The POLARBEAR experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8452, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kermish, Zigmund D ^a   Ade, Peter ^b   Anthony, Aubra ^c   Arnold, Kam ^a   Barron, Darcy ^d   Boettger, David ^d   Borrill, Julian ^e,f   Chapman, Scott ^l   Chinone, Yuji ^g   Dobbs, Matt A ^h   Errard, Josquin ⁱ   Fabbian, Giulio ⁱ   Flanigan, Daniel ^a   Fuller, George ^d   Ghribi, Adnan ^a   Grainger, Will ^m   Halverson, Nils ^c   Hasegawa, Masaya ^g   Hattori, Kaori ^g   Hazumi, Masashi ^g   Holzapfel, William L ^a   Howard, Jacob ^a   Hyland, Peter ^k   Jaffe, Andrew ^j   Keating, Brian ^d   Kisner, Theodore ^e   Lee, Adrian T ^a   Le Jeune, Maude ⁱ   Linder, Eric ^e   Lungu, Marius ^a   Matsuda, Frederick ^d   Matsumura, Tomotake ^g   Meng, Xiaofan ^a   Miller, Nathan J ^d   Morii, Hideki ^g   Moyerman, Stephanie ^d   Myers, Mike J ^a   Nishino, Haruki ^a   Paar, Hans ^d   Quealy, Erin ^a   Reichardt, Christian L ^a   Richards, Paul L ^a,f   Ross, Colin ^l   Shimizu, Akie ^g   Shimon, Meir ^d   Shimmin, Chase ^a   Sholl, Mike ^e   Siritanasak, Praween ^d   Spieler, Helmuth ^e   Stebor, Nathan ^d   Steinbach, Bryan ^a   Stompor, Radek ⁱ   Suzuki, Aritoki ^a   Tomaru, Takayuki ^g   Tucker, Carole ^b   Zahn, Oliver ^a,e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^j IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k AUSTIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^l DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^m RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Bolometer; Cosmic microwave background; Inflation; Polarization

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SCALE; ANTENNA-COUPLED; ATACAMA DESERT; BEAM SIZE; CALIFORNIA; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; FOCAL PLANE; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; INFLATION; MILLIKELVIN; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE; SMALL SCALE; TES BOLOMETERS;

ANTENNAS; ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; FOCUSING; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84872077105     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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