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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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Fabrication of prototype imaging arrays for SCUBA-2
Gene C. Hilton,J. A. Beall,William B. Doriese,William Duncan,L. Ferreira,Kent D. Irwin,Carl D. Reintsema,Joel N. Ullom,Leila R. Vale,Y. Xu,Barry L. Zink,William Parkes,Andrew Bunting,Camelia Dunare,Alan M. Gundlach,J.T.M. Stevenson,Anthony J. Walton,Eric F Schulte,E. Corrales,J.P. Sienicki,Dan Bintley,Peter A. R. Ade,R. V. Sudiwala,Adam Woodcraft,Mark Halpern,Wayne S. Holland,Michael D. Audley,M. J. MacIntosh +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a prototype image subarray for SCUBA-2 (the Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array) has been fabricated and tested and the pixel count (1280) of these wafer-scale imagers is significantly larger than any other low-temperature detectors produced to date.
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The Cℓover experiment
Lucio Piccirillo,Peter A. R. Ade,Michael D. Audley,C. Baines,Richard A. Battye,Michael L. Brown,P. G. Calisse,Anthony Challinor,William Duncan,Pedro G. Ferreira,Walter Kieran Gear,Dorota Glowacka,David J. Goldie,Paul K. Grimes,Mark Halpern,Victor Haynes,Gene C. Hilton,Kent D. Irwin,Bradley R. Johnson,M. Jones,Anthony Lasenby,P. Leahy,Jamie Leech,S. Lewis,Bruno Maffei,L. Martinis,Philip Daniel Mauskopf,Simon J. Melhuish,C. North,D. O'Dea,Stephen M. Parsley,Giampaolo Pisano,Carl D. Reintsema,Giorgio Savini,Rashmikant V. Sudiwala,D. Sutton,Angela C. Taylor,G. Teleberg,David Titterington,V. Tsaneva,Carole Tucker,Robert A. Watson,Stafford Withington,Ghassan Yassin,Jin Zhang +44 more
TL;DR: ClOVER as discussed by the authors is a multi-frequency experiment optimized to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization, in particular the B-mode component, which is sensitive to gravitational waves down to r ~ 0.03.
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Design and pre-flight performance of SPIDER 280 GHz receivers
E. C. Shaw,P. A. R. Ade,S. Akers,Mandana Amiri,Jason E. Austermann,J. A. Beall,Dan Becker,Steven J. Benton,A. S. Bergman,J. J. Bock,J. J. Bock,J. R. Bond,Sean Bryan,H. C. Chiang,Carlo R. Contaldi,R. S. Domagalski,O. Doré,O. Doré,Shannon M. Duff,Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden,H. K. Eriksen,Marzieh Farhang,Jeffrey P. Filippini,L. M. Fissel,Aurelien A. Fraisse,Katherine Freese,Katherine Freese,M. Galloway,A. E. Gambrel,N. N. Gandilo,K. Ganga,Arpi Grigorian,R. Gualtieri,Jon E. Gudmundsson,Mark Halpern,J. Hartley,Matthew Hasselfield,Gene C. Hilton,Warren Holmes,Viktor Hristov,Zhi-Feng Huang,Johannes Hubmayr,Kent D. Irwin,W. C. Jones,Antoine Kahn,C. L. Kuo,Zigmund Kermish,A. Lennox,J. S.-Y. Leung,S. Li,Peter Mason,K. G. Megerian,L. M. Mocanu,Lorenzo Moncelsi,T. A. Morford,J. M. Nagy,R. Nie,M. R. Nolta,Calvin B. Netterfield,B. Osherson,I. L. Padilla,Alexandra S. Rahlin,Susan Redmond,Carl D. Reintsema,M. C. Runyan,L. J. Romualdez,J. E. Ruhl,Jamil A. Shariff,C. Shiu,Juan D. Soler,X. Song,Amy Trangsrud,Amy Trangsrud,H. Thommesen,C. Tucker,R. S. Tucker,A. D. Turner,Joel N. Ullom,J. F. van der List,J. Van Lanen,Michael R. Vissers,A. C. Weber,Shyang Wen,Ingunn Kathrine Wehus,D. V. Wiebe,E. Young +85 more
TL;DR: This work describes upgrades to the Spider balloon-borne telescope in preparation for its second flight, currently planned for December 2021, and discusses the design and characterization of these new receivers, which employ over 1500 feedhorn-coupled transition-edge sensors.
