Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver

Ian Lowe; Peter A.R. Ade; Peter C. Ashton; Jason E. Austermann; Gabriele Coppi; Erin G. Cox; Mark J. Devlin; Bradley J. Dober; Valentina Fanfani; Laura M. Fissel; Nicholas Galitzki; Jiansong Gao; Samuel Gordon; Christopher E. Groppi; Gene C. Hilton; Johannes Hubmayr; Jeffrey Klein; Dale Li; Nathan P. Lourie; Hamdi Mani; Philip Mauskopf; Christopher McKenney; Federico Nati; Giles Novak; Giampaolo Pisano; Javier Romualdez; Juan D. Soler; Adrian Sinclair; Carole Tucker; Joel Ullom; Michael Vissers; Caleb Wheeler; Paul A. Williams

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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, Jason E. Austermann, Gabriele Coppi, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Samuel Gordon, Christopher E. Groppi, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Klein, Dale Li, Nathan P. Lourie, Hamdi ManiPhilip Mauskopf, Christopher McKenney, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, Javier Romualdez, Juan D. Soler, Adrian Sinclair, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Caleb Wheeler, Paul A. Williams

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The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 250, 350, and 500 microns during a 24-day Antarctic flight. The BLAST-TNG detector arrays are comprised of 918, 469, and 272 MKID pixels, respectively. The pixels are formed from two orthogonally oriented, crossed, linear-polarization sensitive MKID antennae. The arrays are cooled to sub 300 mK temperatures and stabilized via a closed cycle 3He sorption fridge in combination with a 4He vacuum pot. The detectors are read out through a combination of the second-generation Reconfigurable Open Architecture Computing Hardware (ROACH2) and custom RF electronics designed for BLAST-TNG. The firmware and software designed to readout and characterize these detectors was built from scratch by the BLAST team around these detectors, and has been adapted for use by other MKID instruments such as TolTEC and OLIMPO.1 We present an overview of these systems as well as in-depth methodology of the ground-based characterization and the measured in-flight performance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X
Editors	Jonas Zmuidzinas, Jian-Rong Gao
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510636934
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560854
State	Published - 2020
Event	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Dec 14 2020 → Dec 22 2020

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11453
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	12/14/20 → 12/22/20

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Lowe, I., Ade, P. A. R., Ashton, P. C., Austermann, J. E., Coppi, G., Cox, E. G., Devlin, M. J., Dober, B. J., Fanfani, V., Fissel, L. M., Galitzki, N., Gao, J., Gordon, S., Groppi, C. E., Hilton, G. C., Hubmayr, J., Klein, J., Li, D., Lourie, N. P., ... Williams, P. A. (2020). Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver. In J. Zmuidzinas, & J.-R. Gao (Eds.), Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X Article 1145304 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11453). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560854

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Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver. / Lowe, Ian; Ade, Peter A.R.; Ashton, Peter C. et al.
Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X. ed. / Jonas Zmuidzinas; Jian-Rong Gao. SPIE, 2020. 1145304 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11453).

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Lowe I, Ade PAR, Ashton PC, Austermann JE, Coppi G, Cox EG et al. Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver. In Zmuidzinas J, Gao JR, editors, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X. SPIE. 2020. 1145304. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2560854

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