SPIDER: A balloon-borne large-scale Cmb polarimeter

  • B. P. Crill
  • , P. A.R. Ade
  • , E. S. Battistelli
  • , S. Benton
  • , R. Bihary
  • , J. J. Bock
  • , J. R. Bond
  • , J. Brevik
  • , S. Bryan
  • , C. R. Contaldi
  • , O. Doré
  • , M. Farhang
  • , L. Fissel
  • , S. R. Golwala
  • , M. Halpern
  • , G. Hilton
  • , W. Holmes
  • , V. V. Hristov
  • , K. Irwin
  • , W. C. Jones
  • C. L. Kuo, A. E. Lange, C. Lawrie, C. J. MacTavish, T. G. Martin, P. Mason, T. E. Montroy, C. B. Netterfield, E. Pascale, D. Riley, J. E. Ruhl, M. C. Runyan, A. Trangsrud, C. Tucker, A. Turner, M. Viero, D. Wiebe

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Abstract

SPIDER is a balloon-borne experiment that will measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background over a large fraction of a sky at ∼ 1° resolution. Six monochromatic refracting millimeter-wave telescopes with large arrays of antenna-coupled transition-edge superconducting bolometers will provide system sensitivities of 4.2 and 3.1 μKCMB √s at 100 and 150 GHz, respectively. A rotating half-wave plate will modulate the polarization sensitivity of each telescope, controlling systematics. Bolometer arrays operating at 225 GHz and 275 GHz will allow removal of polarized galactic foregrounds. In a 2-6 day first flight from Alice Springs, Australia in 2010, SPIDER will map 50% of the sky to a depth necessary to improve our knowledge of the reionization optical depth by a large factor.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008
Subtitle of host publicationOptical, Infrared, and Millimeter
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
EventSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter - Marseille, France
Duration: Jun 23 2008Jun 28 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7010
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Other

OtherSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMarseille
Period6/23/086/28/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

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

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