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1. Performance of a Low-Parasitic Frequency-Domain Multiplexing Readout

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Peter S. Barry, A. E. Lowitz, J. Zhang, Valentine Novosad, Matt Dobbs, A. Gilbert, Stephen Padin, Thomas Cecil, Amy N. Bender, John E. Pearson, Ralu Divan, Volodymyr Yefremenko, Steve Kuhlmann, C. L. Chang, Joshua Montgomery, Gensheng Wang, and M. Lisovenko

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Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Frequency domain multiplexing, Bolometer, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Parasitic impedance, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, law, 0103 physical sciences, Parasitic element, Electronic engineering, General Materials Science, Parasitic extraction, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract

Frequency-domain multiplexing is a readout technique for transition edge sensor bolometer arrays used on modern CMB experiments, including the SPT-3G receiver. Here, we present design details and performance measurements for a low-parasitic frequency-domain multiplexing readout. Reducing the parasitic impedance of the connections between cryogenic components provides a path to improving both the crosstalk and noise performance of the readout. Reduced crosstalk will in turn allow higher multiplexing factors. We have demonstrated a factor of two improvement in parasitic resistance compared to SPT-3G hardware. Reduced parasitics also permits operation of lower-resistance bolometers, which enables better optimization of R$_{\rm{bolo}}$ for improved readout noise performance. The prototype system exhibits noise performance comparable to SPT-3G readout hardware when operating SPT-3G detectors., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to J. Low Temp. Detectors

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2020
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2. On-Sky Performance of the SPT-3G Frequency-Domain Multiplexed Readout

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J. A. Sobrin, Thomas Cecil, E. V. Denison, S. S. Meyer, Kent D. Irwin, Peter A. R. Ade, W. L. Holzapfel, K. T. Story, K. Vanderlinde, A. E. Lowitz, V. Novosad, Donna Kubik, Aled Jones, John E. Carlstrom, G. I. Noble, Lincoln Bryant, Jason W. Henning, T. de Haan, Ki Won Yoon, Volodymyr Yefremenko, Nathan Whitehorn, Zeeshan Ahmed, T. Natoli, N. L. Harrington, Gene C. Hilton, Robert Gardner, Amy N. Bender, Carole Tucker, Jason Gallicchio, E. M. Leitch, C. L. Chang, A. E. Gambrel, W. B. Everett, A. Foster, Adrian T. Lee, D. Howe, D. Dutcher, Antony A. Stark, M. Jonas, Aritoki Suzuki, J. E. Ruhl, J. Stephen, Trupti Khaire, D. Riebel, Bradford Benson, J. F. Cliche, Joshua Montgomery, H. M. Cho, Ari Cukierman, Graeme Smecher, Z. Pan, Alexandra S. Rahlin, R. Basu Thakur, Matt Dobbs, K. R. Ferguson, Faustin Carter, Andrew Nadolski, Junjia Ding, Adam Anderson, M. R. Young, N. W. Halverson, Leila R. Vale, Oliver Jeong, Chao-Lin Kuo, Keith L. Thompson, John Groh, Karen Byrum, John E. Pearson, P. Paschos, N. Huang, A. Gilbert, J. Fu, A. M. Kofman, Jessica Avva, R. Guyser, Stephen Padin, C. M. Posada, Steve Kuhlmann, Joaquin Vieira, S. Guns, Daniel Michalik, Gensheng Wang, W. Quan, Erik Shirokoff, Peter S. Barry, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, H. T. Nguyen, M. Korman, and J. T. Sayre

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, Noise (electronics), 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, business.industry, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), White noise, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, South Pole Telescope, Frequency domain, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, Voltage
Abstract

Frequency-domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a unique AC voltage bias that is selected by a resonant filter. This scheme enables the operation and readout of multiple bolometers on a single pair of wires, reducing thermal loading onto sub-Kelvin stages. The current receiver on the South Pole Telescope, SPT-3G, uses a 68x fMux system to operate its large-format camera of $\sim$16,000 TES bolometers. We present here the successful implementation and performance of the SPT-3G readout as measured on-sky. Characterization of the noise reveals a median pair-differenced 1/f knee frequency of 33 mHz, indicating that low-frequency noise in the readout will not limit SPT-3G's measurements of sky power on large angular scales. Measurements also show that the median readout white noise level in each of the SPT-3G observing bands is below the expectation for photon noise, demonstrating that SPT-3G is operating in the photon-noise-dominated regime., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures submitted to the Journal of Low Temperature Physics: LTD18 Special Edition

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2019
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3. Performance of Al–Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G

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M. Korman, Kent D. Irwin, W. L. Holzapfel, J. E. Ruhl, H. M. Cho, Ari Cukierman, V. Novosad, Donna Kubik, C. L. Chang, A. E. Gambrel, Alexandra S. Rahlin, Matt Dobbs, K. Vanderlinde, Keith L. Thompson, D. Howe, M. R. Young, Karen Byrum, Thomas Cecil, R. Basu Thakur, Erik Shirokoff, P. Paschos, Aled Jones, Peter A. R. Ade, Zeeshan Ahmed, Amy N. Bender, Ki Won Yoon, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, K. T. Story, A. E. Lowitz, H. T. Nguyen, D. Dutcher, Antony A. Stark, J. A. Sobrin, J. Stephen, Jason Gallicchio, Lincoln Bryant, Jason W. Henning, J. T. Sayre, S. S. Meyer, Volodymyr Yefremenko, Nathan Whitehorn, John E. Pearson, Peter S. Barry, N. L. Harrington, T. Natoli, Andrew Nadolski, Jessica Avva, G. I. Noble, Carole Tucker, R. Guyser, Stephen Padin, Trupti Khaire, N. Huang, A. Foster, Joshua Montgomery, A. Gilbert, C. M. Posada, Bradford Benson, Robert Gardner, J. F. Cliche, Steve Kuhlmann, Gene C. Hilton, Joaquin Vieira, Chao-Lin Kuo, S. Guns, Graeme Smecher, W. B. Everett, N. W. Halverson, Daniel Michalik, Gensheng Wang, John Groh, J. Fu, E. V. Denison, W. Quan, A. M. Kofman, M. Jonas, Leila R. Vale, Adrian T. Lee, Aritoki Suzuki, Faustin Carter, Junjia Ding, John E. Carlstrom, T. de Haan, E. M. Leitch, D. Riebel, Oliver Jeong, Z. Pan, K. R. Ferguson, and Adam Anderson

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Materials science, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, Wafer, 010306 general physics, Anisotropy, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), business.industry, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, South Pole Telescope, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business
Abstract

SPT-3G is a polarization-sensitive receiver, installed on the South Pole Telescope, that measures the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from degree to arcminute scales. The receiver consists of ten 150~mm-diameter detector wafers, containing a total of 16,000 transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers observing at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. During the 2018-2019 austral summer, one of these detector wafers was replaced by a new wafer fabricated with Al-Mn TESs instead of the Ti/Au design originally deployed for SPT-3G. We present the results of in-lab characterization and on-sky performance of this Al-Mn wafer, including electrical and thermal properties, optical efficiency measurements, and noise-equivalent temperature. In addition, we discuss and account for several calibration-related systematic errors that affect measurements made using frequency-domain multiplexing readout electronics., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, submitted to the Journal of Low Temperature Physics: LTD18 Special Edition

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2019
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4. The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G

