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Horn Coupled Multichroic Polarimeters for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization Experiment

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Multichroic polarization sensitive detectors enable increased sensitivity and spectral coverage for observations of the cosmic microwave background. An array optimized for dual frequency detectors can provide 1.7 times gain in sensitivity compared to a single frequency array. We present the design and measurements of horn coupled multichroic polarimeters encompassing the 90 and 150 GHz frequency bands and discuss our plans to field an array of these detectors as part of the ACTPol project.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by NASA through award NNX13AE56G and the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship grant NNX12AM32H and by the U.S. National Science Foundation through awards AST-0965625 and PHY-1214379.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI , 48109, USA

    R. Datta, C. Munson, J. McMahon & H. Smith

  2. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO , 80305, USA

    J. Hubmayr, J. Beall, D. Becker, H. M. Cho, G. Hilton, K. Irwin, D. Li, M. Niemack & J. Van Lanen

  3. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO , 80309, USA

    J. Austermann & N. Halverson

  4. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, P. O. Box 708, Princeton, NJ , 08544, USA

    L. Newburgh & S. Staggs

  5. Boulder Micro-Fabrication Facility, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway MS 817.03, Boulder, CO , 80305, USA

    J. Nibarger

  6. Physics Department, Cornell University, 109 Clark Hall, Ithaca, NY , 14853, USA

    M. Niemack

  7. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA , 19104, USA

    B. Schmitt

  8. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD , 20771, USA

    E. Wollack

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Datta, R., Hubmayr, J., Munson, C. et al. Horn Coupled Multichroic Polarimeters for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization Experiment. J Low Temp Phys 176, 670–676 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1134-4

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