Characterization of Kilopixel TES detector arrays for PIPER

Datta, Rahul, Ade, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Benford, Dominic, Bennett, Charles, Chuss, David, Costen, Nicholas, Coughlin, Kevin, Dotson, Jessie, Eimer, Joseph, Fixsen, Dale, Gandilo, Naralie, Halpern, Mark, Essinger-Hileman, Thomas, HIlton, Gene, Hinshaw, Gary, Irwin, Kent, Jhabcala, Christine, Kimball, Mark, Kogut, Al, Lazear, Justin, Lowe, Luke, Manos, George, McMahon, Jeff, Miller, Timothy, Mirel, Paul, Moseley, Samuel Harvey, Pawlyk, Samuel, Rodriguez, Samelys, Sharp, Elmer, Shirron, Peter, Staguhn, Johannes G., Sullivan, Dan, Switzer, Eric, Taraschi, Peter, Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Walts, Alexander and Wollack, Edward 2018. Characterization of Kilopixel TES detector arrays for PIPER. Presented at: 231st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington D.C., USA, 08-12 January 2018.

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Abstract

The Primordial Inflation Polarization ExploreR (PIPER) is a balloon-borne instrument optimized to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales. It will map 85% of the sky in four frequency bands centered at 200, 270, 350, and 600 GHz to characterize dust foregrounds and constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio, r. The sky is imaged on to 32x40 pixel arrays of time-domain multiplexed Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers operating at a bath temperature of 100 mK to achieve background-limited sensitivity. Each kilopixel array is indium-bump-bonded to a 2D superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) time-domain multiplexer (MUX) chip and read out by warm electronics. Each pixel measures total incident power over a frequency band defined by bandpass filters in front of the array, while polarization sensitivity is provided by the upstream Variable-delay Polarization Modulators (VPMs) and analyzer grids. We present measurements of the detector parameters from the laboratory characterization of the first kilopixel science array for PIPER including transition temperature, saturation power, thermal conductivity, time constant, and noise performance. We also describe the testing of the 2D MUX chips, optimization of the integrated readout parameters, and the overall pixel yield of the array. The first PIPER science flight is planned for June 2018 from Palestine, Texas.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Last Modified:	02 May 2023 12:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156840

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