Design and pre-flight performance of SPIDER 280 GHz receivers
- Shaw, E. C.
- Ade, P. A. R.
- Akers, S.
- Amiri, M.
- Austermann, Jason E.
- Beall, James A.
- Becker, D.T.
- Benton, S.J.
- Bergman, A. S.
- Bock, J.J.
- Bond, J.R.
- Bryan, S.A.
- Chiang, H.C.
- Contaldi, C.R.
- Domagalski, R.S.
- Dore, O.
- Duff, S. M.
- Duivenvoorden, A.J.
- Eriksen, H.K.
- Farhang, M.
- Filippini, J. P.
- Fissel, L.M.
- Fraisse, A.A.
- Freese, K.
- Galloway, M.
- Gambrel, A. E.
- Gandilo, N.N.
- Ganga, K.
- Grigorian, A.
- Gualtieri, R
- Gudmundsson, J.E.
- Halpern, M.
- Hartley, J.
- Hasselfield, M.
- Hilton, G.
- Holmes, W.
- Hristov, V.V.
- Huang, Z.
- Hubmayr, Johannes
- Irwin, K.D.
- Jones, W.C.
- Kahn, A.
- Kuo, C.L.
- Kermish, Z.D.
- Lennox, A.
- Leung, J. S.-Y.
- Megerian, K.
- Reintsema, C.
- Li, S.
- Mason, P.V.
- Runyan, M. C.
- Moncelsi, L.
- Morford, T.A.
- Nagy, J.M.
- Nie, R.
- Mocanu, L. M.
- Padilla, I.L.
- Netterfield, C. B.
- Osherson, B.
- Rahlin, A.S.
- Redmond, S.
- Turner, A. D.
- Romualdez, L.J.
- Nolta, M.
- Ruhl, J.E.
- Shariff, J.A.
- Shiu, C.
- Soler, J.D.
- Song, X.
- Trangsrud, A.
- Thommesen, H.
- Tucker, C.
- Tucker, R.S.
- Ullom, Joel
- van der List, J.F.
- Van Lanen, Jeff
- Vissers, M. R.
- Weber, A. C.
- Wen, S.
- Wehus, I.K.
- Wiebe, D.V.
- Young, E.Y.
- Zmuidzinas, Jonas
- Gao, Jian-Rong
DOIAbstract
In this work we describe upgrades to the Spider balloon-borne telescope in preparation for its second flight, currently planned for December 2021. The Spider instrument is optimized to search for a primordial B-mode polarization signature in the cosmic microwave background at degree angular scales. During its first flight in 2015, Spider mapped ~10% of the sky at 95 and 150 GHz. The payload for the second Antarctic flight will incorporate three new 280 GHz receivers alongside three refurbished 95- and 150 GHz receivers from Spider's first flight. In this work we discuss the design and characterization of these new receivers, which employ over 1500 feedhorn-coupled transition-edge sensors. We describe pre-flight laboratory measurements of de...
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