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.
• Other Authors: AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), SPIDER
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: Detector packaging; Magnetic shielding; Transition-edge sensors; Scientific ballooning; Cosmic microwave background; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01960240; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-2065-2

International audience 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...