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List of works by Erik M. Leitch

2017 upgrade and performance of BICEP3: a 95GHz refracting telescope for degree-scale CMB polarization

A 2500 deg2 CMB Lensing Map from Combined South Pole Telescope and Planck Data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A MEASUREMENT OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND B -MODE POLARIZATION POWER SPECTRUM AT SUB-DEGREE SCALES WITH POLARBEAR

scientific article

A MEASUREMENT OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND B-MODE POLARIZATION WITH POLARBEAR

A Measurement of Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background on 7′–22′ Scales

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Subdegree Scales from Two Years of polarbear Data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected sample of the most massive galaxy clusters in the 2500 deg^2^ south pole telescope survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A comparison of cosmological parameters determined from CMB temperature power spectra from the South Pole telescope and the Planck satellite

scientific article published in January 2017

A cosmic microwave background lensing mass map and its correlation with the cosmic infrared background

article by G. P. Holder et al published 19 June 2013 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

A direct measurement of the linear bias of mid-infrared-selected quasars at z {approx} 1 using cosmic microwave background lensing

article

A massive, cooling-flow-induced starburst in the core of a luminous cluster of galaxies

scientific article

A measurement of CMB cluster lensing with SPT and DES year 1 data

scientific article

A measurement of arcminute anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich array

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A measurement of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by galaxy clusters using data from the South Pole telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A measurement of gravitational lensing of the microwave background using south pole telescope data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A measurement of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies from the 2500 square-degree SPT-SZ survey

scientific article published in January 2015

A measurement of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies with two years of south pole telescope observations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A measurement of the Secondary-CMB and millimeter-wave-foreground bispectrum using 800 deg^2^ of South Pole telescope data

scientific article published in January 2014

A measurement of the correlation of galaxy surveys with CMB lensing convergence maps from the south pole telescope

scholarly article

A measurement of the cosmic microwave background damping tail from the 2500-Square-Degree SPT-SZ survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A measurement of the cosmic microwave background gravitational lensing potential from 100 square degrees of SPTpol data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A measurement of the damping tail of the cosmic microwave background power spectrum with the south pole telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A millimeter-wave galactic plane survey with the BICEP polarimeter

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A multi-wavelength mass analysis of RCS2 J232727.6-020437, a ~3x10^15^ M_{sun}_ galaxy cluster at z = 0.7

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ALMA observations of SPT-discovered, strongly lensed, dusty, star-forming galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ALMA redshifts of millimeter-selected galaxies from the SPT survey: the redshift distribution of dusty star-forming galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Absolute polarization angle calibration using polarized diffuse Galactic emission observed by BICEP

article

An Anomalous Component of Galactic Emission

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An Overview of the SPTpol Experiment

An observed lack of substructure in starless cores

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Analysis of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect mass-observable relations using South Pole Telescope observations of an X-ray selected sample of low-mass galaxy clusters and groups

scientific article published in January 2015

Angular power spectra of the millimeter-wavelength background light from dusty star-forming galaxies with the south pole telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Antenna-coupled TES bolometers for the Keck array, Spider, and Polar-1

Antenna-coupled TES bolometers used in BICEP2, Keck array, and spider

scientific article

Application of a self-similar pressure profile to Sunyaev-Zel'Dovich effect data from galaxy clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Atmospheric phase correction using CARMA-PACS: high angular resolution observations of the FU Orionis star PP 13S*

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Atmospheric phase correction using the CARMA paired antennas calibration system

BICEP Array: a multi-frequency degree-scale CMB polarimeter

scientific article published on 9 July 2018

BICEP array cryostat and mount design

scientific article published on 9 July 2018

BICEP2 / Keck Array IX: New bounds on anisotropies of CMB polarization rotation and implications for axionlike particles and primordial magnetic fields

scholarly article

BICEP2 and Keck array operational overview and status of observations

BICEP2 and Keck array: upgrades and improved beam characterization

BICEP2. II. Experiment and three-year data set

scientific article

BICEP2/Keck Array VIII: Measurement of Gravitational Lensing from Large-Scale B-Mode Polarization

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

BICEP2/Keck Array XI: Beam Characterization and Temperature-to-Polarization Leakage in the BK15 Data Set

