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1. Assembly development for the Simons Observatory focal plane readout module

Author: Sarah Marie Bruno, Zhilei Xu, Michael D. Niemack, Kam Arnold, Aamir Ali, Johannes Hubmayr, Benjamin Westbrook, Nicholas F. Cothard, Tammy J. Lucas, Kaiwen Zheng, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Jason E. Austermann, Bradley Dober, Shannon M. Duff, Michael J. Link, Erin Healy, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Suzanne T. Staggs, Steve K. Choi, B. R. Johnson, Nicholas Galitzki, Jake Connors, Rita Sonka, Heather McCarrick, James A. Beall, Gene C. Hilton, Yuhan Wang, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Yaqiong Li, Edward J. Wollack, and Michael R. Vissers
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), business.industry, Detector, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Multiplexing, Orthomode transducer, Optics, Cardinal point, Observatory, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Transition edge sensor, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Microwave, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of instruments sensitive to temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Five telescopes, one large aperture telescope and four small aperture telescopes, will host roughly 70,000 highly multiplexed transition edge sensor (TES) detectors operated at 100 mK. Each SO focal plane module (UFM) couples 1,764 TESes to microwave resonators in a microwave multiplexing (uMux) readout circuit. Before detector integration, the 100 mK uMux components are packaged into multiplexing modules (UMMs), which are independently validated to ensure they meet SO performance specifications. Here we present the assembly developments of these UMM readout packages for mid frequency (90/150 GHz) and ultra high frequency (220/280 GHz) UFMs.
Published: 2022
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2. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: microwave intensity and polarization maps of the Galactic Center

Author: Federico Nati, Simone Aiola, Rolando Dünner, Jeff McMahon, Edward J. Wollack, Matthew Hasselfield, Sigurd Naess, Susan E. Clark, Steve K. Choi, Emmanuel Schaan, Cody J. Duell, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Simone Ferraro, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Patricio A. Gallardo, Michael D. Niemack, John P. Hughes, Suzanne T. Staggs, Maria Salatino, Nicholas F. Cothard, Lyman A. Page, Cristóbal Sifón, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Brandon S. Hensley, Neelima Sehgal, Zachary Atkins, Mark J. Devlin, Yilun Guan, Arthur Kosowsky, Brian J. Koopman, Zhilei Xu, Erminia Calabrese, Jo Dunkley, Guan, Y, Clark, S, Hensley, B, Gallardo, P, Naess, S, Duell, C, Aiola, S, Atkins, Z, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Hasselfield, M, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Salatino, M, Schaan, E, Sehgal, N, Sifon, C, Staggs, S, Vavagiakis, E, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Pulsar wind nebula, Atomic, symbols.namesake, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Planck, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cosmic dust, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular cloud, Galactic Center, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmology, Galactic Science, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Atacama Cosmology Telescope, symbols, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present arcminute-resolution intensity and polarization maps of the Galactic center made with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The maps cover a 32 deg$^2$ field at 98, 150, and 224 GHz with $\vert l\vert\le4^\circ$, $\vert b\vert\le2^\circ$. We combine these data with Planck observations at similar frequencies to create coadded maps with increased sensitivity at large angular scales. With the coadded maps, we are able to resolve many known features of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) in both total intensity and polarization. We map the orientation of the plane-of-sky component of the Galactic magnetic field inferred from the polarization angle in the CMZ, finding significant changes in morphology in the three frequency bands as the underlying dominant emission mechanism changes from synchrotron to dust emission. Selected Galactic center sources, including Sgr A*, the Brick molecular cloud (G0.253+0.016), the Mouse pulsar wind nebula (G359.23-0.82), and the Tornado supernova remnant candidate (G357.7-0.1), are examined in detail. These data illustrate the potential for leveraging ground-based Cosmic Microwave Background polarization experiments for Galactic science., 26 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2021

3. Measurements of partial branching fractions of inclusive B→Xuℓ+νℓ decays with hadronic tagging

Author: M. Uchida, L. K. Li, G. De Nardo, M. T. Hedges, T. Matsuda, T. Pang, S. Uno, R. Itoh, S Choudhury, G. Bonvicini, A. Rostomyan, Zhukova, S. Cunliffe, B. G. Fulsom, D. Ferlewicz, A. Vinokurova, S. Dubey, S. Al Said, D. Matvienko, Y Choi, Pavel Krokovny, Florian Urs Bernlochner, C. Kiesling, M. Bračko, M Merola, K. H. Kang, B. H. Kim, C. Z. Yuan, K. Miyabayashi, Popov, Samo Korpar, Steve K. Choi, S Ogawa, Deepak Kumar Sahoo, J. MacNaughton, T. Kawasaki, R. Mussa, H. B. Jeon, A. Ishikawa, M. Nakao, W. S. Hou, Alexei Kuzmin, GB Mohanty, Yongsun Kim, K. Lalwani, S-H Park, M. Takizawa, S.-J. Cho, U. Tamponi, D Cinabro, K. Trabelsi, S. Jia, E. Prencipe, E. Wang, F. Tenchini, R. Mizuk, K. Chilikin, D. Epifanov, T. Podobnik, T. Sumiyoshi, Martin Ritter, T. Sanuki, Matthias Bauer, S. Paul, C. Schwanda, L. Li Gioi, S. Pardi, C. P. Shen, S. Nishida, J. Schueler, C. MacQueen, A. J. Schwartz, T. K. Pedlar, W. B. Yan, M. Campajola, C. W. Park, E. Won, K. Kumara, K. Tanida, P. Krizan, L. Nayak, A. K. Giri, BG Cheon, G. Schnell, P. Oskin, T. Ferber, Z. Natkaniec, Andrey Sokolov, S. Wehle, R. Ayad, A. Bozek, Z. S. Stottler, K. Cho, S. E. Vahsen, X. P. Xu, T. Iijima, M. Rozanska, G. Varner, H. Atmacan, T. Uglov, M. Masuda, D. Kotchetkov, D. Červenkov, K. Nishimura, C. W. Joo, H. Kichimi, Villanueva, MH[Villanueva, M. Hernandez], A. Sangal, Phillip Urquijo, J. H. Yin, Z. J. Liptak, J. F. Strube, Zhilich, H Aihara, Rahul Kumar, T. Bilka, L. Cao, Semen Eidelman, J. Wiechczynski, M. Watanabe, F. Di Capua, A. Garmash, J. C. Dingfelder, Vorobyev, Y. Sakai, N. K. Nisar, Bhardwaj, Y. Iwasaki, Babu, P. Wang, Sudhanwa Patra, Samo Stanič, K. Lieret, J. S. Lange, I. Adachi, Bruce Yabsley, R. Kroeger, C.-L. Hsu, Y-J Kwon, D. Liventsev, DY Kim, Chekelian, Y. Jin, M. E. Sevior, I. S. Lee, A. Frey, K Kinoshita, P. Goldenzweig, M. Nayak, W. Sutcliffe, C. Sharma, Peter Kodys, W. W. Jacobs, E. Solovieva, Tagir Aushev, Y. Onuki, H. Ono, Leo Piilonen, E.-J. Jang, Zdenek Dolezal, T. Kuhr, Seongbae Yang, A. Vossen, Frank Simon, Y. Unno, H. E. Cho, N. Rout, G. Karyan, TE Browder, K. Belous, M Iwasaki, S. C. Lee, N. Dash, Y. Guan, M. Mrvar, Zhiqing Zhang, Chunjie Wang, P. Chang, P Behera, M. Niiyama, M. C. Chang, E. Waheed, Martin Florian Bessner, J. Libby, D. M. Asner, K. Hayasaka, E. Kovalenko, H Ye, S. Sandilya, Y. Seino, Shoichi Watanuki, M. Starič, K. Senyo, S. Das, Kevin Varvell, J. V. Bennett, T. Mori, Y. Usov, G. Pakhlova, S. H. Kim, J. Li, Mukesh Kumar, T. J. Moon, M. T. Prim, C. H. Li, T. Konno, H. Hayashii, Hyunyong Kim, C. H. Kim, M. Z. Wang, Felix Metzner, A. Chen, K. K. Joo, M. Shapkin, Yang Li, T. V. Dong, M. Röhrken, T. Hara, L. Santelj, Gaur, O. Hartbrich, R. Pestotnik, A. Natochii, K. Inami, A. Korobov, Savinov, Y. Yusa, R. Van Tonder, R. B. Garg, J-G Shiu, K.-H. Kim, J. Biswal, Zhulanov, C. Hadjivasiliou, P. Pakhlov, Philip Lewis, G. Russo, and H. Park
Subjects: Physics, Research program, Higher education, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Atomic energy, media_common.quotation_subject, Library science, 01 natural sciences, Excellence, 0103 physical sciences, media_common.cataloged_instance, European union, 010306 general physics, China, business, National laboratory, Research center, media_common
Abstract: We thank Kerstin Tackmann, Frank Tackmann, Zoltan Ligeti, Ian Stewart, Thomas Mannel, and Keri Voss for useful discussions about the subject matter of this manuscript. L. C., W. S., R. V. T., and F. B. were supported by the DFG Emmy-Noether Grant No. BE 6075/1-1. W. S. was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We thank the KEKB group for the excellent operation of the accelerator, the KEK cryogenics group for the efficient operation of the solenoid, and the KEK computer group and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) computing group for strong computing support, and the National Institute of Informatics and Science Information NETwork 5 (SINET5) for valuable network support. We acknowledge support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the Tau-Lepton Physics Research Center of Nagoya University; the Australian Research Council including Grants No. DP180102629, No. DP170102389, No. DP170102204, No. DP150103061, and No. FT130100303; Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (FWF) and FWF Austrian Science Fund No. P 31361-N36; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Contracts No. 11435013, No. 11475187, No. 11521505, No. 11575017, No. 11675166, and No. 11705209; Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Grant No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH011; the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics (CCEPP); the Shanghai Pujiang Program under Grant No. 18PJ1401000; the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (STCSM) under Grant No. 19ZR1403000; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under Contract No. LTT17020; Horizon 2020 ERC Advanced Grant No. 884719 and ERC Starting Grant No. 947006 "InterLeptons" (European Union); the Carl Zeiss Foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Excellence Cluster Universe, and the VolkswagenStiftung; the Department of Atomic Energy (Project Identification No. RTI 4002) and the Department of Science and Technology of India; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy; National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea Grants No. 2016R1D1A1B01010135, No. 2016R1D1A1B02012900, No. 2018R1A2B3003643, No. 2018R1A6A1A06024970, No. 2018R1D1A1B07047294, No. 2019K1A3A7A09033840, andNo. 2019R1I1A3A01058933; Radiation Science Research Institute, Foreign Large-size Research Facility Application Supporting project, the Global Science Experimental Data Hub Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information and KREONET/GLORIAD; the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Center; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Agreement 14.W03.31.0026, and the HSE University Basic Research Program, Moscow; University of Tabuk research Grants No. S-1440-0321, No. S-02561438, and No. S-0280-1439 (Saudi Arabia); the Slovenian Research Agency Grants No. J1-9124 and No. P1-0135; Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan; and the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation
Published: 2021

4. Atacama Cosmology Telescope measurements of a large sample of candidates from the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey: Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect confirmation of MaDCoWS candidates using ACT

Author: Suzanne T. Staggs, Dongwon Han, Alessandro Schillaci, Kavilan Moodley, Charles Romero, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Simon Dicker, Maria Salatino, Zhilei Xu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Mark Brodwin, Neelima Sehgal, Alex Manduca, Federico Nati, Spencer A. Stanford, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Robert Thornton, Luca Di Mascolo, Jo Dunkley, Brian J. Koopman, Matt Hilton, Bruce Partridge, Mark J. Devlin, Steve K. Choi, Edward J. Wollack, Tony Mroczkowski, Michael D. Niemack, Kenda Knowles, Lyman A. Page, Stefania Amodeo, Nick Battaglia, Cristóbal Sifón, Amanda MacInnis, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Ningfeng Zhu, John P. Hughes, Ian Lowe, John Orlowski-Scherer, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Di Mascolo, L, Bhandarkar, T, Manduca, A, Mroczkowski, T, Amodeo, S, Battaglia, N, Brodwin, M, Choi, S, Devlin, M, Dicker, S, Dunkley, J, Gonzalez, A, Han, D, Hilton, M, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Macinnis, A, Knowles, K, Koopman, B, Lowe, I, Moodley, K, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Romero, C, Salatino, M, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sifon, C, Staggs, S, Stanford, S, Thornton, R, Vavagiakis, E, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Zhu, N, Orlowski-Scherer, J., Di Mascolo, L., Bhandarkar, T., Manduca, A., Mroczkowski, T., Amodeo, S., Battaglia, N., Brodwin, M., Choi, S. K., Devlin, M., Dicker, S., Dunkley, J., Gonzalez, A. H., Han, D., Hilton, M., Huffenberger, K., Hughes, J. P., Macinnis, A., Knowles, K., Koopman, B. J., Lowe, I., Moodley, K., Nati, F., Niemack, M. D., Page, L. A., Partridge, B., Romero, C., Salatino, M., Schillaci, A., Sehgal, N., Sifon, C., Staggs, S., Stanford, S. A., Thornton, R., Vavagiakis, E. M., Wollack, E. J., Xu, Z., and Zhu, N.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), clusters: intracluster medium [Galaxies], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, clusters: general [Galaxies], Cosmic background radiation, Radio continuum: galaxie, 01 natural sciences, Radio continuum: galaxies, galaxies [Submillimeter], Submillimeter: galaxie, Spitzer Space Telescope, Galaxies: clusters: general, Galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium, Submillimeter: galaxies, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, Cluster (physics), galaxie [Radio continuum], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Galaxy clusters are an important tool for cosmology, and their detection and characterization are key goals for current and future surveys. Using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS) located 2,839 significant galaxy overdensities at redshifts $0.7\lesssim z\lesssim 1.5$, which included extensive follow-up imaging from the Spitzer Space Telescope to determine cluster richnesses. Concurrently, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has produced large area mm-wave maps in three frequency bands along with a large catalog of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) selected clusters, as part of its Data Release 5 (DR5). Using the maps and cluster catalog from DR5, we explore the scaling between SZ mass and cluster richness. We use complementary radio survey data from the Very Large Array, submillimeter data from Herschel, and ACT 224~GHz data to assess the impact of contaminating sources on the SZ signals. We then use a hierarchical Bayesian model to fit the mass-richness scaling relation. We find that MaDCoWS clusters have submillimeter contamination which is consistent with a gray-body spectrum, while the ACT clusters are consistent with no submillimeter emission on average. We find the best fit ACT SZ mass vs. MaDCoWS richness scaling relation has a slope of $\kappa = 1.84^{+0.15}_{-0.14}$, where the slope is defined as $M\propto \lambda_{15}^{\kappa}$ where $\lambda_{15}$ is the richness. Additionally, we find that the approximate level of in-fill of the ACT and MaDCoWS cluster SZ signals to be at the percent level, Comment: 25 pages, 17 Figures; accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2021

5. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of >4000 Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Galaxy Clusters