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J. A. Sobrin, A. J. Anderson, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, D. Dutcher, A. Foster, N. Goeckner-Wald, J. Montgomery, A. Nadolski, A. Rahlin, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed, E. Anderes, M. Archipley, J. E. Austermann, J. S. Avva, K. Aylor, L. Balkenhol, P. S. Barry, R. Basu Thakur, K. Benabed, F. Bianchini, L. E. Bleem, F. R. Bouchet, L. Bryant, K. Byrum, J. E. Carlstrom, F. W. Carter, T. W. Cecil, C. L. Chang, P. Chaubal, G. Chen, H.-M. Cho, T.-L. Chou, J.-F. Cliche, T. M. Crawford, A. Cukierman, C. Daley, T. de Haan, E. V. Denison, K. Dibert, J. Ding, M. A. Dobbs, W. Everett, C. Feng, K. R. Ferguson, J. Fu, S. Galli, A. E. Gambrel, R. W. Gardner, R. Gualtieri, S. Guns, N. Gupta, R. Guyser, N. W. Halverson, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, N. L. Harrington, J. W. Henning, G. C. Hilton, E. Hivon, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, J. C. Hood, D. Howe, N. Huang, K. D. Irwin, O. B. Jeong, M. Jonas, A. Jones, T. S. Khaire, L. Knox, A. M. Kofman, M. Korman, D. L. Kubik, S. Kuhlmann, C.-L. Kuo, A. T. Lee, E. M. Leitch, A. E. Lowitz, C. Lu, S. S. Meyer, D. Michalik, M. Millea, T. Natoli, H. Nguyen, G. I. Noble, V. Novosad, Y. Omori, S. Padin, Z. Pan, P. Paschos, J. Pearson, C. M. Posada, K. Prabhu, W. Quan, C. L. Reichardt, D. Riebel, B. Riedel, M. Rouble, J. E. Ruhl, B. Saliwanchik, J. T. Sayre, E. Schiappucci, E. Shirokoff, G. Smecher, A. A. Stark, J. Stephen, K. T. Story, A. Suzuki, C. Tandoi, K. L. Thompson, B. Thorne, C. Tucker, C. Umilta, L. R. Vale, K. Vanderlinde, J. D. Vieira, G. Wang, N. Whitehorn, W. L. K. Wu, V. Yefremenko, K. W. Yoon, M. R. Young, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and SPT-3G

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 7. Clean energy, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB provide a powerful dataset for constraining cosmology. Additionally, CMB surveys with arcminute-scale resolution are capable of detecting galaxy clusters, millimeter-wave bright galaxies, and a variety of transient phenomena. The SPT-3G instrument provides a significant improvement in mapping speed over its predecessors, SPT-SZ and SPTpol. The broadband optics design of the instrument achieves a 430 mm diameter image plane across observing bands of 95 GHz, 150 GHz, and 220 GHz, with 1.2 arcmin FWHM beam response at 150 GHz. In the receiver, this image plane is populated with 2690 dual-polarization, tri-chroic pixels (~16000 detectors) read out using a 68X digital frequency-domain multiplexing readout system. In 2018, SPT-3G began a multiyear survey of 1500 deg$^{2}$ of the southern sky. We summarize the unique optical, cryogenic, detector, and readout technologies employed in SPT-3G, and we report on the integrated performance of the instrument., Comment: 25 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJS

Published
2021

5. Searching for anisotropic cosmic birefringence with polarization data from SPTpol

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Kent D. Irwin, W. L. Holzapfel, Jason W. Henning, A. A. Stark, J. D. Hrubes, Jeff McMahon, N. W. Halverson, Andreas Bender, T. M. Crawford, T.-L. Chou, L. Balkenhol, C. Sievers, Gensheng Wang, W. L. K. Wu, John E. Carlstrom, E. J. Baxter, W. B. Everett, Joshua Montgomery, Christian L. Reichardt, Marius Millea, A. E. Lowitz, V. G. Yefremenko, C. Pryke, Adrian T. Lee, Lloyd Knox, Dale Li, Joaquin Vieira, K. Vanderlinde, Gene C. Hilton, L. M. Mocanu, Jason Gallicchio, Y. Omori, K. K. Schaffer, Peter A. R. Ade, S. Patil, A. T. Crites, Jason E. Austermann, K. T. Story, S. S. Meyer, C. Corbett Moran, Valentine Novosad, T. de Haan, Jessica Avva, Graeme Smecher, P. Chaubal, J. E. Ruhl, A. J. Gilbert, Benjamin Saliwanchik, Gilbert Holder, Adam Anderson, M. A. Dobbs, A. Manzotti, S. Padin, Nathan Whitehorn, N. Huang, H. C. Chiang, Nikhel Gupta, Carole Tucker, G. I. Noble, Federico Bianchini, G. Simard, John P. Nibarger, Andrew Nadolski, J. A. Beall, Robert I. Citron, T. Natoli, Lindsey Bleem, Elizabeth George, T. Veach, Johannes Hubmayr, C. L. Chang, Bradford Benson, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and SPT

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, anisotropy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, temperature: fluctuation, polarization: rotation, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, inflation, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, Physics, COSMIC cancer database, birefringence, Chern-Simons term, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, coupling constant, magnetic field: primordial, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, correlation: higher-order, Spectral density, Polarization (waves), Cosmology, cosmic background radiation: temperature, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Amplitude, South Pole Telescope, 13. Climate action, Sky, power spectrum: angular dependence, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a search for anisotropic cosmic birefringence in 500 deg$^2$ of southern sky observed at 150 GHz with the SPTpol camera on the South Pole Telescope. We reconstruct a map of cosmic polarization rotation anisotropies using higher-order correlations between the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) $E$ and $B$ fields. We then measure the angular power spectrum of this map, which is found to be consistent with zero. The non-detection is translated into an upper limit on the amplitude of the scale-invariant cosmic rotation power spectrum, $L(L+1)C_L^{\alpha\alpha}/2\pi < 0.10 \times 10^{-4}$ rad$^2$ (0.033 deg$^2$, 95% C.L.). This upper limit can be used to place constraints on the strength of primordial magnetic fields, $B_{1 \rm Mpc} < 17 {\rm nG} $ (95% C.L.), and on the coupling constant of the Chern-Simons electromagnetic term $g_{a\gamma} < 4.0 \times 10^{-2}/H_I $ (95% C.L.), where $H_I$ is the inflationary Hubble scale. For the first time, we also cross-correlate the CMB temperature fluctuations with the reconstructed rotation angle map, a signal expected to be non-vanishing in certain theoretical scenarios, and find no detectable signal. We perform a suite of systematics and consistency checks and find no evidence for contamination., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures - new subsection on non-Gaussian foregrounds, conclusions unchanged - updated to match published version on PRD

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2020
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6. Measurements of B -mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background from 500 square degrees of SPTpol data

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W. B. Everett, Jason Gallicchio, S. Patil, Lindsey Bleem, G. P. Holder, K. Vanderlinde, P. Chaubal, Jeff McMahon, S. S. Meyer, Gensheng Wang, C. L. Chang, C. Sievers, J. D. Hrubes, T. de Haan, Elizabeth George, Kent D. Irwin, Jason W. Henning, L. M. Mocanu, W. L. Holzapfel, Robert I. Citron, A. T. Crites, N. W. Halverson, Christian L. Reichardt, Jason E. Austermann, John P. Nibarger, Andrew Nadolski, Joaquin Vieira, T. Natoli, Bradford Benson, Graeme Smecher, W. L. K. Wu, C. Corbett Moran, Matt Dobbs, Jessica Avva, N. L. Harrington, T. M. Crawford, Gene C. Hilton, Stephen Padin, A. J. Gilbert, Adam Anderson, Dale Li, H. C. Chiang, John E. Carlstrom, J. E. Ruhl, Amy N. Bender, C. Tucker, K. K. Schaffer, N. Huang, A. E. Lowitz, Valentine Novosad, Antony A. Stark, J. T. Sayre, Johannes Hubmayr, T. Veach, J. A. Beall, G. I. Noble, Adrian T. Lee, Federico Bianchini, Lloyd Knox, Nikhel Gupta, Benjamin Saliwanchik, V. G. Yefremenko, C. Pryke, Joshua Montgomery, Peter A. R. Ade, and Nathan Whitehorn

