance of BICEP3: a 95GHz refracting telescope for degree-scale CMB polarization

Jae Hwan Kang, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +74

BICEP3 is a 520mm aperture on-axis refracting telescope observing the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95GHz in search of the B-mode signal originating from…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 10 cited

Measurements of Degree-Scale B-mode Polarization with the BICEP/Keck Experiments at South Pole

Keck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +76

The BICEP and Keck Array experiments are a suite of small-aperture refracting telescopes observing the microwave sky from the South Pole. They target the degree-scale B-mode polari…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 17 cited

Prime-Cam: A first-light instrument for the CCAT-prime telescope

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zeeshan Ahmed, Aamir Ali +43

CCAT-prime will be a 6-meter aperture telescope operating from sub-mm to mm wavelengths, located at 5600 meters elevation on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Its no…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

SLAC Microresonator Radio Frequency (SMuRF) Electronics for Read Out of Frequency-Division-Multiplexed Cryogenic Sensors

S. A. Kernasovskiy, S. E. Kuenstner, E. Karpel +20

Large arrays of cryogenic sensors for various imaging applications ranging across x-ray, gamma-ray, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), mm/sub-mm, as well as particle detection incr…