BICEP2/Keck Array. VII. Matrix based E/B separation applied to BICEP2 and the Keck Array

scientific article

BICEP2/Keck array V: measurements of B-mode polarization at degree angular scales and 150 GHz by the Keck array

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

BICEP3 focal plane design and detector performance

BICEP3 performance overview and planned Keck Array upgrade

Bicep2. III. INSTRUMENTAL SYSTEMATICS

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

C-Band All-Sky Survey: a first look at the Galaxy

scholarly article

CARMA follow-up of the northern unconfirmed planck galaxy cluster candidates

scientific article published in January 2012

CARMA measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in RX J1347.5-1145

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CMB Polarization B-mode Delensing with SPTpol and Herschel

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CMB polarimetry with BICEP: instrument characterization, calibration, and performance

article

COPSS II: the molecular gas content of ten million cubic megaparsecs at redshift z ~ 3

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterization of the BICEP telescope for high-precision cosmic microwave background polarimetry

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterization of the millimeter-wave polarization of Centaurus a with QUaD

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Comparison of pressure profiles of massive relaxed galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich and x-ray data

Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves Using Planck, WMAP, and New BICEP2/Keck Observations through the 2015 Season

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Constraints on cosmological parameters from the angular power spectrum of a combined 2500 deg^2^ SPT-SZ and Planck gravitational lensing map

scientific article published in January 2018

Constraints on cosmology from the cosmic microwave background power spectrum of the 2500 deg^2^ SPT-SZ survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Constraints on the CMB temperature evolution using multiband measurements of the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect with the South Pole Telescope

scholarly article

Constraints on the Thermal Contents of the X-Ray Cavities of Cluster MS 0735.6+7421 with Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect Observations

Cosmic microwave background constraints on the duration and timing of reionization from the south pole telescope

Cosmological Parameter Extraction from the First Season of Observations with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer

scientific article (publication date: 20 March 2002)

Cosmological constraints from a 31 GHz sky survey with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich array

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Cosmological constraints from galaxy clusters in the 2500 square-degree SPT-SZ survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Cosmological constraints from sunyaev-zel'dovich-selected clusters with X-ray observations in the first 178 deg^2^ of the south pole telescope survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Cosmological lensing ratios with DES Y1, SPT, and Planck

scientific article

Cosmological parameters from the QUAD CMB polarization experiment

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Degree Angular Scale Interferometer 3 Year Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Results

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Degree Angular Scale Interferometer First Results: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Angular Power Spectrum

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Degree-scale cosmic microwave background polarization measurements from three years of BICEP1 data

scientific article (publication date: 14 February 2014)

Design and characterization of 90 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES polarimeter pixels in the SPTPol camera

Design and performance of wide-band corrugated walls for the BICEP Array detector modules at 30/40 GHz

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Detection of B-Mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope

scientific article (2013)

Detection of B-mode polarization at degree angular scales by BICEP2

scientific article

Detection of polarization in the cosmic microwave background using DASI. Degree Angular Scale Interferometer

scientific article

Detectors for the South Pole Telescope

Discovery and cosmological implications of SPT-CL J2106-5844, the most massive known cluster at z>1

scientific article

Disk and envelope structure in class 0 protostars. II. High-resolution millimeter mapping of the Serpens sample

scientific article

Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing.

scientific article

Erratum: “A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-degree Scales with POLARBEAR” (2014, ApJ, 794, 171)

scholarly article published in The Astrophysical Journal

Event Horizon Telescope imaging of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 at an extreme 20 microarcsecond resolution

scientific article published in August 2020

Evidence for gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background polarization from cross-correlation with the cosmic infrared background.

scientific article published on 2 April 2014

Expectations for an Interferometric Sunyaev‐Zeldovich Effect Survey for Galaxy Clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Experiment Design and First Season Observations with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Extragalactic millimeter-wave point-source catalog, number counts and statistics from 771 deg^2^ of the SPT-SZ survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Extragalactic millimeter-wave sources in South Pole Telescope survey data: source counts, catalog, and statistics for an 87 square-degree field

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Fabrication of large dual-polarized multichroic TES bolometer arrays for CMB measurements with the SPT-3G camera

Feedhorn-coupled TES polarimeter camera modules at 150 GHz for CMB polarization measurements with SPTpol

