1. The Design and Characterization of Wideband Spline-profiled Feedhorns for Advanced Actpol
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Simon, Sara M, Austermann, Jason, Beall, James A, Choi, Steve K, Coughlin, Kevin P, Duff, Shannon M, Gallardo, Patricio A, Henderson, Shawn W, Hills, Felicity B, Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty, Hubmayr, Johannes, Josaitis, Alec, Koopman, Brian J, McMahon, Jeff J, Nati, Federico, Newburgh, Laura, Niemack, Michael D, Salatino, Maria, Schillaci, Alessandro, and Wollack, Edward J
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Instrumentation And Photography ,Astrophysics - Abstract
Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) is an upgraded camera for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) that will measure the cosmic microwave background in temperature and polarization over a wide range of angular scales and five frequency bands from 28-230 GHz. AdvACT will employ four arrays of feedhorn-coupled, polarization- sensitive multichroic detectors. To accommodate the higher pixel packing densities necessary to achieve Ad- vACTs sensitivity goals, we have developed and optimized wideband spline-profiled feedhorns for the AdvACT multichroic arrays that maximize coupling efficiency while carefully controlling polarization systematics. We present the design, fabrication, and testing of wideband spline-profiled feedhorns for the multichroic arrays of AdvACT.
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- 2016
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