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Physics, Quantum Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Molecular, Spectral density, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Atomic, Nuclear & Particles Physics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle and Plasma Physics, South Pole Telescope, 0103 physical sciences, astro-ph.CO, Nuclear, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made using the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Telescope. This work uses 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol data, a five-fold increase over the last SPTpol B-mode release. As a result, the bandpower uncertainties have been reduced by more than a factor of two, and the measurement extends to lower multipoles: $52 < \ell < 2301$. Data from both 95 and 150 GHz are used, allowing for three cross-spectra: 95 GHz x 95 GHz, 95 GHz x 150 GHz, and 150 GHz x 150 GHz. B-mode power is detected at very high significance; we find $P(BB < 0) = 5.8 \times 10^{-71}$, corresponding to a $18.1 ��$ detection of power. An upper limit is set on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r < 0.44$ at 95% confidence (the expected $1 ��$ constraint on $r$ given the measurement uncertainties is 0.22). We find the measured B-mode power is consistent with the Planck best-fit $��$CDM model predictions. Scaling the predicted lensing B-mode power in this model by a factor Alens, the data prefer Alens = $1.17 \pm 0.13$. These data are currently the most precise measurements of B-mode power at $\ell > 320$., 16 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to PRD

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2020
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7. Thermal Links and Microstrip Transmission Lines in SPT-3G Bolometers

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Peter A. R. Ade, Faustin Carter, K. T. Story, J. S. Avva, Thomas Cecil, S. E. Kuhlmann, Junjia Ding, Gene C. Hilton, K. Vanderlinde, G. I. Noble, W. B. Everett, A. Cukierman, Q. Y. Tang, E. V. Denison, A. E. Lowitz, V. G. Yefremenko, R. N. Gannon, M. R. Young, Carole Tucker, K. L. Thompson, Alexandra S. Rahlin, R. Basu Thakur, Chihway Chang, N. W. Halverson, John E. Carlstrom, Amy N. Bender, J. A. Sobrin, Z. Pan, N. L. Harrington, Jason W. Henning, T. Natoli, Jason E. Austermann, S. S. Meyer, Kent D. Irwin, N. Whitehorn, D. Dutcher, Ralu Divan, Bradford Benson, K. W. Yoon, Graeme Smecher, A. Foster, Donna Kubik, J. F. Cliche, C. L. Kuo, Adrian T. Lee, Valentine Novosad, Andrew Nadolski, Zeeshan Ahmed, Trupti Khaire, Joshua Montgomery, T. de Haan, M. Jonas, A. J. Gilbert, A. A. Stark, W. Holzapfel, Adam Anderson, J. E. Ruhl, John E. Pearson, Leila R. Vale, C. S. Miller, M. A. Dobbs, N. Huang, J. C. Groh, Aritoki Suzuki, H. Nguyen, L. J. Saunders, C. M. Posada, A. M. Kofman, I. Shirley, Daniel Michalik, O. B. Jeong, Gensheng Wang, Joaquin Vieira, Liliana Stan, Erik Shirokoff, Stephen Padin, M. Korman, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, and J. T. Sayre

Subjects
010302 applied physics, Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Cosmic microwave background, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Microstrip, Computer Science::Other, law.invention, South Pole Telescope, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Dissipation factor, General Materials Science, Transition edge sensor, 010306 general physics, business
Abstract

In this work, we have measured the properties of membrane-suspended bolometer thermal links and microstrip transmission lines in the transition-edge sensor arrays for the third-generation camera for South Pole Telescope (SPT-3G). A promising technique for controlling the end point of the release etch that defines the thermal link has been developed. We have also evaluated the microstrip loss in our detectors by measuring the optical efficiency of detectors with different lengths of microstrip line. The loss tangent is sufficiently low for the use in multi-chronic pixels for cosmic microwave background instruments like SPT-3G.

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2018
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8. A Demonstration of Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves with Delensing

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Roger O'Brient, John M Kovac, Kirit Karkare, T. Natoli, Kent D. Irwin, A. E. Lowitz, N. Huang, Y. Omori, Victor Buza, Robert I. Citron, S. A. Kernasovskiy, W. L. Holzapfel, Ahmed Soliman, Jeff McMahon, C. Corbett Moran, P. A. R. Ade, Lingzhen Zeng, S. Henderson, W. B. Everett, J. D. Hrubes, Jessica Avva, C. Yu, Calvin B. Netterfield, Lorenzo Moncelsi, J. R. Cheshire, Jason W. Henning, J. A. Grayson, S. Patil, K. K. Schaffer, Elizabeth George, Abigail G. Vieregg, Denis Barkats, V. G. Yefremenko, Jason E. Austermann, N. W. Halverson, A. Cukierman, H. Boenish, B. L. Schmitt, Marion Dierickx, M. Crumrine, K. W. Yoon, Joaquin Vieira, E. Young, G. Hall, Stefan Richter, C. Sievers, Toshiya Namikawa, Graeme Smecher, C. Umilta, D. V. Wiebe, S. Fliescher, T.-L. Chou, H. C. Chiang, Johannes Hubmayr, H. Yang, C. D. Sheehy, Chao-Lin Kuo, Mark Halpern, Christian L. Reichardt, Marius Millea, Joshua Montgomery, S. Kefeli, J. Cornelison, J. J. Bock, Bryan Steinbach, Howard Hui, Gensheng Wang, Andreas Bender, Neil Goeckner-Wald, J. E. Ruhl, Dale Li, C. Tucker, K. G. Megerian, T. M. Crawford, M. A. Dobbs, Mandana Amiri, V. Novosad, R. Schwarz, S. Fatigoni, S. R. Hildebrandt, S. Padin, John E. Carlstrom, E. Bullock, Chao Zhang, T. de Haan, D. C. Goldfinger, John P. Nibarger, Andrew Nadolski, J. Willmert, Carl D. Reintsema, Gene C. Hilton, N. Whitehorn, B. Racine, H. T. Nguyen, A. A. Stark, E. M. Leitch, Alessandro Schillaci, A. D. Turner, E. Karpel, T. Veach, R. Basu Thakur, K. L. Thompson, T. Prouve, A. T. Crites, C. Pryke, C. L. Wong, C. L. Chang, J. Kang, Adam Anderson, Grant Teply, Benjamin Saliwanchik, A. Wandui, Gilbert Holder, A. Manzotti, A. C. Weber, G. I. Noble, Federico Bianchini, Nikhel Gupta, Jeffrey P. Filippini, R. V. Sudiwala, Adrian T. Lee, Bradford Benson, Lloyd Knox, W. L. K. Wu, Colin A. Bischoff, S. S. Meyer, Jason Gallicchio, T. St. Germaine, S. Palladino, L. Duband, J. E. Tolan, Zeeshan Ahmed, L. M. Mocanu, Jake Connors, Kei May Lau, Sarah M. Harrison, Lindsey Bleem, R. W. Ogburn, J. A. Beall, 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 d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), SPTpol, BICEP/Keck, BICEP, and Keck

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data analysis method, satellite: Planck, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, Cosmic background radiation, cosmic background radiation: polarization, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, cosmic rays, gravitation: lens, statistical analysis, Cosmic infrared background, 0103 physical sciences, Experiments in gravity, Sample variance, Planck, numerical calculations, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, polarization, background, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, gravitational radiation: primordial, BICEP, South Pole Telescope, Gravitational lens, B-mode, infrared, symbols, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization $B$-modes with "delensing," whereby the uncertainty on $r$ contributed by the sample variance of the gravitational lensing $B$-modes is reduced by cross-correlating against a lensing $B$-mode template. This template is constructed by combining an estimate of the polarized CMB with a tracer of the projected large-scale structure. The large-scale-structure tracer used is a map of the cosmic infrared background derived from Planck satellite data, while the polarized CMB map comes from a combination of South Pole Telescope, BICEP/Keck, and Planck data. We expand the BICEP/Keck likelihood analysis framework to accept a lensing template and apply it to the BICEP/Keck data set collected through 2014 using the same parametric foreground modelling as in the previous analysis. From simulations, we find that the uncertainty on $r$ is reduced by $\sim10\%$, from $��(r)$= 0.024 to 0.022, which can be compared with a $\sim26\%$ reduction obtained when using a perfect lensing template. Applying the technique to the real data, the constraint on $r$ is improved from $r_{0.05} < 0.090$ to $r_{0.05} < 0.082$ (95\% C.L.). This is the first demonstration of improvement in an $r$ constraint through delensing., 23 pages, 11 figures; match published version

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2020
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9. Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect in the SPTpol 100-square-degree Survey

