280 GHz focal plane unit design and characterization for the spider-2 suborbital polarimeter

• Published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• Main Authors: Bergman, A. S., Ade, P. A. R., Akers, S., Amiri, M., Austermann, J. A., Beall, J. A., Becker, D. T., Benton, S. J., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Domagalski, R. S, Doré, O., Duff, S. M., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fissel, L. M., Fraisse, A. A., Freese, K., Galloway, M., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Ganga, K., Grigorian, A., Gualtieri, R., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halpern, M., Hartley, J., Hasselfield, M., Hilton, G., Holmes, W., Hristov, V. V., Huang, Z., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jones, W. C., Khan, A., Kuo, C. L., Kermish, Z. D., Li, S., Mason, P. V., Megerian, K., Moncelsi, L., Morford, T. A., Nagy, J. M., Netterfield, C. B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag (Germany) 2018
• Subjects: McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/115502/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-2065-2; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/115502/1/1711.04169.pdf

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 primor...