Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment

• Published in: The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
• Main Authors: Aubin, François, Aboobaker, Asad M., Bao, Chaoyun, Geach, Christopher, Hanany, Shaul, Jones, Terry, Klein, Jeff, Milligan, Michael, Raach, Kate, Young, Karl, Zilic, Kyle, Helson, Kyle, Korotkov, Andrei, Marchenko, Valerie, Tucker, Gregory S., Ade, Peter, Pascale, Enzo, Araujo, Derek, Chapman, Daniel, Didier, Joy, Hillbrand, Seth, Johnson, Bradley, Limon, Michele, Miller, Amber D., Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt, Feeney, Stephen, Jaffe, Andrew, Stompor, Radek, Tristram, Matthieu, Dobbs, Matt, Macdermid, Kevin, Smecher, Graeme, Borrill, Julian, Kisner, Theodore, Hilton, Gene, Hubmayr, Johannes, Reintsema, Carl, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Puglisi, Giuseppe, Lee, Adrian, Westbrook, Ben, Levinson, Lorne, Sagiv, Ilan
• 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), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: Temperature calibration; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01669430; https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813226609_0229

International audience The E and B Experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation and to characterize the polarization of galactic dust. EBEX was launched December 29, 2012 and circumnavigated Antarctica observing ∼6,000 square degrees of sky during 11 days at three frequency bands centered around 150, 250 and 410 GHz. EBEX was the first experiment to operate a kilo-pixel array of transition-edge sensor bolometers and a continuously rotating achromatic half-wave plate aboard a balloon platform. It also pioneered the use of detector readout based on digital frequency domain multiplexing.