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Erik Shirokoff

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., U. C. Berkeley, 2011
 
Contact Information
Phone: (773) 834-5399
Location: ERC 343
Email: shirouchicago.edu
WWW: Web Site

 
Research
Picture: Research
A prototype SuperSpec device. This on-chip KID spectrometer features 80 channels operating in the mm-wavelength atmospheric band and read-out with a single multiplexed line. The wide-band microwave probe couples to a metal feed horn.

<i>Image by H. G. Leduc, JPL MDL.</i>
Erik develops novel cryogenic detectors operating at millimeter and submm-wavelengths for the study of high-redshift galaxies, the epoch of reionization, and the Cosmic Microwave Background. He's currently involved in three projects: SuperSpec is an on-chip filter-bank spectrometer technology. Its small size, wide spectral bandwidth, and highly multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detector readout will enable construction of powerful multi-object and integral-field spectrometers such as X-Spec, a proposed instrument for the CCAT telescope. The Tomographic Ionized-Carbon Mapping Experiment is an imaging spectrometer that will use 158 micron [CII] emission to probe reionization and large scale structure at redshifts 5-9. SPT-3G, the third generation camera for the South Pole Telescope, will observe the CMB with tens of thousands of polarization-sensitive, multi-chroic, lens-coupled TES sensors.

Ongoing Scientific Projects:

 
Students
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Past Students

UNDERGRADUATE: Evan Mayer (2018)

 
Currently in Committees
  • Fellowship committee (Chair)
  • Wednesday Colloquium committee

 
KICP Publications
2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014


Latest Journal Publications
  1. "Superconducting On-chip Fourier Transform Spectrometer", arXiv:1909.02100 (Sep 2019)
  2. "CMB-S4", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, APC white papers, no. 209; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 7, id. 209 (2019) (Sep 2019)
  3. "Atomic Layer Deposition Niobium Nitride Films for High-Q Resonators", arXiv:1908.07146 (Aug 2019)
  4. "Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-correlation between Dark Energy Survey Y1 galaxy weak lensing and South Pole Telescope+P l a n c k CMB weak lensing", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 4, id.043517 (Aug 2019)
  5. "Measurements of the Cross-spectra of the Cosmic Infrared and Microwave Backgrounds from 95 to 1200 GHz", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 881, Issue 2, article id. 96, 12 pp. (2019) (Aug 2019)
  6. "Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Tomographic cross-correlations between Dark Energy Survey galaxies and CMB lensing from South Pole Telescope +Planck", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 4, id.043501 (Aug 2019)
  7. "Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Joint analysis of galaxy clustering, galaxy lensing, and CMB lensing two-point functions", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 2, id.023541 (Jul 2019)
  8. "Cosmological lensing ratios with DES Y1, SPT, and Planck", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 487, Issue 1, p.1363-1379 (Jul 2019)
  9. "Consistency of cosmic microwave background temperature measurements in three frequency bands in the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 07, article id. 038 (2019) (Jul 2019)
  10. "Fractional Polarisation of Extragalactic Sources in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey", arXiv:1907.02156 (Jul 2019)
  11. "CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan", arXiv:1907.04473 (Jul 2019)
  12. "On-sky performance of the SPT-3G frequency-domain multiplexed readout", arXiv:1907.10947 (Jul 2019)
  13. "Performance of Al-Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G", arXiv:1907.11976 (Jul 2019)
  14. "CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper", arXiv:1908.01062 (Jul 2019)
  15. "Cluster Cosmology Constraints from the 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ Survey: Inclusion of Weak Gravitational Lensing Data from Magellan and the Hubble Space Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 878, Issue 1, article id. 55, 25 pp. (2019) (Jun 2019)
  16. "Maps of the Southern Millimeter-wave Sky from Combined 2500 deg2 SPT-SZ and Planck Temperature Data", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 239, Issue 1, article id. 10, 14 pp. (2018) (Nov 2018)
  17. "Optical Characterization of the SPT-3G Camera", Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Volume 193, Issue 3-4, pp. 305-313 (Nov 2018)
  18. "Atomic layer deposition of titanium nitride for quantum circuits", Applied Physics Letters, Volume 113, Issue 21, id.212601 (Nov 2018)
  19. "Design and Performance of the Antenna-Coupled Lumped-Element Kinetic Inductance Detector", Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Volume 193, Issue 3-4, pp. 176-183 (Nov 2018)
  20. "Measurements of the Cross Spectra of the Cosmic Infrared and Microwave Backgrounds from 95 to 1200 GHz", arXiv:1810.10643 (Oct 2018)

Latest Conference Proceedings
  1. "Broadband anti-reflective coatings for cosmic microwave background experiments", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 1070843 13 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
  2. "Characterization and performance of the second-year SPT-3G focal plane", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107081Z 13 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
  3. "The design and characterization of a 300 channel, optimized full-band millimeter filterbank for science with SuperSpec", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107081O 8 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
  4. "Year two instrument status of the SPT-3G cosmic microwave background receiver", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 1070803 21 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
  5. "Design and characterization of the SPT-3G receiver", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107081H 11 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
  6. "Measuring the Epoch of Reionization using [CII] Intensity Mapping with TIME-Pilot", American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #229, id.125.01 (Jan 2017)
  7. "Integrated performance of a frequency domain multiplexing readout in the SPT-3G receiver", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9914, id. 99141D 11 pp. (2016) (Jul 2016)
  8. "Large arrays of dual-polarized multichroic TES detectors for CMB measurements with the SPT-3G receiver", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9914, id. 991417 11 pp. (2016) (Jul 2016)
  9. "Detector modules and spectrometers for the TIME-Pilot [CII] intensity mapping experiment", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9914, id. 99140L 10 pp. (2016) (Jul 2016)
  10. "SuperSpec: development towards a full-scale filter bank", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9914, id. 99143K 9 pp. (2016) (Jul 2016)

 
Visitors
Past Visitors:
  1. Ritoban Basu Thakur, Caltech (2019)
  2. Lorenzo Moncelsi, California Institute of Technology (2015)
  3. Seth Siegel, California Institute of Technology (2015)