5,120 superconducting bolometers for the PIPER balloon-borne CMB polarization experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Benford, Dominic J ^a   Chuss, David T ^a   Hilton, Gene C ^b   Irwin, Kent D ^b   Jethava, Nikhil S ^a,c   Jhabvala, Christine A ^a   Kogut, Alan J ^a   Miller, Timothy M ^a,d   Mirel, Paul ^a,e   Moseley, S Harvey ^a   Rostem, Karwan ^a,f   Sharp, Elmer H ^a,c   Staguhn, Johannes G ^a,g   Stiehl, Gregory M ^b   Voellmer, George M ^a   Wollack, Edward J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GLOBAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MEI Technologies   (United States)

^e Wyle Information Systems   (United States)

^f OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmic microwave background polarization; SQUID; superconducting transition edge sensor bolometer

Indexed keywords

AT-WAVELENGTH; BOLOMETER ARRAY; CMB POLARIZATION; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POLARIZATION; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; EARLY UNIVERSE; LIMITED SENSITIVITY; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; OPTICAL PATH; PASSBAND FILTERS; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICE MULTIPLEXERS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION EDGE SENSORS;

ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; COSMOLOGY; DETECTORS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INFRARED DETECTORS; POLARIZATION; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

EID: 77956201914     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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