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Elizabeth George, A. T. Crites, T. Veach, Amy N. Bender, G. I. Noble, Federico Bianchini, Matt Dobbs, Mark Brodwin, W. B. Everett, N. L. Harrington, S. S. Meyer, K. K. Schaffer, A. E. Lowitz, John E. Carlstrom, Jason E. Austermann, C. L. Chang, T. de Haan, T. M. Crawford, L. M. Mocanu, Lindsey Bleem, Michael McDonald, Dale Li, Joshua Montgomery, Jeff McMahon, Gensheng Wang, Jason Gallicchio, Nathan Whitehorn, Valentine Novosad, Keren Sharon, Graeme Smecher, S. Patil, Michael D. Gladders, Johannes Hubmayr, Robert I. Citron, J. D. Hrubes, Jason W. Henning, A. Saro, Nikhel Gupta, Adrian T. Lee, Adam Anderson, G. Khullar, Benjamin Floyd, Volodymyr Yefremenko, Joaquin Vieira, S. Guns, Steven W. Allen, W. L. K. Wu, J. E. Ruhl, John P. Nibarger, Antony A. Stark, C. Sievers, N. W. Halverson, J. T. Sayre, B. Stalder, Christian L. Reichardt, Kent D. Irwin, Peter A. R. Ade, A. Nadolski, C. Corbett Moran, K. T. Story, K. Vanderlinde, W. L. Holzapfel, Bradford Benson, Sebastian Bocquet, N. Huang, Jessica Avva, A. Gilbert, Stephen Padin, Lloyd Knox, T. Natoli, Gene C. Hilton, James A. Beall, C. Pryke, H. C. Chiang, Carole Tucker, Benjamin Saliwanchik, Gilbert Holder, Huang, N., Bleem, L. E., Stalder, B., Ade, P. A. R., Allen, S. W., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brodwin, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crite, A., T., Haan, T. de, Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Floyd, B., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gladders, M. D., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Khullar, G., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Mcdonald, M., Mcmahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Saro, A., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Sharon, K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Infrared, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect, 01 natural sciences, Square (algebra), 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Square degree, South Pole Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a catalog of galaxy cluster candidates detected in 100 square degrees surveyed with the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The catalog contains 89 candidates detected with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 4.6. The candidates are selected using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect at 95 and 150 GHz. Using both space- and ground-based optical and infrared telescopes, we have confirmed 81 candidates as galaxy clusters. We use these follow-up images and archival images to estimate photometric redshifts for 66 galaxy clusters and spectroscopic observations to obtain redshifts for 13 systems. An additional 2 galaxy clusters are confirmed using the overdensity of near-infrared galaxies only, and are presented without redshifts. We find that 15 candidates (18% of the total sample) are at redshift of $z \geq 1.0$, with a maximum confirmed redshift of $z_{\rm{max}} = 1.38 \pm 0.10$. We expect this catalog to contain every galaxy cluster with $M_{500c} > 2.6 \times 10^{14} M_\odot h^{-1}_{70}$ and $z > 0.25$ in the survey area. The mass threshold is approximately constant above $z = 0.25$, and the complete catalog has a median mass of approximately $ M_{500c} = 2.7 \times 10^{14} M_\odot h^{-1}_{70}$. Compared to previous SPT works, the increased depth of the millimeter-wave data (11.2 and 6.5 $��$K-arcmin at 95 and 150 GHz, respectively) makes it possible to find more galaxy clusters at high redshift and lower mass., 21 pages, 7 figures, associated data available at http://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptsz-clusters. V2 was accepted to the AJ, and includes minor changes requested by the reviewer

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2020
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10. Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol Lensing Power Spectrum

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Elizabeth George, J. D. Hrubes, A. E. Lowitz, Y. Omori, K. Vanderlinde, G. I. Noble, N. W. Halverson, S. S. Meyer, Valentine Novosad, Federico Bianchini, Gensheng Wang, Dale Li, G. P. Holder, J. T. Sayre, C. L. Chang, Jason W. Henning, J. A. Beall, V. G. Yefremenko, T. Natoli, Adrian T. Lee, Lloyd Knox, L. M. Mocanu, C. Corbett Moran, Matt Dobbs, J. E. Ruhl, Carole Tucker, J. Hubmayr, Jessica Avva, Amy N. Bender, J. E. Austermann, K. T. Story, N. Huang, T. M. Crawford, Stephen Padin, Benjamin Saliwanchik, K. K. Schaffer, G. Simard, Graeme Smecher, A. J. Gilbert, Adam Anderson, H. C. Chiang, J. D. Vieira, Jeff McMahon, Robert I. Citron, W. L. K. Wu, W. L. Holzapfel, Nathan Whitehorn, Todd J. Veach, Bradford Benson, Nikhel Gupta, M. Millea, Joshua Montgomery, C. Pryke, C. Sievers, Christian L. Reichardt, N. L. Harrington, Kent D. Irwin, P. A. R. Ade, W. B. Everett, S. Patil, Jason Gallicchio, John E. Carlstrom, A. T. Crites, A. A. Stark, Lindsey Bleem, P. Chaubal, A. Manzotti, Gene C. Hilton, T. de Haan, John P. Nibarger, Andrew Nadolski, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and SPT

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Omega, Atomic, Physical Chemistry, Spectral line, symbols.namesake, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Sigma, Spectral density, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, symbols, astro-ph.CO, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Neutrino, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present cosmological constraints based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential power spectrum measurement from the recent 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol survey, the most precise CMB lensing measurement from the ground to date. We fit a flat $\Lambda$CDM model to the reconstructed lensing power spectrum alone and in addition with other data sets: baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) as well as primary CMB spectra from Planck and SPTpol. The cosmological constraints based on SPTpol and Planck lensing band powers are in good agreement when analysed alone and in combination with Planck full-sky primary CMB data. With weak priors on the baryon density and other parameters, the CMB lensing data alone provide a 4\% constraint on $\sigma_8\Omega_m^{0.25} = 0.0593 \pm 0.025$.. Jointly fitting with BAO data, we find $\sigma_8=0.779 \pm 0.023$, $\Omega_m = 0.368^{+0.032}_{-0.037}$, and $H_0 = 72.0^{+2.1}_{-2.5}\,\text{km}\,\text{s}^{-1}\,\text{Mpc}^{-1} $, up to $2\,\sigma$ away from the central values preferred by Planck lensing + BAO. However, we recover good agreement between SPTpol and Planck when restricting the analysis to similar scales. We also consider single-parameter extensions to the flat $\Lambda$CDM model. The SPTpol lensing spectrum constrains the spatial curvature to be $\Omega_K = -0.0007 \pm 0.0025$ and the sum of the neutrino masses to be $\sum m_{\nu} < 0.23$ eV at 95\% C.L. (with Planck primary CMB and BAO data), in good agreement with the Planck lensing results. With the differences in the $S/N$ of the lensing modes and the angular scales covered in the lensing spectra, this analysis represents an important independent check on the full-sky Planck lensing measurement., Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, updated to match the version published on ApJ

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2019
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11. A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg2 of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data

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T. de Haan, John E. Carlstrom, W. L. K. Wu, Todd J. Veach, K. Vanderlinde, Benjamin Saliwanchik, John P. Nibarger, Andrew Nadolski, A. J. Gilbert, Adam Anderson, J. E. Ruhl, L. M. Mocanu, Carole Tucker, C. Sievers, S. S. Meyer, Peter A. R. Ade, Graeme Smecher, Jeff McMahon, Adrian T. Lee, Lloyd Knox, K. T. Story, Jason W. Henning, C. Pryke, Antony A. Stark, J. E. Austermann, A. E. Lowitz, A. T. Crites, Y. Omori, N. L. Harrington, Bradford Benson, T. Natoli, Zhen Hou, W. B. Everett, Nathan Whitehorn, C. Corbett Moran, Valentine Novosad, M. Millea, J. A. Beall, Elizabeth George, C. L. Chang, Nikhel Gupta, S. Patil, C. L. Reichardt, G. I. Noble, J. T. Sayre, Federico Bianchini, A. Manzotti, Matt Dobbs, Lindsey Bleem, V. G. Yefremenko, Jessica Avva, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, W. L. Holzapfel, G. P. Holder, T. M. Crawford, Stephen Padin, Gensheng Wang, Joshua Montgomery, N. W. Halverson, Joaquin Vieira, J. D. Hrubes, Amy N. Bender, K. K. Schaffer, Jason Gallicchio, J. Hubmayr, Robert I. Citron, Dale Li, N. Huang, G. Simard, H. C. Chiang, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
cosmological model, data analysis method, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), satellite: Planck, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Cosmic microwave background, cosmic background radiation [cosmology], multipole, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation: polarization, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, power spectrum, Atomic, Physical Chemistry, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Particle and Plasma Physics, statistical analysis, gravitation: lens, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Planck, numerical calculations, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Molecular, Estimator, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), 3. Good health, cosmic background radiation: temperature, South Pole Telescope, Amplitude, Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, symbols, High Energy Physics::Experiment, large-scale structure of the universe, Multipole expansion, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Abstract

We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg$^2$ of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lensing potential is reconstructed with signal-to-noise per mode greater than unity at lensing multipoles $L \lesssim 250$, using a quadratic estimator on a combination of CMB temperature and polarization maps. We report measurements of the lensing potential power spectrum in the multipole range of $100< L < 2000$ from sets of temperature-only, polarization-only, and minimum-variance estimators. We measure the lensing amplitude by taking the ratio of the measured spectrum to the expected spectrum from the best-fit $\Lambda$CDM model to the $\textit{Planck}$ 2015 TT+lowP+lensing dataset. For the minimum-variance estimator, we find $A_{\rm{MV}} = 0.944 \pm 0.058{\rm (Stat.)}\pm0.025{\rm (Sys.)}$; restricting to only polarization data, we find $A_{\rm{POL}} = 0.906 \pm 0.090 {\rm (Stat.)} \pm 0.040 {\rm (Sys.)}$. Considering statistical uncertainties alone, this is the most precise polarization-only lensing amplitude constraint to date (10.1 $\sigma$), and is more precise than our temperature-only constraint. We perform null tests and consistency checks and find no evidence for significant contamination., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures; updated to match published version

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2019
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12. CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper

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Shaul Hanany, Georges Obied, J. Colin Hill, Thomas Cecil, Keith L. Thompson, Adam Anderson, Michael L. Brown, Doug Johnstone, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Erminia Calabrese, Howard Hui, Haruki Nishino, Sara M. Simon, James Kerby, Theodore Kisner, K. T. Story, Moritz Münchmeyer, Aritoki Suzuki, Joseph J. Mohr, Adrian T. Lee, Bradley R. Johnson, Sanah Bhimani, W. C. Jones, A. E. Lowitz, Nathan Whitehorn, Valentine Novosad, Marcelo A. Alvarez, Anze Slosar, Kam Arnold, Kevork N. Abazajian, Mustafa A. Amin, Evan Grohs, Abigail G. Vieregg, Siavash Yasini, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Julien Carron, Ritoban Basu Thakur, Jean-Baptiste Melin, Shawn W. Henderson, Asantha Cooray, Chris Stoughton, Peter Timbie, Matteo Bonato, Ki Won Yoon, Blakesley Burkhart, Salman Habib, T. Natoli, Jacques Delabrouille, Carlo Baccigalupi, Victor Guarino, Steven W. Allen, Kathy Bailey, Aurelien A. Fraisse, Osamu Tajima, Silvia Galli, Denis Barkats, Antony Lewis, Ari Cukierman, Johannes Hubmayr, Marilena LoVerde, Erik Shirokoff, G. P. Holder, James G. Bartlett, James Yeck, Dale Li, N. W. Halverson, Graeme E. Addison, Adam Mantz, Matthieu Tristram, Laura Newburgh, Sarah Shandera, Alessandro Schillaci, Lindsey Bleem, Raphael Flauger, Marcel Schmittfull, S. Pandey, Kent D. Irwin, N. Kurita, Gregory S. Tucker, Matthew Hasselfield, Reijo Keskitalo, Levon Pogosian, Rachel S. Somerville, C. D. Sheehy, Srini Rajagopalan, Jesse Treu, Giuseppe Puglisi, Eric J. Baxter, John M Kovac, Emmanuel Schaan, Marcel Demarteau, Akito Kusaka, Suzanne T. Staggs, Kirit Karkare, Josquin Errard, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Anne Lähteenmäki, Mattia Negrello, Toshiya Namikawa, Zhilei Xu, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Edo Berger, François R. Bouchet, Zeeshan Ahmed, Frederick Matsuda, Joseph Eimer, Alexandra S. Rahlin, W. L. Kimmy Wu, Giulio Fabbian, Chao-Lin Kuo, Christian L. Reichardt, Marius Millea, Stephen Padin, A. T. Crites, Joel Meyers, William Edwards, R. Gualtieri, Jason W. Henning, Arthur Kosowsky, Edward J. Wollack, W. L. Holzapfel, Michael D. Niemack, John E. Carlstrom, Rachel Bean, Cora Dvorkin, Ely D. Kovetz, David Alonso, Nicholas Battaglia, Sean Bryan, Gianfranco De Zotti, Anthony Challinor, Graca Rocha, Federico Nati, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Katrin Heitmann, Eric V. Linder, Antony A. Stark, Martin Nordby, Grant Teply, Benjamin Saliwanchik, Peter Adshead, P. Daniel Meerburg, Victoria Calafut, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, M.E. Huffer, Chris Bebek, Lloyd Knox, Masashi Hazumi, Eleonora Di Valentino, Natalie A. Roe, Nicholas Galitzki, Masaya Hasegawa, Sarah Kernovsky, Victor Buza, Darcy Barron, C. Pryke, Tijmen de Haan, Tony Mroczkowski, Vera Gluscevic, Andrea Zonca, Daniel Green, Kimberly K. Boddy, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Jeff McMahon, J. E. Ruhl, Steve Kuhlmann, Blake D. Sherwin, Joaquin Vieira, Peter S. Barry, Daisuke Nagai, Karen Byrum, Neelima Sehgal, Murdock Gilchriese, Marco Raveri, M. Tomasi, Douglas Scott, James J. Bock, Martin White, Chang Feng, Ken Ganga, Martina Gerbino, Suvodip Mukherjee, Radek Stompor, Gensheng Wang, B. Racine, Mark Reichanadter, Paul O'Connor, Alexander van Engelen, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Maria Salatino, Kathleen Harrington, Nobuhiko Katayama, Bradford Benson, Daniel Grin, Colin A. Bischoff, Charles R. Lawrence, Mark Vogelsberger, Shannon M. Duff, Scott Watson, Sebastian Bocquet, C. Umiltà, Andrei V. Frolov, C. L. Chang, Johanna Nagy, J. Richard Bond, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, B. Flaugher, Robert R. Caldwell, Mark J. Devlin, Renée Hlozek, Anirban Roy, Elena Pierpaoli, Amy N. Bender, Bruce Partridge, E. Y. Young, Matt Dobbs, Julian Borrill, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Yuji Chinone, Mathieu Remazeilles, T. M. Crawford, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho, and Gunther Haller

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White paper, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Environmental science, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Project plan, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Abstract

We provide an overview of the science case, instrument configuration and project plan for the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment CMB-S4, for consideration by the 2020 Decadal Survey.

