Conveners
Thursday P2
- Federico Nati (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Thursday P2
- Nabila Aghanim (Institut d'Astropysique Spatiale)
Cosmic Microwave Background experiments need to measure instrumental systematics very accurately to achieve their scientific goals. As a result of that, it is necessary to properly characterize these telescopes. However, natural sources cannot be used to calibrate all the properties of the instrument but we need to complement these with artificial sources. For this reason, we developed the...
Kinetic inductance detectors carry the promise of a truly scalable detector solution, providing a practical path to filling the large and densely populated focal planes envisioned for future far-infrared and millimeter-wave instruments. At the same time, this detector technology shows promise in meeting the ambitious sensitivity and dynamic range specifications required to achieve the next...
The Q\&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is the first bolometric interferometer to measure the primordial B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
Bolometric interferometry is a novel technique that combines the sensitivity of bolometric detectors with the control of systematic effects that is typical of interferometry, which are both key features in...
TolTEC is a polarization-sensitive camera at millimeter wavelengths with unprecedented sensitivity at 5-11 arcsecond resolution in three photometric bands. TolTEC achieved first-light on the 50 meter Large Millimeter Telescope in July 2022 just prior to a planned summer telescope maintenance shutdown, and began commissioning observations when the telescope resumed observations in December...
The thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect refers to a spectral distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) due to the inverse-Compton scattering of CMB photons off free, energetic electrons present in the Universe. It is primarily sourced by the electrons in the intracluster medium with smaller contributions from the intergalactic medium and the epoch of reionization. The amplitude of its...
The measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background spectrum made by COBE/FIRAS in the 1990s showed that the CMB spectral energy distribution is close to a perfect blackbody. However, the CMB spectrum contains tiny departures from a perfect blackbody to $\Delta I/I \simeq 10^{-5}$, referred to as spectral distortions. CMB spectral distortions encode information about the full thermal history of...
In the quest for the faint primordial B-modes of the Cosmic Microwave
Background, three are the key features for any present or future experiment: an utmost sensitivity, excellent control over instrumental systematic effects and over Galactic foreground contamination.
Bolometric Interferometry (BI) is a novel technique that matches them all by combining the sensitivity from bolometric...
