General   Experimental/Technical   Theory/Analysis   PhD Theses

THEORY/ANALYSIS
F. de Bernardis, A. Melchiorri, L. Verde and Raul Jimenez, "The Cosmic Neutrino Background and the Age of the Universe", arXiv0707.4170 (2007).

S. Bhattacharya and A. Kosowsky, "Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Cluster Velocity Statistics", Ap. J. 659, L83-L86, 2007.

S. Bhattacharya and A. Kosowsky, "Dark Energy Constraints from Galaxy Cluster Peculiar Velocities", Phys. Rev. D 77, 083004 (2008).

S. Chatterjee and A. Kosowsky, "The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect from Quasar Feedback", Ap. J. Letters 661, L113-L116 (2007).

O. Dore, Joseph F. Hennawi and D. N. Spergel, "Beyond the Damping Tail: Cross-Correlating the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with Cosmic Shear", Ap. J. 606, 46 (2004).

M. R. Francis, R. Bean, and A. Kosowsky, "Impact of Systematic Errors in Sunyaev-Zel'dovich", J. Cos. Astropart. Phys. 0512, 1 (2005).

A. A. Fraisse, C. Ringeval, D. N. Spergel and F. R. Bouchet, "Small-Angle CMB Temperature Anisotropies Induced by Cosmic Strings", arXiv:0708.1162 (2007).

A. Hajian, C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, Z. Haiman, R. Jimenez, D. N. Spergel, and L. Verde, "The Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Due to the Electrons of Our Galaxy", arXiv:0705.3245 (2007).

C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, L. Verde, R. Jimenez, and D. N. Spergel, "Correlation properties of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and implications for Dark Energy", Ap. J. 643, 598 (2006).

C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, Z. Haiman, R. Jimenez, and L. Verde, "Oxygen Pumping: Probing Intergalactic Metals at the Epoch of Reionization", ApJ 660, 85 (2007).

C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, Z. Haiman, R. Jimenez, and L. Verde, "Oxygen pumping II: Probing the Inhomogeneous Metal Enrichment at the Epoch of Reionization with High Frequency CMB Observations", arXiv0709.3313 (2007).

C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, H. Trac, R. Jimenez, L. Verde, "The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Signature of Baryons in the Local Universe", Ap. J. Letters 652, L1 (2006).

C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, L. Verde, and R. Jimenez, "Tomography of the Reionization Epoch with Multifrequency CMB Observations", Ap. J. 653, 1 (2006).

G. P. Holder and A. Kosowsky, "Gravitational Lensing of the Microwave Background by Galaxy Clusters", Ap. J. 616, 8 (2004).

M. D. Niemack, R. Jimenez, L. Verde, F. Menanteau, B. Panter, and D. N. Spergel, "Improving Photometric Redshifts using GALEX Observations for the SDSS Stripe 82 and the Next Generation of SZ Cluster Surveys", arXiv:0803.3221 (2008).

B. A. Reid and D. N. Spergel, "Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Signals in Cluster Models", Ap. J. 651 643 (2006).

M. A. Riquelme and D. N. Spergel, "Separating the Weak Lensing and Kinetic SZ Effects from CMB Temperature Maps", arXiv:astro-ph/0610007v2, 2007.

C. Sealfon, L. Verde and R. Jimenez, "Stacking weak lensing signals of SZ clusters to constrain cluster physics", arXiv:astro-ph/0601254v1 (2006).

N. Sehgal, A. Kosowsky, and G. P. Holder, "Constrained Cluster Parameters from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations", Ap. J. 635, 22 (2005).

N. Sehgal, H. Trac, K. Huffenberger, and P. Bode, "Microwave-Sky Simulations and Projections for Galaxy Cluster Detection with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope", arXiv:Astro-ph/0612140v2 (2007).

J. Simon, L. Verde and R. Jimenez, "Constraints on the redshift dependence of the dark energy potential", Phys. Rev. D 71, 123001 (2005).

J. Simon, R. Jimenez, L. Verde, P. Berglund, V. Balasubramanian, "Using cosmology to constrain the topology of hidden dimensions" arXiv:astro-ph/0605371v1 (2006).

D. N. Spergel, "The Cosmic Microwave Background as a Cosmological Probe", The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Dawn, ASP Conference Series 344, 29 (2005).

L. Verde and D. N. Spergel, "Dark energy and cosmic microwave background bispectrum", arXiv:astro-ph/0108179v2 (2002).

EXPERIMENTAL/TECHNICAL
E. S. Battistelli, M. Amiri, B. Burger , M. Halpern, S. Knotek, M. Ellis, X. Gao, D. Kelly, M. MacIntosh, K. Irwin, and C. Reintsema, "Functional description of read-out electronics for time-domain multiplexed bolometers for millimeter and sub-millimeter astronomy", J. Low Temp. Phys. 151 (3-4), 908-914 (2008).

