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astro-ph.IM2019★ 11 cited

Commercially fabricated antenna-coupled Transition Edge Sensor bolometer detectors for next generation Cosmic Microwave Background polarimetry experiment

Aritoki Suzuki, Nicholas Cothard, Adrian T. Lee +10

We report on the development of commercially fabricated multi-chroic antenna coupled Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimetry…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 6 cited

Design of a testbed for the study of system interference in space CMB polarimetry

Tommaso Ghigna, Tomotake Matsumura, Masashi Hazumi +6

LiteBIRD is a proposed JAXA satellite mission to measure the CMB B-mode polarization with unprecedented sensitivity (). To achieve this goal, state-of-the-art…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 2 cited

Particle Physics with the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPT-3G

J. S. Avva, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +85

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) encodes information about the content and evolution of the universe. The presence of light, weakly interacting particles impacts the expansion…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 30 cited

Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum from Two Years of POLARBEAR Data

Mario Aguilar Faúndez, Kam Arnold, Carlo Baccigalupi +48

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing deflection power spectrum reconstructed with two seasons cosmic microwave background polarization data from the POLARBEAR expe…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 73 cited

A Measurement of the Degree Scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR

S. Adachi, M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez, K. Arnold +69

We present a measurement of the -mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experim…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 9 cited

Recent Advances in Frequency-Multiplexed TES Readout: Vastly Reduced Parasitics and an Increase in Multiplexing Factor with sub-Kelvin SQUIDs

T. de Haan, A. Suzuki, S. T. P. Boyd +9

Cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements are fundamentally limited by photon statistics. Therefore, ground-based CMB observatories have been increasing the number of detector…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper

Kevork Abazajian, Graeme Addison, Peter Adshead +222

We provide an overview of the science case, instrument configuration and project plan for the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4, for consid…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 15 cited

Performance of Al-Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G

A. J. Anderson, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +86

SPT-3G is a polarization-sensitive receiver, installed on the South Pole Telescope, that measures the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from degree to arcminute s…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 15 cited

On-sky performance of the SPT-3G frequency-domain multiplexed readout

A. N. Bender, A. J. Anderson, J. S. Avva +86

Frequency-domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 79 cited

The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 443 cited

CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan

Kevork Abazajian, Graeme Addison, Peter Adshead +222

We present the science case, reference design, and project plan for the Stage-4 ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4.

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

The POLARBEAR Fourier Transform Spectrometer Calibrator and Spectroscopic Characterization of the POLARBEAR Instrument

Frederick Matsuda, Lindsay Lowry, Aritoki Suzuki +25

We describe the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) used for in-field testing of the POLARBEAR receiver, an experiment located in the Atacama Desert of Chile which measures the co…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 25 cited

Evidence for the Cross-correlation between Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing from POLARBEAR and Cosmic Shear from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam

Toshiya Namikawa, Yuji Chinone, Hironao Miyatake +72

We present the first measurement of cross-correlation between the lensing potential, reconstructed from cosmic microwave background (CMB) {\it polarization} data, and the cosmic sh…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 7 cited

The Next Generation of Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae

Dan Scolnic, Saul Perlmutter, Greg Aldering +56

While Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are one of the most mature cosmological probes, the next era promises to be extremely exciting in the number of different ways SNe Ia are used to…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 54 cited

Primordial Non-Gaussianity

P. Daniel Meerburg, Daniel Green, Muntazir Abidi +175

Our current understanding of the Universe is established through the pristine measurements of structure in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the distribution and shapes of…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 45 cited

Messengers from the Early Universe: Cosmic Neutrinos and Other Light Relics

Daniel Green, Mustafa A. Amin, Joel Meyers +136

The hot dense environment of the early universe is known to have produced large numbers of baryons, photons, and neutrinos. These extreme conditions may have also produced other lo…