First Intrinsic Anisotropy Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

scientific article published in May 2022

First Season QUaD CMB Temperature and Polarization Power Spectra

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

First results from COPSS: the CO power spectrum survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Frequency multiplexed superconducting quantum interference device readout of large bolometer arrays for cosmic microwave background measurements.

scientific article published in July 2012

Galaxy clusters at z {>=} 1: gas constraints from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich array

scientific article

Galaxy clusters discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey

scientific article

Galaxy clusters discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the first 720 square degrees of the South Pole Telescope survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Galaxy clusters selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from 2008 south pole telescope observations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

High-redshift cool-core galaxy clusters detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the south pole telescope survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

IDCS J1426.5+3508: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurement of a massive infrared-selected cluster at z = 1.75

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Improved Constraints on Cosmology and Foregrounds from BICEP2 and Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Data with Inclusion of 95 GHz Band.

scientific article published on 20 January 2016

Improved constraints on cosmic microwave background secondary anisotropies from the complete 2008 south pole telescope data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Improved measurements of the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background from QUaD

scientific article (publication date: 16 October 2009)

Inflation physics from the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure

article published in 2015

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

Integrated performance of a frequency domain multiplexing readout in the SPT-3G receiver

Joint analysis of BICEP2/keck array and Planck Data

scientific article (publication date: March 2015)

Joint analysis of X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations of galaxy clusters using an analytic model of the intracluster medium

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Keck array and BICEP3: spectral characterization of 5000+ detectors

Large arrays of dual-polarized multichroic TES detectors for CMB measurements with the SPT-3G receiver

LoCuSS: A COMPARISON OF SUNYAEV-ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT AND GRAVITATIONAL-LENSING MEASUREMENTS OF GALAXY CLUSTERS

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

LoCuSS: THE SUNYAEV–ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT AND WEAK-LENSING MASS SCALING RELATION

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Maps of the Magellanic Clouds from combined South Pole Telescope and PLANCK data

scientific article published in January 2016

Mass calibration and cosmological analysis of the SPT-SZ galaxy cluster sample using velocity dispersion {sigma}_v_ and X-ray Y_X_Measurements

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measurement of cosmic microwave background polarization power spectra from two years of BICEP data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measurement of galaxy cluster integrated comptonization and mass scaling relations with the South Pole telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measurement of polarization with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer

scientific article

Measurement of the cosmic microwave background polarization lensing power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Measurements of e-mode polarization and Temperature-E-Mode correlation in the cosmic microwave background from 100 square degrees of SPTpol data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measurements of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies with the south pole telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measurements of sub-degree B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background from 100 square degrees of SPTpol data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measurements of the Temperature and E-mode Polarization of the CMB from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measuring the cosmic microwave background polarization with the QUaD experiment

article published in 2004

Millimeter transient point sources in the SPTpol 100 square degree survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Modeling atmospheric emission for CMB ground-based observations

scientific article

Neutrino physics from the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure

scientific article

Observations of High‐Redshift X‐Ray Selected Clusters with the Sunyaev‐Zel’dovich Array

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Optical Characterization of the Keck Array and BICEP3 CMB Polarimeters from 2016 to 2019

Optical and Thermal Properties of ANL/KICP Polarization Sensitive Bolometers for SPTpol

Optical characterization of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

Optical characterization of the Keck array polarimeter at the South Pole

Optical redshift and richness estimates for galaxy clusters selected with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from 2008 south pole telescope observations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Optical spectroscopy and velocity dispersions of galaxy clusters from the SPT-SZ survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Optimization and sensitivity of the Keck array

Optimization of Transition Edge Sensor Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations With the South Pole Telescope

article published in 2017

POLARBEAR constraints on cosmic birefringence and primordial magnetic fields

scholarly article

Parameter estimation from improved measurements of the cosmic microwave background from QUaD

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Parity Violation Constraints Using Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Spectra from 2006 and 2007 Observations by the QUaD Polarimeter

scientific article

Performance and on-sky optical characterization of the SPTpol instrument

scholarly article published 24 September 2012

QUaD: A HIGH-RESOLUTION COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POLARIMETER

