First implementation of TES bolometer arrays with SQUID-based multiplexed readout on a balloon-borne platform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Aubin, François ^a   Aboobaker, Asad M ^b   Ade, Peter ^c   Baccigalupi, Carlo ^d   Bao, Chaoyun ^b   Borrill, Julian ^e   Cantalupo, Christopher ^e   Chapman, Daniel ^f   Didier, Joy ^f   Dobbs, Matt ^a   Grainger, Will ^c   Hanany, Shaul ^b   Hubmayr, Johannes ^g   Hyland, Peter ^a   Hillbrand, Seth ^f   Jaffe, Andrew ^h   Johnson, Bradley ⁱ   Jones, Terry ^b   Kisner, Theodore ^e   Klein, Jeff ^b   Korotkov, Andrei ^j   Leach, Sam ^d   Lee, Adrian ⁱ   Limon, Michele ^f   MacDermid, Kevin ^a   Matsumura, Tomotake ^k   Meng, Xiaofan ⁱ   Miller, Amber ^f   Milligan, Michael ^b   Polsgrove, Daniel ^b   Ponthieu, Nicolas ^l   Raach, Kate ^b   Reichborn Kjennerud, Britt ^f   Sagiv, Ilan ^b   Smecher, Graeme ^a   Tran, Huan ⁱ   Tucker, Gregory S ^j   Vinokurov, Yury ^j   Yadav, Amit ^m   Zaldarriaga, Matias ^m   Zilic, Kyle ^b   more..

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d SISSA   (Italy)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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

^h IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^m INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

balloon borne; bolometer; CMB; multiplexing; SQUID; TES

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARIZONA; AUTOMATED TUNING; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; BALLOON EXPERIMENT; CMB; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LARGE ARRAYS; LONG DURATION; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; NEW MEXICO; POLARISATION; SPACE MISSIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICE; TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVELS; TES; TES BOLOMETERS; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS;

ASTRONOMY; BALLOONS; BOLOMETERS; EXPERIMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; MULTIPLEXING; PARTICLE DETECTORS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SQUIDS; TUNING;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 77956222209     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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