HAWC, the Far-Infrared Camera and Polarimeter for SOFIA

DA Harper, MC Runyan, CD Dowell… - Journal of …, 2018 - World Scientific
High-resolution Airborne Wide-band Camera (HAWC+) is the facility far-infrared imager and
polarimeter for SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. It is …

BICEP2. II. Experiment and three-year Data Set

PAR Ade, RW Aikin, M Amiri, D Barkats… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the design and performance of the Bicep 2 instrument and on its three-year
data set. Bicep 2 was designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave …

A Constraint on Primordial B-modes from the First Flight of the Spider Balloon-borne Telescope

PAR Ade, M Amiri, SJ Benton… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon
flight of Spider, which is an experiment that is designed to map the polarization of the cosmic …

[HTML][HTML] A microwave SQUID multiplexer optimized for bolometric applications

B Dober, Z Ahmed, K Arnold, DT Becker… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A microwave superconducting quantum interference device multiplexer has been optimized
for reading out large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers …

Antenna-coupled TES bolometers used in BICEP2, Keck array, and SPIDER

PAR Ade, RW Aikin, M Amiri, D Barkats… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We have developed antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor bolometers for a wide range of
cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry experiments, including Bicep2, Keck …

The design and integrated performance of SPT-3G

JA Sobrin, AJ Anderson, AN Bender… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-
resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive …

BICEP2/Keck Array V: Measurements of B-mode polarization at degree angular scales and 150 GHz by the Keck Array

PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, RW Aikin… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Keck Array is a system of cosmic microwave background polarimeters,
each similar to the Bicep2 experiment. In this paper we report results from the 2012 to 2013 …

[HTML][HTML] A transition-edge sensor-based x-ray spectrometer for the study of highly charged ions at the National Institute of Standards and Technology electron beam …

P Szypryt, GC O'Neil, E Takacs, JN Tan… - Review of Scientific …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the design, commissioning, and initial measurements of a Transition-Edge
Sensor (TES) x-ray spectrometer for the Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) at the National …

[HTML][HTML] A cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate mechanism for the POLARBEAR-2b cosmic microwave background receiver

CA Hill, A Kusaka, P Ashton, P Barton… - Review of Scientific …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We present the design and laboratory evaluation of a cryogenic continuously rotating half-
wave plate (CHWP) for the POLARBEAR-2b (PB-2b) cosmic microwave background …

First flight performance of the Micro-X microcalorimeter X-ray sounding rocket

Micro-X Collaboration:, JS Adams… - Journal of …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The flight of the Micro-X sounding rocket on July 22, 2018, marked the first operation of
transition-edge sensors and their superconducting quantum interference device readouts in …