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Radio sources from a 31 GHz sky survey with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Redshifts, sample purity, and BCG positions for the galaxy cluster catalog from the first 720 square degrees of the South Pole Telescope survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Results of gravitational lensing and primordial gravitational waves from the POLARBEAR experiment

scientific article

SPT-3G: a next-generation cosmic microwave background polarization experiment on the South Pole telescope

SPT-CL J0205-5829: a z = 1.32 evolved massive galaxy cluster in the south pole telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SPT-CL J0546-5345: a massive z>1 galaxy cluster selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with the south pole telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SPT-CL J2040-4451: an SZ-selected galaxy cluster at z = 1.478 with significant ongoing star formation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SPT-GMOS: a Gemini/GMOS-South spectroscopic survey of galaxy clusters in the SPT-SZ survey

scholarly article

SPT-SZ: a Sunyaev-ZePdovich survey for galaxy clusters

Scientific optimization of a ground-based CMB polarization experiment

scholarly article

Scientific verification of Faraday rotation modulators: detection of diffuse polarized galactic emission

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Second and third season QUaD cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization power spectra

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Self-calibration of BICEP1 three-year data and constraints on astrophysical polarization rotation

scholarly article

Small angular scale measurements of the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum from QUaD

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

South Pole Telescope optics

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

South Pole Telescope software systems: control, monitoring, and data acquisition

South pole telescope detections of the previously unconfirmed planck early Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters in the southern hemisphere

scientific article

Submillimeter observations of millimeter bright galaxies discovered by the South Pole Telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich cluster profiles measured with the south pole telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect observations of strong lensing galaxy clusters: probing the overconcentration problem

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

THE QUaD GALACTIC PLANE SURVEY. I. MAPS AND ANALYSIS OF DIFFUSE EMISSION

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

THE QUaD GALACTIC PLANE SURVEY. II. A COMPACT SOURCE CATALOG

scientific article

The 10 Meter South Pole Telescope

academic article, published in May 2011

The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background tol= 3500: Deep Field Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Anisotropy of the Microwave Background tol= 3500: Mosaic Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The BICEP2 CMB polarization experiment

The C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS): constraining diffuse Galactic radio emission in the North Celestial Pole region

article by C Dickinson et al published 22 February 2019 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS): design and capabilities

article by Michael E Jones et al published 25 July 2018 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The CARMA Paired Antenna Calibration System: atmospheric phase correction for millimeter wave interferometry and its application to mapping the ultraluminous galaxy Arp 193

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Keck Array: a pulse tube cooled CMB polarimeter

The Q/U imaging ExperimenT instrument

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Q/U imaging experiment: polarization measurements of the galactic plane at 43 and 95 GHz

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Robinson Gravitational Wave Background Telescope (BICEP): a bolometric large angular scale CMB polarimeter

The Simons Array: expanding POLARBEAR to three multi-chroic telescopes

The South Pole Telescope

article

The XXL survey. V. Detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of the redshift 1.9 galaxy cluster XLSSU J021744.1-034536 with CARMA

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The first public release of south pole telescope data: maps of a 95 deg^2^ field from 2008 observations

scientific article published in January 2011

The growth of cool cores and evolution of cooling properties in a sample of 83 galaxy clusters at 0.3 < z < 1.2 selected from the SPT-SZ survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ionized circumstellar envelopes of Orion source I and the Becklin-Neugebauer object

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The massive and distant clusters of WISE survey. III. Sunyaev-Zel'dovich masses of galaxy clusters at z{AA}1

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The massive and distant clusters of WISE survey: MOO J1142+1527, a 10^15^ M_{sun}_ galaxy cluster at z = 1.19

scholarly article

The quasi-optical design of the QUaD Telescope

The quasi-optical design of the QUaD telescope

The redshift evolution of the mean temperature, pressure, and entropy profiles in 80 SPT-selected galaxy clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Thermal and optical characterization for POLARBEAR-2 optical system

Ultra-thin large-aperture vacuum windows for millimeter wavelengths receivers

scientific article published on 9 July 2018

Weak-lensing mass measurements of five galaxy clusters in the south pole telescope survey using Magellan/Megacam

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

X-ray properties of the first Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect selected galaxy cluster sample from the south pole telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

bicep2/KECK ARRAY. IV. OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE OF THE bicep2 ANDKECK ARRAYEXPERIMENTS

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal