Improved polarization calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole
International audience The BICEP3 Polarimeter is a small aperture, refracting telescope, dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 95GHz. It is designed to target degree angular scale polarization patterns, in particular the very-much-sought-after primordial B-mode sig...
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International audience The BICEP3 Polarimeter is a small aperture, refracting telescope, dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 95GHz. It is designed to target degree angular scale polarization patterns, in particular the very-much-sought-after primordial B-mode signal, which is a unique signature of cosmic inflation. The polarized signal from the sky is reconstructed by differencing co-localized, orthogonally polarized superconducting Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers. In this work, we present absolute measurements of the polarization response of the detectors for more than $\sim 800$ functioning detector pairs of the BICEP3 experiment, out of a total of $\sim 1000$. We use a specifically designed Rotating Polarized Source (RPS) to measure the polarization response at multiple source and telescope boresight rotation angles, to fully map the response over 360 degrees. We present here polarization properties extracted from on-site calibration data taken in January 2022. A similar calibration campaign was performed in 2018, but we found that our constraint was dominated by systematics on the level of $\sim0.5^\circ$. After a number of improvements to the calibration set-up, we are now able to report a significantly lower level of systematic contamination. In the future, such precise measurements will be used to constrain physics beyond the standard cosmological model, namely cosmic birefringence. |
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Improved polarization calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole |
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Improved polarization calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole |
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Improved polarization calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole |
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ftceafr:oai:HAL:hal-03761669v1 2024-09-15T18:36:48+00:00 Improved polarization calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole Cornelison, J. Vergès, C. Ade, P.A. R. Ahmed, Z. Amiri, M. Barkats, D. Basu Thakur, R. Beck, D. Bischoff, C.A. Bock, J.J. Buza, V. Iv, J.R. Cheshire Connors, J. Crumrine, M. Cukierman, A.J. Denison, E.V. Dierickx, M.I. Duband, L. Eiben, M. Fatigoni, S. Filippini, J.P. Giannakopoulos, C. Goeckner-Wald, N. Goldfinger, D.C. Grayson, J. Grimes, P.K. Hall, G. Halal, G. Halpern, M. Hand, E. Harrison, S.A. Henderson, S. Hildebrandt, S.R. Hilton, G.C. Hubmayr, J. Hui, H. Irwin, K.D. Kang, J. Karkare, K.S. Kefeli, S. Kovac, J.M. Kuo, C.L. Lau, K. Leitch, E.M. Lennox, A. Liu, T. Look, K. Megerian, K.G. Minutolo, L. Moncelsi, L. Nakato, Y. Namikawa, T. Nguyen, H.T. O'Brient, R. Palladino, S. Petroff, M.A. Prouve, T. Pryke, C. Racine, B. Reintsema, C.D. Salatino, M. Schillaci, A. Schmitt, B.L. Singari, B. Soliman, A. Germaine, T.St. Steinbach, B. Sudiwala, R.V. Thompson, K.L. Tsai, C. Tucker, C. Turner, A.D. Umiltà, C. Vieregg, A.G. Wandui, A. Weber, A.C. Wiebe, D.V. Willmert, J. Wu, W.L. K. Yang, H. Yoon, K.W. Young, E. Yu, C. Zeng, L. Zhang, C. Zhang, S. Laboratoire des Cryoréfrigérateurs et Cryogénie Spatiale (LCCS) Département des Systèmes Basses Températures (DSBT ) Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG) Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM) Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Montréal, Canada 2022-07-17 https://hal.science/hal-03761669 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2620212 en eng HAL CCSD info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/2207.14796 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1117/12.2620212 hal-03761669 https://hal.science/hal-03761669 ARXIV: 2207.14796 doi:10.1117/12.2620212 INSPIRE: 2128243 Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022 https://hal.science/hal-03761669 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022, Jul 2022, Montréal, Canada. pp.121901X, ⟨10.1117/12.2620212⟩ Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Calibration Cosmic Birefringence [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2022 ftceafr https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2620212 2024-07-22T13:10:13Z International audience The BICEP3 Polarimeter is a small aperture, refracting telescope, dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 95GHz. It is designed to target degree angular scale polarization patterns, in particular the very-much-sought-after primordial B-mode signal, which is a unique signature of cosmic inflation. The polarized signal from the sky is reconstructed by differencing co-localized, orthogonally polarized superconducting Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers. In this work, we present absolute measurements of the polarization response of the detectors for more than $\sim 800$ functioning detector pairs of the BICEP3 experiment, out of a total of $\sim 1000$. We use a specifically designed Rotating Polarized Source (RPS) to measure the polarization response at multiple source and telescope boresight rotation angles, to fully map the response over 360 degrees. We present here polarization properties extracted from on-site calibration data taken in January 2022. A similar calibration campaign was performed in 2018, but we found that our constraint was dominated by systematics on the level of $\sim0.5^\circ$. After a number of improvements to the calibration set-up, we are now able to report a significantly lower level of systematic contamination. In the future, such precise measurements will be used to constrain physics beyond the standard cosmological model, namely cosmic birefringence. Conference Object South pole HAL-CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 128 |