Author: Eli S. Rykoff, Jo Dunkley, E. Bertin, Ofer Lahav, Nick Battaglia, M. Soares-Santos, Hironao Miyatake, Shannon M. Duff, R. D. Wilkinson, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, L. N. da Costa, Joel N. Ullom, Robert Morgan, D. L. Burke, Devin Crichton, Kavilan Moodley, Peter Doel, Alexandra Amon, Edward J. Wollack, N. C. Robertson, H. T. Diehl, Joseph E. Golec, Sunayana Bhargava, Samuel Hinton, Emmanuel Schaan, Enrique Gaztanaga, Megan Gralla, David N. Spergel, Johannes Hubmayr, Simon Dicker, David Bacon, S. Allam, Robert A. Gruendl, Simone Ferraro, C. Aros-Bunster, Felipe Menanteau, G. Gutierrez, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Daniel Thomas, Ramon Miquel, Michael D. Niemack, I. Ferrero, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, J. P. Dietrich, Niall MacCrann, Juan Garcia-Bellido, Tesla E. Jeltema, David J. James, Yanxi Zhang, A. K. Romer, Ben Hoyle, Hy Trac, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, J. Gschwend, A. A. Plazas, Brian J. Koopman, Rolando Dünner, Zhilei Xu, Simone Aiola, Behzad Ansarinejad, A. Choi, Jeff McMahon, Eduardo Rozo, Gary Bernstein, K. Honscheid, Michel Aguena, Tanay Bhandarkar, Dan Becker, C. Sifon, Neelima Sehgal, Bhuvnesh Jain, Laura Newburgh, Dongwon Han, F. Paz-Chinchón, J. R. Bond, Kyler Kuehn, Peter Melchior, M. Carrasco Kind, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Steve K. Choi, Suzanne T. Staggs, Paul Giles, R. L. C. Ogando, J. C. Hill, Federico Nati, M. E. C. Swanson, E. V. Denison, Kevin T. Crowley, Tony Mroczkowski, W. G. Hartley, Antonella Palmese, Martine Lokken, S. Kent, Alessandro Schillaci, Masamune Oguri, John P. Hughes, M. A. G. Maia, Maria Salatino, S. Amodeo, T. Shin, S. Adhikari, M. Hasselfield, M. Costanzi, S. I. Loubser, J. Van Lanen, B. Partridge, Sigurd Naess, Adam D. Hincks, J. A. Beall, B. Flaugher, S. M. Simon, Jason E. Austermann, S. P. Ho, John Orlowski-Scherer, M. Smith, Daniel Gruen, J. Martin, D. W. Gerdes, J. Annis, Kenda Knowles, David J. Brooks, Erminia Calabrese, Emilie R. Storer, Gene C. Hilton, Leila R. Vale, Salcedo Romero de Ávila, Phumlani Phakathi, Josh Frieman, Yen-Ting Lin, T. M. C. Abbott, Chun-Hao To, E. J. Sanchez, J. Carretero, E. Suchyta, Matt Hilton, Christopher J. Conselice, Tobias A. Marriage, Sebastian Grandis, A. Carnero Rosell, Agnès Ferté, Anton T. Jaelani, Marcos Lima, S. Everett, S. Serrano, Lyman A. Page, J. De Vicente, Atsushi J. Nishizawa, G. Tarle, UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, Hilton, M, Sifon, C, Naess, S, Madhavacheril, M, Oguri, M, Rozo, E, Rykoff, E, Adhikari, S, Aguena, M, Aiola, S, Allam, S, Amodeo, S, Amon, A, Annis, J, Ansarinejad, B, Abbott, T, Aros-Bunster, C, Austermann, J, Avila, S, Bacon, D, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, Becker, D, Bernstein, G, Bertin, E, Bhandarkar, T, Bhargava, S, Bond, J, Brooks, D, Burke, D, Calabrese, E, Carrasco Kind, M, Carretero, J, Choi, S, Choi, A, Conselice, C, Da Costa, L, Costanzi, M, Crichton, D, Crowley, K, Dunner, R, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Dicker, S, Diehl, H, Dietrich, J, Doel, P, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Everett, S, Ferraro, S, Ferte, A, Flaugher, B, Frieman, J, Ferrero, I, Gallardo, P, Garcia-Bellido, J, Gaztanaga, E, Giles, P, Golec, J, Gralla, M, Grandis, S, Gruen, D, Gerdes, D, Gruendl, R, Gschwend, J, Gutierrez, G, Han, D, Hartley, W, Hasselfield, M, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hincks, A, Hinton, S, Ho, S, Honscheid, K, Hoyle, B, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Jaelani, A, Jain, B, James, D, Jeltema, T, Kent, S, Knowles, K, Koopman, B, Kuehn, K, Lahav, O, Lima, M, Lin, Y, Lokken, M, Loubser, S, Maccrann, N, Maia, M, Marriage, T, Martin, J, Mcmahon, J, Melchior, P, Menanteau, F, Miquel, R, Moodley, K, Morgan, R, Mroczkowski, T, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Nishizawa, A, Miyatake, H, Ogando, R, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Page, L, Palmese, A, Partridge, B, Paz-Chinchon, F, Phakathi, P, Plazas, A, Robertson, N, Romer, A, Carnero Rosell, A, Sanchez, E, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Serrano, S, Shin, T, Simon, S, Smith, M, Salatino, M, Soares-Santos, M, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Suchyta, E, Swanson, M, Tarle, G, Thomas, D, To, C, Trac, H, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Lanen, J, Vavagiakis, E, De Vicente, J, Wilkinson, R, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Zhan, Y, Hilton, M., Sifón, C., Naess, S., Madhavacheril, M., Oguri, M., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E., Abbott, T. M. C., Adhikari, S., Aguena, M., Aiola, S., Allam, S., Amodeo, S., Amon, A., Annis, J., Ansarinejad, B., Aros-Bunster, C., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Battaglia, N., Beall, J. A., Becker, D. T., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Bhandarkar, T., Bhargava, S., Bond, J. R., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Calabrese, E., Carretero, J., Choi, S. K., Choi, A., Conselice, C., da Costa, L. N., Costanzi, M., Crichton, D., Crowley, K. T., Dünner, R., Denison, E. V., Devlin, M. J., Dicker, S. R., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Doel, P., Duff, S. M., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Dunkley, J., Everett, S., Ferraro, S., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., Gallardo, P. A., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giles, P., Golec, J. E., Gralla, M. B., Grandis, S., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Han, D., Hartley, W. G., Hasselfield, M., Hill, J. C., Hilton, G. C., Hincks, A. D., Hinton, S. R., S-P. P., Ho, Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Hubmayr, J., Huffenberger, K. M., Hughes, J. P., Jaelani, A. T., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Kent, S., Carrasco Kind, M., Knowles, K., Koopman, B. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, Y-T., Lokken, M., Loubser, S. I., Maccrann, N., Maia, M. A. G., Marriage, T. A., Martin, J., Mcmahon, J., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Miyatake, H., Moodley, K., Morgan, R., Mroczkowski, T., Nati, F., Newburgh, L. B., Niemack, M. D., Nishizawa, A. J., Ogando, R. L. C., Orlowski-Scherer, J., Page, L. A., Palmese, A., Partridge, B., Paz-Chinchón, F., Phakathi, P., Plazas, A. A., Robertson, N. C., Romer, A. K., Carnero Rosell, A., Salatino, M., Sanchez, E., Schaan, E., Schillaci, A., Sehgal, N., Serrano, S., Shin, T., Simon, S. M., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Spergel, D. N., Staggs, S. T., Storer, E. R., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Trac, H., Ullom, J. N., Vale, L. R., Van Lanen, J., Vavagiakis, E. M., De Vicente, J., Wilkinson, R. D., Wollack, E. J., Xu, Z., and Zhang, Y.
Subjects: Galaxy clusters, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Large-scale structure of the universe, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cosmology, Galaxy clusters, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, AGLOMERADOS (GALÁXIA), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Física, Astronomy and Astrophysics, XMM-newton Telescope, Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Abstract: Hilton, M., et al., We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise ratio >4 in 13,211 deg of sky surveyed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Cluster candidates were selected by applying a multifrequency matched filter to 98 and 150 GHz maps constructed from ACT observations obtained from 2008 to 2018 and confirmed using deep, wide-area optical surveys. The clusters span the redshift range 0.04 < z < 1.91 (median z = 0.52). The catalog contains 222 z > 1 clusters, and a total of 868 systems are new discoveries. Assuming an SZ signal versus mass-scaling relation calibrated from X-ray observations, the sample has a 90% completeness mass limit of M > 3.8 × 10 M, evaluated at z = 0.5, for clusters detected at signal-to-noise ratio >5 in maps filtered at an angular scale of 2 4. The survey has a large overlap with deep optical weak-lensing surveys that are being used to calibrate the SZ signal mass-scaling relation, such as the Dark Energy Survey (4566 deg), the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (469 deg), and the Kilo Degree Survey (825 deg). We highlight some noteworthy objects in the sample, including potentially projected systems, clusters with strong lensing features, clusters with active central galaxies or star formation, and systems of multiple clusters that may be physically associated. The cluster catalog will be a useful resource for future cosmological analyses and studying the evolution of the intracluster medium and galaxies in massive clusters over the past 10 Gyr., The DES Data Management System is supported by the NSF under Grant Nos. AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under grants ESP2017-89838, PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Unionʼs Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) do e-Universo (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2).
Published: 2021

6. The Integration and Testing Program for the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tubes

Author: Shreya Sutariya, Grace E. Chesmore, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Carlos Sierra, A. M. Kofman, Jeff McMahon, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Brian J. Koopman, Steve K. Choi, Zhilei Xu, Jack Lashner, Kathleen Harrington, Nicholas Galitzki, John Orlowski-Scherer, Max Silva-Feaver, Aamir Ali, Ningfeng Zhu, Simon Dicker, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, and Joseph Seibert
Subjects: Physics, Cryostat, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Cosmic microwave background, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Spectral bands, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Dichroic glass, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Observatory, law, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract: The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe from the Atacama Desert in Chile. In total, SO will field over 60,000 transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers in six spectral bands centered between 27 and 280 GHz in order to achieve the sensitivity necessary to measure or constrain numerous cosmological quantities, as outlined in The Simons Observatory Collaboration et al. (2019). The 6~m Large Aperture Telescope (LAT), which will target the smaller angular scales of the CMB, utilizes a cryogenic receiver (LATR) designed to house up to 13 individual optics tubes. Each optics tube is comprised of three silicon lenses, IR blocking filters, and three dual-polarization, dichroic TES detector wafers. The scientific objectives of the SO project require these optics tubes to achieve high-throughput optical performance while maintaining exquisite control of systematic effects. We describe the integration and testing program for the SO LATR optics tubes that will verify the design and assembly of the optics tubes before they are shipped to the SO site and installed in the LATR cryostat. The program includes a quick turn-around test cryostat that is used to cool single optics tubes and validate the cryogenic performance and detector readout assembly. We discuss the optical design specifications the optics tubes must meet to be deployed on sky and the suite of optical test equipment that is prepared to measure these requirements.
Published: 2021

7. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Delensed power spectra and parameters

Author: Johannes Hubmayr, Dongwon Han, Bruce Partridge, Lyman A. Page, Emilie Storer, Simone Aiola, Sigurd Naess, Edward V. Denison, Mark J. Devlin, Anna E. Fox, Arthur Kosowsky, J. Colin Hill, Omar Darwish, Amanda MacInnis, Nicholas Battaglia, Matthew Hasselfield, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, John P. Nibarger, Gene C. Hilton, Thibaut Louis, Federico Nati, Edward J. Wollack, Blake D. Sherwin, Neelima Sehgal, Simone Ferraro, Renée Hložek, John P. Hughes, Michael D. Niemack, Daniel T. Becker, Steve K. Choi, Frank J. Qu, Suzanne T. Staggs, David N. Spergel, Kavilan Moodley, Matt Hilton, Alexander van Engelen, James A. Beall, Alessandro Schillaci, Toshiya Namikawa, Erminia Calabrese, Jo Dunkley, Jeff Van Lanen, Han, D, Sehgal, N, Macinnis, A, van Engelen, A, Sherwin, B, Madhavacheril, M, Aiola, S, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, Becker, D, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Darwish, O, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Ferraro, S, Fox, A, Hasselfield, M, Colin Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Hughes, J, Kosowsky, A, van Lanen, J, Louis, T, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Nibarger, J, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Qu, F, Schillaci, A, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Wollack, E, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and ACT
Subjects: cosmological model, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Lambda-CDM model, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, weak gravitational lensing, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Spectral line, microwaves: background, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Particle and Plasma Physics, statistical analysis, gravitation: lens, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, cosmic background radiation: power spectrum, Weak gravitational lensing, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, cosmological parameters from CMBR, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, hep-ph, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Cosmological parameters from CMBR, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Gravitational lens, background: power spectrum, Sky, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present LCDM cosmological parameter constraints obtained from delensed microwave background power spectra. Lensing maps from a subset of DR4 data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are used to undo the lensing effect in ACT spectra observed at 150 and 98 GHz. At 150 GHz, we remove the lensing distortion with an effective efficiency of 30% (TT), 30% (EE), 26% (TE) and 20% (BB); this results in detections of the delensing effect at 8.7 sigma (TT), 5.1 sigma (EE), 2.6 sigma (TE), and 2.4 sigma (BB) significance. The combination of 150 and 98 GHz TT, EE, and TE delensed spectra is well fit by a standard LCDM model. We also measure the shift in best-fit parameters when fitting delensed versus lensed spectra; while this shift does not inform our ability to measure cosmological parameters, it does provide a three-way consistency check among the lensing inferred from the best-fit parameters, the lensing in the CMB power spectrum, and the reconstructed lensing map. This shift is predicted to be zero when fitting with the correct model since both lensed and delensed spectra originate from the same region of sky. Fitting with a LCDM model and marginalizing over foregrounds, we find that the shift in cosmological parameters is consistent with zero. Our results show that gravitational lensing of the microwave background is internally consistent within the framework of the standard cosmological model., 29 pages, 17 figures, version matches that accepted by JCAP
Published: 2021

8. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect with SDSS DR15 galaxies

Author: C. Sifon, S. T. Staggs, E. Schaan, Brian J. Koopman, Edward J. Wollack, M. Lokken, Jeff McMahon, Michael D. Niemack, Johannes Hubmayr, A. van Engelen, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, A. Kosowsky, Nicholas F. Cothard, Victoria Calafut, Elia S. Battistelli, Yaqiong Li, Nick Battaglia, J. Van Lanen, Joel N. Ullom, M. Hilton, Kevin M. Huffenberger, David N. Spergel, F. Nati, Zhilei Xu, Gene C. Hilton, Y. Guan, Alessandro Schillaci, Erminia Calabrese, Jason E. Austermann, Jo Dunkley, Zachary B. Huber, A. J. Duivenvoorden, S. Amodeo, K. Moodley, Leila R. Vale, R. Hložek, Eve M. Vavagiakis, R. Dunner, M. Madhavacheril, Steve K. Choi, Sigurd Naess, J. P. Hughes, J. C. Hill, J. R. Bond, Shannon M. Duff, S. Ferraro, Cody J. Duell, Rachel Bean, B. Partridge, J. A. Beall, L. B. Newburgh, Lyman A. Page, Simone Aiola, Calafut, V, Gallardo, P, Vavagiakis, E, Amodeo, S, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, E, Beall, J, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Guan, Y, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Huber, Z, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Li, Y, Lokken, M, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sifon, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Cosmology, Photometry (optics), Galaxy groups and clusters, Particle and Plasma Physics, CMB, Cosmology, SZ Effect, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Sky, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a 5.4$\sigma$ detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect using Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and $\it{Planck}$ CMB observations in combination with Luminous Red Galaxy samples from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR15 catalog. Results are obtained using three ACT CMB maps: co-added 150 GHz and 98 GHz maps, combining observations from 2008-2018 (ACT DR5), which overlap with SDSS DR15 over 3,700 sq. deg., and a component-separated map using night-time only observations from 2014-2015 (ACT DR4), overlapping with SDSS DR15 over 2,089 sq. deg. Comparisons of the results from these three maps provide consistency checks in relation to potential frequency-dependent foreground contamination. A total of 343,647 galaxies are used as tracers to identify and locate galaxy groups and clusters from which the kSZ signal is extracted using aperture photometry. We consider the impact of various aperture photometry assumptions and covariance estimation methods on the signal extraction. Theoretical predictions of the pairwise velocities are used to obtain best-fit, mass-averaged, optical depth estimates for each of five luminosity-selected tracer samples. A comparison of the kSZ-derived optical depth measurements obtained here to those derived from the thermal SZ effect for the same sample is presented in a companion paper., Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures. Updated to match published version in PRD
Published: 2021

