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

280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the Spider-2 Suborbital Polarimeter

5,120 superconducting bolometers for the PIPER balloon-borne CMB polarization experiment

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90 GHz AND 150 GHz OBSERVATIONS OF THE ORION M42 REGION. A SUBMILLIMETER TO RADIO ANALYSIS ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

90 GHz OBSERVATIONS OF M87 AND HYDRA A ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A 350-GHz high-resolution high-sensitivity passive video imaging system

article

A 90-GHz array for use on the Green Bank Telescope

A 90-GHz bolometer array for the Green Bank Telescope

A Kilopixel Array of TES Bolometers for ACT: Development, Testing, and First Light

A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg2 of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

A New Limit on CMB Circular Polarization from SPIDER

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Spread-Spectrum SQUID Multiplexer

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

A cryogenic rotation stage with a large clear aperture for the half-wave plates in the Spider instrument. ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2016

A high resolution gamma-ray spectrometer based on superconducting microcalorimeters.

scientific article published on September 2012

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

ACTPol: a polarization-sensitive receiver for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

scholarly article published 16 July 2010

Advanced ACTPol Cryogenic Detector Arrays and Readout ⬇️

An Optical System for Body Imaging from a Distance Using Near-TeraHertz Frequencies

An Overview of the SPTpol Experiment

An update on the SCUBA-2 project

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Antenna-coupled TES Arrays For The BICEP2∕Keck and SPIDER polarimeters

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 for the SPIDER experiment

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

scientific article

Attitude determination for balloon-borne experiments ⬇️

scholarly article published 22 July 2014

Automated SQUID tuning procedure for kilo-pixel arrays of TES bolometers on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

scholarly article published 28 August 2008

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 ⬇️

BLASTbus electronics: general-purpose readout and control for balloon-borne experiments ⬇️

scholarly article published 22 July 2014

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

CLASS: the cosmology large angular scale surveyor ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 23 July 2014)

CMB Polarization B-mode Delensing with SPTpol and Herschel

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterising and calibrating the SCUBA-2 superconducting bolometer arrays for science observing

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Characterising the SCUBA-2 superconducting bolometer arrays

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Characterization of a prototype SCUBA-2 1280-pixel submillimetre superconducting bolometer array

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Characterization of the Atacama B-mode Search

Characterizing the Sensitivity of 40 GHz TES Bolometers for BICEP Array

Commissioning SCUBA-2 at JCMT and Optimising the Performance of the Superconducting TES Arrays

scholarly article by D. Bintley et al published 2 March 2012 in Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Concept Study of Optical Configurations for High-Frequency Telescope for LiteBIRD

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

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Correlations in the (Sub)millimeter background from ACTxBLAST ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Demonstration of Athena X-IFU Compatible 40-Row Time-Division-Multiplexed Readout

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Depth-dependent valence stratification driven by oxygen redox in lithium-rich layered oxide

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Design and Expected Performance of GISMO-2, a Two Color Millimeter Camera for the IRAM 30 m Telescope

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Design and Performance of the First BICEP Array Receiver

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

Design and construction of a carbon fiber gondola for the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope ⬇️

Design and fabrication of the detector technology for SCUBA-2

Design and performance of the SPIDER instrument

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 CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Detection of the Power Spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

scientific article

Detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with BOSS DR11 and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope ⬇️

scholarly article by F. De Bernardis et al published 7 March 2017 in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Detectors for the South Pole Telescope

Development of Multi-chroic MKIDs for Next-Generation CMB Polarization Studies

Development of a Microwave SQUID-Multiplexed TES Array for MUSTANG-2

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Developments in Time-Division Multiplexing of X-ray Transition-Edge Sensors.

scientific article published on July 2016

Electrical and optical measurements on the first SCUBA-2 prototype 1280pixel submillimeter superconducting bolometer array

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Evidence for Dark Energy from the Cosmic Microwave Background Alone Using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Lensing Measurements

scientific article

Evidence for the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and velocity reconstruction from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey ⬇️

scholarly article by Emmanuel Schaan et al published 11 April 2016 in Physical Review D

Evidence of Galaxy Cluster Motions with the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect

scientific article

Exclusion limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross section from the cryogenic dark matter search

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

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

Fabrication of prototype imaging arrays for SCUBA-2

Fabrication of the SCUBA-2 detector arrays

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

First Tests of Prototype SCUBA-2 Superconducting Bolometer Array

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High quality factor manganese-doped aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors sensitive to frequencies below 100 GHz

scholarly article by G. Jones et al published 29 May 2017 in Applied Physics Letters

High-resolution passive video-rate imaging at 350 GHz

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Implications of a high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev-Zel'Dovich effect in RXJ1347-1145 ⬇️

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

Inflation physics from the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure

article published in 2015

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

Input impedance and gain of a gigahertz amplifier using a dc superconducting quantum interference device in a quarter wave resonator

Instrument design and characterization of the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

scholarly article published 28 August 2008

Instrumental performance and results from testing of the BLAST-TNG receiver, submillimeter optics, and MKID detector arrays ⬇️

