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Upload any external documents (papers, reports, etc) here that may be of interest to the group. Our internal memos and papers are kept elsewhere. For documents that can easily be downloaded elsewhere, just include the link (e.g. astro-ph documents).

Political Documents

• 2006_NasaAstrophysicsProgram.pdf: (2006) Nasa Astrophysics Program Description
• http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/tfcr.jsp (2005) NSF-NASA-DOE Taskforce on CMB Research Final Report
• http://www.nap.edu/books/0309074061/html/ (2003) Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Canada (1868) Canadian Constitution
• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Party (1848) Communist Manifesto

SZ Observational Papers

• DETERMINATION OF THE COSMIC DISTANCE SCALE FROM SUNYAEV-ZEL’DOVICH EFFECT AND CHANDRA X-RAY MEASUREMENTS OF HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXY CLUSTERS, BIMA (Bonamente et al.), ApJ, 647:25Y54, 2006.
  • 38 clusters from 0.14<Z<0.89.
  • Distance to clusters determined by combining BIMA SZ data and Chandra xray
    • independent of the extragalactic distance ladder
  • they find H_0 in this distant part of the universe, and find it is consistent with H_0 from hubble in the nearby universe.
    • bridges the gap- nearby get H_0 from hubble optical, far away we get it from CMB+SN1A
  • H_0~77+-4+-10 (assumes Lambda CDM) is not very sensitive to the cluster model (e.g. whether or not the cluster model includes hydrostatic equilibrium)

CMB Polarization papers

• H. Wayne. "A CMB Polarization Primer", arXiv:astro-ph/9706147 - A full description of CMB polarization, great diagrams of polarization being created at last scattering
• M. Zaldarriaga. "The Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background", arXiv:astro-ph/0305272v2 - Good description of what the polarization of the CMB means.
• J. Kaplan. "CMB Polarization as complementary information to anisotropies", arXiv:astro-ph/0310650v3 - Short article with a bit of a summary of CMB Polarization, has a great reference list.

Paper Library

These titles are available for the group in the lab's book shelf. If you take a book away from the lab, please sign it out by putting a note under the title here.

• J. Clarke and A. Braginski, The SQUID Handbook, Vol. 1, Fundamentals and Tehcnology, 2004.
• IDL

PhD Theses

• T. Lanting Ph.D Thesis, MUX Readout of Superconducting Bolometers, 2007 (UC Berkeley) lantingDISSERTATION.pdf
• Hannes Hubmayr Ph.D Thesis (U. Minn) on EBEX detector and readout integration, 2010 2010_JHubmayr_Ebex_Thesis.pdf
• Martin Lueker's Ph.D. Thesis "Measurements of Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies with the South Pole Telescope" (but actually mostly about fmux) attached here
• Erik Shirokoff's Ph.D Thesis (draft) "The South Pole Telescope bolometer array and the measurement of secondary Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy at small angular scales." shirokoff_thesis_draft201106.pdf
• Kevin Bandura Ph. D Thesis "Pathfinder for a Neutral Hydrogen Dark Energy Survey" kbandura_thesis_PhD.pdf
• François Aubin Ph. D Thesis "Detector readout electronics for EBEX : a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarimeter" (McGill, 2012) : Aubin_Thesis_final_lowres.pdf (2.3 MB), Aubin_Thesis_final.pdf (21.9 MB)
• Toki Suzuki's Ph.D Thesis "Multichroic Bolometric Detector Architecture for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry Experiments" SuzukiAritokiThesis.pdf (39.1 MB)
• Kevin MacDermid, Ph.D Thesis (initial) "Development and Performance of the Detectors and Readout of the EBEX Balloon-Borne CMB Polarimeter" macdermid_phd_thesis.pdf
• Tijmen de Haan, Ph.D Thesis "Cosmological Constraints from the South Pole Telescope Galaxy Cluster Survey" 2014_TdH_phdthesis_final_submission.pdf

Masters Theses

• J. Kennedy M.Sc. Thesis, "The APEX-SZ Experiment: Observations of the Sunyaev Zel'Dovich Effect", 2009 (McGill) james_thesis.pdf
• Design and Testing of Tuning Algorithms for EBEX: Kevin MacDermid M.Sc. 2009
• Development of Multiplexed Bolometer Readout Electronics for mm-wave Space Astronomy: Joshua Montgomery MSc Thesis

Bolometer Instrumentation

• Paper on "analog active nulling" SQUID multiplexing using baseband feedback for space application of transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters
• Another active nulling paper: Baseband feedback for SAFARI-SPICA using Frequency Domain Multiplexing

• 2008 Hinderks QUaD.pdf: "QUaD: A High-Resolution Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeter" An overview of the QUaD experiment.