9. Search for lepton-flavor-violating tau-lepton decays to ℓγ at Belle

Author: J. Libby, D. M. Asner, K. Hayasaka, M. Bračko, B.A. Shwartz, E. Kovalenko, J. G. Shiu, M. Uchida, J. Biswal, M. Takizawa, Y. Seino, M. Starič, E. Prencipe, V. Bhardwaj, H. Nakazawa, M. T. Prim, Y. Jin, Phillip Urquijo, R. Kroeger, G. S. Varner, C.-L. Hsu, S. E. Vahsen, M. E. Sevior, Z. Doležal, P. Goldenzweig, V.N. Zhilich, Y. Kato, M. Sumihama, Y. B. Li, L. E. Piilonen, K. Trabelsi, C. MacQueen, R. Itoh, Y. Ushiroda, D. Epifanov, H. Hayashii, W. Sutcliffe, M. Campajola, K. Miyabayashi, A. Rostomyan, P. Oskin, E. Waheed, C. Sharma, Peter Kodys, W. W. Jacobs, B. G. Fulsom, D. Cinabro, L. Li Gioi, Tomoyuki Konno, Andrey Sokolov, Y. J. Kwon, Tagir Aushev, V. Zhukova, Y. Choi, G. Inguglia, M. Iwasaki, T. Podobnik, A. Korobov, M. Kumar, S. Uno, C. Schwanda, Y. Tao, H. Park, N. Rout, Y. Usov, R. Mizuk, Rocky Bala Garg, A. Bozek, M. Z. Wang, F. Di Capua, A. Frey, M. Röhrken, M. Niiyama, S.-J. Cho, V. Gaur, S. Nishida, Z. P. Zhang, X. L. Wang, S.-H. Park, J. Bennett, K. Tanida, Semen Eidelman, C. P. Shen, Seok Kim, Somnath Choudhury, S. Pardi, Dipak Kumar Sahoo, Sadaharu Uehara, T. Hara, Y. Unno, A. Sangal, G. B. Mohanty, Hiroaki Aihara, L. Nayak, V. Babu, A. Garmash, R. Van Tonder, Shih-Chang Lee, Y. Sakai, Samo Korpar, Steve K. Choi, Luka Santelj, R. Ayad, G. Schnell, S. Sandilya, T. Iijima, G. Pakhlova, P. Pakhlov, M. Merola, Y. Yusa, T. Ferber, C. H. Kim, F. Tenchini, A. K. Giri, A. Bobrov, D. Y. Kim, Bruce Yabsley, K. Senyo, D. Matvienko, D. Liventsev, C. Hadjivasiliou, V. Savinov, H. E. Cho, R. Pestotnik, Kohei Ogawa, M. Masuda, A. Natochii, T. Sumiyoshi, K. Inami, Iki Adachi, H. Ye, T. V. Dong, K. Matsuoka, K. Kumara, T. Kuhr, H. Kichimi, T. Uglov, E. Won, Z. S. Stottler, A. Ishikawa, K. Lieret, T. Sanuki, Felix Metzner, M. Nakao, G. Bonvicini, P. Križan, E. Wang, Jochen Dingfelder, W. B. Yan, K.-H. Kim, A. Vinokurova, O. Hartbrich, S. Cunliffe, O. Werbycka, M. Bessner, A. Kuzmin, M. Hernandez Villanueva, M. C. Chang, H. Atmacan, K. K. Joo, Y.-T. Lai, S. Ogawa, C. H. Wang, P. Krokovny, Rakesh Kumar, K. H. Kang, K. Cho, N. Gabyshev, D. Červenkov, N. K. Nisar, J. S. Lange, K. Uno, G.V. Russo, W. S. Hou, J. H. Yin, Florian Urs Bernlochner, C. Kiesling, N. Dash, E. Solovieva, S. Paul, A. Vossen, K. Nishimura, Frank Simon, Belle, Collaboration, Campajola, M., De Nardo, G., Di Capua, F., Merola, M., Pardi, S., Russo, G., and Et, Al.
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model, QC770-798, +, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 0103 physical sciences, Radiative transfer, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Flavor, Physics, Luminosity (scattering theory), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, e, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, −, e +-e − Experiments, Belle experiment, Standard Model (mathematical formulation), Full data, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Experiments, Lepton
Abstract: Charged lepton flavor violation is forbidden in the Standard Model but possible in several new physics scenarios. In many of these models, the radiative decays τ± → ℓ±γ (ℓ = e, μ) are predicted to have a sizeable probability, making them particularly interesting channels to search at various experiments. An updated search via τ± → ℓ±γ using full data of the Belle experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 988 fb−1, is reported for charged lepton flavor violation. No significant excess over background predictions from the Standard Model is observed, and the upper limits on the branching fractions, $$ \mathcal{B} $$ B (τ± → μ±γ) ≤ 4.2 × 10−8 and $$ \mathcal{B} $$ B (τ± → e±γ) ≤ 5.6 × 10−8, are set at 90% confidence level.
Published: 2021

10. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Summary of DR4 and DR5 Data Products and Data Access

Author: Joseph E. Golec, Shannon M. Duff, Maya Mallaby-Kay, Thibaut Louis, Lyman A. Page, Erminia Calabrese, E. V. Denison, Yilun Guan, Edward J. Wollack, Kavilan Moodley, Jason E. Austermann, Daniel T. Becker, John P. Hughes, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Simone Aiola, Dongwon Han, C. Sifon, John P. Nibarger, Sara M. Simon, Toshiya Namikawa, Kyra Fichman, Zhilei Xu, Blake D. Sherwin, Jo Dunkley, Maria Salatino, Brian J. Koopman, Emmanuel Schaan, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeff McMahon, Matt Hilton, Simone Ferraro, Matthew Hasselfield, Laura Newburgh, Mark J. Devlin, Zachary Atkins, Patricio A. Gallardo, James A. Beall, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Kevin T. Crowley, J. Colin Hill, Steve K. Choi, Suzanne T. Staggs, Amanda MacInnis, Alessandro Schillaci, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Omar Darwish, Grace E. Chesmore, Neelima Sehgal, S. Amodeo, Gene C. Hilton, Emilie R. Storer, Sigurd Naess, Jeff Van Lanen, J. Richard Bond, Alexander van Engelen, Federico Nati, Michael D. Niemack, Renée Hložek, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mallaby-Kay, M, Atkins, Z, Aiola, S, Amodeo, S, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Becker, D, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Chesmore, G, Choi, S, Crowley, K, Darwish, O, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Ferraro, S, Fichman, K, Gallardo, P, Golec, J, Guan, Y, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Louis, T, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Niemack, M, Page, L, Salatino, M, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sherwin, B, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Ullom, J, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Vale, L, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Data products, Art history, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Public access, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Order (virtue), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, CMB, Cosmology, Space and Planetary Science, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Two recent large data releases for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), called DR4 and DR5, are available for public access. These data include temperature and polarization maps that cover nearly half the sky at arcminute resolution in three frequency bands; lensing maps and component-separated maps covering ~ 2,100 deg^2 of sky; derived power spectra and cosmological likelihoods; a catalog of over 4,000 galaxy clusters; and supporting ancillary products including beam functions and masks. The data and products are described in a suite of ACT papers; here we provide a summary. In order to facilitate ease of access to these data we present a set of Jupyter IPython notebooks developed to introduce users to DR4, DR5, and the tools needed to analyze these data. The data products (excluding simulations) and the set of notebooks are publicly available on the NASA Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA); simulation products are available on the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)., Accepted to ApJS. 21 pages, 8 figures. Data and notebooks available on LAMBDA https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/
Published: 2021

11. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of Millimeter-wave Transient Sources

Author: Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Mark Halpern, Rolando Dünner, Federico Nati, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Neelima Sehgal, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Michael D. Niemack, Megan Gralla, Erminia Calabrese, Nicholas F. Cothard, J. Colin Hill, Nick Battaglia, Sigurd Naess, Brian J. Koopman, Edward J. Wollack, Jeff McMahon, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Jo Dunkley, Zhilei Xu, Bruce Partridge, Maria Salatino, Steve K. Choi, Yilun Guan, Matt Hilton, Arthur Kosowsky, J. Richard Bond, Suzanne T. Staggs, David N. Spergel, Lyman A. Page, Cody J. Duell, Naess, S, Battaglia, N, Richard Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Gallardo, P, Gralla, M, Guan, Y, Halpern, M, Colin Hill, J, Hilton, M, Huffenberger, K, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Salatino, M, Sehgal, N, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Physics, Spectral index, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Stars, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Coincident, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Extremely high frequency, transient millimeter-wave sources, cosmology, Maximum flux, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract: We report on the serendipitous discovery of three transient millimeter-wave sources using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The first, detected at R.A. = 273.8138, decl. = −49.4628 at ~50σ total, brightened from less than 5 mJy to at least 1100 mJy at 150 GHz with an unknown rise time shorter than 13 days, during which the increase from 250 mJy to 1100 mJy took only 8 minutes. Maximum flux was observed on 2019 November 8. The source's spectral index in flux between 90–150 GHz was positive, α = 1.5 ± 0.2. The second, detected at R.A. = 105.1584, decl. = −11.2434 at ~20σ total, brightened from less than 20 mJy to at least 300 mJy at 150 GHz with an unknown rise time shorter than 8 days. Maximum flux was observed on 2019 December 15. Its spectral index was also positive, α = 1.8 ± 0.2. The third, detected at R.A. = 301.9952, decl. = 16.1652 at ~40σ total, brightened from less than 8 mJy to at least 300 mJy at 150 GHz over a day or less but decayed over a few days. Maximum flux was observed on 2018 September 11. Its spectrum was approximately flat, with a spectral index of α = −0.2 ± 0.1. None of the sources were polarized to the limits of these measurements. The two rising-spectrum sources are coincident in position with M and K stars, while the third is coincident with a G star.
Published: 2021

12. Strong detection of the CMB lensing and galaxy weak lensing cross-correlation from ACT-DR4, Planck Legacy, and KiDS-1000

Author: Emmanuel Schaan, Johannes Hubmayr, Simone Ferraro, Mark J. Devlin, N. C. Robertson, Alessandro Schillaci, Federico Nati, Benjamin Joachimi, Angus H. Wright, Tilman Tröster, Edward J. Wollack, Suzanne T. Staggs, John P. Hughes, Maria Cristina Fortuna, Kavilan Moodley, Blake D. Sherwin, Omar Darwish, Shahab Joudaki, Dongwon Han, Benjamin Giblin, Lyman A. Page, Thomas Erben, Joachim Harnois-Déraps, C. Sifon, Shuay Pwu P. Ho, Steve K. Choi, Lance Miller, Matt Hilton, Peter Schneider, Alexander van Engelen, Andrej Dvornik, J. Colin Hill, Konrad Kuijken, David Alonso, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Kenda Knowles, Alexandra Amon, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Edwin A. Valentijn, Maciej Bilicki, Michael D. Niemack, Neelima Sehgal, Erminia Calabrese, Jo Dunkley, Bruce Partridge, Toshiya Namikawa, Zhilei Xu, Catherine Heymans, Marika Asgari, Arun Kannawadi, Henk Hoekstra, Robertson, N, Alonso, D, Harnois-Deraps, J, Darwish, O, Kannawadi, A, Amon, A, Asgari, M, Bilicki, M, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dvornik, A, Erben, T, Ferraro, S, Fortuna, M, Giblin, B, Han, D, Heymans, C, Hildebrandt, H, Hill, J, Hilton, M, Ho, S, Hoekstra, H, Hubmayr, J, Hughes, J, Joachimi, B, Joudaki, S, Knowles, K, Kuijken, K, Madhavacheril, M, Moodley, K, Miller, L, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Schneider, P, Sehgal, N, Sherwin, B, Sifon, C, Staggs, S, Troster, T, Van Engelen, A, Valentijn, E, Wollack, E, Wright, A, Xu, Z, and Astronomy
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Weak Large-Scale Structure of Universe Cosmology, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, Omega, symbols.namesake, gravitational lensing: weak, weak [gravitational lensing], Observations Astrophysics, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Weak gravitational lensing, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Gravitational Lensing, Physics, Degree (graph theory), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, observations [cosmology], Galaxy, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, symbols, large-scale structure of Universe, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the cross-correlation between galaxy weak lensing data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000, DR4) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT, DR4) and the Planck Legacy survey. We use two samples of source galaxies, selected with photometric redshifts, $(0.1, Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, 1 tables, submitted to A&A
Published: 2021
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13. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the baryon content of SDSS DR15 galaxies with the thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effects

Author: Nick Battaglia, J. P. Hughes, K. Moodley, Erminia Calabrese, Leila R. Vale, David N. Spergel, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, R. Hložek, Victoria Calafut, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Lyman A. Page, Rachel Bean, B. Partridge, Shannon M. Duff, S. Ferraro, M. Hilton, J. A. Beall, Gene C. Hilton, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Simone Aiola, Y. Guan, J. R. Bond, Jason E. Austermann, Sigurd Naess, C. Sifon, A. van Engelen, A. Kosowsky, E. Schaan, M. Lokken, J. C. Hill, L. B. Newburgh, S. T. Staggs, Cody J. Duell, Yaqiong Li, J. Van Lanen, Zachary B. Huber, Joel N. Ullom, Alessandro Schillaci, S. Amodeo, Edward J. Wollack, F. Nati, Johannes Hubmayr, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, A. J. Duivenvoorden, R. Dunner, Jo Dunkley, Elia S. Battistelli, Steve K. Choi, M. Madhavacheril, Zhilei Xu, Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Vavagiakis, E, Gallardo, P, Calafut, V, Amodeo, S, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Battaglia, N, Battistelli, E, Beall, J, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Guan, Y, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Huber, Z, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Li, Y, Lokken, M, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sifon, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, Particle and Plasma Physics, Galaxy groups and clusters, 0103 physical sciences, Optical depth (astrophysics), CMB, Cosmology, SZ Effect, Nuclear, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Galaxy, Baryon, 13. Climate action, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Content (measure theory), astro-ph.CO, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present high signal-to-noise measurements (up to 12$\sigma$) of the average thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect from optically selected galaxy groups and clusters and estimate their baryon content within a 2.1$^\prime$ radius aperture. Sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) DR15 catalog overlap with 3,700 sq. deg. of sky observed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 2008 to 2018 at 150 and 98 GHz (ACT DR5), and 2,089 sq. deg. of internal linear combination component-separated maps combining ACT and $\it{Planck}$ data (ACT DR4). The corresponding optical depths, $\bar{\tau}$, which depend on the baryon content of the halos, are estimated using results from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations assuming an AGN feedback radiative cooling model. We estimate the mean mass of the halos in multiple luminosity bins, and compare the tSZ-based $\bar{\tau}$ estimates to theoretical predictions of the baryon content for a Navarro-Frenk-White profile. We do the same for $\bar{\tau}$ estimates extracted from fits to pairwise baryon momentum measurements of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) for the same data set obtained in a companion paper. We find that the $\bar{\tau}$ estimates from the tSZ measurements in this work and the kSZ measurements in the companion paper agree within $1\sigma$ for two out of the three disjoint luminosity bins studied, while they differ by 2-3$\sigma$ in the highest luminosity bin. The optical depth estimates account for one third to all of the theoretically predicted baryon content in the halos across luminosity bins. Potential systematic uncertainties are discussed. The tSZ and kSZ measurements provide a step towards empirical Compton-$\bar{y}$-$\bar{\tau}$ relationships to provide new tests of cluster formation and evolution models., Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2021

14. In situ Performance of the Low Frequency Arrayfor Advanced ACTPol

Author: Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Sara M. Simon, Jason E. Austermann, Shannon M. Duff, Joel N. Ullom, Marius Lungu, Yaqiong Li, Edward J. Wollack, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Suzanne T. Staggs, Maria Salatino, Lyman A. Page, Yuhan Wang, Johannes Hubmayr, Zhilei Xu, Gene C. Hilton, Joseph E. Golec, Matthew Hasselfield, Steve K. Choi, Sarah Marie Bruno, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Jason R. Stevens, Michael D. Niemack, and Nicholas F. Cothard
Subjects: Cosmic microwave background, Synchrotron radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, business.industry, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polarimeter, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Transition edge sensor, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) \cite{thornton} is an upgrade for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies in multiple frequencies. The low frequency (LF) array was deployed early 2020. It consists of 292 TES bolometers observing in two bands centered at 27 GHz and 39 GHz. At these frequencies, it is sensitive to synchrotron radiation from our galaxy as well as to the CMB, and complements the AdvACT arrays operating at 90, 150 and 230 GHz. We present the initial LF array on-site characterization, including the time constant, optical efficiency and array sensitivity.
Published: 2021
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15. The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Sensitivity Measurements of Microwave SQUID Multiplexers

Author: Jake Connors, Zhilei Xu, Aamir Ali, Suzanne T. Staggs, Simon Dicker, Kasey Wagoner, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Jason E. Austermann, Steve K. Choi, Gene C. Hilton, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Yaqiong Li, Michael D. Niemack, Ningfeng Zhu, Jason R. Stevens, Johannes Hubmayr, Kam Arnold, Michael R. Vissers, Erin Healy, Nicholas F. Cothard, Zeeshan Ahmed, Sarah Marie Bruno, Shawn W. Henderson, Joel N. Ullom, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, B. Dober, Shannon M. Duff, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Heather McCarrick, Valentina Fanfani, John A. B. Mates, Federico Nati, Duc-Thuong Hoang, Vavagiakis, E, Ahmed, Z, Ali, A, Arnold, K, Austermann, J, Bruno, S, Choi, S, Connors, J, Cothard, N, Dicker, S, Dober, B, Duff, S, Fanfani, V, Healy, E, Henderson, S, Ho, S, Hoang, D, Hilton, G, Hubmayr, J, Krachmalnicoff, N, Li, Y, Mates, J, Mccarrick, H, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Silva-Feaver, M, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Vissers, M, Ullom, J, Wagoner, K, Xu, Z, and Zhu, N
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Lenslet, SQUID, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, microwave multiplexing, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, business.industry, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, supercondcuting detector, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electromagnetic shielding, supercondcuting detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, SQUIDs, Microwave, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Magnetic field dependence
Abstract: The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe from the Atacama Desert in Chile. In total, SO will field $\sim$70,000 transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers in six spectral bands centered between 27 and 280 GHz in order to achieve the sensitivity necessary to measure or constrain numerous cosmological quantities. The SO Universal Focal Plane Modules (UFMs) each contain a 150 mm diameter TES detector array, horn or lenslet optical coupling, cold readout components, and magnetic shielding. SO will use a microwave SQUID multiplexing ($\mu$MUX) readout at an initial multiplexing factor of $\sim$1000; the cold (100 mK) readout components are packaged in a $\mu$MUX readout module, which is part of the UFM, and can also be characterized independently. The 100 mK stage TES bolometer arrays and microwave SQUIDs are sensitive to magnetic fields, and their measured response will vary with the degree to which they are magnetically shielded. We present measurements of the magnetic pickup of test microwave SQUID multiplexers as a study of various shielding configurations for the Simons Observatory. We discuss how these measurements motivated the material choice and design of the UFM magnetic shielding., Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures, conference proceedings submitted to IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Published: 2021

