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Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor | Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background @JohnsHopkins | Discovering when the universe first lit up #NSFfunded
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Joined June 2018
⚡️ There it is! ⚡️ The title says it all: "A Measurement of the Largest-Scale CMB E-mode Polarization with CLASS". #NSFfunded
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!!! Congratulations to Rui Shi for successfully defending her PhD thesis: "Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor: From Instrumentation to Beyond the Standard Model" !!!
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🇧🇷 Brazilian CLASSmates, Jullianna and Deniz, receive an official "Motion of Applause" from the city council of their hometown for their work with CLASS and the recent results! 👏.
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🐝🐝🐝 The CLASS site team has been busy! 🐝🐝🐝 Here is a video of them assembling the new receiver, which comes together as nested layers. When operating, all layers are under vacuum, and outer layers thermally shield colder layers underneath. The innermost is at 0.05 Kelvin!
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To go along our recent result on reionization, the NSF Discovery Files podcast featured the CLASS project! #NSFfunded .
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New detectors are installed on the new 90 GHz receiver at our Chile site! Go team!!
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The new array of 90 GHz detector modules is assembled in Chile. Ready to go into the new telescope! #NSFfunded
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'People thought this couldn't be done': Scientists observe light of 'cosmic dawn' with a telescope on Earth for the first time ever
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