ANTENNA-COUPLED TES BOLOMETERS USED IN BICEP2, Keck Array, AND SPIDER

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Ade, P. A. R. [1 ]
Aikin, R. W. [2 ]
Amiri, M. [3 ]
Barkats, D. [4 ]
Benton, S. J. [5 ]
Bischoff, C. A. [6 ]
Bock, J. J. [2 ,7 ]
Bonetti, J. A. [7 ]
Brevik, J. A. [2 ]
Buder, I. [6 ]
Bullock, E. [8 ]
Chattopadhyay, G. [7 ]
Davis, G. [3 ]
Day, P. K. [7 ]
Dowell, C. D. [7 ]
Duband, L. [9 ]
Filippini, J. P. [2 ,10 ]
Fliescher, S. [11 ]
Golwala, S. R. [2 ]
Halpern, M. [3 ]
Hasselfield, M. [12 ]
Hildebrandt, S. R. [2 ,7 ]
Hilton, G. C. [13 ]
Hristov, V. [2 ]
Hui, H. [2 ]
Irwin, K. D. [13 ,14 ,15 ]
Jones, W. C. [12 ]
Karkare, K. S. [6 ]
Kaufman, J. P. [16 ]
Keating, B. G. [16 ]
Kefeli, S. [2 ]
Kernasovskiy, S. A. [14 ]
Kovac, J. M. [6 ]
Kuo, C. L. [13 ,14 ]
Leduc, H. G. [7 ]
Leitch, E. M. [17 ]
Llombart, N. [7 ]
Lueker, M. [2 ]
Mason, P. [2 ]
Megerian, K. [7 ]
Moncelsi, L. [2 ]
Netterfield, C. B. [5 ]
Nguyen, H. T. [7 ]
O'Brient, R. [2 ,7 ]
Ogburn, R. W. [14 ,15 ]
Orlando, A. [12 ]
Pryke, C. [11 ]
Rahlin, A. S. [12 ]
Reintsema, C. D. [13 ]
Richter, S. [6 ]
机构
[1] Cardiff Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[2] CALTECH, Dept Phys, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[3] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada
[4] ESO, Joint ALMA Observ, Santiago, Chile
[5] Univ Toronto, Dept Phys, Toronto, ON, Canada
[6] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[7] Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
[8] Univ Minnesota, Minnesota Inst Astrophys, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[9] Univ Grenoble Alpes, CEA INAC SBT, F-38000 Grenoble, France
[10] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Champaign, IL 61820 USA
[11] Univ Minnesota, Dept Phys, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[12] Princeton Univ, Dept Phys, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[13] Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Boulder 80305, CO USA
[14] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[15] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[16] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Phys, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[17] Univ Chicago, Kavli Inst Cosmol Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[18] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2015年 / 812卷 / 02期
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大创新基金会;
关键词
cosmic background radiation; instrumentation: detectors; instrumentation: polarimeters; methods: laboratory: solid state; techniques: polarimetric; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; QUANTUM; MILLIMETER; NOISE;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/176
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We have developed antenna-coupled transition-edge sensor bolometers for a wide range of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry experiments, including BICEP2, Keck Array, and the balloon borne SPIDER. These detectors have reached maturity and this paper reports on their design principles, overall performance, and key challenges associated with design and production. Our detector arrays repeatedly produce spectral bands with 20%-30% bandwidth at 95, 150, or 230 GHz. The integrated antenna arrays synthesize symmetric co-aligned beams with controlled side-lobe levels. Cross-polarized response on boresight is typically similar to 0.5%, consistent with cross-talk in our multiplexed readout system. End-to-end optical efficiencies in our cameras are routinely 35% or higher, with per detector sensitivities of NET similar to 300 mu K-CMB root s. Thanks to the scalability of this design, we have deployed 2560 detectors as 1280 matched pairs in Keck Array with a combined instantaneous sensitivity of similar to 9 mu K-CMB root s, as measured directly from CMB maps in the 2013 season. Similar arrays have recently flown in the SPIDER instrument, and development of this technology is ongoing.
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