16. CCAT-prime: Designs and status of the first light 280 GHz MKID array and mod-cam receiver

Author: Doug Johnstone, Sara M. Simon, Eve M. Vavagiakis, B. Dober, Thomas Nikola, Jason E. Austermann, Kayla Rossi, Gordon J. Stacey, Yaqiong Li, Bugao Zou, Patricio A. Gallardo, Steve K. Choi, Jiansong Gao, Terry Herter, Michael D. Niemack, Scott Chapman, Adrian Sinclair, Zachary B. Huber, Nicholas F. Cothard, Jordan Wheeler, Michael R. Vissers, Johannes Hubmayr, Philip Daniel Mauskopf, Cody J. Duell, Christopher Groppi, and Jeff McMahon
Subjects: Physics, business.industry, Aperture, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, First light, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Optics, law, Sky, 0103 physical sciences, NIST, Millimeter, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Microwave, media_common
Abstract: The CCAT-prime project's first light array will be deployed in Mod-Cam, a single-module testbed and first light cryostat, on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's high Atacama desert in late 2022. FYST is a six-meter aperture telescope being built on Cerro Chajnantor at an elevation of 5600 meters to observe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths.1 Mod-Cam will pave the way for Prime-Cam, the primary first generation instrument, which will house up to seven instrument modules to simultaneously observe the sky and study a diverse set of science goals from monitoring protostars to probing distant galaxy clusters and characterizing the cosmic microwave background (CMB). At least one feedhorn-coupled array of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) centered on 280 GHz will be included in Mod-Cam at first light, with additional instrument modules to be deployed along with Prime-Cam in stages. The first 280 GHz detector array was fabricated by the Quantum Sensors Group at NIST in Boulder, CO and includes 3,456 polarization-sensitive MKIDs. Current mechanical designs allow for up to three hexagonal arrays to be placed in each single instrument module. We present details on this first light detector array, including mechanical designs and cold readout plans, as well as introducing Mod-Cam as both a testbed and predecessor to Prime-Cam., Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020, Paper Number: 11453-58
Published: 2020

17. The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) Integration and Validation Results

Author: Suzanne T. Staggs, Jenna Moore, Jake Connors, John Orlowski-Scherer, Steve K. Choi, Federico Nati, Michael D. Niemack, Erin Healy, Ningfeng Zhu, Joseph Seibert, Bradley Dober, Robert Thornton, Brian J. Koopman, Zhilei Xu, Johannes Hubmayr, Jack Lashner, Tanay Bhandarkar, Christian L. Reichardt, Nicholas F. Cothard, Jason E. Austermann, Giulio Fabbian, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Edward J. Wollack, Gabriele Coppi, Yuhan Wang, Michele Limon, Jeffrey Iuliano, Mark J. Devlin, Kathleen Harrington, Kaiwen Zheng, Shannon M. Duff, Kam Arnold, Heather McCarrick, Samantha Walker, Simon Dicker, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Nicholas Galitzki, A. M. Kofman, Rita Sonka, Michael R. Vissers, Karen Perez Sarmiento, Yaqiong Li, Aamir Ali, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Zmuidzinas J.,Gao J.-R., Xu, Z, Bhandarkar, T, Coppi, G, Kofman, A, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Zhu, N, Ali, A, Arnold, K, Austermann, J, Choi, S, Connors, J, Cothard, N, Devlin, M, Dicker, S, Dober, B, Duff, S, Fabbian, G, Galitzki, N, Haridas, S, Harrington, K, Healy, E, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Iuliano, J, Lashner, J, Li, Y, Limon, M, Koopman, B, Mccarrick, H, Moore, J, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Reichardt, C, Sarmiento, K, Seibert, J, Silva-Feaver, M, Sonka, R, Staggs, S, Thornton, R, Vavagiakis, E, Vissers, M, Walker, S, Wang, Y, Wollack, E, and Zheng, K
Subjects: Physics, COSMIC cancer database, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic microwave background, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Observa-tional Cosmology, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Radio spectrum, Cryogenic Technology, law.invention, Astronomical Instrumentation, Telescope, law, Observatory, Observational cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract: The Simons Observatory (SO) will observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The observatory consists of three 0.5 m Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) and one 6 m Large Aperture Telescope (LAT), covering six frequency bands centering around 30, 40, 90, 150, 230, and 280 GHz. The SO observations will transform the understanding of our universe by characterizing the properties of the early universe, measuring the number of relativistic species and the mass of neutrinos, improving our understanding of galaxy evolution, and constraining the properties of cosmic reionization. As a critical instrument, the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) is designed to cool $\sim$ 60,000 transition-edge sensors (TES) to $, Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures, submitted to the 2020 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
Published: 2020

18. A 350 micron camera module for the Prime-Cam instrument on CCAT-prime

Author: Michael D. Niemack, Terry Herter, Colin Ross, Gordon J. Stacey, Steve K. Choi, Michel Fich, Scott Chapman, Thomas Nikola, Steve Parshley, Eve M. Vavagiakis, and Cody J. Duell
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Intensity mapping, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomical survey, Galaxy, law.invention, Telescope, Observatory, law, Broadband, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Reionization, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Camera module
Abstract: The Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope prime (CCAT-p) Observatory is a widefield, 6 meter aperture submillimeter telescope. Prime-Cam will be a powerful, first light camera for CCAT-p with imagers working at several wavelengths and a spectroscopic instrument aimed at intensity mapping during the epoch of reionization. We present the design of an instrument module in Prime-Cam, operating at 350 microns — the shortest wavelength on the instrument, and the most novel for astronomical surveys, taking full advantage of the atmospheric transparency at the high 5600 meter CCAT-p siting on Cerro Chajnantor. This instrument module will provide unprecedented broadband intensity and polarization measurement capabilities to address pressing astrophysical questions regarding galaxy formation, Big Bang cosmology, and star formation within our own Galaxy. We present the overall optical and mechanical design for the module, and laboratory characterization of the 860-GHz KID array.
Published: 2020

19. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 maps and cosmological parameters

Author: Simone Aiola, Suzanne T. Staggs, C. Sifon, J. Richard Bond, Martine Lokken, Bruce Partridge, Brittany Fuzia, Giampaolo Pisano, Matthew Hasselfield, Vincent Lakey, Shannon M. Duff, H. M. Cho, Naomi Robertson, Brandon S. Hensley, Laura Newburgh, Alexander van Engelen, Jesus Rivera, Kirsten Hall, Matt Hilton, Susan E. Clark, Kavilan Moodley, Rachel Bean, Kent D. Irwin, David Alonso, Andrina Nicola, Edward J. Wollack, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Dhaneshwar D. Sunder, Brian J. Koopman, David N. Spergel, Rolando Dünner, Jakob M. Helton, Toshiya Namikawa, Zhilei Xu, Sigurd Naess, Leopoldo Infante, Adam D. Hincks, Emily Grace, Renée Hložek, Ningfeng Zhu, Felipe Rojas, Jeff McMahon, Grace E. Chesmore, Jacob Klein, Max Fankhanel, Frank J. Qu, Heather Prince, S. Henderson, Yaqiong Li, Timothy D. Morton, Dale Li, Jason E. Austermann, E. V. Denison, Jason R. Stevens, Robert Thornton, Kenda Knowles, Christine G. Pappas, Amanda MacInnis, Yuhan Wang, Joseph E. Golec, Precious Sikhosana, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Neelima Sehgal, John P. Hughes, Felipe Maldonado, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Peter Charles Hargrave, Sarah Marie Bruno, Michael R. Nolta, Zack Li, Dongwon Han, John P. Nibarger, Sara M. Simon, Jon Sievers, Kasey Wagoner, Blake D. Sherwin, J. Colin Hill, Lyman A. Page, Thibaut Louis, John Orlowski-Sherer, Fernando Zago, Arthur Kosowsky, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Carlos Sierra, Felipe Menanteau, Loïc Maurin, B. Thorne, Vera Gluscevic, Eric R. Switzer, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Marius Lungu, Jo Dunkley, Emilie R. Storer, Felipe Carrero, Gene C. Hilton, Maya Mallaby-Kay, Steve K. Choi, Roberto Puddu, Phumlani Phakathi, Jeff Van Lanen, Jonathan T. Ward, Omar Darwish, Yilun Guan, Maria Salatino, Daniel T. Becker, Anna E. Fox, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Federico Nati, Carole Tucker, Alessandro Schillaci, Graeme E. Addison, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Elio Angile, S. Amodeo, Erminia Calabrese, Leila R. Vale, Megan Gralla, Mandana Amiri, Nick Battaglia, Rahul Datta, Peter A. R. Ade, Devin Crichton, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Victoria Calafut, Jesse Treu, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Cody J. Duell, Luis E. Campusano, Danica Marsden, Rebecca Jackson, Emmanuel Schaan, Johannes Hubmayr, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Hy Trac, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Taylor Baildon, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ACT, Aiola, S, Calabrese, E, Maurin, L, Naess, S, Schmitt, B, Abitbol, M, Addison, G, Ade, P, Alonso, D, Amiri, M, Amodeo, S, Angile, E, Austermann, J, Baildon, T, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, Bean, R, Becker, D, Richard Bond, J, Bruno, S, Calafut, V, Campusano, L, Carrero, F, Chesmore, G, Cho, H, Choi, S, Clark, S, Cothard, N, Crichton, D, Crowley, K, Darwish, O, Datta, R, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Essinger-Hileman, T, Fankhanel, M, Ferraro, S, Fox, A, Fuzia, B, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Golec, J, Grace, E, Gralla, M, Guan, Y, Hall, K, Halpern, M, Han, D, Hargrave, P, Hasselfield, M, Helton, J, Henderson, S, Hensley, B, Colin Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Infante, L, Irwin, K, Jackson, R, Klein, J, Knowles, K, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Lakey, V, Li, D, Li, Y, Li, Z, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Maldonado, F, Mallaby-Kay, M, Marsden, D, Mcmahon, J, Menanteau, F, Moodley, K, Morton, T, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Nicola, A, Niemack, M, Nolta, M, Orlowski-Sherer, J, Page, L, Pappas, C, Partridge, B, Phakathi, P, Pisano, G, Prince, H, Puddu, R, Qu, F, Rivera, J, Robertson, N, Rojas, F, Salatino, M, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sherwin, B, Sierra, C, Sievers, J, Sifon, C, Sikhosana, P, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Storer, E, Sunder, D, Switzer, E, Thorne, B, Thornton, R, Trac, H, Treu, J, Tucker, C, Vale, L, van Engelen, A, van Lanen, J, Vavagiakis, E, Wagoner, K, Wang, Y, Ward, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Zago, F, and Zhu, N
Subjects: CMBR polarisation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, CMBR experiments, Planck, Physics, Spectral index, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, CMB cold spot, Baryon, Cosmological parameters from CMBR, 13. Climate action, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, symbols, CMBR experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013-2016 at 98 and 150 GHz. The maps cover more than 17,000 deg$^2$, the deepest 600 deg$^2$ with noise levels below 10 $\mu$K-arcmin. We use the power spectrum derived from almost 6,000 deg$^2$ of these maps to constrain cosmology. The ACT data enable a measurement of the angular scale of features in both the divergence-like polarization and the temperature anisotropy, tracing both the velocity and density at last-scattering. From these one can derive the distance to the last-scattering surface and thus infer the local expansion rate, $H_0$. By combining ACT data with large-scale information from WMAP we measure $H_0 = 67.6 \pm 1.1$ km/s/Mpc, at 68% confidence, in excellent agreement with the independently-measured Planck satellite estimate (from ACT alone we find $H_0 = 67.9 \pm 1.5$ km/s/Mpc). The $\Lambda$CDM model provides a good fit to the ACT data, and we find no evidence for deviations: both the spatial curvature, and the departure from the standard lensing signal in the spectrum, are zero to within 1$\sigma$; the number of relativistic species, the primordial Helium fraction, and the running of the spectral index are consistent with $\Lambda$CDM predictions to within $1.5 - 2.2\sigma$. We compare ACT, WMAP, and Planck at the parameter level and find good consistency; we investigate how the constraints on the correlated spectral index and baryon density parameters readjust when adding CMB large-scale information that ACT does not measure. The DR4 products presented here will be publicly released on the NASA Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis., Comment: 33 pages, 24 figures, products available on the NASA LAMBDA website, version accepted for publication in JCAP
Published: 2020

20. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect

Author: Simone Aiola, Michael D. Niemack, Federico Nati, C. Sifon, Brian J. Koopman, Kavilan Moodley, Victoria Calafut, Graeme E. Addison, Jeff McMahon, Matthew Hasselfield, Matt Hilton, Arthur Kosowsky, Nicholas Battaglia, Erminia Calabrese, Alexander van Engelen, Edward J. Wollack, David N. Spergel, Marius Lungu, Joanna Dunkley, J. Richard Bond, Renée Hložek, Alessandro Schillaci, Suzanne T. Staggs, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Emmanuel Schaan, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Vera Gluscevic, Mark J. Devlin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Patricio A. Gallardo, Thibaut Louis, Zhilei Xu, Taylor Baildon, Neelima Sehgal, Steve K. Choi, Bruce Partridge, Amanda MacInnis, Lyman A. Page, Loïc Maurin, J. Colin Hill, Naomi Robertson, Blake D. Sherwin, Rachel Bean, Emilie R. Storer, Sigurd Naess, Adam D. Hincks, Rahul Datta, Dongwon Han, Martine Lokken, John P. Hughes, Omar Darwish, Rolando Dünner, Sara M. Simon, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Madhavacheril, M, Hill, J, Naess, S, Addison, G, Aiola, S, Baildon, T, Battaglia, N, Bean, R, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Choi, S, Darwish, O, Datta, R, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Ferraro, S, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Halpern, M, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Ho, S, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Robertson, N, Sehgal, N, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sherwin, B, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Van Engelen, A, Vavagiakis, E, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), astro-ph.GA, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, CMB, Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Particle and Plasma Physics, Cosmic infrared background, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Black-body radiation, Planck, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Galaxy, Cosmology, 13. Climate action, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, symbols, Spectral energy distribution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at the power spectrum level alone. To date, nearly all map-level component separation in CMB analyses has been performed exclusively using satellite data. In this paper, we implement a component separation method based on the internal linear combination (ILC) approach which we have designed to optimally account for the anisotropic noise (in the 2D Fourier domain) often found in ground-based CMB experiments. Using this method, we combine multi-frequency data from the Planck satellite and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) to construct the first wide-area, arcminute-resolution component-separated maps (covering approximately 2100 sq. deg.) of the CMB temperature anisotropy and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect sourced by the inverse-Compton scattering of CMB photons off hot, ionized gas. Our ILC pipeline allows for explicit deprojection of various contaminating signals, including a modified blackbody approximation of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) spectral energy distribution. The cleaned CMB maps will be a useful resource for CMB lensing reconstruction, kinematic SZ cross-correlations, and primordial non-Gaussianity studies. The tSZ maps will be used to study the pressure profiles of galaxies, groups, and clusters through cross-correlations with halo catalogs, with dust contamination controlled via CIB deprojection. The data products described in this paper are available on LAMBDA., Comment: 24 pages, 11 figures, matches version accepted by PRD. Data products are available on LAMBDA at https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/act/act_dr4_derived_maps_get.cfm
Published: 2020

21. The cross correlation of the ABS and ACT maps

Author: Johannes Hubmayr, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Shannon M. Duff, Sigurd Naess, Emilie Storer, Lucas Parker, Edward J. Wollack, Jonathan Sievers, Suzanne T. Staggs, Akito Kusaka, Patricio A. Gallardo, Thibaut Louis, Lyman A. Page, Sara M. Simon, Maria Salatino, Simone Aiola, Joseph W. Fowler, Joanna Dunkley, David Alonso, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, John W. Appel, Jeff McMahon, Kevin T. Crowley, Bruce Partridge, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Michael D. Niemack, Cristóbal Sifón, J. Richard Bond, Zack Li, Erminia Calabrese, Steve K. Choi, Federico Nati, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Li, Z, Naess, S, Aiola, S, Alonso, D, Appel, J, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Crowley, K, Essinger-Hileman, T, Duff, S, Dunkley, J, Fowler, J, Gallardo, P, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Kusaka, A, Louis, T, Madhavacheril, M, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Parker, L, Partridge, B, Salatino, M, Sievers, J, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Wollack, E, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Spectral line, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, Planck, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, CMBR polarization, Physics, Cross-correlation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Atacama Cosmology Telescope, symbols, CMBR experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Noise (radio), CMBR detector, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: One of the most important checks for systematic errors in CMB studies is the cross correlation of maps made by independent experiments. In this paper we report on the cross correlation between maps from the Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) experiments in both temperature and polarization. These completely different measurements have a clear correlation with each other and with the Planck satellite in both the EE and TE spectra at $\ell, Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. For an interactive demonstration of the methods, see https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CnMGLn-J3pySv8A9ffNWDSlXlJWMrp2W
Published: 2020

