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20042025
most citedPlanck pre-launch status: Design and description of the Low Frequency Instrument

176 citations · 704 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

A chemically etched D-band waveguide orthomode transducer for CMB measurements

E. Manzan, A. Mennella, F. Cavaliere +21

This study presents a prototype D-band waveguide orthomode transducer (OMT) fabricated using chemically etched brass platelets. This method offers a fast, cost-effective, and scala…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

The LSPE-Strip Pointing Reconstruction and Star Tracker

Michele Maris, Maurizio Tomasi, Matteo Baratto +18

This paper aims to describe the Pointing Reconstruction Model (PRM) and the prototype Star Tracker, which will be mounted on LSPE-Strip, a microwave Q- and W-band CMB telescope pla…

astro-ph.CO2023

Measuring the CMB primordial B-modes with Bolometric Interferometry

A. Mennella, P. Ade, A. Almela +111

The Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is the first bolometric interferometer designed to measure the primordial B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Backgr…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Total power horn-coupled 150 GHz LEKID array for space applications

A. Paiella, A. Coppolecchia, P. de Bernardis +17

We have developed two arrays of lumped element kinetic inductance detectors working in the D-band, and optimised for the low radiative background conditions of a satellite mission…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

The LSPE-Strip feed horn array

C. Franceschet, F. Del Torto, F. Villa +15

In this paper we discuss the design, manufacturing and characterization of the feed horn array of the Strip instrument of the Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) experiment. S…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 22 cited

QUBIC IV: Performance of TES Bolometers and Readout Electronics

M. Piat, G. Stankowiak, E. S. Battistelli +126

A prototype version of the Q & U bolometric interferometer for cosmology (QUBIC) underwent a campaign of testing in the laboratory at Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology laboratory…