Receiver development for BICEP Array, a next-generation CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

Moncelsi, L. and Ade, Peter A. and Ahmed, Zeeshan and Amiri, Mandana and Barkats, Denis and Thakur, R. Basu and Bischoff, Colin A. and Bock, J. J. and Buza, Victor and Cheshire, James R. and Connors, Jake and Cornelison, James and Crumrine, Michael and Cukierman, Ari J. and Denison, Edward and Dierickx, Marion and Duband, Lionel and Eiben, Miranda and Fatigoni, Sofia and Filippini, Jeffrey P. and Goeckner-Wald, Neil and Goldfinger, David and Grayson, James A. and Grimes, Paul and Hall, Grantland and Halpern, Mark and Harrison, Samuel A. and Henderson, Shawn and Hildebrandt, S. R. and Hilton, Gene and Hubmayr, Johannes and Hui, H. and Irwin, Kent D. and Kang, J. H. and Karkare, Kirit S. and Kefeli, S. and Kovac, John M. and Kuo, Chao-Lin and Lau, Kenny and Leitch, Erik M. and Megerian, K. G. and Minutolo, L. and Nakato, Yuka and Namikawa, Toshiya and Nguyen, H. T. and O'Brient, R. and Palladino, Steven and Precup, Nathan and Prouve, Thomas and Pryke, Clement and Racine, Benjamin and Reintsema, Carl D. and Schillaci, A. and Schmitt, Benjamin and Soliman, A. and St. Germaine, Tyler and Steinbach, B. and Sudiwala, Rashmi and Thompson, Keith L. and Tucker, Carole and Turner, Anthony D. and Umiltà, Caterina and Vieregg, Abigail G. and Wandui, A. and Weber, A. C. and Wiebe, Don V. and Willmert, Justin and Wu, Wai Ling K. and Yang, Hung-I E. and Yoon, Ki Won and Young, Edward Y. and Yu, Cyndia and Zeng, Lingzhen and Zhang, C. and Zhang, S. (2020) Receiver development for BICEP Array, a next-generation CMB polarimeter at the South Pole. In: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X. Proceedings of SPIE. No.11453. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 1145314. ISBN 9781510636934. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20201218-074706299

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Abstract

A detection of curl-type (B-mode) polarization of the primary CMB would be direct evidence for the inflationary paradigm of the origin of the Universe. The Bicep/Keck Array (BK) program targets the degree angular scales, where the power from primordial B-mode polarization is expected to peak, with ever-increasing sensitivity and has published the most stringent constraints on inflation to date. Bicep Array (BA) is the Stage-3 instrument of the BK program and will comprise four Bicep3-class receivers observing at 30/40, 95, 150 and 220/270 GHz with a combined 32,000+ detectors; such wide frequency coverage is necessary for control of the Galactic foregrounds, which also produce degree-scale B-mode signal. The 30/40 GHz receiver is designed to constrain the synchrotron foreground and has begun observing at the South Pole in early 2020. By the end of a 3-year observing campaign, the full Bicep Array instrument is projected to reach σr between 0.002 and 0.004, depending on foreground complexity and degree of removal of B-modes due to gravitational lensing (delensing). This paper presents an overview of the design, measured on-sky performance and calibration of the first BA receiver. We also give a preview of the added complexity in the time-domain multiplexed readout of the 7,776-detector 150 GHz receiver.

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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561995	DOI	Article
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04047	arXiv	Discussion Paper

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Author	ORCID
Moncelsi, L.	0000-0002-4242-3015
Ade, Peter A.	0000-0002-5127-0401
Bock, J. J.	0000-0002-5710-5212
Dierickx, Marion	0000-0002-3519-8593
Filippini, Jeffrey P.	0000-0001-8217-6832
Halpern, Mark	0000-0002-1760-0868
Hildebrandt, S. R.	0000-0003-0220-0009
Hilton, Gene	0000-0003-4247-467X
Hubmayr, Johannes	0000-0002-2781-9302
Karkare, Kirit S.	0000-0002-5215-6993
Leitch, Erik M.	0000-0001-8553-9336
Minutolo, L.	0000-0002-4876-112X
Namikawa, Toshiya	0000-0003-3070-9240
Schillaci, A.	0000-0002-0512-1042
Wandui, A.	0000-0002-8232-7343
Zhang, C.	0000-0001-8288-5823

Additional Information:

© 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Bicep/Keck Array project (including Bicep2 Bicep3 and Bicep Array) have been made possible through a series of grants from the National Science Foundation (including 0742818, 0742592, 1044978, 1110087, 1145172, 1145143, 1145248, 1639040, 1638957, 1638978, 1638970, 1726917, 1313010, 1313062, 1313158, 1313287, 0960243, 1836010, 1056465, 1255358) and by the Keck Foundation. The development of antenna-coupled detector technology was supported by the JPL Research and Technology Development Fund and NASA Grants 06-ARPA206-0040, 10-SAT10-0017, 12-SAT12-0031, 14-SAT14-0009, 16-SAT16-0002, & 18-SAT18-0017. The development and testing of focal planes were supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation at Caltech. Readout electronics were supported by a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant to UBC. The computations in this paper were run on the Odyssey cluster supported by the FAS Science Division Research Computing Group at Harvard University. The analysis effort at Stanford and SLAC was partially supported by the Department of Energy, Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. We thank the staff of the U.S. Antarctic Program and in particular the South Pole Station without whose help this research would not have been possible. Tireless administrative support was provided by Kathy Deniston, Sheri Stoll, Irene Coyle, Donna Hernandez, and Dana Volponi.

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Astronomy Department

Funders:

Funding Agency	Grant Number
NSF	OPP-0742818
NSF	OPP-0742592
NSF	OPP-1044978
NSF	PLR-1110087
NSF	OPP-1145172
NSF	OPP-1145143
NSF	OPP-1145248
NSF	OPP-1639040
NSF	OPP-1638957
NSF	OPP-1638978
NSF	OPP-1638970
NSF	OPP-1726917
NSF	OPP-1313010
NSF	OPP-1313062
NSF	OPP-1313158
NSF	OPP-1313287
NSF	OPP-0960243
NSF	AST-1836010
NSF	AST-1056465
NSF	AST-1255358
W. M. Keck Foundation	UNSPECIFIED
JPL Research and Technology Development Fund	UNSPECIFIED
NASA	06-ARPA206-0040
NASA	10-SAT10-0017
NASA	12-SAT12-0031
NASA	14-SAT14-0009
NASA	16-SAT16-0002
NASA	18-SAT18-0017
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation	UNSPECIFIED
Canada Foundation for Innovation	UNSPECIFIED
Harvard University	UNSPECIFIED
Department of Energy (DOE)	DE-AC02-76SF00515

Subject Keywords:

Cosmic Microwave Background, Polarization, Instrumentation, Cosmology, B-Modes, Inflation

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CaltechAUTHORS:20201218-074706299

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L. Moncelsi, P. A. R. Ade, Z, Ahmed, M. Amiri, D. Barkats, R. Basu Thakur, C. A. Bischoff, J. J. Bock, V. Buza, J. R. Cheshire, J. Connors, J. Cornelison, M. Crumrine, A. J. Cukierman, E. V. Denison, M. Dierickx, L. Duband, M. Eiben, S. Fatigoni, J. P. Filippini, N. Goeckner-Wald, D. Goldfinger, J. A. Grayson, P. Grimes, G. Hall, M. Halpern, S. A. Harrison, S. Henderson, S. R. Hildebrandt, G. C. Hilton, J. Hubmayr, H. Hui, K. D. Irwin, J. H. Kang, K. S. Karkare, S. Kefeli, J. M. Kovac, C. L. Kuo, K. Lau, E. M. Leitch, K. G. Megerian, L. Minutolo, Y. Nakato, T. Namikawa, H. T. Nguyen, R. O'brient, S. Palladino, N. Precup, T. Prouve, C. Pryke, B. Racine, C. D. Reintsema, A. Schillaci, B. L. Schmitt, A. Soliman, T. St. Germaine, B. Steinbach, R. V. Sudiwala, K. L. Thompson, C. Tucker, A. D. Turner, C. Umiltà, A. G. Vieregg, A. Wandui, A. C. Weber, D. V. Wiebe, J. Willmert, W. L. K. Wu, E. Yang, K. W. Yoon, E. Young, C. Yu, L. Zeng, C. Zhang, and S. Zhang "Receiver development for BICEP Array, a next-generation CMB polarimeter at the South Pole", Proc. SPIE 11453, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 1145314 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561995

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