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In-flight performance of SPIDER'S 280-GHz receivers

Journal Article · · Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
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  1. The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, Austin, Texas, United States
  2. Cardiff University, School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  3. Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
  4. University of British Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  5. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, United States
  6. Princeton University, Department of Physics, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
  7. California Institute of Technology, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Pasadena, California, United States
  8. University of Toronto, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  9. Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, Arizona, United States
  10. McGill University, Department of Physics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  11. Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
  12. University of Toronto, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  13. Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Astrophysics, New York, United States
  14. University of Oslo, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Oslo, Norway
  15. Shahid Beheshti University, Department of Physics, Tehran, Iran
  16. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics, Urbana, Illinois, United States
  17. Queen’s University, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  18. University of Chicago, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  19. Steward Observatory, Tuscon, Arizona, United States
  20. Université de Paris, CNRS, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Paris, France
  21. Stockholm University, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Department of Physics, Stockholm, Sweden
  22. Pennsylvania State University, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
  23. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, United States
  24. Stanford University, Department of Physics, Stanford, California, United States
  25. University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  26. Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
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SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the cosmic microwave background at degree-angular scales in the presence of Galactic foregrounds. SPIDER has mapped a large sky area in the Southern Hemisphere using more than 2000 transition-edge sensors (TESs) during two NASA Long Duration Balloon flights above the Antarctic continent. During its first flight in January 2015, SPIDER observed in the 95 GHz and 150 GHz frequency bands, setting constraints on the B-mode signature of primordial gravitational waves. Its second flight in the 2022-23 season added new receivers at 280 GHz, each using an array of TESs coupled to the sky through feedhorns formed from stacks of silicon wafers. Here, these receivers are optimized to produce deep maps of polarized Galactic dust emission over a large sky area, providing a unique data set with lasting value to the field. In this work, we describe the instrument’s performance during SPIDER'S second flight.
Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF); Swedish Research Council (VR); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
2575053
Journal Information:
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Journal Name: Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems Journal Issue: 04 Vol. 10; ISSN 2329-4124
Publisher:
SPIECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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