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Mark Halpern
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 560
Citations - 121832
Mark Halpern is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cosmic microwave background & Galaxy. The author has an hindex of 126, co-authored 546 publications receiving 114409 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Halpern include National Institute of Standards and Technology & Stanford University.
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Arcminute-resolution maps of 18 000 square degrees of the microwave sky from ACT 2008–2018 data combined with Planck
Sigurd Naess,Simone Aiola,Jason E. Austermann,Nick Battaglia,James A. Beall,Daniel T. Becker,Richard J. Bond,Erminia Calabrese,Steve K. Choi,Nicholas F. Cothard,Kevin T. Crowley,Omar Darwish,Rahul Datta,Edward V. Denison,Mark J. Devlin,Cody J. Duell,Shannon M. Duff,Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden,Jo Dunkley,Rolando Dünner,Anna E. Fox,Patricio A. Gallardo,Mark Halpern,Dongwon Han,Matthew Hasselfield,J. Colin Hill,Gene C. Hilton,Matt Hilton,Adam D. Hincks,Renée Hložek,Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho,Johannes Hubmayr,Kevin M. Huffenberger,John P. Hughes,Arthur Kosowsky,Thibaut Louis,Mathew S. Madhavacheril,Jeff McMahon,Kavilan Moodley,Federico Nati,John P. Nibarger,Michael D. Niemack,Lyman A. Page,Bruce Partridge,Maria Salatino,Emmanuel Schaan,Emmanuel Schaan,Alessandro Schillaci,Benjamin L. Schmitt,Blake D. Sherwin,Neelima Sehgal,Cristóbal Sifón,David N. Spergel,Suzanne T. Staggs,Jason R. Stevens,Emilie Storer,Joel N. Ullom,Leila R. Vale,Alexander van Engelen,Jeff Van Lanen,Eve M. Vavagiakis,Edward J. Wollack,Zhilei Xu +62 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a maximum likelihood algorithm for combining sky maps with disparate sky coverage, angular resolution and spatially varying anisotropic noise into a single map of the sky is presented.
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The BICEP2 CMB polarization experiment
R. W. Ogburn,Peter A. R. Ade,Randol W. Aikin,Mandana Amiri,S. J. Benton,James J. Bock,J. A. Bonetti,Justus A. Brevik,B. Burger,Charles D. Dowell,L. Duband,Jeffrey P. Filippini,Sunil Golwala,Mark Halpern,M. Hasselfield,Gene C. Hilton,Viktor Hristov,Kent D. Irwin,J. P. Kaufman,Brian Keating,John M Kovac,Chao-Lin Kuo,Andrew E. Lange,E. M. Leitch,Calvin B. Netterfield,H. T. Nguyen,Angiola Orlando,C. Pryke,Carl D. Reintsema,S. Richter,J. E. Ruhl,Marcus Runyan,C. D. Sheehy,C. D. Sheehy,Z. K. Staniszewski,S. Stokes,Rashmikant V. Sudiwala,Grant Teply,J. E. Tolan,A. D. Turner,P. Wilson,C. L. Wong +41 more
TL;DR: The Bicep2 telescope as mentioned in this paper was designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background on angular scales near 2-4 degrees, near the expected peak of the B-mode polarization signal induced by primordial gravitational waves from inflation.
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Design and performance of the SPIDER instrument
Marcus Runyan,Peter A. R. Ade,Mandana Amiri,S. J. Benton,R. Bihary,James J. Bock,John Bond,J. A. Bonetti,Sean Bryan,H. C. Chiang,Carlo R. Contaldi,B. P. Crill,Olivier Doré,D. O'Dea,Marzieh Farhang,Jeffrey P. Filippini,Laura M. Fissel,Natalie N. Gandilo,Sunil Golwala,Jon E. Gudmundsson,M. Hasselfield,Mark Halpern,Gene C. Hilton,Warren Holmes,Viktor Hristov,Kent D. Irwin,W. C. Jones,Chao-Lin Kuo,C. J. MacTavish,Peter Mason,T. A. Morford,T. E. Montroy,Calvin B. Netterfield,Alexandra S. Rahlin,Carl D. Reintsema,J. E. Ruhl,Matthew A. Schenker,Jamil A. Shariff,Juan D. Soler,Amy Trangsrud,R. S. Tucker,Carole Tucker,Anthony D. Turner +42 more
TL;DR: The SPIDER project as discussed by the authors is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarization imager that will map part of the sky at 90, 145, and 280 GHz with subdegree resolution and high sensitivity.
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Cosmological Parameters From Pre-Planck CMB Measurements: A 2017 Update
Erminia Calabrese,Renée Hložek,J. Richard Bond,Mark J. Devlin,Joanna Dunkley,Mark Halpern,Adam D. Hincks,Kent D. Irwin,Arthur Kosowsky,Kavilan Moodley,Laura Newburgh,Michael D. Niemack,Lyman A. Page,Blake D. Sherwin,Jonathan Sievers,David N. Spergel,David N. Spergel,Suzanne T. Staggs,Edward J. Wollack +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present cosmological constraints from the combination of the full mission nine-year WMAP release and small-scale temperature data from the pre-Planck Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and South Pole Telescope (SPT) generation of instruments.
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The Keck Array: A Multi Camera CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole
Z. K. Staniszewski,Randol W. Aikin,Mandana Amiri,S. J. Benton,Colin A. Bischoff,J. J. Bock,J. A. Bonetti,Justus A. Brevik,B. Burger,C. D. Dowell,L. Duband,Jeffrey P. Filippini,Sunil Golwala,Mark Halpern,M. Hasselfield,Gene C. Hilton,Viktor Hristov,Kent D. Irwin,John M Kovac,Chao-Lin Kuo,M. Lueker,T. Montroy,H. T. Nguyen,R. W. Ogburn,Roger O'Brient,Angiola Orlando,C. Pryke,C. Pryke,Carl D. Reintsema,J. E. Ruhl,R. Schwarz,C. D. Sheehy,C. D. Sheehy,S. Stokes,K. L. Thompson,Grant Teply,J. E. Tolan,A. D. Turner,Abigail G. Vieregg,P. Wilson,D. V. Wiebe,Chin Lin Wong +41 more
TL;DR: The Keck array as mentioned in this paper is a multi-camera CMB polarimeter with 256 polarization pairs of antenna-coupled transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers, which is used to search for the primordial B-mode polarization signal imprinted in the CMB.