Pre-flight integration and characterization of the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope
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...
Published in: | SPIE Proceedings, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Book Part |
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Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
2014
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055683 |