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SPIDER: a balloon-borne CMB polarimeter for large angular scales Amiri, Mandana; Burger, Bryce; Halpern, Mark; Hasselfield, Matthew
Abstract
We describe SPIDER, a balloon-borne instrument to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky with degree angular resolution. Spider consists of six monochromatic refracting telescopes, each illuminating a focal plane of large-format antenna-coupled bolometer arrays. A total of 2,624 superconducting transition-edge sensors are distributed among three observing bands centered at 90, 150, and 280 GHz. A cold half-wave plate at the aperture of each telescope modulates the polarization of incoming light to control systematics. SPIDER's first flight will be a 20-30-day Antarctic balloon campaign in December 2011. This flight will map ~8% of the sky to achieve unprecedented sensitivity to the polarization signature of the gravitational wave background predicted by inflationary cosmology. The SPIDER mission will also serve as a proving ground for these detector technologies in preparation for a future satellite mission. Copyright 2010 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
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SPIDER: a balloon-borne CMB polarimeter for large angular scales
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Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
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2010
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We describe SPIDER, a balloon-borne instrument to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky with degree angular
resolution. Spider consists of six monochromatic refracting telescopes, each illuminating a focal plane of large-format
antenna-coupled bolometer arrays. A total of 2,624 superconducting transition-edge sensors are distributed among three
observing bands centered at 90, 150, and 280 GHz. A cold half-wave plate at the aperture of each telescope modulates the
polarization of incoming light to control systematics. SPIDER's first flight will be a 20-30-day Antarctic balloon campaign
in December 2011. This flight will map ~8% of the sky to achieve unprecedented sensitivity to the polarization signature
of the gravitational wave background predicted by inflationary cosmology. The SPIDER mission will also serve as a proving
ground for these detector technologies in preparation for a future satellite mission.
Copyright 2010 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution,
duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
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eng
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2011-09-13
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0107571
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Filippini, Jeffrey P.; Ade, Peter A. R.; Amiri, Mandana; Benton, Steven J.; Bihary, Richard; Bock, James J.; Bond, J. Richard; Bonetti, Joseph A.; Bryan, Sean A.; Burger, Bryce; Chiang, H. Cynthia; Contaldi, Carlo R.; Crill, Brendan P.; Dore, Olivier; Farhang, Marzieh; Fissel, Laura M.; Gandilo, Natalie N.; Golwala, Sunil R.; Gudmundsson, Jon E.; Halpern, Mark; Hasselfield, Matthew; Hilton, Gene C.; Holmes, Warren; Hristov, Viktor V.; Irwin, Kent D.; Jones, William C; Kuo, Chao Lin; MacTavish, Carrie J.; Mason, Peter V.; Montory, Thomas E.; Morford, Tracy A.; Netterfield, C. Barth; O'Dea, Daniel T.; , Rahlin, Alexandra S.; Reintsema, Carl D.; Ruhl, John E.; Runyan, Marcus C.; Schenker, Matthew A.; Shariff, Jamil A.; Soler, Juan Diego; Trangsrud, Amy R.; Tucker, Carole E.; Tucker, Rebecca S.; Turner, Anthony D. SPIDER: a balloon-borne CMB polarimeter for large angular scales. Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy V, edited by Holland, Wayne S.; Jonas Zmuidzina, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 7741, 77411N, 2010.
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10.1117/12.857720
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Reviewed
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Faculty
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Halpern, Mark
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