E. S. Battistelli, M. Amiri, B. Burger, M. J. Devlin, S. R. Dicker, W. B. Doriese, R. Dünner, R. P. Fisher, J. W. Fowler, M. Halpern, M. Hasselfield, G. C. Hilton, A. D. Hincks, K. D. Irwin, M. Kaul, J. Klein, S. Knotek, J. M. Lau, M. Limon, T. A. Marriage, M. D. Niemack, L. Page, C. D. Reintsema, S. T. Staggs, D. S. Swetz, E. R. Switzer, R. J. Thornton, and Y. Zhao, "Automated SQUID tuning procedure for kilo-pixel arrays of TES bolometers on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope", Proc. SPIE 7020, 702028 (2008).

J. W. Fowler, M. D. Niemack, S. R. Dicker, A. M. Aboobaker, P. A. R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli, M. J. Devlin, R. P. Fisher, M. Halpern, P. C. Hargrave, A. D. Hincks, M. Kaul, J. Klein, J. M. Lau, M. Limon, T. A. Marriage, P. D. Mauskopf, L. Page, S. T. Staggs, D. S. Swetz, E. R. Switzer, R. J. Thornton, and C. E. Tucker, "Optical Design of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Millimeter Bolometric Array Camera", Applied Optics 46, 3444-3454 (2007).

A. D. Hincks, P. A. R. Ade, C. Allen, M. Amiri, J. W. Appel, E. S. Battistelli, B. Burger, J. A. Chervenak, A. J. Dahlen, S. Denny, M. J. Devlin, S. R. Dicker, W. B. Doriese, R. Dünner, T. Essinger-Hileman, R. P. Fisher, J. W. Fowler, M. Halpern, P. C. Hargrave, M. Hasselfield, G. C. Hilton, K. D. Irwin, N. Jarosik, M. Kaul, J. Klein, J. M. Lau, M. Limon, R. H. Lupton, T. A. Marriage, K. L. Martocci, P. Mauskopf, S. H. Moseley, C. B. Netterfield, M. D. Niemack, M. R. Nolta, L. Page, L. P. Parker, A. J. Sederberg, S. T. Staggs, O. R. Stryzak, D. S. Swetz, E. R. Switzer, R. J. Thornton, C. Tucker, E. J. Wollack, and Y. Zhao, "The effects of the mechanical performance and alignment of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope on the sensitivity of microwave observations", Proc. SPIE 7020, 70201P (2008).

J. Lau, M. Benna, M. Devlin, S. Dicker, and L. Page, "Experimental Tests and Modeling of the Optimal Orifice Size for a Closed Cycle 4He Refrigerator", Cryogenics 46, 809-14 (2006).

J. Lau, J. Fowler, T. Marriage, L. Page, J. Leong, E. Wishnow, R. Henry, E. Wollack, M. Halpern, D. Marsden, and G. Marsden, "Millimeter-wave antireflection coating for cryogenic silicon lenses", Appl. Opt. 45, 3746-3751 (2006).

T. A. Marriage, J. A. Chervenak, and W. B. Doriese, "Testing and Assembly of the Detectors for the Millimeter Bolometric Array Camera on ACT", Nuc. Inst. & Meth. in Phys. Res. A 559, 551 (2006).

M. D. Niemack for the ACT Collaboration, "Measuring two-millimeter radiation with a prototype multiplexed TES receiver for ACT", Proc. SPIE 6275, 62750C (2006).

M. D. Niemack, Y. Zhao, E. Wollack, R. Thornton, E. R. Switzer, D. S. Swetz, S. T. Staggs, L. Page, O. Stryzak, H. Moseley, T. A. Marriage, M. Limon, J. M. Lau, J. Klein, M. Kaul, N. Jarosik, K. D. Irwin, A. D. Hincks, G. C. Hilton, M. Halpern, J. W. Fowler, R. P. Fisher, R. Dunner, W. B. Doriese, S. R. Dicker, M. J. Devlin, J. Chervenak, B. Burger, E. S. Battistelli, J. Appel, M. Amiri, C. Allen, and A. M. Aboobaker, "A kilopixel array of TES bolometers for ACT: Development, Testing, and First Light", J. Low Temp. Phys. 151 (3-4), 690-696 (2008).

