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A Constraint on Primordial B-modes from the First Flight of the Spider Balloon-borne Telescope by Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bergman, A. S., Bihary, R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bonetti, J. A., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Doré, O., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fraisse, A. A., Freese, K., Galloway, M., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Ganga, K., Gualtieri, R., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hartley, J., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V. V., Huang, Z., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Karakci, A., Kuo, C. L., Kermish, Z. D., Leung, J. S.-Y., Li, S., Mak, D. S. Y., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., Nolta, M., O’Brient, R., Osherson, B., Padilla, I. L., Racine, B., Rahlin, A. S., Reintsema, C., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Ruud, T. M., Shariff, J. A., Shaw, E. C., Shiu, C., Soler, J. D., Song, X., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., van der List, J. F., Weber, A. C., Wehus, I. K., Wen, S., Wiebe, D. V., Young, E. Y.

“…Abstract We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of Spider , which is an experiment that is designed…”
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SPIDER: CMB Polarimetry from the Edge of Space by Gualtieri, R., Filippini, J. P., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bergman, A. S., Bihary, R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Doré, O., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Farhang, M., Fissel, L. M., Fraisse, A. A., Freese, K., Galloway, M., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Ganga, K., Gramillano, R. V., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hartley, J., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V. V., Huang, Z., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Kuo, C. L., Kermish, Z. D., Li, S., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., Nolta, M., Osherson, B., Padilla, I. L., Racine, B., Rahlin, A. S., Reintsema, C., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Ruud, T. M., Shariff, J. A., Soler, J. D., Song, X., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., List, J. F. van der, Weber, A. C., Wehus, I. K., Wiebe, D. V., Young, E. Y.

“…Spider is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky at large angular scales. Spider targets the B -mode signature…”
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A Simulation-based Method for Correcting Mode Coupling in CMB Angular Power Spectra by Leung, J. S.-Y., Hartley, J., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., Shariff, J. A., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bergman, A. S., Bihary, R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bonetti, J. A., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Doré, O., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fraisse, A. A., Freese, K., Galloway, M., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Ganga, K., Gualtieri, R., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V. V., Huang, Z., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Karakci, A., Kuo, C. L., Kermish, Z. D., Li, S., Mak, D. S. Y., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Nolta, M., O’Brient, R., Osherson, B., Padilla, I. L., Racine, B., Rahlin, A. S., Reintsema, C., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Ruud, T. M., Shaw, E. C., Shiu, C., Soler, J. D., Song, X., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., van der List, J. F., Weber, A. C., Wehus, I. K., Wen, S., Wiebe, D. V., Young, E. Y.

“…Abstract Modern cosmic microwave background (CMB) analysis pipelines regularly employ complex time-domain filters, beam models, masking, and other techniques…”
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280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the Spider-2 Suborbital Polarimeter by Bergman, A. S., Ade, P. A. R., Akers, S., Amiri, M., Austermann, J. A., Beall, J. A., Becker, D. T., Benton, S. J., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Domagalski, R. S, Doré, O., Duff, S. M., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fissel, L. M., Fraisse, A. A., Freese, K., Galloway, M., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Ganga, K., Grigorian, A., Gualtieri, R., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hartley, J., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V. V., Huang, Z., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Khan, A., Kuo, C. L., Kermish, Z. D., Li, S., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., Nolta, M., Osherson, B., Padilla, I. L., Racine, B., Rahlin, A. S., Redmond, S., Reintsema, C., Romualdez, L. J., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Ruud, T. M., Shariff, J. A., Shaw, E. C., Shiu, C., Soler, J. D., Song, X., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., Ullom, J., van der List, J. F., Van Lanen, J., Vissers, M. R., Weber, A. C., Wehus, I. K., Wen, S., Wiebe, D. V., Young, E. Y.

