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Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver
Ian Lowe, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 25…
In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform
Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30
The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular reso…
Full-Array Noise Performance of Deployment-Grade SuperSpec mm-wave On-Chip Spectrometers
K. S. Karkare, P. S. Barry, C. M. Bradford +15
SuperSpec is an on-chip filter-bank spectrometer designed for wideband moderate-resolution spectroscopy at millimeter wavelengths, employing TiN kinetic inductance detectors. Super…
In-flight performance of the LEKIDs of the OLIMPO experiment
A. Paiella, P. A. R. Ade, E. S. Battistelli +22
We describe the in-flight performance of the horn-coupled Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detector arrays of the balloon-borne OLIMPO experiment. These arrays have been designed…
The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…
Kinetic Inductance Detectors and readout electronics for the OLIMPO experiment
A. Paiella, E. S. Battistelli, M. G. Castellano +13
Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) are superconductive lowtemperature detectors useful for astrophysics and particle physics. We have developed arrays of lumped elements KIDs (…
Kinetic Inductance Detectors for the OLIMPO experiment: in--flight operation and performance
S. Masi, P. de Bernardis, A. Paiella +22
We report on the performance of lumped--elements Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID) arrays for mm and sub--mm wavelengths, operated at 0.3K during the stratospheric flight of the OL…
Kinetic Inductance Detectors for the OLIMPO experiment: design and pre-flight characterization
A. Paiella, A. Coppolecchia, L. Lamagna +15
We designed, fabricated, and characterized four arrays of horn--coupled, lumped element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs), optimized to work in the spectral bands of the balloo…
Design and Characterization of a Balloon-Borne Diffraction-Limited Submillimeter Telescope Platform for BLAST-TNG
Nathan P. Lourie, Francisco E. Angile, Peter C. Ashton +16
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight f…
Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays
Nathan P. Lourie, Peter A. R. Ade, Francisco E. Angile +26
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight f…
The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…
A Superconducting Phase Shifter and Traveling Wave Kinetic Inductance Parametric Amplifier for W-Band Astronomy
George Che, Samuel Gordon, Peter Day +7
The W-Band () sky contains a plethora of information about star formation, galaxy evolution and the cosmic microwave background. We have designed and fabrica…
An Open Source, FPGA-based LeKID readout for BLAST-TNG: Pre-flight Results
Samuel Gordon, Bradley Dober, Adrian Sinclair +17
We present a highly frequency multiplexed readout for large-format superconducting detector arrays intended for use in the next generation of balloon-borne and space-based sub-mill…
Instrumental performance and results from testing of the BLAST-TNG receiver, submillimeter optics, and MKID arrays
Nicholas Galitzki, Peter Ade, Francesco E. Angile +39
Polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains can be used to map magnetic fields in star forming molecular clouds and the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). The Balloon-…