SPIDER 气球载望远镜的飞行前集成与表征
天体物理仪器与方法
2015-06-22 v1 宇宙学与河外天体物理
摘要
我们展示了 2013 年飞行前活动后 SPIDER 仪器的集成和表征结果。SPIDER 是一种气球载偏振计，旨在探测宇宙微波背景的度尺度 -模式极化中的原初引力波信号。SPIDER 有 6 个独立望远镜，在 94 GHz 和 150 GHz 频段拥有超过 2000 个探测器，将以 11 到 14 Karcmin 的深度绘制 7.5% 的天空，这比 Planck 提高了约 5 倍。我们讨论了指向、低温、电子学和电源子系统的集成，以及探测器和光学系统的飞行前表征。SPIDER 已为 2014 年 12 月从南极的飞行做好准备，预计在巡天区域内将受限于天体物理前景辐射，而非仪器灵敏度。
引用
@article{arxiv.1407.2906,
title = {Pre-flight integration and characterization of the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope},
author = {A. S. Rahlin and P. A. R. Ade and M. Amiri and S. J. Benton and J. J. Bock and J. R. Bond and S. A. Bryan and H. C. Chiang and C. R. Contaldi and B. P. Crill and O. Doré and M. Farhang and J. P. Filippini and L. M. Fissel and A. A. Fraisse and A. E. Gambrel and N. N. Gandilo and S. Golwala and J. E. Gudmundsson and M. Halpern and M. F. Hasselfield and G. Hilton and W. A. Holmes and V. V. Hristov and K. D. Irwin and W. C. Jones and Z. D. Kermish and C. L. Kuo and C. J. MacTavish and P. V. Mason and K. Megerian and L. Moncelsi and T. A. Morford and J. M. Nagy and C. B. Netterfield and R. O'Brient and C. Reintsema and J. E. Ruhl and M. C. Runyan and J. A. Shariff and J. D. Soler and A. Trangsrud and C. Tucker and R. S. Tucker and A. D. Turner and A. C. Weber and D. V. Wiebe and E. Y. Young},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2906},
year = {2015}
}
备注
25 pages, 14 figures. Presented at SPIE Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, June 26, 2014. To be published in Proceedings of SPIE Volume 9153