The performance of the bolometer array and readout system during the 2012/2013 flight of the E and B experiment (EBEX)
| dc.contributor.author | MacDermid, Kevin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aboobaker, Asad M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ade, Peter | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aubin, François | |
| dc.contributor.author | Helson, Kyle | |
| dc.contributor.author | et al | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-24T20:20:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-24T20:20:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-07-23 | |
| dc.description | SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada | en_US |
| dc.description | Authors: Kevin MacDermid, Asad M. Aboobaker, Peter Ade, François Aubin, Carlo Baccigalupi, Kevin Bandura, Chaoyun Bao, Julian Borrill, Daniel Chapman, Joy Didier, Matt Dobbs, Julien Grain, William Grainger, Shaul Hanany, Kyle Helson, Seth Hillbrand, Gene Hilton, Hannes Hubmayr, Kent Irwin, Bradley Johnson, Andrew Jaffe, Terry Jones, Ted Kisner, Jeff Klein, Andrei Korotkov, Adrian Lee, Lorne Levinson, Michele Limon, Amber Miller, Michael Milligan, Enzo Pascale, Katherine Raach, Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud, Carl Reintsema, Ilan Sagiv, Graeme Smecher, Radek Stompor, Matthieu Tristram, Greg Tucker, Ben Westbrook, Kyle Zilic | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | EBEX is a NASA supported mission through grant numbers NNX08AG40G and NNX07AP36H. We thank Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility for their enthusiastic support of EBEX. We also acknowledge support from NSF, CNRS, Minnesota Super Computing Institute, Minnesota and Rhode Island Space Grant Consortia, the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK, Sigma Xi, and funding from collaborating institutions. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The McGill authors acknowledge funding from the Canadian Space Agency, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Canada Research Chairs program. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9153/1/The-performance-of-the-bolometer-array-and-readout-system-during/10.1117/12.2056267.short | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 16 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | Conference papers and proceedings | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2e9wg-gfjk | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kevin MacDermid, Asad M. Aboobaker, Peter Ade, François Aubin, Carlo Baccigalupi, Kevin Bandura, Chaoyun Bao, Julian Borrill, Daniel Chapman, Joy Didier, Matt Dobbs, Julien Grain, William Grainger, Shaul Hanany, Kyle Helson, Seth Hillbrand, Gene Hilton, Hannes Hubmayr, Kent Irwin, Bradley Johnson, Andrew Jaffe, Terry Jones, Ted Kisner, Jeff Klein, Andrei Korotkov, Adrian Lee, Lorne Levinson, Michele Limon, Amber Miller, Michael Milligan, Enzo Pascale, Katherine Raach, Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud, Carl Reintsema, Ilan Sagiv, Graeme Smecher, Radek Stompor, Matthieu Tristram, Greg Tucker, Ben Westbrook, Kyle Zilic, "The performance of the bolometer array and readout system during the 2012/2013 flight of the E and B experiment (EBEX)," Proc. SPIE 9153, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 915311 (23 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056267 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056267 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/25045 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | SPIE | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology | |
| dc.rights | This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law. | en_US |
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| dc.title | The performance of the bolometer array and readout system during the 2012/2013 flight of the E and B experiment (EBEX) | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9238-4918 | en_US |