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Optimization of an Optical Testbed for Characterization of EXCLAIM u-Spec Integrated Spectrometers
Maryam Rahmani, Emily M. Barrentine, Eric R. Switzer +19
We describe a testbed to characterize the optical response of compact superconducting on-chip spectrometers in development for the Experiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity…
Optical Characterization & Testbed Development for μ-Spec Integrated Spectrometers
Maryam Rahmani, Alyssa Barlis, Emily M. Barrentine +21
This paper describes a cryogenic optical testbed developed to characterize u-Spec spectrometers in a dedicated dilution refrigerator (DR) system. u-Spec is a far-infrared integrate…
Developing a New Generation of Integrated Micro-Spec Far Infrared Spectrometers for the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)
Carolyn G. Volpert, Emily M. Barrentine, Mona Mirzaei +21
The current state of far-infrared astronomy drives the need to develop compact, sensitive spectrometers for future space and ground-based instruments. Here we present details of th…
Operational Optimization to Maximize Dynamic Range in EXCLAIM Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Trevor M. Oxholm, Eric R. Switzer, Emily M. Barrentine +11
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are highly scalable detectors that have demonstrated nearly background-limited sensitivity in the far-infrared from high-altitude bal…
Dual-Resonator Kinetic-Inductance Detector for Distinction between Signal and 1/f Frequency Noise
N. Foroozani, B. Sarabi, S. H. Moseley +4
Astronomical Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs), similar to quantum information devices, experience performance limiting noise from materials. In particular, 1/f (frequency) noise…
μ-Spec Spectrometers for the EXCLAIM Instrument
Mona Mirzaei, Emily M. Barrentine, Berhanu T. Bulcha +12
The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument that will map carbon monoxide and singly-ionized carbon emission lin…
Overview and status of EXCLAIM, the experiment for cryogenic large-aperture intensity mapping
Giuseppe Cataldo, Peter Ade, Christopher Anderson +41
The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne far-infrared telescope that will survey star formation history over cosmological time sca…
The Experiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)
P. A. R. Ade, C. J. Anderson, E. M. Barrentine +33
The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument that will survey galaxy and star formation history over cosmological…
Multimode bolometer development for the PIXIE instrument
Peter C. Nagler, Kevin T. Crowley, Kevin L. Denis +6
The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept designed to measure the polarization and absolute intensity of the cosmic microwave background. In th…
Silicon-Based Antenna-Coupled Polarization-Sensitive Millimeter-Wave Bolometer Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Instruments
Karwan Rostem, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel +15
We describe feedhorn-coupled polarization-sensitive detector arrays that utilize monocrystalline silicon as the dielectric substrate material. Monocrystalline silicon has a low-los…
Detectors and cooling technology for direct spectroscopic biosignature characterization
Bernard J. Rauscher, Edgar R. Canavan, S. H. Moseley +2
Direct spectroscopic biosignature characterization (hereafter "biosignature characterization") will be a major focus for future space observatories equipped with coronagraphs or st…
Scalable background-limited polarization-sensitive detectors for mm-wave applications
Karwan Rostem, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel +12
We report on the status and development of polarization-sensitive detectors for millimeter-wave applications. The detectors are fabricated on single-crystal silicon, which function…
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 38 GHz detector array of bolometric polarimeters
John W. Appel, Aamir Ali, Mandana Amiri +41
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) experiment aims to map the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at angular scales larger than a few degrees. Ope…
CLASS: The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor
Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Aamir Ali, Mandana Amiri +41
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is an experiment to measure the signature of a gravita-tional-wave background from inflation in the polarization of the cosmic mi…
Precision control of thermal transport in cryogenic single-crystal silicon devices
Karwan Rostem, David T. Chuss, Felipe A. Colazo +6
We report on the diffusive-ballistic thermal conductance of multi-moded single-crystal silicon beams measured below 1 K. It is shown that the phonon mean-free-path is a stro…
Angular and Polarization Response of Multimode Sensors with Resistive-Grid Absorbers
Akito Kusaka, Edward J. Wollack, Thomas R. Stevenson
High sensitivity receiver systems with near ideal polarization sensitivity are highly desirable for development of millimeter and sub-millimeter radio astronomy. Multimoded bolomet…
PAPPA: Primordial Anisotropy Polarization Pathfinder Array
A. Kogut, D. T. Chuss, D. Fixsen +14
The Primordial Anisotropy Polarization Pathfinder Array (PAPPA) is a balloon-based instrument to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and search for the sign…
Two stage superconducting quantum interference device amplifier in a high-Q gravitational wave transducer
Gregory M. Harry, Insik Jin, Ho Jung Paik +2
We report on the total noise from an inductive motion transducer for a gravitational-wave antenna. The transducer uses a two-stage SQUID amplifier and has a noise temperature of 1.…
Detectability of gravitational wave events by spherical resonant-mass antennas
Gregory M. Harry, Thomas R. Stevenson, Ho Jung Paik
We have calculated signal-to-noise ratios for eight spherical resonant-mass antennas interacting with gravitational radiation from inspiralling and coalescing binary neutron stars…