22. Comparing complex impedance and bias step measurements of Simons Observatory transition edge sensors

Author: Michael J. Link, Edward J. Wollack, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Jason E. Austermann, Zhilei Xu, Suzanne T. Staggs, Rita Sonka, Shannon M. Duff, Kevin T. Crowley, Bradley Dober, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Patricio A. Gallardo, Aamir Ali, Cody J. Duell, Gene C. Hilton, Steve K. Choi, and Johannes Hubmayr
Subjects: Physics, Field (physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic microwave background, Detector, Bolometer, Time constant, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Computational physics, law.invention, Exponential function, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Electrical impedance, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract: The Simons Observatory (SO) will perform ground-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several small and large aperture telescopes, each outfitted with thousands to tens of thousands of superconducting aluminum manganese (AlMn) transition-edge sensor bolometers (TESs). In-situ characterization of TES responsivities and effective time constants will be required multiple times each observing-day for calibrating time-streams during CMB map-making. Effective time constants are typically estimated in the field by briefly applying small amplitude square-waves on top of the TES DC biases, and fitting exponential decays in the bolometer response. These so-called "bias step" measurements can be rapidly implemented across entire arrays and therefore are attractive because they take up little observing time. However, individual detector complex impedance measurements, while too slow to implement during observations, can provide a fuller picture of the TES model and a better understanding of its temporal response. Here, we present the results of dark TES characterization of many prototype SO bolometers and compare the effective thermal time constants measured via bias steps to those derived from complex impedance data., Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020, Paper Number: 11453-185
Published: 2020
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23. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

Author: Kavilan Moodley, Emilie R. Storer, Simone Aiola, Phumlani Phakathi, Jeff Van Lanen, E. Grace, Stefania Amodeo, Felipe Rojas, Yaqiong Li, Nick Battaglia, Precious Sikhosana, Suzanne T. Staggs, Vera Gluscevic, Robert Thornton, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Christine G. Pappas, Rolando Dünner, Danica Marsden, Yilun Guan, Felipe Carrero, Blake D. Sherwin, Sigurd Naess, Leopoldo Infante, Adam D. Hincks, Toshiya Namikawa, Zhilei Xu, Brittany Fuzia, Graeme E. Addison, Kasey Wagoner, Daniel T. Becker, J. Richard Bond, Jason E. Austermann, Sarah Marie Bruno, Matthew Hasselfield, Naomi Robertson, Jesse Treu, Vincent Lakey, John P. Nibarger, Timothy D. Morton, Sara M. Simon, David N. Spergel, Jesus Rivera, Michael R. Nolta, Zack Li, Shawn W. Henderson, Max Fankhanel, Martine Lokken, B. Thorne, Mark J. Devlin, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, James A. Beall, Yuhan Wang, Kevin T. Crowley, John Orlowski-Sherer, Bruce Partridge, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Laura Newburgh, Grace E. Chesmore, Alessandro Schillaci, Jon Sievers, Dhaneshwar D. Sunder, Federico Nati, Rahul Datta, Dale Li, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Shannon M. Duff, Edward V. Denison, Peter A. R. Ade, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Maya Mallaby-Kay, Erminia Calabrese, Roberto Puddu, J. Colin Hill, Elio Angile, Jo Dunkley, Omar Darwish, Kenda Knowles, Marius Lungu, Megan Gralla, Susan E. Clark, Jeff Klein, Fernando Zago, Dongwon Han, Brandon S. Hensley, Devin Crichton, Renée Hložek, Peter Charles Hargrave, Frank J. Qu, Neelima Sehgal, Leila R. Vale, Matt Hilton, Gene C. Hilton, Joseph E. Golec, Heather Prince, Mandana Amiri, Alexander van Engelen, Maria Salatino, Loïc Maurin, Andrina Nicola, Lyman A. Page, Thibaut Louis, Steve K. Choi, Michael D. Niemack, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Nicholas F. Cothard, Victoria Calafut, Jonathan T. Ward, Carole Tucker, Arthur Kosowsky, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Kent D. Irwin, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Edward J. Wollack, Anna E. Fox, Ningfeng Zhu, Amanda MacInnis, Felipe Maldonado, Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Cristóbal Sifón, Emmanuel Schaan, Johannes Hubmayr, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Hy Trac, Patricio A. Gallardo, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Taylor Baildon, Luis E. Campusano, Rebecca Jackson, Carlos Sierra, Felipe Menanteau, Jason R. Stevens, John P. Hughes, Cody J. Duell, Eric R. Switzer, Kirsten Hall, Rachel Bean, David Alonso, Choi, S, Hasselfield, M, Ho, S, Koopman, B, Lungu, M, Abitbol, M, Addison, G, Ade, P, Aiola, S, Alonso, D, Amiri, M, Amodeo, S, Angile, E, Austermann, J, Baildon, T, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, Bean, R, Becker, D, Richard Bond, J, Bruno, S, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Campusano, L, Carrero, F, Chesmore, G, Cho, H, Clark, S, Cothard, N, Crichton, D, Crowley, K, Darwish, O, Datta, R, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Duell, C, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Essinger-Hileman, T, Fankhanel, M, Ferraro, S, Fox, A, Fuzia, B, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Golec, J, Grace, E, Gralla, M, Guan, Y, Hall, K, Halpern, M, Han, D, Hargrave, P, Henderson, S, Hensley, B, Colin Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Infante, L, Irwin, K, Jackson, R, Klein, J, Knowles, K, Kosowsky, A, Lakey, V, Li, D, Li, Y, Li, Z, Lokken, M, Louis, T, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Maldonado, F, Mallaby-Kay, M, Marsden, D, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Menanteau, F, Moodley, K, Morton, T, Naess, S, Namikawa, T, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Nicola, A, Niemack, M, Nolta, M, Orlowski-Sherer, J, Page, L, Pappas, C, Partridge, B, Phakathi, P, Prince, H, Puddu, R, Qu, F, Rivera, J, Robertson, N, Rojas, F, Salatino, M, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Schmitt, B, Sehgal, N, Sherwin, B, Sierra, C, Sievers, J, Sifon, C, Sikhosana, P, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Storer, E, Sunder, D, Switzer, E, Thorne, B, Thornton, R, Trac, H, Treu, J, Tucker, C, Vale, L, van Engelen, A, van Lanen, J, Vavagiakis, E, Wagoner, K, Wang, Y, Ward, J, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, Zago, F, Zhu, N, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ACT
Subjects: Physics, CMBR polarisation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic microwave background, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmological parameters from CMBR, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, CMBR experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg$^2$ of the 2013-2016 survey, which covers $>$15000 deg$^2$ at 98 and 150 GHz. For this analysis we adopt a blinding strategy to help avoid confirmation bias and, related to this, show numerous checks for systematic error done before unblinding. Using the likelihood for the cosmological analysis we constrain secondary sources of anisotropy and foreground emission, and derive a "CMB-only" spectrum that extends to $\ell=4000$. At large angular scales, foreground emission at 150 GHz is $\sim$1% of TT and EE within our selected regions and consistent with that found by Planck. Using the same likelihood, we obtain the cosmological parameters for $\Lambda$CDM for the ACT data alone with a prior on the optical depth of $\tau=0.065\pm0.015$. $\Lambda$CDM is a good fit. The best-fit model has a reduced $\chi^2$ of 1.07 (PTE=0.07) with $H_0=67.9\pm1.5$ km/s/Mpc. We show that the lensing BB signal is consistent with $\Lambda$CDM and limit the celestial EB polarization angle to $\psi_P =-0.07^{\circ}\pm0.09^{\circ}$. We directly cross correlate ACT with Planck and observe generally good agreement but with some discrepancies in TE. All data on which this analysis is based will be publicly released., Comment: 44 pages, 27 figures, products available on the NASA LAMBDA website, version accepted for publication in JCAP
Published: 2020
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24. Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on cosmic birefringence

Author: Michael D. Niemack, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Sigurd Naess, J. Richard Bond, Adam D. Hincks, Neelima Sehgal, Kavilan Moodley, Loïc Maurin, Thibaut Louis, Joanna Dunkley, Grace E. Chesmore, Frank J. Qu, Omar Darwish, Johannes Hubmayr, Simone Aiola, Gene C. Hilton, Lyman A. Page, Toshiya Namikawa, Rolando Dünner, Maya Mallaby-Kay, C. Sifon, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Daniel T. Becker, Amanda MacInnis, Alexander van Engelen, Renée Hložek, John P. Nibarger, Sara M. Simon, Emilie R. Storer, Matthew Hasselfield, Blake D. Sherwin, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Yilun Guan, Laura Newburgh, Vera Gluscevic, Arthur Kosowsky, Jeff Van Lanen, Edward J. Wollack, Anna E. Fox, Brian J. Koopman, Erminia Calabrese, Jeff McMahon, James A. Beall, Steve K. Choi, Alessandro Schillaci, Naomi Robertson, Nicholas Battaglia, Marius Lungu, John P. Hughes, Suzanne T. Staggs, David N. Spergel, Federico Nati, Dongwon Han, Namikawa, T, Guan, Y, Darwish, O, Sherwin, B, Aiola, S, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, Becker, D, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Chesmore, G, Choi, S, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Fox, A, Gallardo, P, Gluscevic, V, Han, D, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, G, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Macinnis, A, Madhavacheril, M, Mallaby-Kay, M, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Niemack, M, Page, L, Qu, F, Robertson, N, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sifon, C, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Wollack, E, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: data analysis method, cosmological model, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmic microwave background, cosmic background radiation: polarization, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, current: constraint, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), statistical analysis, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Cosmic Birefringence, CMB, Cosmology, inflation, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Axion, Physics, Birefringence, birefringence, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Chern-Simons term, photon, coupling constant, Polarization (waves), Massless particle, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Amplitude, axion, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Atacama Cosmology Telescope, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation: anisotropy
Abstract: We present new constraints on anisotropic birefringence of the cosmic microwave background polarization using two seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope covering $456$ square degrees of sky. The birefringence power spectrum, measured using a curved-sky quadratic estimator, is consistent with zero. Our results provide the tightest current constraint on birefringence over a range of angular scales between $5$ arcminutes and $9$ degrees. We improve previous upper limits on the amplitude of a scale-invariant birefringence power spectrum by a factor of between $2$ and $3$. Assuming a nearly-massless axion field during inflation, our result is equivalent to a $2\,\sigma$ upper limit on the Chern-Simons coupling constant between axions and photons of $g_{\alpha\gamma}, Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in PRD
Published: 2020

25. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Modeling the Gas Thermodynamics in BOSS CMASS galaxies from Kinematic and Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurements

Author: Bruce Partridge, Zhilei Xu, Suzanne T. Staggs, Rolando Dünner, Emmanuel Schaan, Johannes Hubmayr, Federico Nati, Simone Ferraro, Michael D. Niemack, E. V. Denison, Victoria Calafut, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Erminia Calabrese, Tony Mroczkowski, Jo Dunkley, Laura Newburgh, John P. Hughes, Emilie R. Storer, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Leila R. Vale, David N. Spergel, Edward J. Wollack, Joel N. Ullom, Dongwon Han, Shannon M. Duff, Jeff Van Lanen, Simone Aiola, Daniel T. Becker, Brian J. Koopman, James A. Beall, C. Sifon, Alessandro Schillaci, Jason E. Austermann, Lyman A. Page, Jeff McMahon, Sigurd Naess, Nicholas Battaglia, Matt Hilton, S. Amodeo, Renée Hložek, Gene C. Hilton, Alexander van Engelen, Steve K. Choi, J. Colin Hill, Richard J. Bond, Emily Moser, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Neelima Sehgal, Kirsten Hall, Rachel Bean, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Amanda MacInnis, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Kavilan Moodley, Amodeo, S, Battaglia, N, Schaan, E, Ferraro, S, Moser, E, Aiola, S, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Bean, R, Becker, D, Bond, R, Calabrese, E, Calafut, V, Choi, S, Denison, E, Devlin, M, Duff, S, Duivenvoorden, A, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Gallardo, P, Hall, K, Han, D, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Macinnis, A, Mcmahon, J, Madhavacheril, M, Moodley, K, Mroczkowski, T, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sifon, C, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Storer, E, Ullom, J, Vale, L, Van Engelen, A, Van Lanen, J, Vavagiakis, E, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, astro-ph.GA, Thermodynamics, FOS: Physical sciences, Bioengineering, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, CMB, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Virial theorem, Particle and Plasma Physics, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular, Radius, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Baryon, Amplitude, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Atacama Cosmology Telescope, astro-ph.CO, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ, kSZ) probe the thermodynamic properties of the circumgalactic and intracluster medium (CGM and ICM) of galaxies, groups, and clusters, since they are proportional, respectively, to the integrated electron pressure and momentum along the line-of-sight. We present constraints on the gas thermodynamics of CMASS galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) using new measurements of the kSZ and tSZ signals obtained in a companion paper. Combining kSZ and tSZ measurements, we measure within our model the amplitude of energy injection $\epsilon M_\star c^2$, where $M_\star$ is the stellar mass, to be $\epsilon=(40\pm9)\times10^{-6}$, and the amplitude of the non-thermal pressure profile to be $\alpha_{\rm Nth}, Comment: Corrected error in the algorithm that calculates the kSZ temperature profile for a given GNFW density model. The value of $\log_{\rm10} \rho_0$ changed by 0.75$\sigma$ in Tab.II and Fig.2, and affected the results in the left panels of Fig. 6. Conclusions are unchanged. Erratum published at https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.049903
Published: 2020
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26. Constraining Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature Evolution With Sunyaev–Zel’Dovich Galaxy Clusters from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Author: Matt Hilton, Sigurd Naess, Yilun Guan, Adam D. Hincks, Kavilan Moodley, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Tobias A. Marriage, Neelima Sehgal, Steve K. Choi, Elia S. Battistelli, Emmanuel Schaan, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, Vera Gluscevic, Alexander van Engelen, Mark J. Devlin, Jo Dunkley, Alessandro Schillaci, Yunyang Li, S. Amodeo, Renée Hlozek, J. Richard Bond, Federico Nati, Zhilei Xu, Suzanne T. Staggs, Edward J. Wollack, Jeff McMahon, John Orlowski-Scherer, C. Sifon, Erminia Calabrese, Maria Salatino, Bruce Partridge, Li, Y, Hincks, A, Amodeo, S, Battistelli, E, Bond, J, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Ferraro, S, Gluscevic, V, Guan, Y, Halpern, M, Hilton, M, Hlozek, R, Marriage, T, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Orlowski-Scherer, J, Page, L, Partridge, B, Salatino, M, Schaan, E, Schillaci, A, Sehgal, N, Sifon, C, Staggs, S, Van Engelen, A, Wollack, E, and Xu, Z
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmology, SZ Effect, Molecular, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Particle and Plasma Physics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Galaxy cluster, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) effect introduces a specific distortion of the blackbody spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation when it scatters off hot gas in clusters of galaxies. The frequency dependence of the distortion is only independent of the cluster redshift when the evolution of the CMB radiation is adiabatic. Using 370 clusters within the redshift range 0.07 ≲ z ≲ 1.4 from the largest SZ-selected cluster sample to date from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, we provide new constraints on the deviation of CMB temperature evolution from the standard model α = 0.017 − 0.032 + 0.029 , where T ( z ) = T 0 1 + z 1 − α . This result is consistent with no deviation from the standard adiabatic model. Combining it with previous, independent data sets we obtain a joint constraint of α = −0.001 ± 0.012. Attributing deviation from adiabaticity to the decay of dark energy, this result constrains its effective equation of state w eff = − 0.998 − 0.010 + 0.008 .
Published: 2021

27. The Simons Observatory Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Detector Module Design

Author: Shannon M. Duff, Sarah Marie Bruno, Kaiwen Zheng, Jason E. Austermann, Heather McCarrick, Suzanne T. Staggs, Zachary Atkins, Sara M. Simon, Michael D. Niemack, Megan Gralla, D. Dutcher, Johannes Hubmayr, John A. B. Mates, Bradley R. Johnson, Zachary B. Huber, Leila R. Vale, Nicholas F. Cothard, Jake Connors, A. M. Kofman, Steve K. Choi, Kam Arnold, Nicholas Galitzki, Tammy J. Lucas, Jeff Van Lanen, Kevin D. Crowley, Shawn W. Henderson, Aritoki Suzuki, Yuhan Wang, C. Yu, Edward D. Young, Simon Dicker, Edward J. Wollack, Akito Kusaka, Joel N. Ullom, Bradley Dober, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed, John Orlowski-Scherer, Adrian T. Lee, Jeffrey Iuliano, Cody J. Duell, Yaqiong Li, Joseph Seibert, Robert Thornton, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Josef Frisch, Ningfeng Zhu, Tomoki Terasaki, Zhilei Xu, Jack Lashner, Tanay Bhandarkar, James A. Beall, Michael J. Link, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Michael R. Vissers, Gene C. Hilton, Marius Lungu, and Jeff McMahon
Subjects: Physics, Squid, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), biology, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Multiplexing, Optics, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, biology.animal, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Microwave, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers tiled densely into ever larger focal planes. High multiplexing factors reduce the thermal loading on the cryogenic receivers and simplify their design. We present the design of focal-plane modules with an order of magnitude higher multiplexing factor than has previously been achieved with TES bolometers. We focus on the novel cold readout component, which employs microwave SQUID multiplexing ($��$mux). Simons Observatory will use 49 modules containing 60,000 bolometers to make exquisitely sensitive measurements of the CMB. We validate the focal-plane module design, presenting measurements of the readout component with and without a prototype detector array of 1728 polarization-sensitive bolometers coupled to feedhorns. The readout component achieves a $95\%$ yield and a 910 multiplexing factor. The median white noise of each readout channel is 65 $\mathrm{pA/\sqrt{Hz}}$. This impacts the projected SO mapping speed by $< 8\%$, which is less than is assumed in the sensitivity projections. The results validate the full functionality of the module. We discuss the measured performance in the context of SO science requirements, which are exceeded., Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2021

