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BICEP3 focal plane design and detector performance
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2016.
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Abstract
- BICEP3, the latest telescope in the BICEP/Keck program, started science observations in March 2016. It is a 550mm aperture refractive telescope observing the polarization of the cosmic microwave background at 95 GHz. We show the focal plane design and detector performance, including spectral response, optical efficiency and preliminary sensitivity of the upgraded BICEP3. We demonstrate 9.72$\mu$K$\sqrt{\textrm{s}}$ noise performance of the BICEP3 receiver.<br />Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures. To be published in Proc. SPIE. Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference 9914: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, June 2016
- Subjects :
- Cosmic microwave background
Spectral response
FOS: Physical sciences
02 engineering and technology
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
law.invention
Telescope
Optics
law
0103 physical sciences
010306 general physics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Optical efficiency
Physics
business.industry
Detector
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Polarization (waves)
Cardinal point
Refracting telescope
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
0210 nano-technology
business
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f21041203adbf6460263bea1748bf9e2
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1607.06861