Ade, P. A. R. and Ahmed, Z. and Amiri, M. and Barkats, D. and Thakur, R. Basu and Bischoff, C. A. and Beck, D. and Bock, J. J. and Boenish, H. and Bullock, E. and Buza, V. and Cheshire, J. R., IV and Connors, J. and Cornelison, J. and Crumrine, M. and Cukierman, A. and Denison, E. V. and Dierickx, M. and Duband, L. and Eiben, M. and Fatigoni, S. and Filippini, J. P. and Fliescher, S. and Goeckner-Wald, N. and Goldfinger, D. C. and Grayson, J. and Grimes, P. and Hall, G. and Halal, G. and Halpern, M. and Hand, E. and Harrison, S. and Henderson, S. and Hildebrandt, S. R. and Hilton, G. C. and Hubmayr, J. and Hui, H. and Irwin, K. D. and Kang, J. and Karkare, K. S. and Karpel, E. and Kefeli, S. and Kernasovskiy, S. A. and Kovac, J. M. and Kuo, C. L. and Lau, K. and Leitch, E. M. and Lennox, A. and Megerian, K. G. and Minutolo, L. and Moncelsi, L. and Nakato, Y. and Namikawa, T. and Nguyen, H. T. and O’Brient, R. and Ogburn, R. W., IV and Palladino, S. and Prouve, T. and Pryke, C. and Racine, B. and Reintsema, C. D. and Richter, S. and Schillaci, A. and Schwarz, R. and Schmitt, B. L. and Sheehy, C. D. and Soliman, A. and St. Germaine, T. and Steinbach, B. and Sudiwala, R. V. and Teply, G. P. and Thompson, K. L. and Tolan, J. E. and Tucker, C. and Turner, A. D. and Umiltà, C. and Vergès, C. and Vieregg, A. G. and Wandui, A. and Weber, A. C. and Wiebe, D. V. and Willmert, J. and Wong, C. L. and Wu, W. L. K. and Yang, H. and Yoon, K. W. and Young, E. and Yu, C. and Zeng, L. and Zhang, C. and Zhang, S. (2022) Bicep/Keck XV: The Bicep3 Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter and the First Three-year Data Set. Astrophysical Journal, 927 (1). Art. No. 77. ISSN 0004-637X. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac4886. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20220307-188876000
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We report on the design and performance of the Bicep3 instrument and its first three-year data set collected from 2016 to 2018. Bicep3 is a 52 cm aperture refracting telescope designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales at 95 GHz. It started science observation at the South Pole in 2016 with 2400 antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor bolometers. The receiver first demonstrated new technologies such as large-diameter alumina optics, Zotefoam infrared filters, and flux-activated SQUIDs, allowing ∼10× higher optical throughput compared to the Keck design. Bicep3 achieved instrument noise equivalent temperatures of 9.2, 6.8, and 7.1 μK_(CMB) √s and reached Stokes Q and U map depths of 5.9, 4.4, and 4.4 μK arcmin in 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. The combined three-year data set achieved a polarization map depth of 2.8 μK arcmin over an effective area of 585 square degrees, which is the deepest CMB polarization map made to date at 95 GHz.
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| Additional Information: | © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 2021 September 30; revised 2021 December 22; accepted 2022 January 3; published 2022 March 7. Bicep/Keck has been made possible through a series of grants from the National Science Foundation including 0742818, 0742592, 1044978, 1110087, 1145172, 1145143, 1145248, 1639040, 1638957, 1638978, 1638970, and 1836010 and by the Keck Foundation. The construction of the Bicep3 receiver was supported by the Department of Energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. The development of antenna-coupled detector technology was supported by the JPL Research and Technology Development Fund and grant Nos. 06-ARPA206-0040 and 10-SAT10-0017 from the NASA APRA and SAT programs. The development and testing of focal planes were supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation at Caltech. Readout electronics were supported by a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant to UBC. The computations in this paper were run on the Cannon cluster supported by the FAS Science Division Research Computing Group at Harvard University. We thank the staff of the U.S. Antarctic Program and in particular the South Pole Station without whose help this research would not have been possible. Most special thanks go to our heroic winter-overs Sam Harrison, Hans Boenish, Grantland Hall, Ta-Lee Shue, Paula Crock, and Calvin Tsai. We thank all those who have contributed past efforts to the Bicep/Keck series of experiments, including the Bicep1 team. We would also like to thank Jonathon Hunacek at JPL/Caltech for exchange of information regarding detector readout and laboratory housekeeping design, and Aritoki Suzuki, Oliver Jeong, Yuki Inoue, and Tomotake Matsumura at Berkeley and in Japan for discussions regarding alumina optics and AR coatings. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | Cosmic microwave background radiation; Polarimeters; Gravitational waves; Cosmic inflation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Classification Code: | Unified Astronomy Thesaurus concepts: Cosmic microwave background radiation (322); Polarimeters (1277); Gravitational waves (678); Cosmic inflation (319) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4886 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Official Citation: | P. A. R. Ade et al 2022 ApJ 927 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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