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2019
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13. A Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

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Benjamin Saliwanchik, C. L. Chang, V. G. Yefremenko, Sebastian Bocquet, C. Corbett Moran, Devon L. Hollowood, J. A. Beall, N. Huang, Jessica Avva, A. E. Lowitz, Adrian T. Lee, Lloyd Knox, Peter A. R. Ade, Nikhel Gupta, J. E. Ruhl, Yanxi Zhang, Pablo Fosalba, Stephen Padin, Marcelle Soares-Santos, J. D. Hrubes, G. Gutierrez, Elizabeth George, Tesla E. Jeltema, Joseph J. Mohr, K. Vanderlinde, Gene C. Hilton, A. Roodman, Tommaso Giannantonio, K. T. Story, Valentine Novosad, Srinivasan Raghunathan, David Brooks, M. E. C. Swanson, H. C. Chiang, Robert I. Citron, Bradford Benson, Gensheng Wang, Jason Gallicchio, N. W. Halverson, Antony A. Stark, Chang Feng, T. Natoli, G. P. Holder, T. Veach, A. A. Plazas, M. Costanzi, C. Sievers, Shantanu Desai, Michael Schubnell, Jason W. Henning, D. L. Burke, Dale Li, Carole Tucker, Mathew Smith, Christian L. Reichardt, B. Flaugher, Jason E. Austermann, Ramon Miquel, S. S. Meyer, M. A. G. Maia, N. L. Harrington, John E. Carlstrom, Matt Dobbs, Peter Melchior, S. Allam, Robert A. Gruendl, L. M. Mocanu, G. I. Noble, Joaquin Vieira, Federico Bianchini, Graeme Smecher, J. P. Dietrich, Nathan Whitehorn, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, Juan Garcia-Bellido, T. McClintock, N. Kuropatkin, Eduardo Rozo, J. De Vicente, T. M. Crawford, Peter Doel, J. T. Sayre, T. N. Varga, E. Suchyta, August E. Evrard, Amy N. Bender, L. N. da Costa, A. K. Romer, H. T. Diehl, Felipe Menanteau, David Bacon, W. L. K. Wu, J. Carretero, K. K. Schaffer, Jennifer L. Marshall, M. Carrasco Kind, Joshua Montgomery, Johannes Hubmayr, Gregory Tarle, J. Gschwend, Joshua A. Frieman, David Rapetti, A. J. Gilbert, S. Serrano, Adam Anderson, Enrique Gaztanaga, Jeff McMahon, K. Honscheid, Eli S. Rykoff, Eric J. Baxter, Vinu Vikram, R. L. C. Ogando, Marcos Lima, T. de Haan, V. Scarpine, S. Patil, John P. Nibarger, Andrew Nadolski, A. Carnero Rosell, Kent D. Irwin, W. L. Holzapfel, Ofer Lahav, S. Everett, C. Pryke, Lindsey Bleem, F. J. Castander, E. J. Sanchez, Santiago Avila, A. T. Crites, Raghunathan, S., Patil, S., Baxter, E., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Crawford, T. M., Holder, G. P., Mcclintock, T., Reichardt, C. L., Varga, T. N., Whitehorn, N., Ade, P. A. R., Allam, S., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Avva, J. S., Bacon, D., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Chang, C. L., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Costanzi, M., Crites, A. T., Da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, S., Evrard, A. E., Feng, C., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., George, E. M., Giannantonio, T., Gilbert, A., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., De Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeltema, T., Kind, M. C., Knox, L., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lima, M., Lowitz, A., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Mcmahon, J. J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. C., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Padin, S., Plazas, A. A., Pryke, C., Rapetti, D., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosell, A. C., Rozo, E., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sanchez, E., Sayre, J. T., Scarpine, V., Schaffer, K. K., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., De Vicente, J., Vieira, J. D., Vikram, V., Wang, G., W. L. K., Wu, Yefremenko, V., and Zhang, Y.

Subjects
Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, Cosmic microwave background Gravitational lenses Galaxy Clusters, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, RCUK, General Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Gravitational lens, 0103 physical sciences, astro-ph.CO, Dark energy, Cluster (physics), 010306 general physics, STFC, Galaxy cluster, Weak gravitational lensing, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained using a new estimator that extracts the lensing dipole signature from stacked images formed by rotating the cluster-centered Stokes $Q/U$ map cutouts along the direction of the locally measured background CMB polarization gradient. Using data from the SPTpol 500 deg$^{2}$ survey at the locations of roughly 18,000 clusters with richness $\lambda \ge 10$ from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 full galaxy cluster catalog, we detect lensing at $4.8\sigma$. The mean stacked mass of the selected sample is found to be $(1.43 \pm 0.4)\ \times 10^{14}\ {\rm M_{\odot}}$ which is in good agreement with optical weak lensing based estimates using DES data and CMB-lensing based estimates using SPTpol temperature data. This measurement is a key first step for cluster cosmology with future low-noise CMB surveys, like CMB-S4, for which CMB polarization will be the primary channel for cluster lensing measurements., Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; typos fixed; accepted for publication in PRL

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2019
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14. Design and Bolometer Characterization of the SPT-3G First-year Focal Plane

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Volodymyr Yefremenko, Thomas Cecil, A. E. Lowitz, Jason W. Henning, Ki Won Yoon, Nathan Whitehorn, Valentine Novosad, W. B. Everett, A. M. Kofman, Peter A. R. Ade, K. T. Story, Jason E. Austermann, T. Natoli, M. Korman, Graeme Smecher, Kent D. Irwin, A. Cukierman, N. W. Halverson, W. L. Holzapfel, A. Foster, Donna Kubik, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, Trupti Khaire, H. T. Nguyen, Joshua Montgomery, Q. Y. Tang, Gene C. Hilton, Chao-Lin Kuo, Carole Tucker, J. T. Sayre, N. Huang, Faustin Carter, Erik Shirokoff, A. Gilbert, C. L. Chang, Junjia Ding, J. E. Ruhl, John Groh, Daniel Michalik, Zeeshan Ahmed, Adam Anderson, Gensheng Wang, M. A. Dobbs, Leila R. Vale, Alexandra S. Rahlin, Lauren J. Saunders, Z. Pan, R. Basu Thakur, Amy N. Bender, J. A. Sobrin, C. M. Posada, Steve Kuhlmann, Joaquin Vieira, S. S. Meyer, Aaron Lee, D. Dutcher, I. Shirley, E. V. Denison, Jessica Avva, Keith Vanderlinde, Stephen Padin, John E. Carlstrom, G. I. Noble, John E. Pearson, T. de Haan, R. N. Gannon, Bradford Benson, J. F. Cliche, M. R. Young, Keith L. Thompson, M. Jonas, A. Nadolski, Aritoki Suzuki, N. L. Harrington, Antony A. Stark, and Oliver Jeong

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, law.invention, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010302 applied physics, Physics, Pixel, business.industry, Bolometer, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Polarization (waves), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cardinal point, South Pole Telescope, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

During the austral summer of 2016-17, the third-generation camera, SPT-3G, was installed on the South Pole Telescope, increasing the detector count in the focal plane by an order of magnitude relative to the previous generation. Designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, SPT-3G contains ten 6-in-hexagonal modules of detectors, each with 269 trichroic and dual-polarization pixels, read out using 68x frequency-domain multiplexing. Here we discuss design, assembly, and layout of the modules, as well as early performance characterization of the first-year array, including yield and detector properties., Conference proceeding for Low Temperature Detectors 2017. Accepted for publication: 27 August 2018

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2019

15. Particle Physics with the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPT-3G

Author

A. Cukierman, M. A. Dobbs, Thomas Cecil, Aaron Lee, W. L. K. Wu, P. A. R. Ade, Trupti Khaire, J. A. Sobrin, Joshua Montgomery, Jason Gallicchio, S. S. Meyer, Zeeshan Ahmed, S. Padin, Robert Gardner, Amy N. Bender, G. P. Holder, Keith L. Thompson, A. E. Gambrel, Faustin Carter, J. E. Ruhl, D. Dutcher, Junjia Ding, Kent D. Irwin, T. M. Crawford, J. Stephen, Ki Won Yoon, T. Natoli, Carole Tucker, K. T. Story, M. R. Young, K. R. Ferguson, A. E. Lowitz, Jason W. Henning, A. Foster, Aled Jones, Volodymyr Yefremenko, John E. Pearson, Adam Anderson, Graeme Smecher, Antony A. Stark, Nathan Whitehorn, Lincoln Bryant, N. W. Halverson, G. I. Noble, W. L. Holzapfel, Oliver Jeong, John E. Carlstrom, T. de Haan, P. Paschos, V. Novosad, Donna Kubik, N. Huang, Srinivasan Raghunathan, D. Riebel, Z. Pan, Sebastian Bocquet, W. B. Everett, Chao-Lin Kuo, Christian L. Reichardt, John Groh, Lloyd Knox, Daniel Michalik, Gensheng Wang, M. Jonas, A. Nadolski, Aritoki Suzuki, W. Quan, Jessica Avva, C. M. Posada, Erik Shirokoff, Steve Kuhlmann, Joaquin Vieira, S. Guns, J. T. Sayre, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, Keith Vanderlinde, H. T. Nguyen, M. Korman, Alexandra S. Rahlin, Scott Dodelson, R. Basu Thakur, C. L. Chang, D. Howe, Lindsey Bleem, K. Aylor, A. M. Kofman, Bradford Benson, and N. L. Harrington