“…We describe the construction and characterization of the 280 GHz bolometric focal plane units (FPUs) to be deployed on the second flight of the balloon-borne…”
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The thermal design, characterization, and performance of the Spider long-duration balloon cryostat by Gudmundsson, J.E., Ade, P.A.R., Amiri, M., Benton, S.J., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Bryan, S.A., Chiang, H.C., Contaldi, C.R., Crill, B.P., Dore, O., Filippini, J.P., Fraisse, A.A., Gambrel, A., Gandilo, N.N., Hasselfield, M., Halpern, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V.V., Irwin, K.D., Jones, W.C., Kermish, Z., MacTavish, C.J., Mason, P.V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Montroy, T.E., Morford, T.A., Nagy, J.M., Netterfield, C.B., Rahlin, A.S., Reintsema, C.D., Ruhl, J.E., Runyan, M.C., Shariff, J.A., Soler, J.D., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R.S., Turner, A.D., Wiebe, D.V., Young, E.

“…•We describe the Spider flight cryostat.•We review the thermal design, characterization and performance of the cryostat.•The system performed successfully…”
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A New Limit on CMB Circular Polarization from SPIDER by Nagy, J. M., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bergman, A. S., Bihary, R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Doré, O., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fissel, L. M., Fraisse, A. A., Freese, K., Galloway, M., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Ganga, K., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hartley, J., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V. V., Huang, Z., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Kuo, C. L., Kermish, Z. D., Li, S., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Netterfield, C. B., Nolta, M., Padilla, I. L., Racine, B., Rahlin, A. S., Reintsema, C., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Ruud, T. M., Shariff, J. A., Soler, J. D., Song, X., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., List, J. F. Van Der, Weber, A. C., Wehus, I. K., Wiebe, D. V., Young, E. Y.

“…We present a new upper limit on cosmic microwave background (CMB) circular polarization from the 2015 flight of Spider, a balloon-borne telescope designed to…”
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In-Flight Gain Monitoring of SPIDER’s Transition-Edge Sensor Arrays by Filippini, J. P., Gambrel, A. E., Rahlin, A. S., Young, E. Y., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bergman, A. S., Bihary, R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bonetti, J. A., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Doré, O., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Farhang, M., Fraisse, A. A., Freese, K., Galloway, M., Gandilo, N. N., Ganga, K., Gualtieri, R., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hartley, J., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V. V., Huang, Z., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Karakci, A., Kuo, C. L., Kermish, Z. D., Leung, J. S.- Y., Li, S., Mak, D. S. Y., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., Nolta, M., O’Brient, R., Osherson, B., Padilla, I. L., Racine, B., Reintsema, C., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Ruud, T. M., Shariff, J. A., Shaw, E. C., Shiu, C., Soler, J. D., Song, X., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., List, J. F. van der, Weber, A. C., Wehus, I. K., Wen, S., Wiebe, D. V.

“…Experiments deploying large arrays of transition-edge sensors (TESs) often require a robust method to monitor gain variations with minimal loss of observing…”
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Particle Response of Antenna-Coupled TES Arrays: Results from SPIDER and the Laboratory by Osherson, B., Filippini, J. P., Fu, J., Gramillano, R. V., Gualtieri, R., Shaw, E. C., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Dore, O., Fraisse, A. A., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hartley, J. W., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V. V., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Kermish, Z. D., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B., Padilla, I. L., Rahlin, A. S., Reintsema, C., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Shariff, J. A., Soler, J. D., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., Weber, A. C., Wiebe, D. V., Young, E. Y.

“…Future mm-wave and sub-mm space missions will employ large arrays of multiplexed transition-edge-sensor (TES) bolometers. Such instruments must contend with…”
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Polarization Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager by Readhead, A. C. S., Myers, S. T., Pearson, T. J., J. L Sievers, Mason, B. S., Contaldi, C. R., Bond, J. R., Bustos, R., Altamirano, P., Achermann, C., Bronfman, L., Carlstrom, J. E., Cartwright, J. K., Casassus, S., Dickinson, C., Holzapfel, W. L., Kovac, J. M., Leitch, E. M., May, J., Padin, S., Pogosyan, D., Pospieszalski, M., Pryke, C., Reeves, R., Shepherd, M. C., Torres, S.

