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Thermal testing for cryogenic CMB instrument optical design

  • D. C. Goldfinger
  • , P. A.R. Ade
  • , Z. Ahmed
  • , M. Amiri
  • , D. Barkats
  • , R. Basu Thakur
  • , D. Beck
  • , C. A. Bischoff
  • , J. J. Bock
  • , V. Buza
  • , James R Cheshire
  • , J. Connors
  • , J. Cornelison
  • , Mike Crumrine
  • , A. J. Cukierman
  • , E. V. Denison
  • , M. I. Dierickx
  • , L. Duband
  • , M. Eiben
  • , S. Fatigoni
  • J. P. Filippini, C. Giannakopoulos, N. Goeckner-Wald, J. Grayson, P. K. Grimes, G. Hall, G. Halal, M. Halpern, E. Hand, S. A. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. R. Hildebrandt, G. C. Hilton, J. Hubmayr, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, J. Kang, K. S. Karkare, S. Kefeli, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, Kenny Lau, E. M. Leitch, A. Lennox, T. Liu, K. G. Megerian, L. Minutolo, L. Moncelsi, Y. Nakato, T. Namikawa, H. T. Nguyen, R. O'Brient, S. Palladino, M. A. Petroff, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, B. Racine, C. D. Reintsema, M. Salatino, A. Schillaci, B. L. Schmitt, B. Singari, A. Soliman, A. G. Smith, T. St. Germaine, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, K. L. Thompson, C. Tsai, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, C. Umilta, C. Vergès, A. G. Vieregg, A. Wandui, A. C. Weber, D. V. Wiebe, Justin B Willmert, W. L.K. Wu, H. Yang, K. W. Yoon, E. Young, C. Yu, L. Zeng, C. Zhang, S. Zhang

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background rely on cryogenic instrumentation with cold detectors, readout, and optics providing the low noise performance and instrumental stability required to make more sensitive measurements. It is therefore critical to optimize all aspects of the cryogenic design to achieve the necessary performance, with low temperature components and acceptable system cooling requirements. In particular, we will focus on our use of thermal filters and cold optics, which reduce the thermal load passed along to the cryogenic stages. To test their performance, we have made a series of in situ measurements while integrating the third receiver for the BICEP Array telescope. In addition to characterizing the behavior of this receiver, these measurements continue to refine the models that are being used to inform design choices being made for future instruments.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMillimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI
EditorsJonas Zmuidzinas, Jian-Rong Gao
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510653610
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventMillimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: Jul 17 2022Jul 22 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12190
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceMillimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period7/17/227/22/22

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The BICEP/Keck project (including BICEP2, BICEP3, and BICEP Array) have been made possible through a series of grants from the National Science Foundation including 0742818, 0742592, 1044978, 1110087, 1145172, 1145143, 1145248, 1639040, 1638957, 1638978, 1638970, 1726917, 1313010, 1313062, 1313158, 1313287, 0960243, 1836010, 1056465, & 1255358 and by the Keck Foundation. The development of antenna-coupled detector technology was supported by the JPL Research and Technology Development Fund and NASA Grants 06-ARPA206-0040, 10-SAT10-0017, 12-SAT12-0031, 14-SAT14-0009, 16-SAT16-0002, & 18-SAT18-0017. The development and testing of focal planes were supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation at Caltech. Readout electronics were supported by a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant to UBC. The computations in this paper were run on the Odyssey cluster supported by the FAS Science Division Research Computing Group at Harvard University. The analysis effort at Stanford and SLAC was partially supported by the Department of Energy, Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. We thank the staff of the U.S. Antarctic Program and in particular the South Pole Station without whose help this research would not have been possible. Tireless administrative support was provided by Kathy Deniston, Sheri Stoll, Irene Coyle, Amy Dierker, Donna Hernandez, and Julie Shih.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 SPIE.

Keywords

  • BICEP Array
  • Cosmic Microwave Background
  • cryogenics
  • instrumentation
  • polarization
  • thermal Testing

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