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Polarization calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole
J. Cornelison,P. A. R. Ade,Zeeshan Ahmed,Mandana Amiri,Denis Barkats,R. Basu Thakur,Colin A. Bischoff,J. J. Bock,J. J. Bock,H. Boenish,E. Bullock,Victor Buza,J. R. Cheshire,J. Connors,M. Crumrine,A. Cukierman,E. V. Denison,Marion Dierickx,L. Duband,M. Eiben,S. Fatigoni,Jeffrey P. Filippini,S. Fliescher,Neil Goeckner-Wald,D. C. Goldfinger,J. A. Grayson,Paul K. Grimes,G. Hall,G. Halal,Mark Halpern,Sarah M. Harrison,S. Henderson,S. R. Hildebrandt,S. R. Hildebrandt,Gene C. Hilton,J. Hubmayr,H. Hui,Kent D. Irwin,Kent D. Irwin,J. Kang,Kirit Karkare,E. Karpel,E. Karpel,S. Kefeli,S. A. Kernasovkiy,John M Kovac,Chao-Lin Kuo,Kei May Lau,E. M. Leitch,K. G. Megerian,L. Minutolo,Lorenzo Moncelsi,Y. Nakato,Toshiya Namikawa,H. T. Nguyen,H. T. Nguyen,Roger O'Brient,Roger O'Brient,R. W. Ogburn,S. Palladino,N. Precup,T. Prouve,C. Pryke,B. Racine,C. D. Reintsema,Stefan Richter,A. Schillaci,B. L. Schmitt,R. Schwarz,C. D. Sheehy,C. D. Sheehy,Ahmed Soliman,T. St. Germaine,T. St. Germaine,Bryan Steinbach,R. V. Sudiwala,G. P. Teply,K. L. Thompson,J. E. Tolan,C. Tucker,A. D. Turner,C. Umilta,Abigail G. Vieregg,A. Wandui,A. C. Weber,D. V. Wiebe,J. Willmert,C. L. Wong,W. L. K. Wu,E. Yang,K. W. Yoon,E. Young,C. Yu,Lingzhen Zeng,Chao Zhang,S. Zhang +95 more
TL;DR: The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter as discussed by the authors is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
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BICEP / Keck XIII: Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season.
Bicep,P. A. R. Ade,Z. Ahmed,M. Amiri,Denis Barkats,R. Basu Thakur,D. Beck,C. Bischoff,C. Bischoff,J. J. Bock,H. Boenish,E. Bullock,Victor Buza,J. R. Cheshire,Jake Connors,J. Cornelison,M. Crumrine,A. Cukierman,E. V. Denison,Marion Dierickx,L. Duband,M. Eiben,S. Fatigoni,Jeffrey P. Filippini,S. Fliescher,N. Goeckner-Wald,D. C. Goldfinger,J. Grayson,P. Grimes,G. Halal,G. Hall,Mark Halpern,E. Hand,Sarah M. Harrison,S. Henderson,S. Henderson,S. R. Hildebrandt,Gene C. Hilton,J. Hubmayr,H. Hui,H. Hui,Kent D. Irwin,Kent D. Irwin,J. Kang,J. Kang,K. S. Karkare,E. Karpel,S. Kefeli,S. A. Kernasovskiy,J. M. Kovac,Chao-Lin Kuo,K. Lau,E. M. Leitch,A. Lennox,K. G. Megerian,L. Minutolo,L. Moncelsi,Y. Nakato,T. Namikawa,H. T. Nguyen,H. T. Nguyen,R. O'Brient,R. W. Ogburn,S. Palladino,T. Prouve,C. Pryke,C. Pryke,B. Racine,C. D. Reintsema,S. Richter,A. Schillaci,B. L. Schmitt,R. Schwarz,C. D. Sheehy,A. Soliman,T. St. Germaine,B. Steinbach,R. V. Sudiwala,G. P. Teply,K. L. Thompson,J. E. Tolan,C. Tucker,A. Turner,A. Turner,C. Umilta,C. Verges,Abigail G. Vieregg,A. Wandui,A. C. Weber,D. V. Wiebe,J. Willmert,C. L. Wong,W. L. K. Wu,H. Yang,K. W. Yoon,E. Young,Che-Hang Yu,L. Zeng,Chao Zhang,Shengyu Zhang +99 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results from an analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2, Keck Array and BiceP3 CMB polarization experiments up to and including the 2018 observing season.