Initial performance of the BICEP2 antenna-coupled superconducting bolometers at the South Pole

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Brevik, J A ^a   Aikin, R W ^a   Amiri, M ^d   Benton, S J ^e   Bock, J J ^a,f   Bonetti, J A ^f   Burger, B ^d   Dowell, C D ^a,f   Duband, L ^g   Filippini, J P ^a   Golwala, S R ^a   Halpern, M ^d   Hasselfield, M ^d   Hilton, G ^d   Hristov, V V ^a   Irwin, K ^d   Kaufman, J P ⁱ   Keating, B G ⁱ   Kovac, J M ^j   Kuo, C L ^b,c   Lange, A E ^a   Leitch, E M ^k   Netterfield, C B ^e   Nguyen, H T ^a,f   Ogburn IV, R W ^b,c   Orlando, A ^a,f   Pryke, C ^l   Reintsema, C ^h   Richter, S ^j   Ruhl, J E ^m   Runyan, M ^a   Sheehy, C ^k,l   Staniszewski, Z ^a,f   Sudiwala, R ⁿ   Tolan, J E ^b,c   Turner, A D ^f   Wilson, P ^f   Wong, C L ^j   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^m CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; cosmology; gravitational waves; inflation; noise; polarization; TES

Indexed keywords

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; INFLATION; NOISE; TES;

ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; MULTIPLEXING; PIXELS; POLARIZATION; POLES; SENSORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77956215591     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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