On-sky Performance of the CLASS Q-band Telescope

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作者
Appel, John W. [1 ]
Xu, Zhilei [1 ,2 ]
Padilla, Ivan L. [1 ]
Harrington, Kathleen [1 ,3 ]
Pradenas Marquez, Bastian [4 ]
Ali, Aamir [1 ,5 ]
Bennett, Charles L. [1 ]
Brewer, Michael K. [1 ]
Bustos, Ricardo [6 ]
Chan, Manwei [1 ]
Chuss, David T. [7 ]
Cleary, Joseph [1 ]
Couto, Jullianna [1 ]
Dahal, Sumit [1 ]
Denis, Kevin [8 ]
Dunner, Rolando [9 ,10 ]
Eimer, Joseph R. [1 ]
Essinger-Hileman, Thomas [8 ]
Fluxa, Pedro [9 ,10 ]
Gothe, Dominik [1 ]
Hilton, Gene C. [11 ]
Hubmayr, Johannes [11 ]
Iuliano, Jeffrey [1 ]
Karakla, John [1 ]
Marriage, Tobias A. [1 ]
Miller, Nathan J. [1 ,8 ]
Nunez, Carolina [1 ]
Parker, Lucas [1 ,12 ]
Petroff, Matthew [1 ]
Reintsema, Carl D. [1 ]
Rostem, Karwan [8 ]
Stevens, Robert W. [11 ]
Valle, Deniz Augusto Nunes [1 ]
Wang, Bingjie [1 ]
Watts, Duncan J. [1 ]
Wollack, Edward J. [8 ]
Zeng, Lingzhen [13 ]
机构
[1] Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, 3701 San Martin Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[2] Univ Penn, Dept Phys & Astron, 209 South 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[3] Univ Michigan, Dept Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[4] Univ Chile, Dept Fis, FCFM, Blanco Encalada 2008, Santiago, Chile
[5] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[6] Univ Catolica Santisima Concepcion, Fac Ingn, Alonso de Ribera 2850, Concepcion, Chile
[7] Villanova Univ, Dept Phys, 800 Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA 19085 USA
[8] Goddard Space Flight Ctr, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[9] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Fac Fis, Inst Astrofis, Av Vicuna Mackenna 4860, Santiago 7820436, Chile
[10] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Fac Fis, Ctr Astroingn, Av Vicuna Mackenna 4860, Santiago 7820436, Chile
[11] NIST, Quantum Sensors Grp, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305 USA
[12] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Space & Remote Sensing, MS D436, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA
[13] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2019年 / 876卷 / 02期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; inflation; instrumentation: detectors; ISM: supernova remnants; Moon; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE SCENARIO; PROBE WMAP OBSERVATIONS; PHASE-TRANSITION; MICROWAVE; POLARIZATION; MILLIMETER; SUBMILLIMETER; TEMPERATURE; NOISE; BOLOMETERS;
D O I
10.3847/1538-4357/ab1652
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is mapping the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at large angular scales (2 < l less than or similar to 200) in search of a primordial gravitational wave B-mode signal down to a tensor-to-scalar ratio of r approximate to 0.01. The same data set will provide a near sample-variance-limited measurement of the optical depth to reionization. Between 2016 June and 2018 March, CLASS completed the largest ground-based Q-band CMB survey to date, covering over 31,000. square-degrees (75% of the sky), with an instantaneous array noise-equivalent temperature sensitivity of 32 mu K-cmb root s. We demonstrate that the detector optical loading (1.6 pW) and noise-equivalent power (19 aW root s) match the expected noise model dominated by photon bunching noise. We derive a 13.1 +/- 0.3 K pW(-1) calibration to antenna temperature based on Moon observations, which translates to an optical efficiency of 0.48 +/- 0.02 and a 27 K system noise temperature. Finally, we report a Tau A flux density of 308 +/- 11 Jy at 38.4 +/- 0.2 GHz, consistent with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Tau A time-dependent spectral flux density model.
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