In-Flight Performance of SPIDER's 280 GHz Receivers

E. C. Shaw, P. A.R. Ade, S. Akers, M. Amiri, J. Austermann, J. Beall, D. T. Becker, S. J. Benton, A. S. Bergman, J. J. Bock, J. R. Bond, S. A. Bryan, H. C. Chiang, C. R. Contaldi, R. S. Domagalski, O. Doré, S. M. Duff, A. J. Duivenvoorden, H. K. Eriksen, M. FarhangJ. P. Filippini, L. M. Fissel, A. A. Fraisse, K. Freese, M. Galloway, A. E. Gambrel, N. N. Gandilo, K. Ganga, S. M. Gibbs, S. Gourapura, A. Grigorian, R. Gualtieri, J. E. Gudmundsson, M. Halpern, J. Hartley, M. Hasselfield, G. Hilton, W. Holmes, V. V. Hristov, Z. Huang, J. Hubmayr, K. D. Irwin, W. C. Jones, A. Kahn, Z. D. Kermish, C. King, C. L. Kuo, A. R. Lennox, J. S.Y. Leung, S. Li, T. V. Luu, P. V. Mason, J. May, K. Megerian, L. Moncelsi, T. A. Morford, J. M. Nagy, R. Nie, C. B. Netterfield, M. Nolta, B. Osherson, I. L. Padilla, A. S. Rahlin, S. Redmond, C. Reintsema, L. J. Romualdez, J. E. Ruhl, M. C. Runyan, J. A. Shariff, C. Shiu, J. D. Soler, X. Song, S. Tartakovsky, H. Thommesen, A. Trangsrud, C. Tucker, R. S. Tucker, A. D. Turner, J. Ullom, J. F. van der List, J. Van Lanen, M. R. Vissers, A. C. Weber, S. Wen, I. K. Wehus, D. V. Wiebe, E. Y. Young

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Abstract

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. 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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMillimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII
EditorsJonas Zmuidzinas, Jian-Rong Gao, Jian-Rong Gao
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510675278
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
EventMillimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII 2024 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: Jun 18 2024Jun 22 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume13102
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceMillimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII 2024
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period6/18/246/22/24

Keywords

  • 280 GHz cosmology
  • cosmic microwave background
  • feedhorn coupled transition-edge sensors
  • scientific ballooning
  • Spider

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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