Subjects
Physics, History, Sterile neutrino, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Universe, Computer Science Applications, Education, Relativistic particle, South Pole Telescope, 0103 physical sciences, Angular resolution, Neutrino, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, media_common
Abstract

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) encodes information about the content and evolution of the universe. The presence of light, weakly interacting particles impacts the expansion history of the early universe, which alters the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB. In this way, current measurements of the CMB place interesting constraints on the neutrino energy density and mass, as well as on the abundance of other possible light relativistic particle species. We present the status of an on-going 1500 sq. deg. survey with the SPT-3G receiver, a new mm-wavelength camera on the 10-m diameter South Pole Telescope (SPT). The SPT-3G camera consists of 16,000 superconducting transition edge sensors, a 10x increase over the previous generation camera, which allows it to map the CMB with an unprecedented combination of sensitivity and angular resolution. We highlight projected constraints on the abundance of sterile neutrinos and the sum of the neutrino masses for the SPT-3G survey, which could help determine the neutrino mass hierarchy., 6 pages, 2 figures, TAUP 2019

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2020
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16. SPT-3G: a multichroic receiver for the South Pole Telescope

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N. Kuklev, H. M. Cho, Faustin Carter, Junjia Ding, Gene C. Hilton, E. V. Denison, N. Huang, V. G. Yefremenko, Christian L. Reichardt, Peter S. Barry, K. L. Thompson, Alexandra S. Rahlin, Z. Pan, Gilbert Holder, A. A. Stark, N. W. Halverson, T. de Haan, R. Basu Thakur, Chihway Chang, Kent D. Irwin, N. L. Harrington, John Groh, W. L. Holzapfel, Q. Y. Tang, Jessica Avva, A. Cukierman, John E. Carlstrom, Donna Kubik, T. Natoli, A. E. Lowitz, John E. Pearson, Stephen Padin, Bradford Benson, J. E. Ruhl, Jason W. Henning, W. B. Everett, Carole Tucker, Leila R. Vale, A. Foster, Daniel Michalik, Thomas Cecil, Gensheng Wang, Jason E. Austermann, Valentine Novosad, J. A. Sobrin, K. W. Yoon, Oliver Jeong, H. Nguyen, Graeme Smecher, Lindsey Bleem, Amy N. Bender, S. S. Meyer, R. N. Gannon, Karen Byrum, L. J. Saunders, J. F. Cliche, D. Dutcher, C. M. Posada, M. R. Young, K. Vanderlinde, I. Shirley, Steve Kuhlmann, Matt Dobbs, Joaquin Vieira, Lloyd Knox, G. I. Noble, A. M. Kofman, C. L. Kuo, T. M. Crawford, M. Jonas, Aritoki Suzuki, Zeeshan Ahmed, Peter A. R. Ade, K. T. Story, Nathan Whitehorn, Trupti Khaire, Joshua Montgomery, A. J. Gilbert, Adam Anderson, J. T. Sayre, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, E. M. Leitch, M. Korman, Erik Shirokoff, Aaron Lee, and Andrew Nadolski

Subjects
Physics, Gravitational wave, Cosmic microwave background, Detector, Polarimetry, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, South Pole Telescope, Gravitational lens, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster
Abstract

A new receiver for the South Pole Telescope, SPT-3G, was deployed in early 2017 to map the cosmic microwave background at 95, 150, and 220 GHz with ∼ \ud ∼\ud 16,000 detectors, 10 times more than its predecessor SPTpol. The increase in detector count is made possible by lenslet-coupled trichroic polarization-sensitive pixels fabricated at Argonne National Laboratory, new 68× \ud ×\ud frequency-domain multiplexing readout electronics, and a higher-throughput optical design. The enhanced sensitivity of SPT-3G will enable a wide range of results including constraints on primordial B-mode polarization, measurements of gravitational lensing of the CMB, and a galaxy cluster survey. Here we present an overview of the instrument and its science objectives, highlighting its measured performance and plans for the upcoming 2018 observing season.

Published
2018

17. Design and characterization of the SPT-3G receiver

Author

A. E. Lowitz, Adrian T. Lee, T. de Haan, Carole Tucker, Keith L. Thompson, Kent D. Irwin, T. Natoli, J. E. Ruhl, W. B. Everett, Antony A. Stark, W. L. Holzapfel, K. Vanderlinde, Andrew Nadolski, V. Novosad, Matt Dobbs, A. J. Gilbert, Adam Anderson, Donna Kubik, Bradford Benson, Peter A. R. Ade, A. Foster, J. T. Sayre, K. T. Story, J. F. Cliche, Amy N. Bender, G. I. Noble, Volodymyr Yefremenko, Ari Cukierman, A. M. Kofman, D. Dutcher, M. Jonas, Ki Won Yoon, Nathan Whitehorn, Thomas Cecil, Aritoki Suzuki, Graeme Smecher, N. W. Halverson, C. L. Chang, Jason W. Henning, Zeeshan Ahmed, Erik Shirokoff, Trupti Khaire, N. Huang, Joshua Montgomery, M. R. Young, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, N. L. Harrington, H. T. Nguyen, M. Korman, J. A. Sobrin, Chao-Lin Kuo, Alexandra S. Rahlin, John Groh, R. Basu Thakur, S. S. Meyer, Z. Pan, Faustin Carter, Junjia Ding, Oliver Jeong, John E. Carlstrom, Daniel Michalik, Gensheng Wang, J. Gallichio, John E. Pearson, W. Quan, Jessica Avva, Stephen Padin, C. M. Posada, Steve Kuhlmann, Joaquin Vieira, and S. Guns

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Computer science, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Design elements and principles, 02 engineering and technology, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic engineering, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Throughput (business), Astroparticle physics, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Characterization (materials science), South Pole Telescope, 0210 nano-technology, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Sensitivity (electronics), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The SPT-3G receiver was commissioned in early 2017 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) to map anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). New optics, detector, and readout technologies have yielded a multichroic, high-resolution, low-noise camera with impressive throughput and sensitivity, offering the potential to improve our understanding of inflationary physics, astroparticle physics, and growth of structure. We highlight several key features and design principles of the new receiver, and summarize its performance to date., Conference Presentation at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018, conference 10708

Published
2018

18. Year two instrument status of the SPT-3G cosmic microwave background receiver

Author

J. C. Groh, Chao-Lin Kuo, Christian L. Reichardt, V. Novosad, N. W. Halverson, Thomas Cecil, A. E. Lowitz, C. M. Posada, A. J. Gilbert, Aled Jones, Adam Anderson, Joaquin Vieira, S. Guns, Ki Won Yoon, N. Huang, Jason Gallicchio, K. Aylor, John E. Carlstrom, Matt Dobbs, Faustin Carter, Erik Shirokoff, H. Nguyen, S. E. Kuhlmann, T. M. Crawford, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Jessica Avva, Junjia Ding, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Stephen Padin, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, T. de Haan, T. Natoli, G. I. Noble, W. L. Holzapfel, A. M. Kofman, Daniel Michalik, Volodymyr Yefremenko, W. L. K. Wu, W. B. Everett, H-M. Cho, Donna Kubik, Gensheng Wang, E. M. Leitch, L. S. Bleem, A. Foster, J. E. Ruhl, Jason W. Henning, M. Korman, Keith L. Thompson, W. Quan, J. A. Sobrin, Karen Byrum, S. S. Meyer, Amy N. Bender, Ari Cukierman, Andrew Nadolski, D. Dutcher, E. V. Denison, Peter S. Barry, J. F. Cliche, Zeeshan Ahmed, Antony A. Stark, K. Vanderlinde, N. L. Harrington, L. R. Vale, John E. Pearson, Z. Pan, Peter A. R. Ade, Sebastian Bocquet, M. Jonas, Bradford Benson, K. T. Story, Aritoki Suzuki, Oliver Jeong, Alexandra S. Rahlin, Scott Dodelson, Nathan Whitehorn, R. Basu Thakur, Chihway Chang, Carole Tucker, Trupti Khaire, Joshua Montgomery, Graeme Smecher, Adrian T. Lee, Lloyd Knox, Gilbert Holder, M. R. Young, and J. T. Sayre