“…Polarization observations of the cosmic microwave background with the Cosmic Background Imager from September 2002 to May 2004 provide a significant detection…”
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The thermal design, characterization, and performance of the S pider long-duration balloon cryostat by Gudmundsson, J.E., Ade, P.A.R., Amiri, M., Benton, S.J., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Bryan, S.A., Chiang, H.C., Contaldi, C.R., Crill, B.P., Dore, O., Filippini, J.P., Fraisse, A.A., Gambrel, A., Gandilo, N.N., Hasselfield, M., Halpern, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V.V., Irwin, K.D., Jones, W.C., Kermish, Z., MacTavish, C.J., Mason, P.V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Montroy, T.E., Morford, T.A., Nagy, J.M., Netterfield, C.B., Rahlin, A.S., Reintsema, C.D., Ruhl, J.E., Runyan, M.C., Shariff, J.A., Soler, J.D., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R.S., Turner, A.D., Wiebe, D.V., Young, E.

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The BOOMERanG experiment and the curvature of the universe by Masi, S., De Bernardis, P., De Troia, G., Giacometti, M., Iacoangeli, A., Piacentini, F., Polenta, G., Ade, P.A.R., Mauskopf, P.D., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Contaldi, C.R., Pogosyan, D., Prunet, S., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Pascale, E., Coble, K., Farese, P., Montroy, T., Ruhl, J.E., Crill, B.P., Hristov, V.V., Jones, W.C., Lange, A.E., Mason, P., De Gasperis, G., Natoli, P., Ganga, K., Hivon, E., Vittorio, N., Jaffe, A.H., Martinis, L., Scaramuzzi, F., Melchiorri, A., Netterfield, C.B., Pongetti, F., Romeo, G.

“…We describe the BOOMERanG experiment and its main result, i.e. the measurement of the large scale curvature of the Universe. BOOMERanG is a balloon-borne…”
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Interferometric polarimetry of the cosmic microwave background: Methodology by Myers, S.T., Sievers, J.L., Bond, J.R., Contaldi, C.R., Mason, B.S., Pearson, T.J., Readhead, A.C.S.

“…Interferometry has long been used in radio astronomy to enable imaging of astronomical sources with angular resolutions exceeding the diffraction limit of a…”
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A MEASUREMENT OF THE ANGULAR POWER SPECTRUM OF THE CMB TEMPERATUREANISOTROPY FROM THE 2003 FLIGHT OF Boomerang by Jones, W.C., Ade, P.A.R., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Cabella, P., Contaldi, C.R., Crill, B.P., de Bernardis,P., De Gasperis, G., de Oliveira-Costa, A., De Troia, G., Di Stefano, G., Hivon, E., Jaffe, A.H., Kisner, T.S., Lange, A.E., MacTavish, C.J., Masi,S., Mauskopf, P.D., Melchiorri, A., Montroy, T.E., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C.B., Pascale, E., Piacentini, F., Pogosyan, D., Polenta,G., Prunet, S., Ricciardi, S., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J.E., Santini, P., Tegmark, M., Veneziani, M., Vittorio, N.

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A Bayesian Estimate of the Skewness of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Contaldi, C. R, Ferreira, P. G, Magueijo, J, Górski, K. M

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Observations of the temperature and polarization anisotropies with Boomerang 2003 by Jones, W.C., Ade, P.A.R., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Cabella, P., Contaldi, C.R., Crill, B.P., de Bernardis, P., De Gasperis, G., de Oliveira-Costa, A., De Troia, G., Di Stefano, G., Hivon, E., Jaffe, A.H., Kisner, T.S., Lange, A.E., MacTavish, C.J., Masi, S., Mauskopf, P.D., Melchiorri, A., Montroy, T.E., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C.B., Pascale, E., Piacentini, F., Pogosyan, D., Polenta, G., Prunet, S., Ricciardi, S., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J.E., Santini, P., Tegmark, M., Veneziani, M., Vittorio, N.