• 2005_Myers_Polarbear_detectors.pdf: "An antenna-coupled bolometer with an integrated microstrip bandpass filter", Myer et al. Paper on the Polarbear microstrip integraged detectors.

• 2005_TESIrwinHilton.pdf "Transition Edge Sensors", K.D. Irwin and G.C. Hilton, preprint of chapter in Cryogenic Particle Detection, 2005. This is an excellent review of TES detectors.

• The classic John Mather papers on bolometer stability and noise
  • "Bolometer noise: nonequilibrium theory", John C. Mather, Appl. Opt. 21, 1125-1129 (1982) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-21-6-1125
    Derives the reduction of Johnson noise by electro-thermal feedback, and non-equilibrium phonon noise. Computes photon correlations. Provides equations for responsivity, Z(f), etc. Discusses excess noise. For current biased NTD bolometers. A real classic.
  • "Bolometers - Ultimate Sensitivity, Optimization, and Amplifier Coupling" John C. Mather, Appl. Optics, 23(4), 584-588 (1984). http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-23-4-584

• "Complex Impedance as a Diagnostic Tool for Characterizing Thermal Detectors", John E. Vaillancourt, 2004. http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0408090
  • The complex ac impedance of a bolometer or microcalorimeter detector is easily measured and can be used to determine thermal time constants, thermal resistances, heat capacities, and sensitivities. Accurately extracting this information requires an understanding of the electrical and thermal properties of both the detector and the measurement system. We show that this is a practical method for measuring parameters in detectors with moderately complex thermal systems.

• "Characterization of Transition Edge Sensors for the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope", Zhao et al., 2008. http://www.physics.princeton.edu/act/papers/zhao_spie_2008.pdf
  • characterizes bolometers by measuring their complex impedance.

• Erik Shirokoff's Memos (Erik built the SPT detectors)
  • 2005_EShirokoff_TypesOfBolometerG.pdf APEX-SZ-20050901a, "Comparing values for G recorded at different stage temperatures using different techniques" Discusses the different conventions for G, and conversion factors between them.
  • 2006_EShirokoff_BolometerG_MatherFactor.pdf APEX-SZ-20060302a, "Non-Equilibrium Factors in Expected Thermal Noise", discusses the "Mather factor" for non-equilibrium bolometer noise.
  • [[http://www.mcgillcosmology.com/twiki/pub/Internal/TwikiLibrary/2006_EShirokoff_AnalogReadoutConversionFactors_and_FFT.pdf][2006_EShirokoff_AnalogReadoutConversionFactors_and_FFT.pdf] APEX-SZ-20060103, "Physical Unit Conversions for the Berkeley Readout System". Discusses equations for the analog fmux transfer functions. Refer to the full documentation for that system instead. Section 4.2 of this memo has an excellent summary of the differences between FFT power spectra and PSDs, as well as the difference between IDL and matlab FFT.
• 1995_GildemeisterUCB_ThesisTES.pdf: J. Gildemeister's thesis (UC Berkeley 1995) on voltage biases TES.

fMux Documents

• Berk-CMB-Readout-2006Nov20-TLantingRev2.1.pdf: Nice (older memo) on the fMux sytem

Student Reports

Calibration system for polarized CMB detectors (Bena Mero)

CHIME Beam Pattern Simulations (Ivan Padilla)

CMBPol Mission Concept Study Theory Workshop

The 6 papers from the CMBPol Mission Concept Study Theory Workshop are out on astro-ph. They are:

PAPER	ARXIVE link	LEAD AUTHOR e-mail
Workshop summary:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3911	dodelson@fnal.gov
Polarization Foreground removal:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3915	j.dunkley@physics.ox.ac.uk
Gravitational Lensing:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3916	kmsmith@ast.cam.ac.uk
Reionization Science:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3918	mzaldarriaga@cfa.harvard.edu
Probing Inflation Science:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3919	dbaumann@physics.harvard.edu
Polarization Foreground Science:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3920	fraisse@astro.princeton.edu

Electronics Reference Material

Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering

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