Recent discoveries from the cosmic microwave background: a review of recent progress

S Staggs, J Dunkley, L Page - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Measurements of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation
have provided a wealth of information about the cosmological model that describes the …

[HTML][HTML] Transition edge sensors: Physics and applications

M De Lucia, P Dal Bo, E Di Giorgi, T Lari, C Puglia… - Instruments, 2024 - mdpi.com
Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are amongst the most sensitive cryogenic detectors and
can be easily optimized for the detection of massive particles or photons ranging from X-rays …

Four-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) observations: on-sky receiver performance at 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz frequency bands

S Dahal, JW Appel, R Datta, MK Brewer… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) observes the polarized
cosmic microwave background (CMB) over the angular scales of 1≲ θ≤ 90 with the aim of …

Calibration of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometer arrays with application to CLASS

JW Appel, CL Bennett, MK Brewer… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments fielding kilopixel
arrays of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers require accurate and robust gain …

Design and characterization of the cosmology large angular scale surveyor (CLASS) 93 GHz focal plane

S Dahal, A Ali, JW Appel… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) aims to detect and characterize the
primordial Bmode signal and make a sample-variance-limited measurement of the optical …

On-sky performance of new 90 GHz detectors for the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)

C Núñez, JW Appel, MK Brewer… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a polarization-sensitive
telescope array located at an altitude of 5,200 m in the Chilean Atacama Desert and …

Design and characterization of new 90 GHz detectors for the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)

C Nunez, JW Appel, SM Bruno, R Datta… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a polarization-sensitive
telescope array located at an altitude of 5,200 m in the Chilean Atacama Desert. CLASS is …

Recent developments of commercially fabricated horn antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor bolometer detectors for next-generation cosmic microwave …

A Suzuki, E Kane, AT Lee, T Liu, C Raum… - Journal of Low …, 2022 - Springer
We report on the successful fabrication of orthomode transducer-coupled transition-edge
sensor (TES) bolometer arrays for cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry …

Removal of Galactic foregrounds for the Simons Observatory primordial gravitational wave search

B Thorne, J Dunkley, D Alonso, MH Abitbol… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Upcoming observations from the Simons Observatory have been projected to constrain the
tensor-to-scalar ratio, $ r $, at the level of $\sigma (r)= $0.003. Here we describe one of the …

[PDF][PDF] Development of microstrip-coupled lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors for astronomy

A Hornsby - 2020 - core.ac.uk
Abstract Lumped-element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKIDs) are superconducting
Inductor-Capacitor (LC) resonators that have been utilised in large-format arrays of detectors …