“…The Boomerang experiment completed its final long duration balloon (LDB) flight over Antarctica in January 2003. The focal plane was upgraded to accommodate…”
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Searching for non-Gaussian signals in the BOOMERanG 2003 CMB map: Preliminary results by De Troia, G., Ade, P.A.R., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Cabella, P., Contaldi, C.R., Crill, B.P., de Bernardis, P., de Gasperis, G., de Oliveira-Costa, A., Di Stefano, G., Ferreira, P.G., Hivon, E., Jaffe, A., Kisner, T., Kunz, M., Jones, W.C., Lange, A.E., Masi, S., Mauskopf, P.D., MacTavish, C., Melchiorri, A., Montroy, T., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C.B., Pascale, E., Piacentini, F., Pogosyan, D., Polenta, G., Prunet, S., Ricciardi, S., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J.E., Santini, P., Tegmark, M., Veneziani, M., Vittorio, N.

“…We analyse the 145 GHz temperature map produced from the 2003 flight of BOOMERanG in search for deviations from Gaussianity. We perform a pixel space analysis…”
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The millimeter sky as seen with BOOMERanG by Masi, S., Ade, P.A.R., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Cabella, P., Contaldi, C.R., Crill, B.P., de Bernardis, P., De Gasperis, G., De Oliveira-Costa, A., De Troia, G., Di Stefano, G., Ehlers, P., Hivon, E., Hristov, V., Iacoangeli, A., Jaffe, A.H., Jones, W.C., Kisner, T.S., Lange, A.E., MacTavish, C.J., Marini Bettolo, C., Mason, P., Mauskopf, P.D., Montroy, T.E., Nati, F., Nati, L., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C.B., Pascale, E., Piacentini, F., Pogosyan, D., Polenta, G., Prunet, S., Ricciardi, S., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J.E., Santini, P., Tegmark, M., Torbet, E., Veneziani, M., Vittorio, N.

“…BOOMERanG is a balloon-borne, mm-wave scanning telescope, which measured the first images of the CMB with sub-horizon resolution in 1998. In 2003 the…”
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CMB polarization with Boomerang 2003 by Piacentini, F., Ade, P.A.R., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Cabella, P., Contaldi, C.R., Crill, B.P., de Bernardis, P., De Gasperis, G., de Oliveira-Costa, A., De Troia, G., Di Stefano, G., Hivon, E., Jaffe, A.H., Kisner, T.S., Jones, W.C., Lange, A.E., Marini-Bettolo, C., Masi, S., Mauskopf, P.D., MacTavish, C.J., Melchiorri, A., Montroy, T.E., Nati, F., Nati, L., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C.B., Pascale, E., Pogosyan, D., Polenta, G., Prunet, S., Ricciardi, S., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J.E., Santini, P., Tegmark, M., Veneziani, M., Vittorio, N.

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Improved measurement of the angular power spectrum of temperatureanisotropy in the CMB from two new analyses of BOOMERANGobservations by Ruhl, J.E., Ade, P.A.R., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Contaldi, C.R., Crill, B.P., de Bernardis, P., de Troia,G., Ganga, K., Giacometti, M., Hivon, E., Hristov, V.V., Iacoangeli, A., Jaffe, A.H., Jones, W.C., Lange, A.E., Masi, S., Mason, P., Mauskopf,P.D., Melchiorri, A., Montroy, T., Netterfield, C.B., Pascale, E., Piacentini, F., Pogosyan, D., Polenta, G., Prunet, S., Romeo, G.

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CMB polarization with B oomerang 2003 by Piacentini, F., Ade, P.A.R., Bock, J.J., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Boscaleri, A., Cabella, P., Contaldi, C.R., Crill, B.P., de Bernardis, P., De Gasperis, G., de Oliveira-Costa, A., De Troia, G., Di Stefano, G., Hivon, E., Jaffe, A.H., Kisner, T.S., Jones, W.C., Lange, A.E., Marini-Bettolo, C., Masi, S., Mauskopf, P.D., MacTavish, C.J., Melchiorri, A., Montroy, T.E., Nati, F., Nati, L., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C.B., Pascale, E., Pogosyan, D., Polenta, G., Prunet, S., Ricciardi, S., Romeo, G., Ruhl, J.E., Santini, P., Tegmark, M., Veneziani, M., Vittorio, N.

“…This paper reports results from the B oomerang 2003 flights, devoted to the measurement of intensity and polarization of the cosmic microwave background…”
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