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Thomas Gascard

at Univ of Iceland

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Proceedings Article | 11 September 2024 Poster + Paper

Thermal architecture for a cryogenic super-pressure balloon payload: design and development of the Taurus flight cryostat

Simon Tartakovsky, Alexandre Adler, Jason Austermann, Steven Benton, Rick Bihary, Malcolm Durkin, Shannon Duff, Jeffrey Filippini, Aurelien Fraisse, Thomas J. L. Gascard, Sho Gibbs, Suren Gourapura, Jon Gudmundsson, John Hartley, Johannes Hubmayr, William Jones, Steven Li, Jared May, Johanna Nagy, Kate Okun, Ivan Padilla, L. Javier Romualdez, Michael Vissers

Proceedings Volume 13094, 130944B (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3015077

KEYWORDS: Cryostats, Cryogenics, Design, Balloons, Vacuum, Thermal modeling, Helium, Windows, Glues, Capillaries

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Proceedings Article | 11 September 2024 Poster + Paper

Instrument overview of Taurus: a balloon-borne CMB and dust polarization experiment

Jared May, Alexandre Adler, Jason Austermann, Steven Benton, Rick Bihary, Malcolm Durkin, Shannon Duff, Jeffrey Filippini, Aurelien Fraisse, Thomas J. L. Gascard, Sho Gibbs, Suren Gourapura, Jon Gudmundsson, John Hartley, Johannes Hubmayr, William Jones, Steven Li, Johanna Nagy, Kate Okun, Ivan Padilla, L. Javier Romualdez, Simon Tartakovsky, Michael Vissers

Proceedings Volume 13094, 1309432 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019051

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Polarization, Equipment, Receivers, Design, Physics, Cosmology, Telescopes, Cryostats

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Proceedings Article | 16 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Reflectance measurements of mm-wave absorbers using frequency-domain continuous wave THz spectroscopy

Gaganpreet Singh, Rustam Balafendiev, Zeshen Bao, Thomas J. L. Gascard, Jon Gudmundsson, Gagandeep Kaur, Vid Primožič

Proceedings Volume 13102, 131021W (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3021440

KEYWORDS: Specular reflections, Reflection, Reflectivity, Terahertz radiation, Receivers, Transmitters, Polarization, Photocurrent, Antennas, Aluminum

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Proceedings Article | 16 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Vector beam mapping at millimeter wavelengths using a robot arm

Rustam Balafendiev, Thomas Gascard, Jon Gudmundsson

Proceedings Volume 13102, 131021Y (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020315

KEYWORDS: Phase measurement, Control software, Phase distribution, Optical components, Error analysis, Equipment, Polarization, Holography, Data processing

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Proceedings Article | 16 August 2024 Poster + Paper

Thermal and mechanical study of a parametrised cryostat model for optical characterisation of upcoming CMB experiments

Thomas J. L. Gascard, Yi Wang, Jon Gudmundsson, Eve Vavagiakis, Cody Duell, Zachary Huber, Lawrence Lin, Michael Niemack, Rodrigo Freundt

Proceedings Volume 13102, 131022O (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019995

KEYWORDS: Cryostats, Thermal modeling, Design, Thermal analysis, Copper, Aluminum, SolidWorks, Finite element methods, Cryogenics, Temperature metrology

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Proceedings Article | 31 August 2022 Poster + Paper

Pixel design for FIR/mm/submm astronomy constituted of a set of antenna-coupled superconducting detectors feeding a metamaterial-based lenslet

Thomas Gascard, Giampaolo Pisano, Simon Doyle, Alexey Shitvov, Peter Barry, Tom L. Brien, Christopher Dunscombe

Proceedings Volume 12190, 121901F (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2627848

KEYWORDS: Antennas, Sensors, Silicon, Astronomy, Polarization, Lens design, Imaging spectroscopy, Spherical lenses, Superconducting detectors, Mirrors

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Design and experimental investigation of a planar metamaterial silicon-based lenslet

Thomas Gascard, Giampaolo Pisano, Simon Doyle, Alexey Shitvov, Jason Austermann, James Beall, Johannes Hubmayr, Benjamin Raymond, Nils Halverson, Gregory Jaehnig, Christopher McKenney, Aritoki Suzuki

Proceedings Volume 11453, 1145307 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562692

KEYWORDS: Staring arrays, Antennas, Polarization, Telescopes, Superconductors, Lens design, Microwave radiation, Sensors, Metamaterials, Inductance

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Proceedings Article | 9 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

MUSCAT: the Mexico-UK Sub-Millimetre Camera for AsTronomy

Thomas L. Brien, Peter A. Ade, Peter Barry, Edgar Castillo-Domìnguez, Daniel Ferrusca, Thomas Gascard, Victor Gómez, Peter Hargrave, Amber Hornsby, David Hughes, Enzo Pascale, Josie D. Parrianen, Abel Perez, Sam Rowe, Carole Tucker, Salvador Ventura González, Simon Doyle

Proceedings Volume 10708, 107080M (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313697

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Sensors, Telescopes, Waveguides, Cameras, Astronomy, Cryogenics, Computer aided design, Optical components, Antireflective coatings

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