no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • Ian Lowe, Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton, Jason E. Austermann, James Beall, Susan Clark, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Simon Dicker, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Brandon Hensley, Johannes Hubmayr, Steven Li, Zhi-Yun Li, Nathan P. Lourie, Peter G. Martin, Philip Mauskopf, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, L. Javier Romualdez, Adrian Sinclair, Juan D. Soler, Carole Tucker, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler, Paul A. Williams, Mario Zannoni
The BLAST Observatory is a proposed superpressure balloon-borne polarimeter designed for a future ultra-long duration balloon campaign from Wanaka, New Zealand.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2020 • Maximilian H. Abitbol, David Alonso, Sara M. Simon, Jack Lashner, Kevin T. Crowley, Aamir M. Ali, Susanna Azzoni, Carlo Baccigalupi, Darcy Barron, Michael L. Brown, Erminia Calabrese, Julien Carron, Yuji Chinone, Jens Chluba, Gabriele Coppi, Kevin D. Crowley, Mark Devlin, Jo Dunkley, Josquin Errard, Valentina Fanfani, Nicholas Galitzki, Martina Gerbino, J. Colin Hill, Bradley R. Johnson, Baptiste Jost, Brian Keating, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Akito Kusaka, Adrian T. Lee, Thibaut Louis, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Heather McCarrick, Jeffrey McMahon, P. Daniel Meerburg, Federico Nati, Haruki Nishino, Lyman A. Page, Davide Poletti, Giuseppe Puglisi, Michael J. Randall, Aditya Rotti, Jacob Spisak, Aritoki Suzuki, Grant P. Teply, Clara Vergès, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Mario Zannoni
We quantify the calibration requirements for systematic uncertainties for next-generation ground-based observatories targeting the large-angle $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, with a focus on the Simons Observatory (SO).
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2020 • Stefano Mandelli, Elenia Manzan, Aniello Mennella, Francesco Cavaliere, Daniele Viganò, Cristian Franceschet, Paolo de Bernardis, Marco Bersanelli, Maria Gabriella Castellano, Alessandro Coppolecchia, Angelo Cruciani, Massimo Gervasi, Luca Lamagna, Andrea Limonta, Silvia Masi, Alessandro Paiella, Andrea Passerini, Giorgio Pettinari, Francesco Piacentini, Elisabetta Tommasi, Angela Volpe, Mario Zannoni
We present the design, manufacturing, and testing of a 37-element array of corrugated feedhorns for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements between $140$ and $170$ GHz.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics