The performance of the bolometer array and readout system during the 2012/2013 flight of the E and B experiment (EBEX)

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العنوان: The performance of the bolometer array and readout system during the 2012/2013 flight of the E and B experiment (EBEX)
المؤلفون: MacDermid, Kevin, Aboobaker, Asad M., Ade, Peter, Aubin, Francois, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bandura, Kevin, Bao, Chaoyun, Borrill, Julian, Chapman, Daniel, Didier, Joy, Dobbs, Matt, Grain, Julien, Grainger, Will, Hanany, Shaul, Helson, Kyle, Hillbrand, Seth, Hilton, Gene, Hubmayr, Hannes, Irwin, Kent, Johnson, Bradley, Jaffe, Andrew, Jones, Terry, Kisner, Ted, Klein, Jeff, Korotkov, Andrei, Lee, Adrian, Levinson, Lorne, Limon, Michele, Miller, Amber, Milligan, Michael, Pascale, Enzo, Raach, Kate, Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt, Reintsema, Carl, Sagiv, Ilan, Smecher, Graeme, Stompor, Radek, Tristram, Matthieu, Tucker, Greg, Westbrook, Ben, Zilic, Kyle
سنة النشر: 2014
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: EBEX is a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. During its eleven day science flight in the Austral Summer of 2012, it operated 955 spider-web transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers separated into bands at 150, 250 and 410 GHz. This is the first time that an array of TES bolometers has been used on a balloon platform to conduct science observations. Polarization sensitivity was provided by a wire grid and continuously rotating half-wave plate. The balloon implementation of the bolometer array and readout electronics presented unique development requirements. Here we present an outline of the readout system, the remote tuning of the bolometers and Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) amplifiers, and preliminary current noise of the bolometer array and readout system.
Comment: 15 pages, 12 figures, SPIE conference proceedings
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1117/12.2056267
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6894
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1407.6894
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv