Modeling and characterization of the SPIDER half-wave plate

Sean A. Bryan; Peter A.R. Ade; Mandana Amiri; Steve Benton; Richard Bihary; James J. Bock; J. Richard Bond; Joseph A. Bonetti; H. Cynthia Chiang; Carlo R. Contaldi; Brendan P. Crill; Daniel O'Dea; Olivier Dore; Marzieh Farhang; Jeffrey P. Filippini; Laura Fissel; Natalie Gandilo; Sunil Golwala; Jon E. Gudmundsson; Matthew Hasselfield; Mark Halpern; Kyle R. Helson; Gene Hilton; Warren Holmes; Viktor V. Hristov; Kent D. Irwin; William C. Jones; Chao Lin Kuo; Carrie J. MacTavish; Peter Mason; Tracy Morford; Thomas E. Montroy; C. Barth Netterfield; Alexandra S. Rahlin; Carl D. Reintsema; Daniel Riley; John E. Ruhl; Marcus C. Runyan; Matthew A. Schenker; Jamil Shariff; Juan Diego Soler; Amy Transrud; Rebecca Tucker; Carole Tucker; Anthony Turner

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Modeling and characterization of the SPIDER half-wave plate

Sean A. Bryan, Peter A.R. Ade, Mandana Amiri, Steve Benton, Richard Bihary, James J. Bock, J. Richard Bond, Joseph A. Bonetti, H. Cynthia Chiang, Carlo R. Contaldi, Brendan P. Crill, Daniel O'Dea, Olivier Dore, Marzieh Farhang, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Laura Fissel, Natalie Gandilo, Sunil Golwala, Jon E. Gudmundsson, Matthew HasselfieldMark Halpern, Kyle R. Helson, Gene Hilton, Warren Holmes, Viktor V. Hristov, Kent D. Irwin, William C. Jones, Chao Lin Kuo, Carrie J. MacTavish, Peter Mason, Tracy Morford, Thomas E. Montroy, C. Barth Netterfield, Alexandra S. Rahlin, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel Riley, John E. Ruhl, Marcus C. Runyan, Matthew A. Schenker, Jamil Shariff, Juan Diego Soler, Amy Transrud, Rebecca Tucker, Carole Tucker, Anthony Turner

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Spider is a balloon-borne array of six telescopes that will observe the Cosmic Microwave Background. The 2624 antenna-coupled bolometers in the instrument will make a polarization map of the CMB with approximately one-half degree resolution at 145 GHz. Polarization modulation is achieved via a cryogenic sapphire half-wave plate (HWP) skyward of the primary optic. We have measured millimeter-wave transmission spectra of the sapphire at room and cryogenic temperatures. The spectra are consistent with our physical optics model, and the data gives excellent measurements of the indices of A-cut sapphire. We have also taken preliminary spectra of the integrated HWP, optical system, and detectors in the prototype Spider receiver. We calculate the variation in response of the HWP between observing the CMB and foreground spectra, and estimate that it should not limit the Spider constraints on inflation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy V
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857837
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy V - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 29 Jun 2010 → 2 Jul 2010

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7741
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Conference	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy V
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	29/06/10 → 2/07/10

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Astronomical polarimetry
Cosmic Microwave Background
Cosmology
Millimeter-wave optics

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Bryan, S. A., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S., Bihary, R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bonetti, J. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Crill, B. P., O'Dea, D., Dore, O., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fissel, L., Gandilo, N., Golwala, S., Gudmundsson, J. E., ... Turner, A. (2010). Modeling and characterization of the SPIDER half-wave plate. In Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy V Article 77412B (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7741). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857837

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Modeling and characterization of the SPIDER half-wave plate. / Bryan, Sean A.; Ade, Peter A.R.; Amiri, Mandana et al.
Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy V. 2010. 77412B (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7741).

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