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Telescope, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), media_common, Physics, Gravitational wave, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Polarization (waves), South Pole Telescope, 13. Climate action, Sky, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed for high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The SPT measures both the temperature and polarization of the CMB with a large aperture, resulting in high resolution maps sensitive to signals across a wide range of angular scales on the sky. With these data, the SPT has the potential to make a broad range of cosmological measurements. These include constraining the effect of massive neutrinos on large-scale structure formation as well as cleaning galactic and cosmological foregrounds from CMB polarization data in future searches for inflationary gravitational waves. The SPT began observing in January 2017 with a new receiver (SPT-3G) containing $\sim$16,000 polarization-sensitive transition-edge sensor bolometers. Several key technology developments have enabled this large-format focal plane, including advances in detectors, readout electronics, and large millimeter-wavelength optics. We discuss the implementation of these technologies in the SPT-3G receiver as well as the challenges they presented. In late 2017 the implementations of all three of these technologies were modified to optimize total performance. Here, we present the current instrument status of the SPT-3G receiver., 21 pages, 9 Figures, Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018

Published
2018

19. Broadband anti-reflective coatings for cosmic microwave background experiments

Author

J. Gallichio, Amy N. Bender, John E. Pearson, D. Dutcher, C. M. Posada, Volodymyr Yefremenko, Joaquin Vieira, S. Guns, V. Novosad, Ki Won Yoon, W. B. Everett, Daniel Michalik, Antony A. Stark, Gensheng Wang, Carole Tucker, G. I. Noble, W. Quan, K. Vanderlinde, Aled Jones, A. E. Lowitz, Kent D. Irwin, Z. Pan, W. L. Holzapfel, John E. Carlstrom, T. de Haan, Peter A. R. Ade, Donna Kubik, Matt Dobbs, Jason W. Henning, T. Natoli, Chao-Lin Kuo, A. J. Gilbert, K. T. Story, Jessica Avva, Adam Anderson, R. Guyser, Stephen Padin, Faustin Carter, John Groh, Alexandra S. Rahlin, S. E. Kuhlmann, Junjia Ding, N. W. Halverson, R. Basu Thakur, Chihway Chang, Keith L. Thompson, Oliver Jeong, Graeme Smecher, A. Foster, Thomas Cecil, M. Jonas, Aritoki Suzuki, Andrew Nadolski, J. F. Cliche, N. Huang, Nathan Whitehorn, Ari Cukierman, M. R. Young, J. A. Sobrin, S. S. Meyer, Trupti Khaire, Joshua Montgomery, J. E. Ruhl, J. T. Sayre, Zeeshan Ahmed, Adrian T. Lee, Erik Shirokoff, H. Nguyen, J. Fu, A. M. Kofman, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, N. L. Harrington, M. Korman, and Bradford Benson

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Materials science, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Radiation, engineering.material, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Optics, Coating, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Cardinal point, South Pole Telescope, Anti-reflective coating, Extremely high frequency, engineering, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, business
Abstract

The desire for higher sensitivity has driven ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to employ ever larger focal planes, which in turn require larger reimaging optics. Practical limits to the maximum size of these optics motivates the development of quasi-optically-coupled (lenslet-coupled), multi-chroic detectors. These detectors can be sensitive across a broader bandwidth compared to waveguide-coupled detectors. However, the increase in bandwidth comes at a cost: the lenses (up to $\sim$700 mm diameter) and lenslets ($\sim$5 mm diameter, hemispherical lenses on the focal plane) used in these systems are made from high-refractive-index materials (such as silicon or amorphous aluminum oxide) that reflect nearly a third of the incident radiation. In order to maximize the faint CMB signal that reaches the detectors, the lenses and lenslets must be coated with an anti-reflective (AR) material. The AR coating must maximize radiation transmission in scientifically interesting bands and be cryogenically stable. Such a coating was developed for the third generation camera, SPT-3G, of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) experiment, but the materials and techniques used in the development are general to AR coatings for mm-wave optics. The three-layer polytetrafluoroethylene-based AR coating is broadband, inexpensive, and can be manufactured with simple tools. The coating is field tested; AR coated focal plane elements were deployed in the 2016-2017 austral summer and AR coated reimaging optics were deployed in 2017-2018., Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures

Published
2018
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20. Measurements of the Temperature and E-Mode Polarization of the CMB from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data

Author

Elizabeth George, C. Pryke, A. J. Gilbert, Adam Anderson, L. M. Mocanu, W. L. K. Wu, Ryan Keisler, T. Veach, Robert I. Citron, Peter A. R. Ade, K. T. Story, N. Huang, Gensheng Wang, Lindsey Bleem, Johannes Hubmayr, Jason Gallicchio, N. L. Harrington, Volodymyr Yefremenko, T. de Haan, S. S. Meyer, H. C. Chiang, Matt Dobbs, Nathan Whitehorn, Bradford Benson, Dale Li, A. E. Lowitz, Gene C. Hilton, T. M. Crawford, J. T. Sayre, John E. Carlstrom, A. Manzotti, John P. Nibarger, Andrew Nadolski, W. B. Everett, C. Corbett Moran, Jeff McMahon, C. L. Chang, J. D. Hrubes, E. M. Leitch, A. T. Crites, Joshua Montgomery, N. W. Halverson, S. Hoover, Stephen Padin, James A. Beall, J. E. Ruhl, Joaquin Vieira, K. Vanderlinde, Kent D. Irwin, W. L. Holzapfel, V. Novosad, Jason W. Henning, T. Natoli, H-M. Cho, C. Sievers, Christian L. Reichardt, Zhen Hou, Adrian T. Lee, Lloyd Knox, Carole Tucker, Jason E. Austermann, Antony A. Stark, Graeme Smecher, Benjamin Saliwanchik, Gilbert Holder, Amy N. Bender, and K. K. Schaffer

Subjects
Expansion rate, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, Cosmic background radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atomic, Physical Chemistry, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, symbols.namesake, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, cosmological parameters, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, polarization, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Planck temperature, Polarization (waves), observations [cosmology], 3. Good health, Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, symbols, Multipole expansion, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present measurements of the $E$-mode polarization angular auto-power spectrum ($EE$) and temperature-$E$-mode cross-power spectrum ($TE$) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data from three seasons of SPTpol observations. We report the power spectra over the spherical harmonic multipole range $50 < \ell \leq 8000$, and detect nine acoustic peaks in the $EE$ spectrum with high signal-to-noise ratio. These measurements are the most sensitive to date of the $EE$ and $TE$ power spectra at $\ell > 1050$ and $\ell > 1475$, respectively. The observations cover 500 deg$^2$, a fivefold increase in area compared to previous SPTpol analyses, which increases our sensitivity to the photon diffusion damping tail of the CMB power spectra enabling tighter constraints on \LCDM model extensions. After masking all sources with unpolarized flux $>50$ mJy we place a 95% confidence upper limit on residual polarized point-source power of $D_\ell = \ell(\ell+1)C_\ell/2\pi 1000$ results in a preference for a higher value of the expansion rate ($H_0 = 71.3 \pm 2.1\,\mbox{km}\,s^{-1}\mbox{Mpc}^{-1}$ ) and a lower value for present-day density fluctuations ($\sigma_8 = 0.77 \pm 0.02$)., Comment: Updated to match version accepted to ApJ. 34 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables

Published
2017
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