D. S. Swetz, P. A. R. Ade, C. Allen, M. Amiri, J. W. Appel, E. S. Battistelli, B. Burger, J. A. Chervenak, A. J. Dahlen, S. Das, S. Denny, M. J. Devlin, S. R. Dicker, W. B. Doriese, R. Dünner, T. Essinger-Hileman, R. P. Fisher, J. W. Fowler, X. Gao, A. Hajian, M. Halpern, P. C. Hargrave, M. Hasselfield, G. C. Hilton, A. D. Hincks, K. D. Irwin, N. Jarosik, M. Kaul, J. Klein, S. Knotek, J. M. Lau, M. Limon, R. H. Lupton, T. A. Marriage, K. L. Martocci, P. Mauskopf, S. H. Moseley, C. B. Netterfield, M. D. Niemack, M. R. Nolta, L. Page, L. P. Parker, B. A. Reid, C. D. Reintsema, A. J. Sederberg, N. Sehgal, J. L. Sievers, D. N. Spergel, S. T. Staggs, O. R. Stryzak, E. R. Switzer, R. J. Thornton, C. Tucker, E. J. Wollack, and Y. Zhao, "Instrument design and characterization of the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope", Proc. SPIE 7020, 702008 (2008).

E. R. Switzer, C. Allen, M. Amiri, J. W. Appel, E. S. Battistelli, B. Burger, J. A. Chervenak, A. J. Dahlen, S. Das, M. J. Devlin, S. R. Dicker, W. B. Doriese, R. Dünner, T. Essinger-Hileman, X. Gao, M. Halpern, M. Hasselfield, G. C. Hilton, A. D. Hincks, K. D. Irwin, S. Knotek, R. P. Fisher, J. W. Fowler, N. Jarosik, M. Kaul, J. Klein, J. M. Lau, M. Limon, R. H. Lupton, T. A. Marriage, K. L. Martocci, S. H. Moseley, C. B. Netterfield, M. D. Niemack, M. R. Nolta, L. Page, L. P. Parker, B. A. Reid, C. D. Reintsema, A. J. Sederberg, J. L. Sievers, D. N. Spergel, S. T. Staggs, O. R. Stryzak, D. S. Swetz, R. J. Thornton, E. J. Wollack, and Y. Zhao, "Systems and control software for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope", Proc. SPIE 7019, 70192L (2008).

R. J. Thornton, P. A. R. Ade, C. Allen, M. Amiri, J. W. Appel, E. S. Battistelli, B. Burger, J. A. Chervenak, M. J. Devlin, S. R. Dicker, W. B. Doriese,T. Essinger-Hileman, R.P. Fisher, J. W. Fowler, M. Halpern, P. C. Hargrave, M. Hasselfield, G. C. Hilton, A. D. Hincks, K. D. Irwin, N. Jarosik, M. Kaul, J. Klein, J. M. Lau, M. Limon, T. A. Marriage, K. L. Martocci, P. Mauskopf, S. H. Moseley, M. D. Niemack, L. Page, L. P. Parker, J. Reidel, C. D. Reintsema, S. T. Staggs, O. R. Stryzak, D. S. Swetz, E. R. Switzer, C. Tucker, E. J. Wollack, and Y. Zhao, "Opto-mechanical design and performance of a compact three-frequency camera for the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope", Proc. SPIE 7020, 70201R (2008).

Y. Zhao, C. Allen, M. Amiri, J. W. Appel, E. S. Battistelli, B. Burger, J. A. Chervenak, A. J. Dahlen, S. Denny, M. J. Devlin, S. R. Dicker, W. B. Doriese, R. Dünner, T. Essinger-Hileman, R. P. Fisher, J. W. Fowler, M. Halpern, G. C. Hilton, A. D. Hincks, K. D. Irwin, N. Jarosik, J. Klein, J. M. Lau, T. A. Marriage, K. L. Martocci, S. H. Moseley, M. D. Niemack, L. Page, L. P. Parker, A. Sederberg, S. T. Staggs, O. R. Stryzak, D. S. Swetz, E. R. Switzer, R. J. Thornton, and E. J. Wollack, "Characterization of Transition Edge Sensors for the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope", Proc. SPIE 7020, 70200O (2008).

GENERAL
J. Fowler, "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Project", Proc. SPIE 5498, 1-10 (2004).

J. W. Fowler for the ACT Collaboration, Observational Cosmology 2004: What the Data Say About Dark Energy and the Contents of the Universe, Invited plenary talk, Proceedings of the APS Division of Particles & Fields, Riverside, California (2004).

Amir Hajian, "An Introduction to the CMB Anisotropy in Persian", Gamma 12, 26-58 (2006).

A. Kosowsky, The Atacama Cosmology Telescope, New Astron. Rev. 47, 939 (2003).

A. Kosowsky, "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Progress Report", New Astron. Rev. 50, 969-976 (2006).

A. Kosowsky, "The Future of Microwave Background Physics", arXiv:astro-ph/0301131v1 (2003).

PH D THESES
Michael Niemack
Towards Dark Energy: Design, Development, and Preliminary Data from ACT
Judy Lau
CCAM: A Novel Millimeter-Wave Instrument Using A Close-Packed TES Bolometer Array
Tobias Marriage
Detectors for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope


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