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BFORE: A CMB Balloon Payload to Measure Reionization, Neutrino Mass, and Cosmic Inflation

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arxiv 1807.05215 v1 pith:G5FY64TM submitted 2018-07-13 astro-ph.IM astro-ph.CO

BFORE: A CMB Balloon Payload to Measure Reionization, Neutrino Mass, and Cosmic Inflation

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BFORE is a high-altitude ultra-long-duration balloon mission to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB). During a 28-day mid-latitude flight launched from Wanaka, New Zealand, the instrument will map half the sky to improve measurements of the optical depth to reionization tau. This will break parameter degeneracies needed to detect neutrino mass. BFORE will also hunt for the gravitational wave B-mode signal, and map Galactic dust foregrounds. The mission will be the first near-space use of TES/mSQUID multichroic detectors (150/217 GHz and 280/353 GHz bands) with low-power readout electronics.

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