Microwave Kinetic Inductance Devices (MKIDs) are poised to allow for massively and natively multiplexed photon detectors arrays and are a natural choice for the next-generation CMB-Stage 4 experiment which will require 105 detectors. In this proceed- ing we discuss what noise performance of present generation MKIDs implies for CMB measurements. We consider MKID noise spectra and simulate a telescope scan strategy which projects the detector noise onto the CMB sky. We then analyze the simulated CMB + MKID noise to understand particularly low frequency noise affects the various features of the CMB, and thusly set up a framework connecting MKID characteristics with scan strategies, to the type of CMB signals we may probe with such detectors.
@article{arxiv.1711.01192,
title = {Simulating Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy measurements for Microwave Kinetic Inductance Devices},
author = {Ritoban Basu Thakur and Jason Henning and Peter Stuart Barry and Erik Shirokoff and Qing Yang Tang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01192},
year = {2019}
}