{"paper":{"title":"Pre-flight integration and characterization of the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.CO"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.IM","authors_text":"A. A. Fraisse, A. C. Weber, A. D. Turner, A. E. Gambrel, A. S. Rahlin, A. Trangsrud, B. P. Crill, C. B. Netterfield, C. J. MacTavish, C. L. Kuo, C. R. Contaldi, C. Reintsema, C. Tucker, D. V. Wiebe, E. Y. Young, G. Hilton, H. C. Chiang, J. A. Shariff, J. D. Soler, J. E. Gudmundsson, J. E. Ruhl, J. J. Bock, J. M. Nagy, J. P. Filippini, J. R. Bond, K. D. Irwin, K. Megerian, L. M. Fissel, L. Moncelsi, M. Amiri, M. C. Runyan, M. Farhang, M. F. Hasselfield, M. Halpern, N. N. Gandilo, O. Dor\\'e, P. A. R. Ade, P. V. Mason, R. O'Brient, R. S. Tucker, S. A. Bryan, S. Golwala, S. J. Benton, T. A. Morford, V. V. Hristov, W. A. Holmes, W. C. Jones, Z. D. Kermish","submitted_at":"2014-07-09T16:04:50Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present the results of integration and characterization of the SPIDER instrument after the 2013 pre-flight campaign. SPIDER is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to probe the primordial gravitational wave signal in the degree-scale $B$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background. With six independent telescopes housing over 2000 detectors in the 94 GHz and 150 GHz frequency bands, SPIDER will map 7.5% of the sky with a depth of 11 to 14 $\\mu$K$\\cdot$arcmin at each frequency, which is a factor of $\\sim$5 improvement over Planck. We discuss the integration of the pointing, cryogeni"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1407.2906","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}