TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring Reionization, Neutrino Mass, and Cosmic Inflation with BFORE
AU - Bryan, Sean
AU - Ade, Peter
AU - Bond, J. Richard
AU - Boulanger, Francois
AU - Devlin, Mark
AU - Doyle, Simon
AU - Filippini, Jeffrey
AU - Fissel, Laura
AU - Groppi, Christopher
AU - Holder, Gilbert
AU - Hubmayr, Johannes
AU - Mauskopf, Philip
AU - McMahon, Jeffrey
AU - Nagy, Johanna
AU - Netterfield, C. Barth
AU - Niemack, Michael
AU - Novak, Giles
AU - Pascale, Enzo
AU - Pisano, Giampaolo
AU - Ruhl, John
AU - Scott, Douglas
AU - Soler, Juan
AU - Tucker, Carole
AU - Vieira, Joaquin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - BFORE is a NASA high-altitude ultra-long-duration balloon mission proposed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) across half the sky during a 28-day mid-latitude flight launched from Wanaka, New Zealand. With the unique access to large angular scales and high frequencies provided by the balloon platform, BFORE will significantly improve measurements of the optical depth to reionization τ, breaking parameter degeneracies needed for a measurement of neutrino mass with the CMB. The large-angular-scale data will enable BFORE to hunt for the large-scale gravitational wave B-mode signal, as well as the degree-scale signal, each at the r∼ 0.01 level. The balloon platform allows BFORE to map Galactic dust foregrounds at frequencies where they dominate, in order to robustly separate them from CMB signals measured by BFORE, in addition to complementing data from ground-based telescopes. The combination of frequencies will also lead to velocity measurements for thousands of galaxy clusters, as well as probing how star-forming galaxies populate dark matter halos. The mission will be the first near-space use of TES multichroic detectors (150/217 GHz and 280/353 GHz bands) using highly multiplexed mSQUID microwave readout, raising the technical readiness level of both technologies.
AB - BFORE is a NASA high-altitude ultra-long-duration balloon mission proposed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) across half the sky during a 28-day mid-latitude flight launched from Wanaka, New Zealand. With the unique access to large angular scales and high frequencies provided by the balloon platform, BFORE will significantly improve measurements of the optical depth to reionization τ, breaking parameter degeneracies needed for a measurement of neutrino mass with the CMB. The large-angular-scale data will enable BFORE to hunt for the large-scale gravitational wave B-mode signal, as well as the degree-scale signal, each at the r∼ 0.01 level. The balloon platform allows BFORE to map Galactic dust foregrounds at frequencies where they dominate, in order to robustly separate them from CMB signals measured by BFORE, in addition to complementing data from ground-based telescopes. The combination of frequencies will also lead to velocity measurements for thousands of galaxy clusters, as well as probing how star-forming galaxies populate dark matter halos. The mission will be the first near-space use of TES multichroic detectors (150/217 GHz and 280/353 GHz bands) using highly multiplexed mSQUID microwave readout, raising the technical readiness level of both technologies.
KW - Cosmic microwave background
KW - Inflation
KW - Microwave SQUID
KW - Neutrinos
KW - Reionization
KW - Scientific ballooning
KW - TES detectors
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U2 - 10.1007/s10909-018-2031-z
DO - 10.1007/s10909-018-2031-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050727497
SN - 0022-2291
VL - 193
SP - 1033
EP - 1040
JO - Journal of Low Temperature Physics
JF - Journal of Low Temperature Physics
IS - 5-6
ER -