BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set
We report on the design and performance of the BICEP3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. BICEP3 is a 52cm aperture, refracting telescope designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales at 95GHz. It started...
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fthalin2p3:oai:HAL:hal-03380647v1 2023-05-15T18:22:43+02:00 BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set Ade, P.A.R. Ahmed, Z. Amiri, M. Barkats, D. Thakur, R. Basu Beck, D. Bischoff, C. Bock, J.J. Boenish, H. Bullock, E. Buza, V. Cheshire, J.R. Connors, J. Cornelison, J. Crumrine, M. Cukierman, A. Denison, E.V. Dierickx, M. Duband, L. Eiben, M. Fatigoni, S. Filippini, J.P. Fliescher, S. Goeckner-Wald, N. Goldfinger, D.C. Grayson, J. Grimes, P. Halal, G. Hall, G. Halpern, M. Hand, E. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. Hildebrandt, S.R. Hilton, G.C. Hubmayr, J. Hui, H. Irwin, K.D. Kang, J. Karkare, K.S. Karpel, E. Kefeli, S. Kernasovskiy, S.A. Kovac, J.M. Kuo, C.L. Lau, K. Leitch, E.M. Lennox, A. Megerian, K.G. Minutolo, L. 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) BICEP/Keck 2021-10-15 https://hal.science/hal-03380647 en eng HAL CCSD info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/2110.00482 hal-03380647 https://hal.science/hal-03380647 ARXIV: 2110.00482 INSPIRE: 1937566 https://hal.science/hal-03380647 2021 cosmic background radiation: polarization beam: width beam: polarization temperature infrared radio wave: detector pole optical bolometer BICEP performance optics [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/preprint Preprints, Working Papers, . 2021 fthalin2p3 2023-03-08T18:00:23Z We report on the design and performance of the BICEP3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. BICEP3 is a 52cm aperture, refracting telescope designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales at 95GHz. It started science observation at the South Pole in 2016 with 2400 antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. The receiver first demonstrated new technologies such as large-diameter alumina optics, Zotefoam infrared filters, and flux-activated SQUIDs, allowing $\sim 10\times$ higher optical throughput compared to the Keck design. BICEP3 achieved instrument noise-equivalent temperatures of 9.2, 6.8 and 7.1$\mu\text{K}_{\text{CMB}}\sqrt{\text{s}}$ and reached Stokes $Q$ and $U$ map depths of 5.9, 4.4 and 4.4$\mu$K-arcmin in 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively. The combined three-year data set achieved a polarization map depth of 2.8$\mu$K-arcmin over an effective area of 585 square degrees, which is the deepest CMB polarization map made to date at 95GHz. Report South pole HAL-IN2P3 (Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules) South Pole |
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cosmic background radiation: polarization beam: width beam: polarization temperature infrared radio wave: detector pole optical bolometer BICEP performance optics [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] |
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cosmic background radiation: polarization beam: width beam: polarization temperature infrared radio wave: detector pole optical bolometer BICEP performance optics [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] Ade, P.A.R. Ahmed, Z. Amiri, M. Barkats, D. Thakur, R. Basu Beck, D. Bischoff, C. Bock, J.J. Boenish, H. Bullock, E. Buza, V. Cheshire, J.R. Connors, J. Cornelison, J. Crumrine, M. Cukierman, A. Denison, E.V. Dierickx, M. Duband, L. Eiben, M. Fatigoni, S. Filippini, J.P. Fliescher, S. Goeckner-Wald, N. Goldfinger, D.C. Grayson, J. Grimes, P. Halal, G. Hall, G. Halpern, M. Hand, E. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. Hildebrandt, S.R. Hilton, G.C. Hubmayr, J. Hui, H. Irwin, K.D. Kang, J. Karkare, K.S. Karpel, E. Kefeli, S. Kernasovskiy, S.A. Kovac, J.M. Kuo, C.L. Lau, K. Leitch, E.M. Lennox, A. Megerian, K.G. Minutolo, L. BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set |
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We report on the design and performance of the BICEP3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. BICEP3 is a 52cm aperture, refracting telescope designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales at 95GHz. It started science observation at the South Pole in 2016 with 2400 antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. The receiver first demonstrated new technologies such as large-diameter alumina optics, Zotefoam infrared filters, and flux-activated SQUIDs, allowing $\sim 10\times$ higher optical throughput compared to the Keck design. BICEP3 achieved instrument noise-equivalent temperatures of 9.2, 6.8 and 7.1$\mu\text{K}_{\text{CMB}}\sqrt{\text{s}}$ and reached Stokes $Q$ and $U$ map depths of 5.9, 4.4 and 4.4$\mu$K-arcmin in 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively. The combined three-year data set achieved a polarization map depth of 2.8$\mu$K-arcmin over an effective area of 585 square degrees, which is the deepest CMB polarization map made to date at 95GHz. |
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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) BICEP/Keck |
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Ade, P.A.R. Ahmed, Z. Amiri, M. Barkats, D. Thakur, R. Basu Beck, D. Bischoff, C. Bock, J.J. Boenish, H. Bullock, E. Buza, V. Cheshire, J.R. Connors, J. Cornelison, J. Crumrine, M. Cukierman, A. Denison, E.V. Dierickx, M. Duband, L. Eiben, M. Fatigoni, S. Filippini, J.P. Fliescher, S. Goeckner-Wald, N. Goldfinger, D.C. Grayson, J. Grimes, P. Halal, G. Hall, G. Halpern, M. Hand, E. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. Hildebrandt, S.R. Hilton, G.C. Hubmayr, J. Hui, H. Irwin, K.D. Kang, J. Karkare, K.S. Karpel, E. Kefeli, S. Kernasovskiy, S.A. Kovac, J.M. Kuo, C.L. Lau, K. Leitch, E.M. Lennox, A. Megerian, K.G. Minutolo, L. |
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Ade, P.A.R. Ahmed, Z. Amiri, M. Barkats, D. Thakur, R. Basu Beck, D. Bischoff, C. Bock, J.J. Boenish, H. Bullock, E. Buza, V. Cheshire, J.R. Connors, J. Cornelison, J. Crumrine, M. Cukierman, A. Denison, E.V. Dierickx, M. Duband, L. Eiben, M. Fatigoni, S. Filippini, J.P. Fliescher, S. Goeckner-Wald, N. Goldfinger, D.C. Grayson, J. Grimes, P. Halal, G. Hall, G. Halpern, M. Hand, E. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. Hildebrandt, S.R. Hilton, G.C. Hubmayr, J. Hui, H. Irwin, K.D. Kang, J. Karkare, K.S. Karpel, E. Kefeli, S. Kernasovskiy, S.A. Kovac, J.M. Kuo, C.L. Lau, K. Leitch, E.M. Lennox, A. Megerian, K.G. Minutolo, L. |
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BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set |
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BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set |
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BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set |
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BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set |
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BICEP / Keck XV: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter and the First Three Year Data Set |
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bicep / keck xv: the bicep3 cmb polarimeter and the first three year data set |
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