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River Road Through Laos: Reflections of the Mekong
The world\u27s major rivers have long held a fascination for man as adventurer ,scholar, and political opportunist. The Mekong River which links the Yunnan highlands and the South China Sea is in many respects the premier river system in mainland Southeast Asia. Much of its early history and association with human activity still remains obscure. As recently as 1860 1itt1e was sti11 known of its course and sources, and what little knowledge did exist was colored by cartographic imagination
Poppies, Pipes, and People: Opium and Its Use in Laos. By Joseph Westermeyer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. xxii, 336 pp. Maps, Tables, Plates, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $28.50.
Töten mit dem Messer: Ein GesprĂ€ch mit dem Anthropologen Joel M. Halpern ĂŒber Geschichte und Kulturanthropologie, ĂŒber Nationalismus, Gewalt und Vergewaltigung in Ex-Jugoslawien
Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER
We describe 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the
balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER. A primary science goal of SPIDER is to
measure the large-scale B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background
in search of the cosmic-inflation, gravitational-wave signature. 280 GHz
channels aid this science goal by constraining the level of B-mode
contamination from galactic dust emission. We present the focal plane unit
design, which consists of a 1616 array of conical, corrugated feedhorns
coupled to a monolithic detector array fabricated on a 150 mm diameter silicon
wafer. Detector arrays are capable of polarimetric sensing via waveguide
probe-coupling to a multiplexed array of transition-edge-sensor (TES)
bolometers. The SPIDER receiver has three focal plane units at 280 GHz, which
in total contains 765 spatial pixels and 1,530 polarization sensitive
bolometers. By fabrication and measurement of single feedhorns, we demonstrate
14.7 FHWM Gaussian-shaped beams with 1% ellipticity in a 30%
fractional bandwidth centered at 280 GHz. We present electromagnetic
simulations of the detection circuit, which show 94% band-averaged,
single-polarization coupling efficiency, 3% reflection and 3% radiative loss.
Lastly, we demonstrate a low thermal conductance bolometer, which is
well-described by a simple TES model and exhibits an electrical noise
equivalent power (NEP) = 2.6 10 W/,
consistent with the phonon noise prediction.Comment: Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 201
Microwave multiplexing on the Keck Array
We describe an on-sky demonstration of a microwave-multiplexing readout
system in one of the receivers of the Keck Array, a polarimetry experiment
observing the cosmic microwave background at the South Pole. During the austral
summer of 2018-2019, we replaced the time-division multiplexing readout system
with microwave-multiplexing components including superconducting microwave
resonators coupled to radio-frequency superconducting quantum interference
devices at the sub-Kelvin focal plane, coaxial-cable plumbing and amplification
between room temperature and the cold stages, and a SLAC Microresonator Radio
Frequency system for the warm electronics. In the range 5-6 GHz, a single
coaxial cable reads out 528 channels. The readout system is coupled to
transition-edge sensors, which are in turn coupled to 150-GHz slot-dipole
phased-array antennas. Observations began in April 2019, and we report here on
an initial characterization of the system performance.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figures, Accepted by the Journal of Low Temperature
Physics (Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature
Detectors
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth
We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over
sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the
Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) CMB dataset, which
consists of five seasons of ACT CMB temperature and polarization observations.
We determine the amplitude of the CMB lensing power spectrum at
precision ( significance) using a novel pipeline that minimizes
sensitivity to foregrounds and to noise properties. To ensure our results are
robust, we analyze an extensive set of null tests, consistency tests, and
systematic error estimates and employ a blinded analysis framework. The
baseline spectrum is well fit by a lensing amplitude of
relative to the Planck 2018 CMB power spectra
best-fit CDM model and relative to
the best-fit model. From our lensing power
spectrum measurement, we derive constraints on the parameter combination
of
from ACT DR6 CMB lensing alone and
when combining ACT DR6 and Planck NPIPE
CMB lensing power spectra. These results are in excellent agreement with
CDM model constraints from Planck or
CMB power spectrum measurements. Our lensing measurements from redshifts
-- are thus fully consistent with CDM structure growth
predictions based on CMB anisotropies probing primarily . We find no
evidence for a suppression of the amplitude of cosmic structure at low
redshiftsComment: 45+21 pages, 50 figures. Prepared for submission to ApJ. Also see
companion papers Madhavacheril et al and MacCrann et a
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