BFORE: The B-mode Foreground Experiment

Michael D. Niemack; Peter Ade; Francesco de Bernardis; Francois Boulanger; Sean Bryan; Mark Devlin; Joanna Dunkley; Steve Eales; Haley Gomez; Chris Groppi; Shawn Henderson; Seth Hillbrand; Johannes Hubmayr; Philip Mauskopf; Jeff McMahon; Marc Antoine Miville-Deschênes; Enzo Pascale; Giampaolo Pisano; Giles Novak; Douglas Scott; Juan Soler; Carole Tucker

doi:10.1007/s10909-015-1395-6

BFORE: The B-mode Foreground Experiment

Michael D. Niemack, Peter Ade, Francesco de Bernardis, Francois Boulanger, Sean Bryan, Mark Devlin, Joanna Dunkley, Steve Eales, Haley Gomez, Chris Groppi, Shawn Henderson, Seth Hillbrand, Johannes Hubmayr, Philip Mauskopf, Jeff McMahon, Marc Antoine Miville-Deschênes, Enzo Pascale, Giampaolo Pisano, Giles Novak, Douglas ScottJuan Soler, Carole Tucker

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Abstract

The B-mode Foreground Experiment (BFORE) is a proposed NASA balloon project designed to make optimal use of the sub-orbital platform by concentrating on three dust foreground bands (270, 350, and 600 GHz) that complement ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) programs. BFORE will survey ∼ 1/4 of the sky with 1.7–3.7 arcminute resolution, enabling precise characterization of the Galactic dust that now limits constraints on inflation from CMB B-mode polarization measurements. In addition, BFORE’s combination of frequency coverage, large survey area, and angular resolution enables science far beyond the critical goal of measuring foregrounds. BFORE will constrain the velocities of thousands of galaxy clusters, provide a new window on the cosmic infrared background, and probe magnetic fields in the interstellar medium. We review the BFORE science case, timeline, and instrument design, which is based on a compact off-axis telescope coupled to > 10 , 000 superconducting detectors.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	746-753
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Volume	184
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-015-1395-6
State	Published - Aug 1 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

Keywords

Balloons
Cosmic microwave background
Dust
Foregrounds
Kinematic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect
Superconducting detectors

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Niemack, M. D., Ade, P., de Bernardis, F., Boulanger, F., Bryan, S., Devlin, M., Dunkley, J., Eales, S., Gomez, H., Groppi, C., Henderson, S., Hillbrand, S., Hubmayr, J., Mauskopf, P., McMahon, J., Miville-Deschênes, M. A., Pascale, E., Pisano, G., Novak, G., ... Tucker, C. (2016). BFORE: The B-mode Foreground Experiment. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 184(3-4), 746-753. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-015-1395-6

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