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NanoNewton electrostatic force actuators for femtoNewton-sensitive measurements: system performance test in the LISA Pathfinder mission
M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +87
Electrostatic force actuation is a key component of the system of geodesic reference test masses (TM) for the LISA orbiting gravitational wave observatory and in particular for per…
Tilt-to-length coupling in LISA Pathfinder: a data analysis
M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +76
We present a study of the tilt-to-length coupling noise during the LISA Pathfinder mission and how it depended on the system's alignment. Tilt-to-length coupling noise is the unwan…
Charging of free-falling test masses in orbit due to cosmic rays: results from LISA Pathfinder
LISA Pathfinder Collaboration, M. Armano, H. Audley +72
A comprehensive summary of the measurements made to characterize test mass charging due to the space environment during the LISA Pathfinder mission is presented. Measurements of th…
Transient acceleration events in LISA Pathfinder data: properties and possible physical origin
LISA Pathfinder Collaboration
We present an in depth analysis of the transient events, or glitches, detected at a rate of about one per day in the differential acceleration data of LISA Pathfinder. We show that…
Spacecraft and interplanetary contributions to the magnetic environment on-board LISA Pathfinder
M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +79
LISA Pathfinder (LPF) has been a space-based mission designed to test new technologies that will be required for a gravitational wave observatory in space. Magnetically driven forc…
Temperature stability in the sub-milliHertz band with LISA Pathfinder
M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +79
LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was a technology pioneering mission designed to test key technologies required for gravitational wave detection in space. In the low frequency regime (milli-H…
LISA Pathfinder
Michele Armano, Heather Audley, Jonathon Baird +75
Since the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the observation of gravitational waves, it is fair to say that the epoch of gravitational wave astronomy (GWs) has begun. Howe…
LISA Pathfinder Platform Stability and Drag-free Performance
Michele Armano, Heather Audley, Jonathon Baird +75
The science operations of the LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the feasibility of sub-femto-g free-fall of macroscopic test masses necessary to build a LISA-like gravitatio…
Calibrating the system dynamics of LISA Pathfinder
M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +75
LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was a European Space Agency mission with the aim to test key technologies for future space-borne gravitational-wave observatories like LISA. The main scientif…
QUBIC - The Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology - A novel way to look at the polarized Cosmic Microwave Background
A. Mennella, P. A. R. Ade, J. Aumont +105
In this paper we describe QUBIC, an experiment that takes up the challenge posed by the detection of primordial gravitational waves with a novel approach, that combines the sensiti…
Measuring the Galactic Cosmic Ray Flux with the LISA Pathfinder Radiation Monitor
M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +76
Test mass charging caused by cosmic rays will be a significant source of acceleration noise for space-based gravitational wave detectors like LISA. Operating between December 2015…
Charge-induced force-noise on free-falling test masses: results from LISA Pathfinder
M. Armano, H. Audley, G. Auger +91
We report on electrostatic measurements made on board the European Space Agency mission LISA Pathfinder. Detailed measurements of the charge-induced electrostatic forces exerted on…
QUBIC Technical Design Report
J. Aumont, S. Banfi, P. Battaglia +96
QUBIC is an instrument aiming at measuring the B mode polarisation anisotropies at medium scales angular scales (30-200 multipoles). The search for the primordial CMB B-mode polari…
The NIKA2 instrument, a dual-band kilopixel KID array for millimetric astronomy
M. Calvo, A. Benoit, A. Catalano +45
NIKA2 (New IRAM KID Array 2) is a camera dedicated to millimeter wave astronomy based upon kilopixel arrays of Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID). The pathfinder instrument, NIKA,…
First polarised light with the NIKA camera
A. Ritacco, R. Adam, A. Adane +39
NIKA is a dual-band camera operating with 315 frequency multiplexed LEKIDs cooled at 100 mK. NIKA is designed to observe the sky in intensity and polarisation at 150 and 260 GHz fr…
The NIKA 2012-2014 observing campaigns: control of systematic effects and results
A. Catalano, R. Adam, A. Adane +35
The New IRAM KID Array (NIKA) is a dual-band camera operating with frequency multiplexed arrays of Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKIDs) cooled to 100 mK. NIKA is de…
Performance and calibration of the NIKA camera at the IRAM 30 m telescope
A. Catalano, M. Calvo, N. Ponthieu +34
The New IRAM KID Array (NIKA) instrument is a dual-band imaging camera operating with Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID) cooled at 100 mK. NIKA is designed to observe the sky at wa…
The NIKA instrument: results and perspectives towards a permanent KID based camera for the Pico Veleta observatory
A. D'Addabbo, R. Adam, A. Adane +32
The New IRAM KIDs Array (NIKA) is a pathfinder instrument devoted to millimetric astronomy. In 2009 it was the first multiplexed KID camera on the sky; currently it is installed at…
Latest NIKA results and the NIKA-2 project
A. Monfardini, R. Adam, A. Adane +32
NIKA (New IRAM KID Arrays) is a dual-band imaging instrument installed at the IRAM (Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimetrique) 30-meter telescope at Pico Veleta (Spain). Two distin…
Latest Progress on the QUBIC Instrument
A. Ghribi, J. Aumont, E. S. Battistelli +60
QUBIC is a unique instrument that crosses the barriers between classical imaging architectures and interferometry taking advantage from both for high sensitivity and systematics mi…
QUBIC: The QU Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology
The QUBIC collaboration, E. Battistelli, A. Baù +57
One of the major challenges of modern cosmology is the detection of B-mode polarization anisotropies in the CMB. These originate from tensor fluctuations of the metric produced dur…