Advanced ACTPol TES Device Parameters and Noise Performance in Fielded Arrays
Creators
- Crowley, Kevin T.1
- Austermann, Jason E.2
- Choi, Steve K.1
- Duff, Shannon M.2
- Gallardo, Patricio A.3
- Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty1
- Hubmayr, Johannes2
- Koopman, Brian J.3
- Nati, Federico4
- Niemack, Michael D.3
- Salatino, Maria1
- Simon, Sara M.5
- Staggs, Suzanne T.1
- Stevens, Jason R.3
- Ullom, Joel N.2
- Vavagiakis, Eve M.3
- Wollack, Edward J.6
- 1. Princeton University, Department of Physics (United States)
- 2. NIST, Quantum Sensors Group (United States)
- 3. Cornell University, Department of Physics (United States)
- 4. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy (United States)
- 5. University of Michigan, Department of Physics (United States)
- 6. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (United States)
Description
The Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) features arrays of aluminum manganese transition-edge sensors (TESes) optimized for ground-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Array testing shows highly responsive detectors with anticipated in-band noise performance under optical loading. We report on TES parameters measured with impedance data taken on a subset of TESes. We then compare modeled noise spectral densities to measurements. We find excess noise at frequencies around 100 Hz, nearly outside of the signal band of CMB measurements. In addition, we describe full-array noise measurements in the laboratory and in the field for two new AdvACT mid-frequency arrays, sensitive at bands centered on 90 and 150 GHz, and data for the high-frequency array (150/230 GHz) as deployed.
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Low Temperature Physics
- Journal Volume
- 193
- Journal Issue
- 3-4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 328-336
- ISSN
- 0022-2291
- CODEN
- JLTPAC
Conference
- Title
- International workshop on low temperature detectors
- Acronym
- LTD17
- Dates
- 17-21 Jul 2017
- Place
- Kurume City, Fukuoka (Japan)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 50054288
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ALUMINIUM; COSMOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; GHZ RANGE; IMPEDANCE; MANGANESE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; SENSORS; SIGNALS; SIMULATION; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TELESCOPES; TESTING
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTS; FREQUENCY RANGE; FUNCTIONS; METALS; RADIATIONS; SPECTRAL FUNCTIONS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS
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- Copyright (c) 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
- Notes
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