Peter A. R. Ade

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors 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 SPIDER instrument, which are vital to detecting or placing an upper limit on the amplitude of the primordial gravitational wave signature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by constraining the Bmode contamination in the CMB from Galactic dust emission.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present complete spectral characterization of the Keck Array detectors, made with a Martin-Puplett Fourier Transform Spectrometer at the South Pole, and preliminary spectra of Bicep3 detectors taken in lab.

TL;DR: The ground test and calibration facility for the Herschel SPIRE instrument is described in this article, which is designed to allow all aspects of instrument behaviour, performance, calibration, and optimisation of observing modes to be investigated under flight representative conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the spectrum of solar radiation attenuated by the Earth's atmosphere, observed from sea level with the 1.5 m diameter telescope at Queen Mary College, was made of a phase-modulated Michelson interferometer and a rollin detector.

TL;DR: In this paper, the S255 molecular cloud has been observed using both continuum and spectral line techniques at several submillimetre and millimetre wavelengths, from photometry at 350, 760 and 1070 μm, the dust is estimated to have a central temperature of 44K and an emissivity which varies as λ-1.