Pre-flight integration and characterization of the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope

• Published in: SPIE Proceedings, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
• Main Authors: Rahlin, A. S., Bock, J. J., Crill, B. P., Doré, O., Filippini, J. P., Golwala, S., Hristov, V. V., Mason, P. V., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., O'Brient, R., Tucker, R. S.
• Other Authors: Holland, Wayne S., Zmuidzinas, Jonas
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 2014
• Subjects: SPIDER; cosmic microwave background; polarization; inflation; transition-edge sensor; scientific ballooning; millimeter wave instrumentation; cosmology; Antarctic; Canada; Soler; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055683

We present the results of integration and characterization of the Spider instrument after the 2013 pre-flight campaign. Spider is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to probe the primordial gravitational wave signal in the degree-scale B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background. With si...