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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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BLASTbus electronics: general-purpose readout and control for balloon-borne experiments
S. J. Benton,Peter A. R. Ade,Mandana Amiri,Francesco E. Angilè,James J. Bock,James J. Bock,J. R. Bond,Sean Bryan,H. C. Chiang,Carlo R. Contaldi,B. P. Crill,B. P. Crill,Mark J. Devlin,B. Dober,O. Doré,O. Doré,Marzieh Farhang,Jeffrey P. Filippini,L. M. Fissel,L. M. Fissel,Aurelien A. Fraisse,Yasuo Fukui,Nicholas Galitzki,A. E. Gambrel,Natalie N. Gandilo,Sunil Golwala,Jon E. Gudmundsson,Mark Halpern,Mark Halpern,M. Hasselfield,Gene C. Hilton,Warren Holmes,Viktor Hristov,Kent D. Irwin,Kent D. Irwin,W. C. Jones,Zigmund Kermish,Jacob Klein,A. L. Korotkov,Chao-Lin Kuo,C. J. MacTavish,Peter Mason,Tristan G. Matthews,K. G. Megerian,Lorenzo Moncelsi,T. A. Morford,Tony Mroczkowski,Johanna Nagy,Calvin B. Netterfield,Calvin B. Netterfield,Giles Novak,David John Nutter,Roger O'Brient,Roger O'Brient,R. W. Ogburn,Enzo Pascale,Frédérick Poidevin,Alexandra S. Rahlin,Carl D. Reintsema,J. E. Ruhl,M. C. Runyan,Giorgio Savini,Douglas Scott,Jamil A. Shariff,Juan D. Soler,Juan D. Soler,Nicholas Thomas,A. Trangsrud,Matthew D. P. Truch,Carole Tucker,Gregory S. Tucker,R. S. Tucker,A. D. Turner,Derek Ward-Thompson,Derek Ward-Thompson,A. C. Weber,D. V. Wiebe,E. Y. Young +77 more
TL;DR: The second generation BLASTbus as mentioned in this paper uses a flexible motherboard-daughterboard architecture for balloon-borne telescopes, with a digital signal processor (DSP) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) as well as slots for three daughterboards.
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Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER
Johannes Hubmayr,Jason E. Austermann,James A. Beall,Daniel T. Becker,Steven J. Benton,A. Stevie Bergman,J. Richard Bond,Sean Bryan,Shannon M. Duff,Adri Duivenvoorden,H. K. Eriksen,Jeffrey P. Filippini,Aurelien A. Fraisse,M. Galloway,A. E. Gambrel,K. Ganga,Arpi Grigorian,R. Gualtieri,Jon E. Gudmundsson,J. Hartley,Mark Halpern,Gene C. Hilton,W. C. Jones,Jeff McMahon,Lorenzo Moncelsi,Johanna Nagy,Calvin B. Netterfield,B. Osherson,Ivan L. Padilla,Alexandra S. Rahlin,B. Racine,J. E. Ruhl,T. M. Ruud,Jamil A. Shariff,Juan D. Soler,X. Song,Joel N. Ullom,Jeff Van Lanen,Michael R. Vissers,Ingunn Kathrine Wehus,Shyang Wen,D. V. Wiebe,E. Y. Young +42 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER, which is capable of polarimetric sensing via waveguide probe-coupling to a multiplexed array of transition-edge-sensor (TES) bolometers.
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BICEP2/SPUD: searching for inflation with degree scale polarimetry from the South Pole
Hien Nguyen,John M Kovac,Peter A. R. Ade,Randol W. Aikin,S. J. Benton,James J. Bock,Justus A. Brevik,John E. Carlstrom,Darren Dowell,Lionel Duband,S. R. Golwala,Mark Halpern,Matthew Hasslefield,Kent D. Irwin,W. C. Jones,J. P. Kaufman,Brian Keating,Chao-Lin Kuo,Andrew E. Lange,Tomotake Matsumura,Barth Netterfield,C. Pryke,J. E. Ruhl,Chris Sheehy,R. V. Sudiwala +24 more
TL;DR: BICEP2/SPUD as mentioned in this paper is the new powerful upgrade of the existing BICEP1 experiment, a bolometric receiver to study the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which has been in operation at the South Pole since January 2006.
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BICEP2 / Keck Array VII: Matrix based E/B Separation applied to BICEP2 and the Keck Array
Keck Array,Bicep Collaborations,Peter A. R. Ade,Z. Ahmed,Randol W. Aikin,Kate D. Alexander,D. Barkats,Steven J. Benton,Colin A. Bischoff,James J. Bock,R. Bowens-Rubin,Justus A. Brevik,I. Buder,E. Bullock,Victor Buza,Jake Connors,B. P. Crill,L. Duband,Cora Dvorkin,Jeffrey P. Filippini,S. Fliescher,J. A. Grayson,Mark Halpern,Sarah M. Harrison,S. R. Hildebrandt,Gene C. Hilton,Howard Hui,Kent D. Irwin,J. Kang,Kirit Karkare,E. Karpel,J. P. Kaufman,Brian Keating,S. Kefeli,S. A. Kernasovskiy,John M Kovac,Chao-Lin Kuo,E. M. Leitch,M. Lueker,K. G. Megerian,T. Namikawa,Calvin B. Netterfield,H. T. Nguyen,Roger O'Brient,Angelo Orlando,C. Pryke,Stefan Richter,R. Schwarz,C. D. Sheehy,Z. Staniszewski,Bryan Steinbach,R. V. Sudiwala,Grant Teply,K. L. Thompson,J. E. Tolan,Carole Tucker,A. D. Turner,Abigail G. Vieregg,A. C. Weber,Donald V. Wiebe,J. Willmert,C. L. Wong,W. L. K. Wu,K. W. Yoon +63 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a spin-2 spherical harmonics-based decomposition of a linear polarization field on the sphere was proposed to decompose an incomplete map into E and B-mode components using the pixel covariance in the observed map.
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Multiplexed readout of CMB polarimeters
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe both the cryogenic components and the present-generation warm readout electronics, consider the benefits and challenges of each option, and analyze their technology readiness level and needed additional investments.