280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the SPIDER-2 Suborbital Polarimeter

• Main Authors: Bergman, AS, Ade, PAR, Akers, S, Amiri, M, Austermann, JA, Beall, JA, Becker, DT, Benton, SJ, Bock, JJ, Bond, JR, Bryan, SA, Chiang, HC, Contaldi, CR, Domagalski, RS, Doré, O, Duff, SM, Duivenvoorden, AJ, Eriksen, HK, Farhang, M, Filippini, JP, Fissel, LM, Fraisse, AA, Freese, K, Galloway, M, Gambrel, AE, Gandilo, NN, Ganga, K, Grigorian, A, Gualtieri, R, Gudmundsson, JE, Halpern, M, Hartley, J, Hasselfield, M, Hilton, G, Holmes, W, Hristov, VV, Huang, Z, Hubmayr, J, Irwin, KD, Jones, WC, Khan, A, Kuo, CL, Kermish, ZD, Li, S, Mason, PV, Megerian, K, Moncelsi, L, Morford, TA, Nagy, JM, Netterfield, CB, Nolta, M, Osherson, B, Padilla, IL, Racine, B, Rahlin, AS, Redmond, S, Reintsema, C, Romualdez, LJ, Ruhl, JE, Runyan, MC, Ruud, TM, Shariff, JA, Shaw, EC, Shiu, C, Soler, JD, Song, X, Trangsrud, A, Tucker, C, Tucker, RS, Turner, AD, Ullom, J, List, JFVD, Lanen, JV, Vissers, MR, Weber, AC, Wehus, IK, Wen, S, Wiebe, DV, Young, EY
• Other Authors: Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Science and Technology Facilities Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: astro-ph.IM; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/54751; http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04169v2

We describe the construction and characterization of the 280 GHz bolometric focal plane units (FPUs) to be deployed on the second flight of the balloon-borne SPIDER instrument. These FPUs are vital to SPIDER's primary science goal of detecting or placing an upper limit on the amplitude of the p...