Thermal architecture for a cryogenic super-pressure balloon payload: design and development of the Taurus flight cryostat

Autor: Tartakovsky, Simon, Adler, Alexandre E., Austermann, Jason E., Benton, Steven J., Bihary, Rick, Durking, Malcolm, Duff, Shannon M., Filippini, Jeffrey P., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gascard, Thomas J. L. J., Gibbs, Sho M., Gourapura, Suren, Gudmundsson, Jon E., Hartley, John W., Hubmayr, Johannes, Jones, William C., Li, Steven, May, Jared L., Nagy, Johanna M., Okun, Kate, Padilla, Ivan L., Romualdez, L. Javier, Vissers, Michael R.

Publikováno v: SPIE 2024 Conference 13094, Paper 13094-112

We describe the cryogenic system being developed for Taurus: a super-pressure balloon-borne microwave polarimeter scheduled to fly in 2027. The Taurus cryogenic system consists of a 660L liquid helium cryostat which achieves a base temperature of <10

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18150

In-Flight Performance of Spider's 280 GHz Receivers

Autor: Shaw, Elle 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., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fissel, L. M., Fraisse, A. A., Freese, K., Galloway, M., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Ganga, K., Gibbs, S. M., Gourapura, S., Grigorian, A., Gualtieri, R., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hartley, J., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V. V., Huang, Z., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Kahn, A., Kermish, Z. D., King, C., Kuo, C. L., Lennox, A. R., Leung, J. S. -Y., Li, S., Luu, T. V., Mason, P. V., May, J., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Nagy, J. M., Nie, R., Netterfield, C. B., Nolta, M., Osherson, B., Padilla, I. L., Rahlin, A. S., Redmond, S., Reintsema, C., Romualdez, L. J., Ruhl, J. E., Runyan, M. C., Shariff, J. A., Shiu, C., Soler, J. D., Song, X., Tartakovsky, S., Thommesen, H., Trangsrud, A., Tucker, C., Tucker, R. S., Turner, A. D., Ullom, J., van der List, J. F., Van Lanen, J., Vissers, M. R., Weber, A. C., Wehus, I. K., Wen, S., Wiebe, D. V., Young, E. Y.

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

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10444

Instrument Overview of Taurus: A Balloon-borne CMB and Dust Polarization Experiment

Autor: May, Jared L., Adler, Alexandre E., Austermann, Jason E., Benton, Steven J., Bihary, Rick, Durkin, Malcolm, Duff, Shannon M., Filippini, Jeffrey P., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gascard, Thomas J. L. J., Gibbs, Sho M., Gourapura, Suren, Gudmundsson, Jon E., Hartley, John W., Hubmayr, Johannes, Jones, William C., Li, Steven, Nagy, Johanna M., Okun, Kate, Padilla, Ivan L., Romualdez, L. Javier, Tartakovsky, Simon, Vissers, Michael R.

Taurus is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment optimized to map the E-mode polarization and Galactic foregrounds at the largest angular scales ($\ell$ $\lt$ 30) and improve measurements of the optical depth to reionization ($\

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01438

The Simons Observatory: Studies of Detector Yield and Readout Noise From the First Large-Scale Deployment of Microwave Multiplexing at the Large Aperture Telescope

Autor: Satterthwaite, Thomas P., Ahmed, Zeeshan, Bae, Kyuyoung, Devlin, Mark, Dicker, Simon, Duff, Shannon M., Dutcher, Daniel, Haridas, Saianeesh K., Henderson, Shawn W., Hubmayr, Johannes, Johnson, Bradley R., Kofman, Anna, Lashner, Jack, Link, Michael J., Lucas, Tammy J., Manduca, Alex, Niemack, Michael D., Orlowski-Scherer, John, Pinsonneault-Marotte, Tristan, Silva-Feaver, Max, Staggs, Suzanne, Vavagiakis, Eve M., Wang, Yuhan, Zheng, Kaiwen

Publikováno v: Proc. SPIE 13102, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII. 1310223 (2024)

The Simons Observatory is a new ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, which is currently being commissioned in Chile's Atacama Desert. During its survey, the observatory's small aperture telescopes will map 10% of the sky in bands cent

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01844

The Simons Observatory: Design, integration, and testing of the small aperture telescopes

Autor: Galitzki, Nicholas, Tsan, Tran, Spisak, Jake, Randall, Michael, Silva-Feaver, Max, Seibert, Joseph, Lashner, Jacob, Adachi, Shunsuke, Adkins, Sean M., Alford, Thomas, Arnold, Kam, Ashton, Peter C., Austermann, Jason E., Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bazarko, Andrew, Beall, James A., Bhimani, Sanah, Bixler, Bryce, Coppi, Gabriele, Corbett, Lance, Crowley, Kevin D., Crowley, Kevin T., Day-Weiss, Samuel, Dicker, Simon, Dow, Peter N., Duell, Cody J., Duff, Shannon M., Gerras, Remington G., Groh, John C., Gudmundsson, Jon E., Harrington, Kathleen, Hasegawa, Masaya, Healy, Erin, Henderson, Shawn W., Hubmayr, Johannes, Iuliano, Jeffrey, Johnson, Bradley R., Keating, Brian, Keller, Ben, Kiuchi, Kenji, Kofman, Anna M., Koopman, Brian J., Kusaka, Akito, Lee, Adrian T., Lew, Richard A., Lin, Lawrence T., Link, Michael J, Lucas, Tammy J., Lungu, Marius, Mangu, Aashrita, McMahon, Jeffrey J, Miller, Amber D., Moore, Jenna E., Morshed, Magdy, Nakata, Hironobu, Nati, Federico, Newburgh, Laura B., Nguyen, David V., Niemack, Michael D., Page, Lyman A., Sakaguri, Kana, Sakurai, Yuki, Rao, Mayuri Sathyanarayana, Saunders, Lauren J., Shroyer, Jordan E., Sugiyama, Junna, Tajima, Osamu, Takeuchi, Atsuto, Bua, Refilwe Tanah, Teply, Grant, Terasaki, Tomoki, Ullom, Joel N., Van Lanen, Jeffrey L., Vavagiakis, Eve M., Vissers, Michael R, Walters, Liam, Wang, Yuhan, Xu, Zhilei, Yamada, Kyohei, Zheng, Kaiwen

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that includes small-aperture telescopes (SATs) observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO SATs will cover six spectral bands betwee

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05550