28. The Design of The CCAT-prime Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer Instrument

Author: Terry Herter, Johannes Hubmayr, Edward J. Wollack, Bugao Zou, Carlos Sierra, Thomas Nikola, Jeff McMahon, Steve K. Choi, Gordon J. Stacey, Cody J. Duell, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Michael D. Niemack, and Nicholas F. Cothard
Subjects: Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Dichroic glass, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Reionization, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Spectrometer, Bolometer, Intensity mapping, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Galaxy, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer (EoR-Spec) is an instrument module for the Prime-Cam receiver of the 6 m aperture CCAT-prime Telescope at 5600 m in Chile. EoR-Spec will perform 158 $\mu$m [CII] line intensity mapping of star-forming regions at redshifts between 3.5 and 8 (420 - 210 GHz), tracing the evolution of structure during early galaxy formation. At lower redshifts, EoR-Spec will observe galaxies near the period of peak star formation - when most stars in today's universe were formed. At higher redshifts, EoR-Spec will trace the late stages of reionization, the early stages of galaxy assembly, and the formation of large-scale, three-dimensional clustering of star-forming galaxies. To achieve its science goals, EoR-Spec will utilize CCAT-prime's exceptionally low water vapor site, large field of view ($\sim 5$ degrees at 210 GHz), and narrow beam widths ($\sim 1$ arcminute at 210 GHz). EoR-Spec will be outfitted with a cryogenic, metamaterial, silicon substrate-based Fabry-Perot Interferometer operating at a resolving power ($\lambda/\Delta\lambda$) of 100. Monolithic dichroic arrays of cryogenic, feedhorn-coupled transition edge sensor bolometers provide approximately 6000 detectors, which are read out using a frequency division multiplexing system based on microwave SQUIDs. The novel design allows the measurement of the [CII] line at two redshifts simultaneously using dichroic pixels and two orders of the Fabry-Perot. Here we present the design and science goals of EoR-Spec, with emphasis on the spectrometer, detector array, and readout designs., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors, submitted to the Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Published: 2019

29. Dust Polarization Maps from TIGRESS: E/B power asymmetry and TE correlation

Author: Raphael Flauger, Chang-Goo Kim, and Steve K. Choi
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Asymmetry, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common, Cosmic dust, Physics, Star formation, Turbulence, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Interstellar medium, Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Magnetohydrodynamics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the first large set of all-sky synthetic dust polarization maps derived directly from a self-consistent magnetohydrodynamics simulation using the TIGRESS framework. Turbulence in this simulation is predominantly driven by supernova explosions, with rates that are self-consistently regulated by feedback loops. The simulation covers both the outer scale and inertial range of turbulence with uniformly high resolution. The shearing-box utilized in the simulation in concert with resolved supernova-driven turbulence enables to capture the generation, growth, and saturation of both turbulent and mean magnetic fields. We construct polarization maps at 353 GHz as seen by observers inside a model of the multiphase, turbulent, magnetized interstellar medium (ISM). To fully sample the simulated ISM state, we use 350 snapshots spanning over ~350Myr (more than six feedback loops) and nine representative observers. The synthetic skies show a prevalent E/B power asymmetry (EE>BB) and positive TE correlation in broad agreement with observations by the Planck satellite. However, the ranges of EE/BB~1.4-1.7 and TE/(TT*EE)^{1/2}~0.2-0.3 are generally lower. We find large fluctuations of E/B asymmetry and TE correlation depending on the observer's position, and temporal fluctuations of interstellar medium properties due to bursts of star formation. The synthetic maps are made publicly available to provide novel models of the microwave sky., 16 pages, 9 figures, ApJ in press; all maps are available at http://tigress-web.princeton.edu/~changgoo/TIGRESS-dustpol-maps/index.html
Published: 2019

30. Measurement of the splashback feature around SZ-selected Galaxy clusters with DES, SPT, and ACT

Author: Ofer Lahav, J. Carretero, David Brooks, M. Smith, R. C. Smith, B. Flaugher, Risa H. Wechsler, J. Gschwend, Daniel Gruen, Marcelle Soares-Santos, A. E. Evrard, T. N. Varga, Marcos Lima, Lindsey Bleem, J. P. Dietrich, L. N. da Costa, T. M. Crawford, Laura Newburgh, Jeff McMahon, D. W. Gerdes, David J. James, M. E.C. Swanson, Edward J. Wollack, K. Honscheid, V. Scarpine, L. A. Page, J. C. Hill, Z. Zhang, Antony A. Stark, Pablo Fosalba, Michael D. Niemack, K. Bechtol, Eli S. Rykoff, Federico Nati, Chihway Chang, A. K. Romer, Sebastian Bocquet, Carlos E. Cunha, G. Gutierrez, Eric J. Baxter, Simone Aiola, M. A. G. Maia, George Stein, Suzanne T. Staggs, Jennifer L. Marshall, C. J. Miller, Nick Battaglia, Ramon Miquel, P. Doel, John E. Carlstrom, R. H. Schindler, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Tim Eifler, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Shantanu Desai, F. J. Castander, S. Patil, Zhilei Xu, Felipe Menanteau, Andrey V. Kravtsov, A. G. Kim, Steve K. Choi, Sigurd Naess, Loïc Maurin, Megan Gralla, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Thomas McClintock, Gregory Tarle, Nikhel Gupta, A. Carnero Rosell, Ben Hoyle, E. J. Sanchez, S. P. Ho, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Flavia Sobreira, Elisabeth Krause, B. Partridge, S. Adhikari, Tesla E. Jeltema, Christian L. Reichardt, Juan Garcia-Bellido, E. Bertin, Bradford Benson, J. DeRose, E. Suchyta, Eduardo Rozo, Matt Hilton, D. L. Hollowood, S. Serrano, D. L. Burke, A. van Engelen, J. De Vicente, Kyler Kuehn, S. Allam, Robert A. Gruendl, Daniel Thomas, E. Buckley-Geer, Jo Dunkley, Joseph J. Mohr, John P. Hughes, A. A. Plazas, W. G. Hartley, T. Shin, Bhuvnesh Jain, J. R. Bond, M. Carrasco Kind, David Rapetti, Enrique Gaztanaga, Hao-Yi Wu, Mark Brodwin, Shin, T, Adhikari, S, Baxter, E, Chang, C, Jain, B, Battaglia, N, Bleem, L, Bocquet, S, Derose, J, Gruen, D, Hilton, M, Kravtsov, A, Mcclintock, T, Rozo, E, Rykoff, E, Varga, T, Wechsler, R, Wu, H, Zhang, Z, Aiola, S, Allam, S, Bechtol, K, Benson, B, Bertin, E, Bond, J, Brodwin, M, Brooks, D, Buckley-Geer, E, Burke, D, Carlstrom, J, Rosell, A, Kind, M, Carretero, J, Castander, F, Choi, S, Cunha, C, Crawford, T, Da Costa, L, De Vicente, J, Desai, S, Devlin, M, Dietrich, J, Doel, P, Dunkley, J, Eifler, T, Evrard, A, Flaugher, B, Fosalba, P, Gallardo, P, Garcia-Bellido, J, Gaztanaga, E, Gerdes, D, Gralla, M, Gruendl, R, Gschwend, J, Gupta, N, Gutierrez, G, Hartley, W, Hill, J, Ho, S, Hollowood, D, Honscheid, K, Hoyle, B, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, James, D, Jeltema, T, Kim, A, Krause, E, Kuehn, K, Lahav, O, Lima, M, Madhavacheril, M, Maia, M, Marshall, J, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Menanteau, F, Miller, C, Miquel, R, Mohr, J, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Ogando, R, Page, L, Partridge, B, Patil, S, Plazas, A, Rapetti, D, Reichardt, C, Romer, A, Sanchez, E, Scarpine, V, Schindler, R, Serrano, S, Smith, M, Smith, R, Soares-Santos, M, Sobreira, F, Staggs, S, Stark, A, Stein, G, Suchyta, E, Swanson, M, Tarle, G, Thomas, D, Van Engelen, A, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, 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), DES, ACT, and SPT
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, clusters: general [Galaxies], 01 natural sciences, Cosmology: observation, Cosmology, 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, STFC, QB, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, RCUK, Galaxies: evolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, South Pole Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), cosmology: observations, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Halo, Galaxies: clusters: general, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a detection of the splashback feature around galaxy clusters selected using their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal. Recent measurements of the splashback feature around optically selected galaxy clusters have found that the splashback radius, $r_{\rm sp}$, is smaller than predicted by N-body simulations. A possible explanation for this discrepancy is that $r_{\rm sp}$ inferred from the observed radial distribution of galaxies is affected by selection effects related to the optical cluster-finding algorithms. We test this possibility by measuring the splashback feature in clusters selected via the SZ effect in data from the South Pole Telescope SZ survey and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter survey. The measurement is accomplished by correlating these clusters with galaxies detected in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data. The SZ observable used to select clusters in this analysis is expected to have a tighter correlation with halo mass and to be more immune to projection effects and aperture-induced biases than optically selected clusters. We find that the measured $r_{\rm sp}$ for SZ-selected clusters is consistent with the expectations from simulations, although the small number of SZ-selected clusters makes a precise comparison difficult. In agreement with previous work, when using optically selected redMaPPer clusters, $r_{\rm sp}$ is $\sim$ $2\sigma$ smaller than in the simulations. These results motivate detailed investigations of selection biases in optically selected cluster catalogs and exploration of the splashback feature around larger samples of SZ-selected clusters. Additionally, we investigate trends in the galaxy profile and splashback feature as a function of galaxy color, finding that blue galaxies have profiles close to a power law with no discernible splashback feature, which is consistent with them being on their first infall into the cluster., Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures, published in MNRAS
Published: 2019

31. Characterization of Transition Edge Sensors for the Simons Observatory

Author: Shannon M. Duff, Michael D. Niemack, Christopher Raum, Nicholas F. Cothard, Sara M. Simon, Gene C. Hilton, Jason E. Austermann, Steve K. Choi, Maria Salatino, Edward J. Wollack, Johannes Hubmayr, Zhilei Xu, Trevor Sasse, Mario Renzullo, Aashrita Mangu, Joel N. Ullom, Suzanne T. Staggs, Thuong D. Hoang, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Aamir Ali, John Vivalda, Benjamin Westbrook, Federico Nati, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Adrian T. Lee, Bradley Dober, Cody J. Duell, Kam Arnold, Daniel Yohannes, Michael R. Vissers, Samantha Walker, Aritoki Suzuki, Jason R. Stevens, Patrick Truitt, Stevens, J, Cothard, N, Vavagiakis, E, Ali, A, Arnold, K, Austermann, J, Choi, S, Dober, B, Duell, C, Duff, S, Hilton, G, Ho, S, Hoang, T, Hubmayr, J, Lee, A, Mangu, A, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Raum, C, Renzullo, M, Salatino, M, Sasse, T, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Suzuki, A, Truitt, P, Ullom, J, Vivalda, J, Vissers, M, Walker, S, Westbrook, B, Wollack, E, Xu, Z, and Yohannes, D
Subjects: Simons Observatory, Aperture, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Noise (electronics), 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Optics, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, Dilution refrigerator, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, SQUID, NIST, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, TES
Abstract: The Simons Observatory is building both large (6 m) and small (0.5 m) aperture telescopes in the Atacama desert in Chile to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with unprecedented sensitivity. Simons Observatory telescopes in total will use over 60,000 transition edge sensor (TES) detectors spanning center frequencies between 27 and 285 GHz and operating near 100 mK. TES devices have been fabricated for the Simons Observatory by NIST, Berkeley, and HYPRES/SeeQC corporation. Iterations of these devices have been tested cryogenically in order to inform the fabrication of further devices, which will culminate in the final TES designs to be deployed in the field. The detailed design specifications have been independently iterated at each fabrication facility for particular detector frequencies. We present test results for prototype devices, with emphasis on NIST high frequency detectors. A dilution refrigerator was used to achieve the required temperatures. Measurements were made both with 4-lead resistance measurements and with a time domain Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) multiplexer system. The SQUID readout measurements include analysis of current vs voltage (IV) curves at various temperatures, square wave bias step measurements, and detector noise measurements. Normal resistance, superconducting critical temperature, saturation power, thermal and natural time constants, and thermal properties of the devices are extracted from these measurements., Comment: 9 Pages, 5 figures, Low Temperature Detectors 19
Published: 2019
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32. Sensitivity of the Prime-Cam Instrument on the CCAT-prime Telescope

Author: Michael D. Niemack, Thomas Nikola, Nicholas F. Cothard, Dominik A. Riechers, Nicholas Battaglia, Samantha Walker, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Kayla Rossi, Cody J. Duell, Terry Herter, Johannes Hubmayr, Shannon M. Duff, Dongwoo Chung, Patricio A. Gallardo, Jason E. Austermann, Gordon J. Stacey, Jason R. Stevens, Michael R. Vissers, Kaustuv Basu, Steve K. Choi, Jiansong Gao, and Frank Bertoldi
Subjects: Milky Way, Cosmic microwave background, Polarimetry, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomical interferometer, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Reionization, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, First light, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: CCAT-prime is a new 6 m crossed Dragone telescope designed to characterize the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization and foregrounds, measure the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects of galaxy clusters, map the [CII] emission intensity from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), and monitor accretion luminosity over multi-year timescales of hundreds of protostars in the Milky Way. CCAT-prime will make observations from a 5,600 m altitude site on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The novel optical design of the telescope combined with high surface accuracy ($, Comment: Version accepted for publication by Journal of Low Temperature Physics; updates on FPI detectors, more details given on sensitivity calculations
Published: 2019
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33. The Simons Observatory: The Large Aperture Telescope (LAT)

Author: Nicholas Galitzki, Michael R. Vissers, Osamu Tajima, Kevin D. Crowley, Karen Perez Sarmiento, Edward J. Wollack, J. Richard Bond, C. Hervias-Caimapo, Simon Dicker, Frederick Matsuda, Shreya Sutariya, Michele Limon, Brian J. Koopman, Saianeesh K. Haridas, D. Kaneko, Andrea Zonca, Federico Nati, Zachary B. Huber, Zhilei Xu, Ningfeng Zhu, Tomoki Terasaki, A. M. Kofman, Robert Thornton, Gabriele Coppi, Samantha Walker, Peter A. R. Ade, Jack Lashner, Jeffrey Iuliano, Tanay Bhandarkar, Rita Sonka, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Zachary Whipps, Carole Tucker, Shunsuke Adachi, Michael J. Link, Grace E. Chesmore, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Bradley Dober, Mario Zannoni, Michael D. Niemack, Steve K. Choi, Tammy J. Lucas, Joel N. Ullom, Shannon M. Duff, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Nicholas F. Cothard, Emmanuel Schaan, Johannes Hubmayr, Kathleen Harrington, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Joseph E. Golec, Lucio Piccirillo, Heather McCarrick, Yuji Chinone, Grant Teply, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Jake Connors, J. A. Beall, and John Orlowski-Scherer
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, General Medicine, Large aperture, Radio spectrum, law.invention, Telescope, Sky, Observatory, law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Microwave, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, media_common
Abstract: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment to observe the microwave sky in six frequency bands from 30GHz to 290GHz. The Observatory -- at $\sim$5200m altitude -- comprises three Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) and one Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) at the Atacama Desert, Chile. This research note describes the design and current status of the LAT along with its future timeline., 4 pages, 1 figure
Published: 2021

34. The First Multichroic Polarimeter Array on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Characterization and Performance

