TY - GEN
T1 - GroundBIRD
T2 - Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI
AU - Oguri, Shugo
AU - Choi, Jihoon
AU - Damayanthi, Thushara
AU - Hattori, Makoto
AU - Hazumi, Masashi
AU - Ishitsuka, Hikaru
AU - Kiuchi, Kenji
AU - Koyano, Ryo
AU - Kutsuma, Hiroki
AU - Lee, Kyungmin
AU - Mima, Satoru
AU - Minowa, Makoto
AU - Nagai, Makoto
AU - Nagasaki, Taketo
AU - Otani, Chiko
AU - Sekimoto, Yutaro
AU - Semoto, Munehisa
AU - Suzuki, Jun'ya
AU - Taino, Tohru
AU - Tajima, Osamu
AU - Tomita, Nozomu
AU - Won, Eunil
AU - Uchida, Tomohisa
AU - Yoshida, Mitsuhiro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Polarized patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation contains rich knowledge for early stage of the universe. In particular their odd-parity patterns at large angular scale (> 1), primordial B-modes, are smoking-gun evidence for the cosmic inflation. The GroundBIRD experiment aims to detect these B-modes with a ground-based apparatus that includes several novel devices: A high-speed rotational scan system, cold optics, and microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). We plan to start observations in the Canary Islands in 2017. In this paper, we present the status of the development of our instruments. We established an environment that allows operation of our MKIDs in an optical configuration, in which the MKIDs observe radiations from the outside of the telescope aperture. We have also constructed MKID prototypes, and we are testing them in the optical configuration.
AB - Polarized patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation contains rich knowledge for early stage of the universe. In particular their odd-parity patterns at large angular scale (> 1), primordial B-modes, are smoking-gun evidence for the cosmic inflation. The GroundBIRD experiment aims to detect these B-modes with a ground-based apparatus that includes several novel devices: A high-speed rotational scan system, cold optics, and microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). We plan to start observations in the Canary Islands in 2017. In this paper, we present the status of the development of our instruments. We established an environment that allows operation of our MKIDs in an optical configuration, in which the MKIDs observe radiations from the outside of the telescope aperture. We have also constructed MKID prototypes, and we are testing them in the optical configuration.
KW - Cosmic microwave background
KW - Microwave kinetic inductance detector
KW - Polarization
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2231672
DO - 10.1117/12.2231672
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85000899963
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI
A2 - Marshall, Heather K.
A2 - Hall, Helen J.
A2 - Gilmozzi, Roberto
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 1 July 2016
ER -