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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)

Keck array and BICEP3: spectral characterization of 5000+ detectors

Kilopixel backshort-under-grid arrays for the Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer

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L-edge spectroscopy of dilute, radiation-sensitive systems using a transition-edge-sensor array.

scientific article published in December 2017

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

Large-aperture wide-bandwidth antireflection-coated silicon lenses for millimeter wavelengths

scientific article published in December 2013

LiteBIRD: A Satellite for the Studies of B-Mode Polarization and Inflation from Cosmic Background Radiation Detection

article published in 2019

LiteBIRD: Mission Overview and Focal Plane Layout

LiteBIRD: lite satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and inflation from cosmic microwave background radiation detection

MARE, Microcalorimeter Arrays for a Rhenium Experiment: A detector overview

MUSTANG 2: A Large Focal Plane Array for the 100 m Green Bank Telescope

MUSTANG. First light and current status

MUSTANG2: a large focal plan array for the 100 meter Green Bank Telescope

MUSTANG: 90 GHz science with the Green Bank Telescope

Magnetic Flux Noise in dc SQUIDs: Temperature and Geometry Dependence

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Mass Calibration of Optically Selected DES Clusters Using a Measurement of CMB-cluster Lensing with SPTpol Data

scholarly article

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 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

Micro-X, the TES X-ray Imaging Rocket: First Year Progress

article by P. Wikus et al published June 2009 in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Micro-X: Mission Overview and Science Goals

Microwave Multiplexing on the Keck Array

Millimeter transient point sources in the SPTpol 100 square degree survey ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Modeling and characterization of the SPIDER half-wave plate

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Modulation of cosmic microwave background polarization with a warm rapidly rotating half-wave plate on the Atacama B-Mode Search instrument

scientific article

Neutrino physics from the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure

scientific article

Noise performance of lumped element direct current superconducting quantum interference device amplifiers in the 4–8 GHz range

ORIGIN: metal creation and evolution from the cosmic dawn

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 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 design of the EPIC-IM crossed Dragone telescope

scientific article published on 16 July 2010

Optical modeling and polarization calibration for CMB measurements with ACTPol and Advanced ACTPol ⬇️

Optical performance of the BICEP2 Telescope at the South Pole

Optimization and sensitivity of the Keck array

Optimization of Time- and Code-Division-Multiplexed Readout for Athena X-IFU

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

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

article published in 2017

Opto-mechanical design and performance of a compact three-frequency camera for the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

scholarly article published 28 August 2008

Overview of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope: receiver, instrumentation, and telescope systems

scholarly article by D. S. Swetz et al published 1 June 2011 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

PAPPA: Primordial anisotropy polarization pathfinder array

scientific article published in January 2006

Particle Response of Antenna-Coupled TES Arrays: Results from SPIDER and the Laboratory

Performance and on-sky optical characterization of the SPTpol instrument

scholarly article published 24 September 2012

Performance of Backshort-Under-Grid Kilopixel TES Arrays for HAWC+

Pointing control for the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope ⬇️

Polarization sensitive Multi-Chroic MKIDs ⬇️

Pre-flight integration and characterization of the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope ⬇️

Progress on the Micro-X rocket payload

scholarly article published 12 July 2008

Progress on the Micro-X sounding rocket x-ray telescope: completion of flight hardware

scholarly article published 16 July 2010

Prototype phantoms for characterization of ultralow field magnetic resonance imaging.

scientific article published on 26 November 2013

Pure dephasing in flux qubits due to flux noise with spectral density scaling as1/fα

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 85 no. 22, June 2012

Quantum state tomography of an itinerant squeezed microwave field

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Readout of two-kilopixel transition-edge sensor arrays for Advanced ACTPol ⬇️

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SCUBA-2 arrays to system interfaces

SCUBA-2: A Large-Format CCD-Style Imager for Submillimeter Astronomy

scholarly article

SCUBA-2: A large-format TES array for submillimetre astronomy

scholarly article by M.D Audley et al published March 2004 in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research

SCUBA-2: Application of LTD technology

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SCUBA-2: Developing the Detectors

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SCUBA-2: a 10,000-pixel submillimeter camera for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

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SCUBA-2: a large-format submillimeter camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

SCUBA-2: the 10 000 pixel bolometer camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

scientific article

SPIDER optimization. II. Optical, magnetic, and foreground effects ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SPIDER: CMB Polarimetry from the Edge of Space

SPIDER: a balloon-borne CMB polarimeter for large angular scales

SPIDER: a balloon-borne large-scale CMB polarimeter

SPIDER: a new balloon-borne experiment to measure CMB polarization on large angular scales

SPIDER: probing the early Universe with a suborbital polarimeter

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

SQUIDs and Transition-Edge Sensors

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Scaling the summit of the submillimetre: instrument performance of SCUBA-2

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Science with Micro-X: the TES microcalorimeter x-ray imaging rocket

scholarly article published 14 June 2006

Seeing with superconductors

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Simulating the response of ultra-high energy resolution x- and gamma-ray microcalorimeter detectors

