no code implementations • 7 Jan 2021 • Yaqiong Li, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall, Sarah Marie Bruno, Steve K. Choi, Nicholas F. Cothard, Kevin T. Crowley, Shannon M. Duff, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Joseph E. Golec, Gene C. Hilton, Matthew Hasselfield, Johannes Hubmay, Brian J. Koopman, Marius Lungu, Jeff McMahon, Michael D. Niemack, LymanA. Page, Maria Salatino, Sara M. Simon, Suzanne T. Staggs, Jason R. Stevens, Joel N. Ullom, Eve M. Vavagiakis, YuHan Wang, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu
The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) \cite{thornton} is an upgrade for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies in multiple frequencies.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • Nicholas F. Cothard, Aamir M. Ali, Jason E. Austermann, Steve K. Choi, Kevin T. Crowley, Bradley J. Dober, Cody J. Duell, Shannon M. Duff, Patricio Gallardo, Gene C. Hilton, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Johannes Hubmayr, Michael J. Link, Michael D. Niemack, Rita F. Sonka, Suzanne T. Staggs, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu
The Simons Observatory (SO) will perform ground-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several small and large aperture telescopes, each outfitted with thousands to tens of thousands of superconducting aluminum manganese (AlMn) transition-edge sensor bolometers (TESs).
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • Ian Lowe, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton, Jason E. Austermann, Gabriele Coppi, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Samuel Gordon, Christopher E. Groppi, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Klein, Dale Li, Nathan P. Lourie, Hamdi Mani, Philip Mauskopf, Christopher McKenney, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, L. Javier Romualdez, Juan D. Soler, Adrian Sinclair, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Caleb Wheeler, Paul A. Williams
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 250, 350, and 500 microns during a 24-day Antarctic flight.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 4 Aug 2020 • K. M. Backes, D. A. Palken, S. Al Kenany, B. M. Brubaker, S. B. Cahn, A. Droster, Gene C. Hilton, Sumita Ghosh, H. Jackson, S. K. Lamoreaux, A. F. Leder, K. W. Lehnert, S. M. Lewis, M. Malnou, R. H. Maruyama, N. M. Rapidis, M. Simanovskaia, Sukhman Singh, D. H. Speller, I. Urdinaran, Leila R. Vale, E. C. van Assendelft, K. van Bibber, H. Wang
In dark matter axion searches, quantum uncertainty manifests as a fundamental noise source, limiting the measurement of the quadrature observables used for detection.
Quantum Physics High Energy Physics - Experiment
1 code implementation • 28 Jul 2020 • Dongwon Han, Neelima Sehgal, Amanda MacInnis, Alexander van Engelen, Blake D. Sherwin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Simone Aiola, Nicholas Battaglia, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, Erminia Calabrese, Steve K. Choi, Omar Darwish, Edward V. Denison, Jo Dunkley, Simone Ferraro, Anna E. Fox, Matthew Hasselfield, J. Colin Hill, Gene C. Hilton, Matt Hilton, Renée Hložek, Johannes Hubmayr, John P. Hughes, Arthur Kosowsky, Jeff Van Lanen, Thibaut Louis, Kavilan Moodley, Sigurd Naess, Toshiya Namikawa, Federico Nati, John P. Nibarger, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Bruce Partridge, Frank J. Qu, Alessandro Schillaci, David N. Spergel, Suzanne Staggs, Emilie Storer, Edward J. Wollack
Our results show that gravitational lensing of the microwave background is internally consistent within the framework of the standard cosmological model.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
no code implementations • 2 Apr 2020 • Omar Darwish, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Blake Sherwin, Simone Aiola, Nicholas Battaglia, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, J. Richard Bond, Erminia Calabrese, Steve Choi, Mark J. Devlin, Jo Dunkley, Rolando Dünner, Simone Ferraro, Anna E. Fox, Patricio A. Gallardo, Yilun Guan, Mark Halpern, Dongwon Han, Matthew Hasselfield, J. Colin Hill, Gene C. Hilton, Matt Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, J. Hubmayr, John P. Hughes, Brian J. Koopman, Arthur Kosowsky, J. Van Lanen, Thibaut Louis, Marius Lungu, Amanda MacInnis, Loïc Maurin, Jeffrey McMahon, Kavilan Moodley, Sigurd Naess, Toshiya Namikawa, Laura Newburgh, John P. Nibarger, Micheal D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Bruce Partridge, Frank J. Qu, Naomi Robertson, Benjamin Schmitt, Neelima Sehgal, Cristóbal Sifón, David N. Spergel, Suzanne Staggs, Emilie Storer, Alexander van Engelen, Edward J. Wollack
We construct cosmic microwave background lensing mass maps using data from the 2014 and 2015 seasons of observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT).
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies
1 code implementation • 28 Jan 2020 • Toshiya Namikawa, Yilun Guan, Omar Darwish, Blake D. Sherwin, Simone Aiola, Nicholas Battaglia, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, J. Richard Bond, Erminia Calabrese, Grace E. Chesmore, Steve K. Choi, Mark J. Devlin, Joanna Dunkley, Rolando Dünner, Anna E. Fox, Patricio A. Gallardo, Vera Gluscevic, Dongwon Han, Matthew Hasselfield, Gene C. Hilton, Adam D. Hincks, Renée Hložek, Johannes Hubmayr, Kevin Huffenberger, John P. Hughes, Brian J. Koopman, Arthur Kosowsky, Thibaut Louis, Marius Lungu, Amanda MacInnis, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Maya Mallaby-Kay, Loïc Maurin, Jeffrey McMahon, Kavilan Moodley, Sigurd Naess, Federico Nati, Laura B. Newburgh, John P. Nibarger, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Frank J. Qu, Naomi Robertson, Alessandro Schillaci, Neelima Sehgal, Cristóbal Sifón, Sara M. Simon, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Emilie R. Storer, Alexander van Engelen, Jeff Van Lanen, Edward J. Wollack
We present new constraints on anisotropic birefringence of the cosmic microwave background polarization using two seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope covering $456$ square degrees of sky.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology