Noise performance of the herschel-SPIRE bolometers during instrument ground tests

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schulz, Bernhard ^a   Bock, James J ^b   Lu, Nanyao ^a   Nguyen, Hien T ^b   Xu, C Kevin ^a   Zhang, Lijun ^a   Dowell, C Darren ^a   Griffin, Matthew J ^c   Laurent, Glenn T ^d   Lim, Tanya L ^e   Swinyard, Bruce M ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bolometer arrays; Far infrared; Herschel; Instrumentation; Space; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

1 / F NOISE; BASE PLATES; BATH TEMPERATURES; BIAS FREQUENCIES; BOLOMETER ARRAYS; DATA SETS; DETECTOR ARRAY; DETECTOR ARRAYS; FAR INFRARED; GROUND TESTING; HERSCHEL; INSTRUMENTATION; LOW FREQUENCIES; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PREDICTIONS; NOISE PERFORMANCES; OPTICAL RADIATIONS; RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY; SPACE; SPIDER WEBS; SUBMILLIMETER; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS;

ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; DETECTORS; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; MAPS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTING; TOWERS; WHITE NOISE;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 52249100554     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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