Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment
The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation and to characterize the polarization of galactic dust. EBEX was launched December 29, 2012 and circumnavigated Antarctica observing $\sim$6,000 square degree...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1601.07923 2023-05-15T14:03:11+02:00 Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment Aubin, Francois Aboobaker, Asad M. Ade, Peter Araujo, Derek Baccigalupi, Carlo Bao, Chaoyun Borrill, Julian Chapman, Daniel Didier, Joy Dobbs, Matt Feeney, Stephen Geach, Christopher Hanany, Shaul Helson, Kyle Hillbrand, Seth Hilton, Gene Hubmayr, Johannes Jaffe, Andrew Johnson, Bradley Jones, Terry Kisner, Theodore Klein, Jeff Korotkov, Andrei Lee, Adrian Levinson, Lorne Limon, Michele Macdermid, Kevin Marchenko, Valerie Miller, Amber D. Milligan, Michael Pascale, Enzo Puglisi, Giuseppe Raach, Kate Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt Reintsema, Carl Sagiv, Ilan Smecher, Graeme Stompor, Radek Tristram, Matthieu Tucker, Gregory S. Westbrook, Ben Young, Karl Zilic, Kyle 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1601.07923 https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07923 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics astro-ph.CO FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1601.07923 2022-04-01T11:42:30Z The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation and to characterize the polarization of galactic dust. EBEX was launched December 29, 2012 and circumnavigated Antarctica observing $\sim$6,000 square degrees of sky during 11 days at three frequency bands centered around 150, 250 and 410 GHz. EBEX was the first experiment to operate a kilo-pixel array of transition-edge sensor bolometers and a continuously rotating achromatic half-wave plate aboard a balloon platform. It also pioneered the use of detector readout based on digital frequency domain multiplexing. We describe the temperature calibration of the experiment. The gain response of the experiment is calibrated using a two-step iterative process. We use signals measured on passes across the Galactic plane to convert from readout-system counts to power. The effective smoothing scale of the EBEX optics and the star camera-to-detector offset angles are determined through \c{hi}2 minimization using the compact HII region RCW 38. This two-step process is initially performed with parameters measured before the EBEX 2013 flight and then repeated until the calibration factor and parameters converge. : 6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the 14th Marcel Grossman Conference Report Antarc* Antarctica DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics astro-ph.CO FOS Physical sciences Aubin, Francois Aboobaker, Asad M. Ade, Peter Araujo, Derek Baccigalupi, Carlo Bao, Chaoyun Borrill, Julian Chapman, Daniel Didier, Joy Dobbs, Matt Feeney, Stephen Geach, Christopher Hanany, Shaul Helson, Kyle Hillbrand, Seth Hilton, Gene Hubmayr, Johannes Jaffe, Andrew Johnson, Bradley Jones, Terry Kisner, Theodore Klein, Jeff Korotkov, Andrei Lee, Adrian Levinson, Lorne Limon, Michele Macdermid, Kevin Marchenko, Valerie Miller, Amber D. Milligan, Michael Pascale, Enzo Puglisi, Giuseppe Raach, Kate Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt Reintsema, Carl Sagiv, Ilan Smecher, Graeme Stompor, Radek Tristram, Matthieu Tucker, Gregory S. Westbrook, Ben Young, Karl Zilic, Kyle Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment |
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The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation and to characterize the polarization of galactic dust. EBEX was launched December 29, 2012 and circumnavigated Antarctica observing $\sim$6,000 square degrees of sky during 11 days at three frequency bands centered around 150, 250 and 410 GHz. EBEX was the first experiment to operate a kilo-pixel array of transition-edge sensor bolometers and a continuously rotating achromatic half-wave plate aboard a balloon platform. It also pioneered the use of detector readout based on digital frequency domain multiplexing. We describe the temperature calibration of the experiment. The gain response of the experiment is calibrated using a two-step iterative process. We use signals measured on passes across the Galactic plane to convert from readout-system counts to power. The effective smoothing scale of the EBEX optics and the star camera-to-detector offset angles are determined through \c{hi}2 minimization using the compact HII region RCW 38. This two-step process is initially performed with parameters measured before the EBEX 2013 flight and then repeated until the calibration factor and parameters converge. : 6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the 14th Marcel Grossman Conference |
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Aubin, Francois Aboobaker, Asad M. Ade, Peter Araujo, Derek Baccigalupi, Carlo Bao, Chaoyun Borrill, Julian Chapman, Daniel Didier, Joy Dobbs, Matt Feeney, Stephen Geach, Christopher Hanany, Shaul Helson, Kyle Hillbrand, Seth Hilton, Gene Hubmayr, Johannes Jaffe, Andrew Johnson, Bradley Jones, Terry Kisner, Theodore Klein, Jeff Korotkov, Andrei Lee, Adrian Levinson, Lorne Limon, Michele Macdermid, Kevin Marchenko, Valerie Miller, Amber D. Milligan, Michael Pascale, Enzo Puglisi, Giuseppe Raach, Kate Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt Reintsema, Carl Sagiv, Ilan Smecher, Graeme Stompor, Radek Tristram, Matthieu Tucker, Gregory S. Westbrook, Ben Young, Karl Zilic, Kyle |
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Aubin, Francois Aboobaker, Asad M. Ade, Peter Araujo, Derek Baccigalupi, Carlo Bao, Chaoyun Borrill, Julian Chapman, Daniel Didier, Joy Dobbs, Matt Feeney, Stephen Geach, Christopher Hanany, Shaul Helson, Kyle Hillbrand, Seth Hilton, Gene Hubmayr, Johannes Jaffe, Andrew Johnson, Bradley Jones, Terry Kisner, Theodore Klein, Jeff Korotkov, Andrei Lee, Adrian Levinson, Lorne Limon, Michele Macdermid, Kevin Marchenko, Valerie Miller, Amber D. Milligan, Michael Pascale, Enzo Puglisi, Giuseppe Raach, Kate Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt Reintsema, Carl Sagiv, Ilan Smecher, Graeme Stompor, Radek Tristram, Matthieu Tucker, Gregory S. Westbrook, Ben Young, Karl Zilic, Kyle |
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Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment |
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Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment |
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