In-flight performance of Spider's 280-GHz receivers

Elle C. Shaw; Peter A.R. Ade; Scott Akers; Mandana Amiri; Jason Austermann; James Beall; Daniel T. Becker; Steven J. Benton; Amanda S. Bergman; James J. Bock; John R. Bond; Sean A. Bryan; H. Cynthia Chiang; Carlo R. Contaldi; Rachel S. Domagalski; Olivier Doré; Shannon M. Duff; Adri J. Duivenvoorden; Hans K. Eriksen; Marzeih Farhang; Jeffrey P. Filippini; Laura M. Fissel; Aurelien A. Fraisse; Katherine Freese; Mathew Galloway; Anne E. Gambrel; Natalie N. Gandilo; Kenneth Ganga; Sho M. Gibbs; Suren Gourapura; Arpi Grigorian; Ricardo Gualtieri; Jón E. Gudmundsson; Mark Halpern; John Hartley; Matthew Hasselfield; Gene Hilton; Warren Holmes; Viktor V. Hristov; Zhiqi Huang; Johannes Hubmayr; Kent D. Irwin; William C. Jones; Asad Kahn; Zigmund D. Kermish; Cesiley King; Calvin L. Kuo; Amber R. Lennox; Jason S.Y. Leung; Steven Li; Thuy Vy T. Luu; Peter V. Mason; Jared May; Krikor Megerian; Lorenzo Moncelsi; Thomas A. Morford; Johanna M. Nagy; Rong Nie; Calvin B. Netterfield; Michael Nolta; Benjamin Osherson; Ivan L. Padilla; Alexandra S. Rahlin; Susan Redmond; Carl Reintsema; L. Javier Romualdez; John E. Ruhl; Marcus C. Runyan; Jamil A. Shariff; Corwin Shiu; Juan D. Soler; Xue Song; Simon Tartakovsky; Harald Thommesen; Amy Trangsrud; Carole Tucker; Anthony D. Turner; Joel Ullom; Joseph F. Van Der List; Jeff Van Lanen; Michael R. Vissers; Alexis C. Weber; Ingunn K. Wehus; Shyang Wen; Donald V. Wiebe; Edward Y. Young

doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.10.4.044012

In-flight performance of Spider's 280-GHz receivers

Elle C. Shaw, Peter A.R. Ade, Scott Akers, Mandana Amiri, Jason Austermann, James Beall, Daniel T. Becker, Steven J. Benton, Amanda S. Bergman, James J. Bock, John R. Bond, Sean A. Bryan, H. Cynthia Chiang, Carlo R. Contaldi, Rachel S. Domagalski, Olivier Doré, Shannon M. Duff, Adri J. Duivenvoorden, Hans K. Eriksen, Marzeih FarhangJeffrey P. Filippini, Laura M. Fissel, Aurelien A. Fraisse, Katherine Freese, Mathew Galloway, Anne E. Gambrel, Natalie N. Gandilo, Kenneth Ganga, Sho M. Gibbs, Suren Gourapura, Arpi Grigorian, Ricardo Gualtieri, Jón E. Gudmundsson, Mark Halpern, John Hartley, Matthew Hasselfield, Gene Hilton, Warren Holmes, Viktor V. Hristov, Zhiqi Huang, Johannes Hubmayr, Kent D. Irwin, William C. Jones, Asad Kahn, Zigmund D. Kermish, Cesiley King, Calvin L. Kuo, Amber R. Lennox, Jason S.Y. Leung, Steven Li, Thuy Vy T. Luu, Peter V. Mason, Jared May, Krikor Megerian, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Thomas A. Morford, Johanna M. Nagy, Rong Nie, Calvin B. Netterfield, Michael Nolta, Benjamin Osherson, Ivan L. Padilla, Alexandra S. Rahlin, Susan Redmond, Carl Reintsema, L. Javier Romualdez, John E. Ruhl, Marcus C. Runyan, Jamil A. Shariff, Corwin Shiu, Juan D. Soler, Xue Song, Simon Tartakovsky, Harald Thommesen, Amy Trangsrud, Carole Tucker, Anthony D. Turner, Joel Ullom, Joseph F. Van Der List, Jeff Van Lanen, Michael R. Vissers, Alexis C. Weber, Ingunn K. Wehus, Shyang Wen, Donald V. Wiebe, Edward Y. Young

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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 was observed in the 95- and 150-GHz frequency bands, setting constraints on the B-mode signature of primordial gravitational waves. Its second flight in the 2022-2023 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. We describe the instrument's performance during Spider's second flight, focusing on the performance of the 280-GHz receivers. We include details on the flight, in-band optical loading at float, and an early analysis of detector noise.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	044012
Journal	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Volume	10
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.10.4.044012
State	Published - Oct 1 2024

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Control and Systems Engineering
Instrumentation
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mechanical Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

Keywords

S pider
cosmic microwave background
polarization
scientific ballooning
transition-edge sensor

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Shaw, E. C., Ade, P. A. R., Akers, S., Amiri, M., Austermann, J., Beall, J., 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., Doré, O., Duff, S. M., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., ... Young, E. Y. (2024). In-flight performance of Spider's 280-GHz receivers. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 10(4), Article 044012. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.10.4.044012

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