TY - JOUR
T1 - Preflight Detector Characterization of BLAST-TNG
AU - Gordon, Sam
AU - Sinclair, Adrian
AU - Mauskopf, Philip
AU - Coppi, Gabriele
AU - Devlin, Mark
AU - Dober, Bradley
AU - Fissel, Laura
AU - Galitzki, Nicholas
AU - Gao, Jiansong
AU - Hubmayr, Johannes
AU - Lourie, Nathan
AU - Lowe, Ian
AU - McKenney, Christopher
AU - Nati, Federico
AU - Romualdez, Javier
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded in part by a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NNX16AO91H). We also acknowledge the support from the NASA BLAST research Grants (NNX13AE50G, NNX14AN63H and 80NSSC18K0481).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - The Next-Generation Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter imaging polarimeter which will map the polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust, revealing magnetic field structures in nearby giant molecular clouds, external galaxies and the diffuse interstellar medium in three bands centered at 250, 350 and 500-μm (spatial resolution of 30″, 41″ and 59″). Its camera contains over 2500 dual-polarization sensitive lumped element kinetic inductance detectors, which are read out using field-programmable gate array-based readout electronics. BLAST-TNG was scheduled for a 28-day Antarctic flight during the 2018/2019 summer season, but unfavorable weather conditions pushed the anticipated flight to 2019/2020. We present a summary of key results from the 2018/2019 preflight characterization of the detector and receiver. Included in this summary are detector yields, estimates of in-flight sensitivity, a measurement of the optical passbands and estimates of polarization efficiency.
AB - The Next-Generation Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter imaging polarimeter which will map the polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust, revealing magnetic field structures in nearby giant molecular clouds, external galaxies and the diffuse interstellar medium in three bands centered at 250, 350 and 500-μm (spatial resolution of 30″, 41″ and 59″). Its camera contains over 2500 dual-polarization sensitive lumped element kinetic inductance detectors, which are read out using field-programmable gate array-based readout electronics. BLAST-TNG was scheduled for a 28-day Antarctic flight during the 2018/2019 summer season, but unfavorable weather conditions pushed the anticipated flight to 2019/2020. We present a summary of key results from the 2018/2019 preflight characterization of the detector and receiver. Included in this summary are detector yields, estimates of in-flight sensitivity, a measurement of the optical passbands and estimates of polarization efficiency.
KW - Detector readout
KW - LEKIDs
KW - Submillimeter astrophysics
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U2 - 10.1007/s10909-020-02459-6
DO - 10.1007/s10909-020-02459-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084141103
SN - 0022-2291
VL - 200
SP - 400
EP - 406
JO - Journal of Low Temperature Physics
JF - Journal of Low Temperature Physics
IS - 5-6
ER -