Author: Christine G. Pappas, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Jeffrey L. Van Lanen, Maria Salatino, Shawn W. Henderson, Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Shannon M. Duff, Emily Grace, Sara M. Simon, Suzanne T. Staggs, Dan Becker, J. Austermann, Johannes Hubmayr, Patricio A. Gallardo, Prajwal Niraula, S. P. Ho, Matthew Hasselfield, Alessandro Schillaci, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Dale Li, Edward J. Wollack, Steve K. Choi, Gene C. Hilton, Jason R. Stevens, Federico Nati, Rahul Datta, Michael D. Niemack, Jonathan T. Ward, J. A. Beall, Ho, S, Pappas, C, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Becker, D, Choi, S, Datta, R, Duff, S, Gallardo, P, Grace, E, Hasselfield, M, Henderson, S, Hilton, G, Hubmayr, J, Koopman, B, Lanen, J, Li, D, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Niraula, P, Salatino, M, Schillaci, A, Schmitt, B, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Ward, J, Wollack, E, and Vavagiakis, E
Subjects: and Optic, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, SQUID, Dichroic glass, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, ACTPol, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Multichroic, Polarimeter, First light, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Atomic and Molecular Physic, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Materials Science (all), business, Transition edge sensor
Abstract: The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) is a polarization sensitive receiver for the 6-m Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and measures the small angular scale polarization anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The full focal plane is composed of three detector arrays, containing over 3000 transition edge sensors (TES detectors) in total. The first two detector arrays, observing at 146 GHz, were deployed in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The third and final array is composed of multichroic pixels sensitive to both 90 and 146 GHz and saw first light in February 2015. Fabricated at NIST, this dichroic array consists of 255 pixels, with a total of 1020 polarization sensitive bolometers and is coupled to the telescope with a monolithic array of broad-band silicon feedhorns. The detectors are read out using time-division SQUID multiplexing and cooled by a dilution refrigerator at 110 mK. We present an overview of the assembly and characterization of this multichroic array in the lab, and the initial detector performance in Chile. The detector array has a TES detector electrical yield of 85 %, a total array sensitivity of less than 10 $$\upmu $$ K $$\sqrt{\text {s}}$$ , and detector time constants and saturation powers suitable for ACT CMB observations.
Published: 2016

35. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-season ACTPol Extragalactic Point Sources and their Polarization properties

Author: Suzanne T. Staggs, Federico Nati, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Arthur Kosowsky, Rahul Datta, Kavilan Moodley, Eric R. Switzer, Jeff McMahon, Rolando Dünner, Heather Prince, Tobias A. Marriage, Gerrit S. Farren, Michael D. Niemack, Loïc Maurin, S. P. Ho, Megan Gralla, Thibaut Louis, Simone Aiola, Johannes Hubmayr, Matt Hilton, Steve K. Choi, Marius Lungu, Bruce Partridge, Mark Halpern, Lyman A. Page, Sigurd Naess, Adam D. Hincks, Matthew Hasselfield, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Joanna Dunkley, Edward J. Wollack, John P. Hughes, Carlos H. López-Caraballo, Datta, R, Aiola, S, Choi, S, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dunner, R, Gallardo, P, Gralla, M, Halpern, M, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Kosowsky, A, Lopez-Caraballo, C, Louis, T, Lungu, M, Marriage, T, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Moodley, K, Naess, S, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Prince, H, Staggs, S, Switzer, E, Wollack, E, Farren, G, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Techniques: polarimetric, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Catalogue, Cosmology: observation, Square kilometre array, surveys, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Survey, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, catalogues, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We report on measurements of the polarization of extragalactic sources at 148 GHz made during the first two seasons of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization (ACTPol) survey. The survey covered 680 deg2 of the sky on the celestial equator. Polarization measurements of 169 intensity-selected sources brighter than 30 mJy, that are predominantly active galactic nuclei, are presented. Above a total flux of 215 mJy where the noise bias removal in the polarization measurement is reliable, we detect 26 sources, 14 of which have a detection of linear polarization at greater than 3σ significance. The distribution of the fractional polarization as a function of total source intensity is analysed. Our result is consistent with the scenario that the fractional polarization of our measured radio source population is independent of total intensity down to the limits of our measurements and well described by a Gaussian distribution with a mean fractional polarization pm = 0.028 ± 0.005 and standard deviation $\sigma _{\mathrm{p_{m}}}$ = 0.054, truncated at p = 0. Extrapolating this model for the distribution of source polarization below the ACTPol detection threshold, we predict that one could get a clean measure of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the microwave background out to $\ell \approx 6000$ with 1 $\mu$K-arcminute maps over ${10\!{\ \rm \%}}$ of the sky from a future survey. We also study the spectral energy distribution of the total and polarized source flux densities by cross-matching with low radio frequency catalogues. We do not find any correlation between the spectral indices for total flux and polarized flux.
Published: 2018

36. Performance of the advanced ACTPol low frequency array

Author: Joel N. Ullom, Shannon M. Duff, Johannes Hubmayr, Patricio A. Gallardo, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Yaqiong Li, Edward J. Wollack, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Brian J. Koopman, Sarah Marie Bruno, Sara M. Simon, Jeff McMahon, Jason E. Austermann, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Suzanne T. Staggs, Maria Salatino, Steve K. Choi, Jonathan T. Ward, Jason R. Stevens, and Shawn W. Henderson
Subjects: Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Cosmic microwave background, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Synchrotron radiation, Polarimeter, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Low frequency, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, 010306 general physics, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) is an upgraded instrument for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, which uses transition-edge sensor (TES) detector arrays to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropies in multiple frequency bands. We review the integration and characterization of the final polarimeter array, which is the low frequency (LF) array, consisting of 292 TES bolometers observing in two bands centered at 27 GHz and 39 GHz. This array is sensitive to synchrotron radiation from our galaxy as well as to the CMB, and complements the AdvACT arrays operating at 90, 150 and 230 GHz to provide robust detection and removal of foreground contamination. We present detector parameters for the LF array measured in the lab, including saturation powers, critical temperatures, thermal conductivities, time constants and optical efficiencies, and their uniformity across the entire wafer.
Published: 2018

37. Feedhorn development and scalability for Simons Observatory and beyond

Author: Sara M. Simon, Ningfeng Zhu, Yaqiong Li, James A. Beall, Jeff McMahon, Kevin T. Crowley, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Marius Lungu, Joseph E. Golec, Charles A. Hill, Bradley Dober, Edward J. Wollack, Suzanne T. Staggs, Simon Dicker, Steve K. Choi, Jason E. Austermann, Sarah Marie Bruno, Maria Salatino, Zhilei Xu, Erin Healy, John Orlowski-Scherer, Johannes Hubmayr, Aamir Ali, Shannon M. Duff, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)
Subjects: cosmic microwave background, Fabrication, Simons Observatory, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, fabrication, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 02 engineering and technology, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Optics, Machining, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], spline-profiled, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), scalability, Leakage (electronics), feedhorn, Physics, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Polarization (waves), Laser, production, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, business
Abstract: International audience; The Simons Observatory (SO) will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in both temperature and polarization over a wide range of angular scales and frequencies from 27-270 GHz with unprecedented sensitivity. One technology for coupling light onto the ~50 detector wafers that SO will field is spline-profiled feedhorns, which offer tunability between coupling efficiency and control of beam polarization leakage effects. We will present efforts to scale up feedhorn production for SO and their viability for future CMB experiments, including direct-machining metal feedhorn arrays and laser machining stacked Si arrays.
Published: 2018

38. Advanced ACTPol TES Device Parameters and Noise Performance in Fielded Arrays

Author: Federico Nati, Brian J. Koopman, Michael D. Niemack, Johannes Hubmayr, Suzanne T. Staggs, Sara M. Simon, Maria Salatino, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Shannon M. Duff, Kevin T. Crowley, Edward J. Wollack, Steve K. Choi, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Patricio A. Gallardo, Jason E. Austermann, Jason R. Stevens, Joel N. Ullom, Crowley, K, Austermann, J, Choi, S, Duff, S, Gallardo, P, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Koopman, B, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Salatino, M, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Ullom, J, Vavagiakis, E, and Wollack, E
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Transition-edge sensor, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 010309 optics, Detector modeling, Optics, TES parameter, 0103 physical sciences, Noise performance, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Electrical impedance, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Spectral density, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Transition edge sensor, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Microwave, Noise (radio), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) features arrays of aluminum manganese transition-edge sensors (TESes) optimized for ground-based observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Array testing shows highly responsive detectors with anticipated in-band noise performance under optical loading. We report on TES parameters measured with impedance data taken on a subset of TESes. We then compare modeled noise spectral densities to measurements. We find excess noise at frequencies around 100 Hz, nearly outside of the signal band of CMB measurements. In addition, we describe full-array noise measurements in the laboratory and in the field for two new AdvACT mid-frequency arrays, sensitive at bands centered on 90 and 150 GHz, and data for the high-frequency array (150/230 GHz) as deployed., Comment: Accepted for publication in Journal of Low Temperature Physics for LTD-17 special issue
Published: 2018
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39. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The Two-season ACTPol Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Selected Cluster Catalog

Author: Kavilan Moodley, David N. Spergel, Rolando Dünner, Simone Aiola, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Federico Nati, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Laura Newburgh, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Sigurd Naess, Adam D. Hincks, Thibaut Louis, Loïc Maurin, Tobias A. Marriage, Matthew Hasselfield, Suzanne T. Staggs, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Bruce Partridge, S. P. Ho, Megan Gralla, Brian J. Koopman, Edward J. Wollack, Nicholas Battaglia, Jeff McMahon, J. Richard Bond, Joanna Dunkley, V. Bharadwaj, Lyman A. Page, Masamune Oguri, Michael D. Niemack, Rahul Datta, Devin Crichton, Steve K. Choi, Matt Hilton, Alexander van Engelen, John P. Hughes, Arthur Kosowsky, Hironao Miyatake, Johannes Hubmayr, Hy Trac, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Cristóbal Sifón, Jon Sievers, 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), ACT, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris ( IAP ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Hilton, M, Hasselfield, M, Sifón, C, Battaglia, N, Aiola, S, Bharadwaj, V, Bond, J, Choi, S, Crichton, D, Datta, R, Devlin, M, Dunkley, J, Dünner, R, Gallardo, P, Gralla, M, Hincks, A, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Louis, T, Madhavacheril, M, Marriage, T, Maurin, L, Mcmahon, J, Miyatake, H, Moodley, K, Næss, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Oguri, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Schmitt, B, Sievers, J, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Trac, H, Engelen, A, Vavagiakis, E, and Wollack, E
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Cosmic Microwave Background, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect, Cluster Catalog, cosmology: large-scale structure of universe, FOS: Physical sciences, Library science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Square kilometre array, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: clusters: general, cosmology: observations, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Christian ministry, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a catalog of 182 galaxy clusters detected through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in a contiguous 987.5 deg$^{2}$ field. The clusters were detected as SZ decrements by applying a matched filter to 148 GHz maps that combine the original ACT equatorial survey with data from the first two observing seasons using the ACTPol receiver. Optical/IR confirmation and redshift measurements come from a combination of large public surveys and our own follow-up observations. Where necessary, we measured photometric redshifts for clusters using a pipeline that achieves accuracy $��z/(1 + z)=0.015$ when tested on SDSS data. Under the assumption that clusters can be described by the so-called Universal Pressure Profile and its associated mass-scaling law, the full signal-to-noise > 4 sample spans the mass range $1.6 < M^{\rm UPP}_{\rm 500c}/10^{14}{\rm M}_{\odot} 4 \times 10^{14}$ M$_{\odot}$ is consistent with the number of such clusters found in the South Pole Telescope SZ survey., Accepted for publication in ApJS; 38 pages, 31 figures; a .fits table that combines tables A1-A3 is available from https://acru.ukzn.ac.za/~mjh/ACTPol_E-D56Catalog (and will be posted on LAMBDA soon)
Published: 2018

40. Results from the Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) Experiment

Author: Sara M. Simon, Norman Jarosik, Matthew Hasselfield, Steve K. Choi, S. P. Ho, K. W. Yoon, Gene C. Hilton, Gonzalo A. Palma, Kent D. Irwin, Michael R. Nolta, J. W. Appel, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Michael D. Niemack, Carl D. Reintsema, Jonathan Sievers, Akito Kusaka, Lucas Parker, Joseph W. Fowler, Suzanne T. Staggs, Luis E. Campusano, G. W. Nixon, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Katerina Visnjic, Patricio A. Gallardo, Lyman A. Page, and Srinivasan Raghunathan
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Electromagnetic radiation, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama B-Mode Search, Planck, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), media_common, Cosmic dust, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), 13. Climate action, Sky, symbols, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Right ascension, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) is an experiment designed to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization at large angular scales ($\ell>40$). It operated from the ACT site at 5190~m elevation in northern Chile at 145 GHz with a net sensitivity (NEQ) of 41 $��$K$\sqrt{\rm s}$. It employed an ambient-temperature sapphire half-wave plate rotating at 2.55 Hz to modulate the incident polarization signal and reduce systematic effects. We report here on the analysis of data from a 2400 deg$^2$ patch of sky centered at declination $-42^\circ$ and right ascension $25^\circ$. We perform a blind analysis. After unblinding, we find agreement with the Planck TE and EE measurements on the same region of sky. We marginally detect polarized dust emission and give an upper limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio of $r, 38 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2018
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41. Advanced ACTPol Low-Frequency Array: Readout and Characterization of Prototype 27 and 39 GHz Transition Edge Sensors

Author: Johannes Hubmayr, Federico Nati, Jason R. Stevens, Steve K. Choi, Patricio A. Gallardo, Sara M. Simon, Shannon M. Duff, Michael D. Niemack, Suzanne T. Staggs, Brian J. Koopman, Edward J. Wollack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Kevin T. Crowley, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Shawn W. Henderson, Koopman, B, Cothard, N, Choi, S, Crowley, K, Duff, S, Henderson, S, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Gallardo, P, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Vavagiakis, E, and Wollack, E
Subjects: Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Bolometer, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Low frequency, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Synchrotron, 010309 optics, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Polarimetry, Advanced ACTPol, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, business.industry, Gravitational wave, Spinning dust, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Transition edge sensor, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) is a third generation polarization upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, designed to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB). AdvACT expands on the 90 and 150 GHz transition edge sensor (TES) bolometer arrays of the ACT Polarimeter (ACTPol), adding both high frequency (HF, 150/230 GHz) and low frequency (LF, 27/39 GHz) multichroic arrays. The addition of the high and low frequency detectors allows for the characterization of synchrotron and spinning dust emission at the low frequencies and foreground emission from galactic dust and dusty star forming galaxies at the high frequencies. The increased spectral coverage of AdvACT will enable a wide range of CMB science, such as improving constraints on dark energy, the sum of the neutrino masses, and the existence of primordial gravitational waves. The LF array will be the final AdvACT array, replacing one of the MF arrays for a single season. Prior to the fabrication of the final LF detector array, we designed and characterized prototype TES bolometers. Detector geometries in these prototypes are varied in order to inform and optimize the bolometer designs for the LF array, which requires significantly lower noise levels and saturation powers (as low as ${\sim}1$ pW) than the higher frequency detectors. Here we present results from tests of the first LF prototype TES detectors for AdvACT, including measurements of the saturation power, critical temperature, thermal conductance and time constants. We also describe the modifications to the time-division SQUID readout architecture compared to the MF and HF arrays., 8 pages, 4 figures, conference proceedings submitted to Journal of Low Temperature Physics; revised Fig. 2, Table 1, and text in Sec. 2, 3, author list corrected
Published: 2018

42. Characterization of the Mid-Frequency Arrays for Advanced ACTPol

Author: Brian J. Koopman, Federico Nati, Sara M. Simon, Edward J. Wollack, Suzanne T. Staggs, Jason R. Stevens, Jason E. Austermann, Shannon M. Duff, Joel N. Ullom, Maria Salatino, Johannes Hubmayr, Patricio A. Gallardo, Yaqiong Li, Steve K. Choi, S. P. Ho, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Michael D. Niemack, Lyman A. Page, Rahul Datta, Choi, S, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Crowley, K, Datta, R, Duff, S, Gallardo, P, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Koopman, B, Li, Y, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Salatino, M, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Stevens, J, Ullom, J, and Wollack, E
Subjects: Transition-edge sensor, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Dichroic glass, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Advanced ACTPol, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Detector efficiency, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Bolometer, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Polarization (waves), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Transition edge sensor, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, Microwave
Abstract: The Advanced ACTPol upgrade on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope aims to improve the measurement of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies and polarization, using four new dichroic detector arrays fabricated on 150-mm silicon wafers. These bolometric cameras use AlMn transition-edge sensors, coupled to feedhorns with orthomode transducers for polarization sensitivity. The first deployed camera is sensitive to both 150 GHz and 230 GHz. Here we present the lab characterization of the thermal parameters and optical efficiencies for the two newest fielded arrays, each sensitive to both 90 GHz and 150 GHz. We provide assessments of the parameter uniformity across each array with evaluation of systematic uncertainties. Lastly, we show the arrays' initial performance in the field., Comment: Version accepted for publication by Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Published: 2017
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43. Non-Gaussianity of secondary anisotropies from ACTPol and Planck

