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astro-ph.IM2011★ 10 cited

Thermal architecture for the SPIDER flight cryostat

J. E. Gudmundsson, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +40

We describe the cryogenic system for SPIDER, a balloon-borne microwave polarimeter that will map 8% of the sky with degree-scale angular resolution. The system consists of a 1284 L…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 29 cited

Design and performance of the Spider instrument

M. C. Runyan, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +40

Here we describe the design and performance of the Spider instrument. Spider is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarization imager that will map part of the sky at 90,…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 38 cited

SPIDER: a balloon-borne CMB polarimeter for large angular scales

J. P. Filippini, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +41

We describe SPIDER, a balloon-borne instrument to map the polarization of the millimeter-wave sky with degree angular resolution. Spider consists of six monochromatic refracting te…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 92 cited

SPIDER: Probing the Early Universe with a Suborbital Polarimeter

A. A. Fraisse, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +43

We evaluate the ability of SPIDER, a balloon-borne polarimeter, to detect a divergence-free polarization pattern ("B-modes") in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In the inflat…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 12 cited

Spider Optimization II: Optical, Magnetic and Foreground Effects

D. T. O'Dea, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +43

Spider is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with degree-scale resolution over a large fraction of the sky. Spider…