The first flight of the OLIMPO experiment: instrument performance

Presta, G., Ade, P. A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Battistelli, E. S., Castellano, M. G., Colantoni, I., Columbro, F., Coppolecchia, A., Alessandro, G. D., Bernardis, P. de, Gordon, S., Lamagna, L., Masi, S., Mauskopf, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-5516, Paiella, A., Pettinari, G., Piacentini, F., Pisano, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4302-5681 and Tucker, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918 2020. The first flight of the OLIMPO experiment: instrument performance. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1548 , 012018. 10.1088/1742-6596/1548/1/012018

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Abstract

OLIMPO is a balloon-borne experiment aiming at spectroscopic measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies. The instrument operates from the stratosphere, so that it can cover a wide frequency range (from ~ 130 to ~ 520 GHz in 4 bands), including frequencies which are not observable with ground-based instruments. OLIMPO is composed of a 2.6-m aperture telescope, a differential Fourier transform spectrometer and four arrays of lumped element kinetic inductance detectors operating at the temperature of 0.3 K. The payload was launched from the Longyearbyen airport (Svalbard Islands) on July 14th, 2018, and operated for 5 days, at an altitude of 38 km around the North Pole. We report the in-flight performance of the first lumped element kinetic inductance detector arrays ever flown onboard a stratospheric balloon.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	IOP Publishing
ISSN:	1742-6588
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 June 2020
Date of Acceptance:	1 May 2020
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 20:49
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/132818

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