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Measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data
(IOP Publishing, 2010)
Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) is a bolometric polarimeter designed to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at degree angular scales. During ...
An X‐Ray, Infrared, and Submillimeter Flare of Sagittarius A*
(American Astronomical Society, 2008)
Energetic flares are observed in the Galactic supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* from radio to X-ray wavelengths. On a few occasions, simultaneous flares have been detected in IR and X-ray observations, but clear ...
Degree-Scale Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Measurements From Three Years of BICEP1 Data
(American Astronomical Society, 2014)
BICEP1 is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed specifically to measure the inflationary B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background at degree angular scales. We present results from an analysis of the ...
Second and Third Season QUaD Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature and Polarization Power Spectra
(IOP Publishing, 2009)
We report results from the second and third seasons of observation with the QUaD experiment. Angular power spectra of the cosmic microwave background are derived for both temperature and polarization at both 100 GHz and ...
The QUaD Galactic Plane Survey. I. Maps and Analysis of Diffuse Emission
(IOP Publishing, 2010)
We present a survey of ~800 deg\(^{2}\) of the galactic plane observed with the QUaD telescope. The primary products of the survey are maps of Stokes I, Q, and U parameters at 100 and 150 GHz, with spatial resolution of ...
Anchoring Magnetic Fields in Turbulent Molecular Clouds
(American Astronomical Society, 2009)
One of the key problems in star formation research is to determine the role of magnetic fields. Starting from the atomic intercloud medium which has density \(n_H \sim \ 1 \ cm^{–3}\), gas must accumulate from a volume ...
Optimization and sensitivity of the Keck array
(International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2012)
The Keck Array (SPUD) began observing the cosmic microwave background’s polarization in the winter of 2011 at the South Pole. The Keck Array follows the success of the predecessor experiments Bicep and Bicep2,1 using five ...
BICEP2 and Keck array operational overview and status of observations
(SPIE, 2012)
The Bicep2 and Keck Array experiments are designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales of 2-4 degrees (ℓ = 50–100). This is the region in which the B-mode signal, a signature ...
Antenna-coupled TES bolometer arrays for BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER
(SPIE, 2010)
BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER are cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters targeting the B-mode polarization induced by primordial gravitational waves from inflation. They will be using planar arrays of polarization sensitive ...
BICEP2/SPUD: searching for inflation with degree scale polarimetry from the South Pole
(SPIE, 2008)
BICEP2/SPUD is the new powerful upgrade of the existing BICEP1 experiment, a bolometric receiver to study the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which has been in operation at the South Pole since ...