Soft X-ray spectroscopy with transition-edge sensors at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource beamline 10-1

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

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

SpiderOptimization: Probing the Systematics of a Large‐ScaleB‐Mode Experiment ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Standoff passive video imaging at 350 GHz with 251 superconducting detectors

article

Sub-Kelvin cooling for two kilopixel bolometer arrays in the PIPER receiver

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Superconducting Pathways Through Kilopixel Backshort–Under–Grid Arrays

scholarly article by C. A. Jhabvala et al published 25 January 2016 in Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Superconducting quantum interference device amplifiers with over 27 GHz of gain-bandwidth product operated in the 4–8 GHz frequency range

Surface-to-Bulk Redox Coupling through Thermally Driven Li Redistribution in Li- and Mn-Rich Layered Cathode Materials

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Synthesis of a copper-supported triplet nitrene complex pertinent to copper-catalyzed amination

scientific article

Systems and control software for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

scholarly article published 12 July 2008

TES imaging array technology for C ℓ OVER

article

THE EBEX CRYOSTAT AND SUPPORTING ELECTRONICS

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THE RADIO-2 mm SPECTRAL INDEX OF THE CRAB NEBULA MEASURED WITH GISMO ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Table-top ultrafast x-ray microcalorimeter spectrometry for molecular structure

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT): beam profiles and first SZ cluster maps

scholarly article by A. D. Hincks et al published 1 December 2010 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: CMB polarization at 200 < ℓ < 9000 ⬇️

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich selected galaxy clusters at 148 GHz from three seasons of data

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected galaxy clusters at 148 GHz in the 2008 survey ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: cosmological parameters from three seasons of data

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: cosmology from galaxy clusters detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: dusty star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei in the Southern survey

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: extragalactic sources at 148 GHz in the 2008 survey ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: likelihood for small-scale CMB data

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: physical properties and purity of a galaxy cluster sample selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: temperature and gravitational lensing power spectrum measurements from three seasons of data

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: the polarization-sensitive ACTPol instrument ⬇️

scholarly article by R. J. Thornton et al published 9 December 2016 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: the stellar content of galaxy clusters selected using the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect

scholarly article by Matt Hilton et al published 12 September 2013 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: two-season ACTPol spectra and parameters

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The Atacama cosmology telescope: cosmological parameters from the 2008 power spectrum ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The BICEP2 CMB polarization experiment

The CℓOVER experiment

The EBEX Balloon-borne Experiment—Detectors and Readout

article

The EBIT Calorimeter Spectrometer: A New, Permanent User Facility at the LLNL EBIT

The GISMO two-millimeter deep field in GOODS-N ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The GISMO-2 bolometer camera

article

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

The Keck Array: a pulse tube cooled CMB polarimeter

The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission: Sub-Kelvin Instrument

The MARE project: a new 187Re neutrino mass experiment with sub eV sensitivity

The Next Generation BLAST Experiment ⬇️

article

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 23 July 2014)

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER)

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER)

The Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) ⬇️

The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey

scientific article

The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

The X-Ray Microcalorimeter Spectrometer for the International X-Ray Observatory

The atacama cosmology telescope: a measurement of the 600 < {ell} < 8000 cosmic microwave background power spectrum at 148 GHz ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The atacama cosmology telescope: a measurement of the cosmic microwave background power spectrum at 148 and 218 GHz from the 2008 southern survey ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The atacama cosmology telescope: a measurement of the primordial power spectrum ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The atacama cosmology telescope: calibration with the Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe using cross-correlations ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The atacama cosmology telescope: data characterization and mapmaking ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The atacama cosmology telescope: detection of Sunyaev-Zel'Dovich decrement in groups and clusters associated with luminous red galaxies ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The atacama cosmology telescope: high-resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich array observations of ACT SZE-selected clusters from the equatorial strip ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The cosmology large angular scale surveyor (CLASS): 38-GHz detector array of bolometric polarimeters ⬇️

article

The effects of the mechanical performance and alignment of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope on the sensitivity of microwave observations

scholarly article published 28 August 2008

The next-generation BLASTPol experiment ⬇️

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The performance of the bolometer array and readout system during the 2012/2013 flight of the E and B experiment (EBEX) ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 23 July 2014)

The primordial anisotropy polarization pathfinder array (PAPPA): instrument overview and status

The second-generation z (redshift) and early universe spectrometer. I. First-light observation of a highly lensed local-ulirg analog at high-z ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The thermal design, characterization, and performance of the S pider long-duration balloon cryostat ⬇️

The transition-edge EBIT microcalorimeter spectrometer

The x-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer onboard Athena

The x-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer onboard of IXO

Thermal architecture for the SPIDER flight cryostat

Toward a 2-eV microcalorimeter x-ray spectrometer for Constellation-X

article

Toward a 256-Pixel Array of Gamma-Ray Microcalorimeters for Nuclear-Materials Analysis

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

scientific article published on 9 July 2018

Update on the Micro-X Sounding Rocket payload

scholarly article published 7 September 2012

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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