List of works by John M. Kovac

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

A millimeter-wave galactic plane survey with the BICEP polarimeter

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

article

Antenna-coupled TES bolometer arrays for BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER

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

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 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

BICEP2/SPUD: searching for inflation with degree scale polarimetry from the South Pole

BICEP3 focal plane design and detector performance

BICEP3 performance overview and planned Keck Array upgrade

BICEP3: a 95GHz refracting telescope for degree-scale CMB polarization

Bicep2. III. INSTRUMENTAL SYSTEMATICS

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Broadband, millimeter-wave antireflection coatings for large-format, cryogenic aluminum oxide optics

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

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

article

Characterization and Fabrication of the TES Arrays for the Spider, Keck and BICEP2 CMB Polarimeters

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterizing the Sensitivity of 40 GHz TES Bolometers for BICEP Array

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

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

DASI: a Degree Angular Scale Interferometer for imaging anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background

article

Degree Angular Scale Interferometer 3 Year Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Results

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 Performance of the First BICEP Array Receiver

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 at degree angular scales by BICEP2

scientific article

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

scientific article

High-precision scanning water vapor radiometers for cosmic microwave background site characterization and comparison

Identification of the Curie point in Fe-based metallic glasses usingin situhard x-ray diffraction

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

Initial Performance of Bicep3: A Degree Angular Scale 95 GHz Band Polarimeter

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

Joint analysis of BICEP2/keck array and Planck Data

scientific article (publication date: March 2015)

Keck array and BICEP3: spectral characterization of 5000+ detectors

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measurement of polarization with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer

scientific article

Measuring the cosmic microwave background polarization with the QUaD experiment

article published in 2004

Microfabrication and Device Parameter Testing of the Focal Plane Arrays for the Spider and BICEP2∕Keck CMB Polarimeters

Microwave Multiplexing on the Keck Array

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

Optical Design and Characterization of 40-GHz Detector and Module for the BICEP Array

Optical characterization of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

Optical characterization of the Keck array polarimeter at the South Pole

Optical performance of the BICEP2 Telescope at the South Pole

Optimization and sensitivity of the Keck array

QUEST on DASI: a South Pole CMB polarization experiment

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The BICEP2 CMB polarization experiment

The Keck Array: A Multi Camera CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

The Keck Array: a pulse tube cooled CMB polarimeter

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

The quasi-optical design of the QUaD Telescope

Thiol click chemistry on gold-decorated MoS2: elastomer composites and structural phase transitions.

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Transition Edge Sensor Focal Plane Arrays for the BICEP2, Keck, and Spider CMB Polarimeters

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

scientific article published on 9 July 2018

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal