MNTES: modeling nonlinearity of TES detectors for enhanced cosmic microwave background measurements with LiteBIRD

Tijmen de Haan

doi:10.1117/12.3018503

16 August 2024 MNTES: modeling nonlinearity of TES detectors for enhanced cosmic microwave background measurements with LiteBIRD

Tijmen de Haan

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Proceedings Volume 13102, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII; 1310208 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018503
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

Traditional methods of converting electronic readout counts to optical power incident on Transition Edge Sensors (TES) for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations involve a linear approximation. For the upcoming LiteBIRD CMB satellite, strict nonlinearity requirements must be met to prevent contamination of the science band at 4ƒ_HWP by the 2ƒ_HWP signal, which arises from differential transmission or emissivity related to the half-wave plate’s rotation rate ƒ_HWP. These constraints cannot be met using hardware solutions alone and therefore require a form of nonlinearity correction. We present MNTES, a novel physics-based, nonlinear calibration technique. This method leverages our physical understanding of the TES power balance equation, accounts for imperfect voltage bias by casting the bias network as its Thévenin equivalent, and can incorporate external information such as time-varying magnetic fields and focal plane temperature variations. The detector-specific parameters of MNTES will be measured during the ground calibration campaign prior to the LiteBIRD launch, yielding conversion functions that can take raw time-ordered data and output the reconstructed incident optical power. MNTES will allow us to achieve LiteBIRD’s goal of measuring the primordial tensor fluctuation spectrum to δr < 0.001.

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Tijmen de Haan "MNTES: modeling nonlinearity of TES detectors for enhanced cosmic microwave background measurements with LiteBIRD", Proc. SPIE 13102, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XII, 1310208 (16 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018503

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