Author: Suzanne T. Staggs, Nicholas Battaglia, William R. Coulton, Patricio A. Gallardo, David N. Spergel, Federico Nati, Lyman A. Page, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Bruce Partridge, Michael D. Niemack, Arthur Kosowsky, Mark J. Devlin, J. Colin Hill, Thibaut Louis, Alexander van Engelen, Sigurd Naess, Adam D. Hincks, Steve K. Choi, Edward J. Wollack, Loïc Maurin, Simone Aiola, John P. Hughes, Johannes Hubmayr, Blake D. Sherwin, Erminia Calabrese, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Coulton, W, Aiola, S, Battaglia, N, Calabrese, E, Choi, S, Devlin, M, Gallardo, P, Hill, J, Hincks, A, Hubmayr, J, Hughes, J, Kosowsky, A, Louis, T, Madhavacheril, M, Loic, M, Naess, S, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Page, L, Partridge, B, Sherwin, B, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Engelen, A, Wollack, E, and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Radio galaxy, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, symbols.namesake, Gravitational lens, Non-Gaussianity, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, symbols, non-gaussianity, Planck, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Bispectrum, Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Most secondary sources of cosmic microwave background anisotropy (radio sources, dusty galaxies -DSFGs-, thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich -tSZ- distortions from hot gas, and gravitational lensing) are highly non-Gaussian. Statistics beyond the power spectrum are therefore potentially important sources of information about the physics of these processes. We combine data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and with data from the Planck satellite (only using Planck data in the overlapping region) to constrain the amplitudes of a set of theoretical bispectrum templates from the tSZ effect, DSFGs, gravitational lensing, and radio galaxies. We make a strong detection of radio galaxies (>5$\sigma$) and have hints of non-Gaussianity arising from the tSZ effect, DSFGs, from cross-correlations between the tSZ effect and DSFGs and from cross-correlations among the tSZ effect, DSFGs and radio galaxies. These results suggest that the same halos host radio sources, DSFGs, and have tSZ signal. We present a new method to calculate the non-Gaussian contributions to the template covariances. Using this method we find significant non-Gaussian contributions to the variance and covariance of our templates, with templates involving the tSZ effect most effected. Strong degeneracies exist between the various sources at the current noise levels. In light of these degeneracies, combined with theoretical uncertainty in the templates, these results are a demonstration of this technique. With these caveats, we demonstrate the utility of future bispectrum measurements by using the tSZ bispectrum measurement to constrain a combination of the amplitude of matter fluctuations and the matter density to be $\sigma_8 \Omega_m^{0.17}=0.65^{+0.05}_{-0.06}$. Improvements in signal to noise from upcoming observations will enable the separation of bispectrum components and robust constraints on cosmological parameters., Comment: 33 pages, 12 figures, Accepted in JCAP. Abstract is abridged
Published: 2017
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44. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Spectra and Parameters

Author: Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Kavilan Moodley, Joanna Dunkley, Felipe Menanteau, David N. Spergel, Simon Muya Kasanda, Jesse Treu, Graeme E. Addison, J. Richard Bond, Shawn W. Henderson, Sara M. Simon, Simone Aiola, John P. Hughes, Matt Hilton, Joseph W. Britton, Alexander van Engelen, Tobias A. Marriage, Jonathan T. Ward, Robert Thornton, Michael R. Nolta, Christine G. Pappas, Rahul Datta, Peter A. R. Ade, Gene C. Hilton, Jeff Klein, Nicholas Battaglia, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Matthew Hasselfield, Arthur Kosowsky, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Devin Crichton, Charles Munson, Thibaut Louis, Zhiqi Huang, Erminia Calabrese, Kevin Coughlin, Francesco De Bernardis, Neelima Sehgal, Megan Gralla, Kent D. Irwin, Hsiao-Mei Cho, J. Colin Hill, Edward J. Wollack, Michael D. Niemack, Steve K. Choi, Loïc Maurin, Lyman A. Page, Suzanne T. Staggs, S. P. Patty Ho, Federico Nati, Mandana Amiri, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Emmanuel Schaan, Johannes Hubmayr, Eric R. Switzer, Elio Angile, Mark Halpern, Simone Ferraro, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Hy Trac, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, R. Allison, Simon Dicker, Sigurd Naess, Leopoldo Infante, Laura Newburgh, Dale Li, Adam D. Hincks, Carole Tucker, Bruce Partridge, Anna E. Fox, Jon Sievers, Renée Hlozek, E. Grace, Felipe Rojas, Rolando Dünner, John P. Nibarger, Marius Lungu, Carolina Núñez, Blake D. Sherwin, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris ( IAP ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), ACTPol, 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), Louis, T, Grace, E, Hasselfield, M, Lungu, M, Maurin, L, Addison, G, Ade, P, Aiola, S, Allison, R, Amiri, M, Angile, E, Battaglia, N, Beall, J, De Bernardis, F, Bond, J, Britton, J, Calabrese, E, Cho, H, Choi, S, Coughlin, K, Crichton, D, Crowley, K, Datta, R, Devlin, M, Dicker, S, Dunkley, J, Dünner, R, Ferraro, S, Fox, A, Gallardo, P, Gralla, M, Halpern, M, Henderson, S, Hill, J, Hilton, G, Hilton, M, Hincks, A, Hlozek, R, Patty Ho, S, Huang, Z, Hubmayr, J, Huffenberger, K, Hughes, J, Infante, L, Irwin, K, Kasanda, S, Klein, J, Koopman, B, Kosowsky, A, Li, D, Madhavacheril, M, Marriage, T, Mcmahon, J, Menanteau, F, Moodley, K, Munson, C, Naess, S, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Nibarger, J, Niemack, M, Nolta, M, Nuñez, C, Page, L, Pappas, C, Partridge, B, Rojas, F, Schaan, E, Schmitt, B, Sehgal, N, Sherwin, B, Sievers, J, Simon, S, Spergel, D, Staggs, S, Switzer, E, Thornton, R, Trac, H, Treu, J, Tucker, C, Engelen, A, Ward, J, and Wollack, E
Subjects: cosmological model, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Particle and Plasma Physics, CMBR experiments, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, media_common, QB, helium: primordial, Physics, Hubble constant, Celestial equator, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, cosmological parameters from CMBR, Planck temperature, CMB cold spot, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, symbols, astro-ph.CO, power spectrum: angular dependence, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, CMBR experiment, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, CMBR polarisation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), satellite: Planck, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Planck, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, beam: polarization, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, baryon: density, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, Sky, WMAP, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Hubble's law
Abstract: We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol). We analyze night-time data collected during 2013-14 using two detector arrays at 149 GHz, from 548 deg$^2$ of sky on the celestial equator. We use these spectra, and the spectra measured with the MBAC camera on ACT from 2008-10, in combination with Planck and WMAP data to estimate cosmological parameters from the temperature, polarization, and temperature-polarization cross-correlations. We find the new ACTPol data to be consistent with the LCDM model. The ACTPol temperature-polarization cross-spectrum now provides stronger constraints on multiple parameters than the ACTPol temperature spectrum, including the baryon density, the acoustic peak angular scale, and the derived Hubble constant. Adding the new data to planck temperature data tightens the limits on damping tail parameters, for example reducing the joint uncertainty on the number of neutrino species and the primordial helium fraction by 20%., 23 pages, 25 figures
Published: 2017

45. Systematic effects from an ambient-temperature, continuously rotating half-wave plate

Author: Lyman A. Page, J. W. Appel, Steve K. Choi, Sara M. Simon, Lucas Parker, Akito Kusaka, Katerina Visnjic, Srinivasan Raghunathan, N. Jarosik, Kevin T. Crowley, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Suzanne T. Staggs, and Thomas Essinger-Hileman
Subjects: Physics, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Waveplate, Computational physics, law.invention, Telescope, Dipole, 13. Climate action, law, 0103 physical sciences, Quadrupole, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Order of magnitude, Microwave, Leakage (electronics)
Abstract: We present an evaluation of systematic effects associated with a continuously-rotating, ambient-temperature half-wave plate (HWP) based on two seasons of data from the Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) experiment located in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The ABS experiment is a microwave telescope sensitive at 145 GHz. Here we present our in-field evaluation of celestial (CMB plus galactic foreground) temperature-to-polarization leakage. We decompose the leakage into scalar, dipole, and quadrupole leakage terms. We report a scalar leakage of ~0.01%, consistent with model expectations and an order of magnitude smaller than other CMB experiments have reported. No significant dipole or quadrupole terms are detected; we constrain each to be, 11 pages, 8 figures; revision to submitted version, Fig. 5 and Eqs. (14) and (15) corrected; added Fig. 9 and description, text revisions for clarification, Fig. 5 revised for better calibration, corrected labeling errors and plotting bugs in Fig. 3, 4, and Eq. (14) and (15)
Published: 2016

46. Assembly and integration process of the first high density detector array for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Author: Johannes Hubmayr, Maria Salatino, Patricio A. Gallardo, Suzanne T. Staggs, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Shannon M. Duff, Edward J. Wollack, Michael D. Niemack, Yaqiong Li, Steve K. Choi, Shuay Pwu Ho, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Gene C. Hilton, Alessandro Schillaci, Shawn W. Henderson, Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Sara M. Simon, Jonathan T. Ward, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Federico Nati, Li, Y, Choi, S, Ho, S, Crowley, K, Salatino, M, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Nati, F, Ward, J, Schmitt, B, Henderson, S, Koopman, B, Gallardo, P, Vavagiakis, E, Niemack, M, Mcmahon, J, Duff, S, Schillaci, A, Hubmayr, J, Hilton, G, Beall, J, and Wollack, E
Subjects: Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic microwave background, Condensed Matter Physic, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Optics, law, Cosmic Microwave Background, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic, Advanced ACTPol, Wafer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Electronic circuit, Physics, business.industry, Detector, Bolometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Optical and Magnetic Material, Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Polarization (waves), Applied Mathematic, Array packaging, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Transition edge sensor, business
Abstract: The Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) upgrade on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) consists of multichroic Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization anisotropies in multiple frequency bands. The first AdvACT detector array, sensitive to both 150 and 230 GHz, is fabricated on a 150 mm diameter wafer and read out with a completely different scheme compared to ACTPol. Approximately 2000 TES bolometers are packed into the wafer leading to both a much denser detector density and readout circuitry. The demonstration of the assembly and integration of the AdvACT arrays is important for the next generation CMB experiments, which will continue to increase the pixel number and density. We present the detailed assembly process of the first AdvACT detector array.
Published: 2016

47. Characterization of AlMn TES impedance, noise, and optical efficiency in the first 150 mm multichroic array for Advanced ACTPol

Author: Brian J. Koopman, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Matthew Hasselfield, Suzanne T. Staggs, J. Austermann, Patricio A. Gallardo, Edward J. Wollack, Maria Salatino, Shawn W. Henderson, Shannon M. Duff, S. P. Ho, Steve K. Choi, Jeffrey Kuan, Sara M. Simon, Michael D. Niemack, and Rahul Datta
Subjects: Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Cosmic microwave background, Bolometer, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Radio spectrum, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, Optics, Black body, law, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Optoelectronics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Black-body radiation, 010306 general physics, business
Abstract: The Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope features large arrays of multichroic pixels consisting of two orthogonal-polarization pairs of superconducting bolometers at two observing frequency bands. We present measurements of the detector properties and noise data in a subset of a fielded multichroic array of AlMn transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors. In this array, the distribution of critical temperature T(sub c) across detectors appears uniform at the percent level. The measured noise-equivalent power (NEP) distributions over approximately 1200 detectors are consistent with expectations. We find median NEPs of 4.0×10(exp −17) W/ √ Hz for low-band detectors and 6.2×10(exp −17) W/ √ Hz for high-band detectors under covered-window telescope test conditions with optical loading comparable to observing with precipitable water vapor approximately 0.5 mm. Lastly, we show the estimated detector optical efficiency, and demonstrate the ability to perform optical characterization over hundreds of detectors at once using a cryogenic blackbody source.
Published: 2016

48. Highly uniform 150 mm diameter multichroic polarimeter array deployed for CMB detection

Author: Rahul Datta, Johannes Hubmayr, Mark J. Devlin, Patricio A. Gallardo, Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Shawn W. Henderson, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Shannon M. Duff, Jonathan T. Ward, Edward J. Wollack, Joel N. Ullom, Sara M. Simon, Maria Salatino, Suzanne T. Staggs, Steve K. Choi, Matthew Hasselfield, Jason E. Austermann, Gene C. Hilton, Eve M. Vavagiakis, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, and Yaqiong Li
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Bolometer, Detector, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Polarimetry, Polarimeter, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, law.invention, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Transition edge sensor, 010306 general physics, business, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter is an upgraded receiver for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, which has begun making measurements of the small angular scale polarization anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background using the first of four new multichroic superconducting detector arrays. Here, we review all details of the optimization and characterization of this first array, which features 2012 AlMn transition edge sensor bolometers operating at 150 and 230 GHz. We present critical temperatures, thermal conductivities,saturation powers, time constants, and sensitivities for the array. The results show high uniformity across the 150 mm wafer and good performance in the field.
Published: 2016

49. The design and characterization of wideband spline-profiled feedhorns for Advanced ACTPol

Author: Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Laura Newburgh, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Sara M. Simon, Felicity B. Hills, Maria Salatino, Shannon M. Duff, Federico Nati, Michael D. Niemack, Alec Josaitis, Jason E. Austermann, Johannes Hubmayr, Steve K. Choi, Jonathan T. Ward, Patricio A. Gallardo, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Suzanne T. Staggs, James A. Beall, Alessandro Schillaci, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Shawn W. Henderson, Edward J. Wollack, Kevin Coughlin, Simon, S, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Choi, S, Coughlin, K, Duff, S, Gallardo, P, Henderson, S, Hills, F, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Josaitis, A, Koopman, B, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Newburgh, L, Niemack, M, Salatino, M, Schillaci, A, Schmitt, B, Staggs, S, Vavagiakis, E, Ward, J, and Wollack, E
Subjects: Spline-profiled, Cosmic microwave background, Condensed Matter Physic, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Radio spectrum, Optics, Polarization, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic, Advanced ACTPol, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wideband, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Pixel, business.industry, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Optical and Magnetic Material, Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Polarization (waves), Feedhorn, Applied Mathematic, Brightness temperature, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, business
Abstract: Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) is an upgraded camera for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) that will measure the cosmic microwave background in temperature and polarization over a wide range of angular scales and five frequency bands from 28-230 GHz. AdvACT will employ four arrays of feedhorn-coupled, polarization- sensitive multichroic detectors. To accommodate the higher pixel packing densities necessary to achieve Ad- vACT's sensitivity goals, we have developed and optimized wideband spline-profiled feedhorns for the AdvACT multichroic arrays that maximize coupling efficiency while carefully controlling polarization systematics. We present the design, fabrication, and testing of wideband spline-profiled feedhorns for the multichroic arrays of AdvACT.
Published: 2016

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

Author: Brian J. Koopman, Jeff McMahon, Federico Nati, C. P. Fitzgerald, Kent D. Irwin, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Shannon M. Duff, Maria Salatino, Mark Halpern, Yaqiong Li, Jonathan T. Ward, Shawn W. Henderson, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas F. Cothard, Gene C. Hilton, Jason R. Stevens, Matthew Hasselfield, Mandana Amiri, Dale Li, Carl D. Reintsema, Johannes Hubmayr, Jason E. Austermann, Patricio A. Gallardo, Suzanne T. Staggs, Saptarshi Chaudhuri, Benjamin L. Schmitt, Sara M. Simon, Steve K. Choi, Eve M. Vavagiakis, James A. Beall, Kevin T. Crowley, Alessandro Schillaci, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Henderson, S, Stevens, J, Amiri, M, Austermann, J, Beall, J, Chaudhuri, S, Cho, H, Choi, S, Cothard, N, Crowley, K, Duff, S, Fitzgerald, C, Gallardo, P, Halpern, M, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, G, Ho, S, Hubmayr, J, Irwin, K, Koopman, B, Li, D, Li, Y, Mcmahon, J, Nati, F, Niemack, M, Reintsema, C, Salatino, M, Schillaci, A, Schmitt, B, Simon, S, Staggs, S, Vavagiakis, E, and Ward, J
Subjects: Transition-Edge Sensors, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Multiplexing Factor, Condensed Matter Physic, 01 natural sciences, Multiplexing, law.invention, 010309 optics, Optics, law, Transition-Edge Sensor, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmic Microwave Background, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Computer Science::Information Theory, Physics, Pixel, business.industry, Applied Mathematics, Detector, Bolometer, Time-division SQUID Multiplexing, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Optical and Magnetic Material, Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Condensed Matter Physics, SQUID, Applied Mathematic, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, Transition edge sensor, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Advanced ACTPol is an instrument upgrade for the six-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization with arcminute-scale angular resolution. To achieve its science goals, Advanced ACTPol utilizes a larger readout multiplexing factor than any previous CMB experiment to measure detector arrays with approximately two thousand transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers in each 150 mm detector wafer. We present the implementation and testing of the Advanced ACTPol time-division multiplexing readout architecture with a 64-row multiplexing factor. This includes testing of individual multichroic detector pixels and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) multiplexing chips as well as testing and optimizing of the integrated readout electronics. In particular, we describe the new automated multiplexing SQUID tuning procedure developed to select and optimize the thousands of SQUID parameters required to readout each Advanced ACTPol array. The multichroic detector pixels in each array use separate channels for each polarization and each of the two frequencies, such that four TESes must be read out per pixel. Challenges addressed include doubling the number of detectors per multiplexed readout channel compared to ACTPol and optimizing the Nyquist inductance to minimize detector and SQUID noise aliasing., Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures. To be published in Proc. SPIE. Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Conference 9914: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, July 2016
Published: 2016
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