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The Keck Array: A Multi Camera CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

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The Keck array is a new multi-camera Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimeter. Each camera contains 256 polarization pairs of antenna-coupled transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. We recently deployed three of five cameras at the geographic South Pole, and plan to deploy the final two cameras in early 2012. This new telescope is an ideal instrument to search for the primordial B-mode polarization signal imprinted in the CMB by inflationary gravitational waves. We will discuss the design of the detectors and receivers, the status of current observations, and report on progress toward upgrading the instrument with the full compliment of polarized receivers.

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The following individuals acknowledge additional support: Z. Staniszewski from the NASA Postdoctoral Program.

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  1. Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

    Z. Staniszewski, R. W. Aikin, J. J. Bock, J. A. Brevik, C. D. Dowell, J. P. Filippini, S. R. Golwala, V. V. Hristov, M. Lueker, H. T. Nguyen, R. O’Brient, A. Orlando & G. Teply

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 91109, USA

    Z. Staniszewski, J. J. Bock, J. A. Bonetti, C. D. Dowell, H. T. Nguyen, A. D. Turner & P. Wilson

  3. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA

    C. L. Kuo, R. W. Ogburn IV, S. Stokes, K. L. Thompson & J. E. Tolan

  4. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    M. Amiri, M. Halpern, M. Hasselfield & D. Wiebe

  5. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, USA

    S. J. Benton & B. Burger

  6. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    C. L. Kuo, R. W. Ogburn IV, S. Stokes, K. L. Thompson & J. E. Tolan

  7. Service des Basses Températures, CEA-Grenoble, 38054, Grenoble, France

    L. Duband

  8. NIST Quantum Devices Group, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA

    G. Hilton, K. Irwin & C. Reintsema

  9. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    C. Bischoff, J. M. Kovac, R. Schwarz, A. G. Vieregg & C. L. Wong

  10. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    C. Sheehy

  11. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    C. Pryke & C. Sheehy

  12. Physics Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA

    T. Montroy & J. E. Ruhl

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Staniszewski, Z., Aikin, R.W., Amiri, M. et al. The Keck Array: A Multi Camera CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole. J Low Temp Phys 167, 827–833 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-012-0510-1

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