Design and characterization of the SPT-3G receiver

The SPT-3G receiver was commissioned in early 2017 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) to map anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). New optics, detector, and readout technologies have yielded a multichroic, high-resolution, low-noise camera with impressive throughput and sens...

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Main Authors: Sobrin, J. A., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderson, A. J., Avva, J. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Cliche, J. F., Cukierman, A., de Haan, T., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Foster, A., Gallichio, J., Gilbert, A., Groh, J. C., Guns, S. T., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Holzapfel, W. L., Huang, N., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Khaire, T. S., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. L., Lee, A. T., Lowitz, A. E., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Pearson, J., Posada, C. M., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Shirokoff, E., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Thompson, K. L., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., Young, M.
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Published: arXiv 2018
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1809.00032
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00032
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Summary:The SPT-3G receiver was commissioned in early 2017 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) to map anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). New optics, detector, and readout technologies have yielded a multichroic, high-resolution, low-noise camera with impressive throughput and sensitivity, offering the potential to improve our understanding of inflationary physics, astroparticle physics, and growth of structure. We highlight several key features and design principles of the new receiver, and summarize its performance to date. : Conference Presentation at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018, conference 10708