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Performance of a Kinetic-Inductance Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifier at 4 Kelvin: Toward an Alternative to Semiconductor Amplifiers
M. Malnou, J. Aumentado, M. R. Vissers +4
Most microwave readout architectures in quantum computing or sensing rely on a semiconductor amplifier at 4 K, typically a high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT). Despite its rem…
CCAT-prime Collaboration: Science Goals and Forecasts with Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
Prime collaboration, M. Aravena, J. E. Austermann +84
We present a detailed overview of the science goals and predictions for the Prime-Cam direct detection camera/spectrometer being constructed by the CCAT-prime collaboration for ded…
Observations of compact sources in galaxy clusters using MUSTANG2
Simon R. Dicker, Elia S. Battistelli, Tanay Bhandarkar +26
Compact sources can cause scatter in the scaling relationships between the amplitude of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (tSZE) in galaxy clusters and cluster mass. Estimates…
A high-resolution view of the filament of gas between Abell 399 and Abell 401 from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and MUSTANG-2
Adam D. Hincks, Federico Radiconi, Charles Romero +43
We report a significant detection of the hot intergalactic medium in the filamentary bridge connecting the galaxy clusters Abell 399 and Abell 401. This result is enabled by a low-…
The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design
Heather McCarrick, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed +56
Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducti…
The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope (LAT)
Zhilei Xu, Shunsuke Adachi, Peter Ade +57
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment to observe the microwave sky in six frequency bands from 30GHz to 290GHz. The Observatory -- at …
Gamma and Decay Energy Spectroscopy Measurements of Trinitite
D. J. Mercer, K. E. Koehler, M. P. Croce +5
We report gamma ray spectroscopy measurements of trinitite samples and analogous samples obtained from detonation sites in Nevada and Semipalatinsk, as well as in situ measurements…
Improved Nondestructive Isotopic Analysis with Practical Microcalorimeter Gamma Spectrometers
Mark Croce, Daniel Becker, Katrina E. Koehler +1
Advances in both instrumentation and data analysis software are now enabling the first ultra-high-resolution microcalorimeter gamma spectrometers designed for implementation in nuc…
First Measurements of Nuclear Detonation Debris with Decay Energy Spectroscopy
Mark P. Croce, Katrina E. Koehler, Veronika Mocko +4
We report the first isotopic composition measurements of trinitite, nuclear detonation debris from the Trinity test, using the novel forensics technique of decay energy spectroscop…
The Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
Ningfeng Zhu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi +68
The Simons Observatory (SO) Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) will be coupled to the Large Aperture Telescope located at an elevation of 5,200 m on Cerro Toco in Chile. The…
New Experimentally Observable Gamma-ray Emissions from 241Am Nuclear Decay
Katrina E. Koehler, Michael D. Yoho, Matthew H. Carpenter +16
With the high resolution of microcalorimeter detectors, previously unresolvable gamma-ray lines are now clearly resolvable. A careful measurement of Am-241 decay with a large array…
Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission
L. Montier, B. Mot, P. de Bernardis +232
LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Univer…
LiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization
M. Hazumi, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +233
LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and…
The design of the Ali CMB Polarization Telescope receiver
Maria Salatino, Jason E. Austermann, Keith L. Thompson +72
Ali CMB Polarization Telescope (AliCPT-1) is the first CMB degree-scale polarimeter to be deployed on the Tibetan plateau at 5,250m above sea level. AliCPT-1 is a 90/150 GHz 72 cm…
Concept Design of Low Frequency Telescope for CMB B-mode Polarization satellite LiteBIRD
Y. Sekimoto, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +232
LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode polarization over the full sky at large angular…
In situ Performance of the Low Frequency Arrayfor Advanced ACTPol
Yaqiong Li, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall +24
The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) \cite{thornton} is an upgrade for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays t…
Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver
Ian Lowe, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 25…
Progress in the development of TES microcalorimeter detectors suitable for neutrino mass measurement
A. Giachero, B. Alpert, D. T. Becker +19
The HOLMES experiment will perform a precise calorimetric measurement of the end point of the Electron Capture (EC) decay spectrum of 163Ho in order to extract information on neutr…
In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform
Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30
The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular reso…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with SDSS DR15 Galaxies
Victoria Calafut, Patricio A. Gallardo, Eve M. Vavagiakis +49
We present a 5.4 detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect using Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and CMB observations in combination wi…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the Baryon Content of SDSS DR15 Galaxies with the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects
Eve M. Vavagiakis, Patricio A. Gallardo, Victoria Calafut +49
We present high signal-to-noise measurements (up to 12) of the average thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect from optically selected galaxy groups and clusters and estimate th…