BICEP2 and Keck Array operational overview and status of observations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8452, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ogburn IV, R W ^a,b   Ade, P A R ^c   Aikin, R W ^d   Amiri, M ^e   Benton, S J ^f   Bischoff, C A ^g   Bock, J J ^d,h   Bonetti, J A ^h   Brevik, J A ^d   Bullock, E ⁱ   Burger, B ^e   Davis, G ^e   Dowell, C D ^d,h   Duband, L ^j   Filippin, J P ^d   Fliescher, S ⁱ   Golwal, S R ^d   Gordo, M ^g   Halpern, M ^e   Hasselfield, M ^e   Hilton, G ^k   Hristov, V V ^d   Hui, H ^d   Irwin, K ^k   Kaufman, J P ^l   Keating, B G ^l   Kernasovskiy, S A ^a   Kovac, J M ^g   Kuo, C L ^a,b   Leitch, E M ^m   Lueker, M ^d,h   Montroy, T ⁿ   Netterfield, C B ^f   Nguyen, H T ^d,h   O'Brient, R ^d,h   Orlando, A ^l   Pryke, C L ⁱ   Reintsema, C ^k   Richter, S ^g   Ruhl, J E ⁿ   Runyan, M C ^d   Schwarz, R ⁱ   Sheehy, C D ⁱ   Staniszewski, Z K ^d,h   Sudiwala, R V ^c   Teply, G P ^d   Thompson, K ^a   Tolan, J E ^a,b   Turner, A D ^h   Vieregg, A G ^g   Wiebe, D V ^e   Wilson, P ^h   Wong, C L ^g   more..

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^j CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

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

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁿ CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology; Gravitational waves; Inflation; Microwave; Polarization; TES

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SCALE; CMB POLARIZATION; COSMIC INFLATIONS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; INFLATION; SOUTH POLE; TES;

ASTRONOMY; EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITY WAVES; INFRARED DETECTORS; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; POLES;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 84872082881     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.925731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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