Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season. BLAST-TNG will detect submillimeter polarized interstellar...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1808.08489 2023-05-15T13:49:54+02:00 Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays Lourie, Nathan P. Ade, Peter A. R. Angile, Francisco E. Ashton, Peter C. Austermann, Jason E. Devlin, Mark J. Dober, Bradley Galitzki, Nicholas Gao, Jiansong Gordon, Sam Groppi, Christopher E. Klein, Jeffrey Hilton, Gene C. Hubmayr, Johannes Li, Dale Lowe, Ian Mani, Hamdi Mauskopf, Philip McKenney, Christopher M. Nati, Federico Novak, Giles Pascale, Enzo Pisano, Giampaolo Sinclair, Adrian Soler, Juan D. Tucker, Carole Ullom, Joel Vissers, Michael Williams, Paul A. 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1808.08489 https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08489 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2314396 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1808.08489 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314396 2022-04-01T09:16:34Z The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season. BLAST-TNG will detect submillimeter polarized interstellar dust emission, tracing magnetic fields in galactic molecular clouds. BLAST-TNG will be the first polarimeter with the sensitivity and resolution to probe the $\sim$0.1 parsec-scale features that are critical to understanding the origin of structures in the interstellar medium. BLAST-TNG features three detector arrays operating at wavelengths of 250, 350, and 500 $μ$m (1200, 857, and 600 GHz) comprised of 918, 469, and 272 dual-polarization pixels, respectively. Each pixel is made up of two crossed microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). These arrays are cooled to 275 mK in a cryogenic receiver. Each MKID has a different resonant frequency, allowing hundreds of resonators to be read out on a single transmission line. This inherent ability to be frequency-domain multiplexed simplifies the cryogenic readout hardware, but requires careful optical testing to map out the physical location of each resonator on the focal plane. Receiver-level optical testing was carried out using both a cryogenic source mounted to a movable xy-stage with a shutter, and a beam-filling, heated blackbody source able to provide a 10-50 $^\circ$C temperature chop. The focal plane array noise properties, responsivity, polarization efficiency, instrumental polarization were measured. We present the preflight characterization of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic system and array-level optical testing of the MKID detector arrays in the flight receiver. : 15 pages, 7 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference Text Antarc* Antarctica DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) McMurdo Station ENVELOPE(166.667,166.667,-77.850,-77.850) |
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The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season. BLAST-TNG will detect submillimeter polarized interstellar dust emission, tracing magnetic fields in galactic molecular clouds. BLAST-TNG will be the first polarimeter with the sensitivity and resolution to probe the $\sim$0.1 parsec-scale features that are critical to understanding the origin of structures in the interstellar medium. BLAST-TNG features three detector arrays operating at wavelengths of 250, 350, and 500 $μ$m (1200, 857, and 600 GHz) comprised of 918, 469, and 272 dual-polarization pixels, respectively. Each pixel is made up of two crossed microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). These arrays are cooled to 275 mK in a cryogenic receiver. Each MKID has a different resonant frequency, allowing hundreds of resonators to be read out on a single transmission line. This inherent ability to be frequency-domain multiplexed simplifies the cryogenic readout hardware, but requires careful optical testing to map out the physical location of each resonator on the focal plane. Receiver-level optical testing was carried out using both a cryogenic source mounted to a movable xy-stage with a shutter, and a beam-filling, heated blackbody source able to provide a 10-50 $^\circ$C temperature chop. The focal plane array noise properties, responsivity, polarization efficiency, instrumental polarization were measured. We present the preflight characterization of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic system and array-level optical testing of the MKID detector arrays in the flight receiver. : 15 pages, 7 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference |
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Lourie, Nathan P. Ade, Peter A. R. Angile, Francisco E. Ashton, Peter C. Austermann, Jason E. Devlin, Mark J. Dober, Bradley Galitzki, Nicholas Gao, Jiansong Gordon, Sam Groppi, Christopher E. Klein, Jeffrey Hilton, Gene C. Hubmayr, Johannes Li, Dale Lowe, Ian Mani, Hamdi Mauskopf, Philip McKenney, Christopher M. Nati, Federico Novak, Giles Pascale, Enzo Pisano, Giampaolo Sinclair, Adrian Soler, Juan D. Tucker, Carole Ullom, Joel Vissers, Michael Williams, Paul A. |
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Lourie, Nathan P. Ade, Peter A. R. Angile, Francisco E. Ashton, Peter C. Austermann, Jason E. Devlin, Mark J. Dober, Bradley Galitzki, Nicholas Gao, Jiansong Gordon, Sam Groppi, Christopher E. Klein, Jeffrey Hilton, Gene C. Hubmayr, Johannes Li, Dale Lowe, Ian Mani, Hamdi Mauskopf, Philip McKenney, Christopher M. Nati, Federico Novak, Giles Pascale, Enzo Pisano, Giampaolo Sinclair, Adrian Soler, Juan D. Tucker, Carole Ullom, Joel Vissers, Michael Williams, Paul A. |
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Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays |
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Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays |
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Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays |
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