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Design of Large Low Noise Transition Edge Sensor Arrays for Future FIR Space Missions

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The Astrophysics 2020 Decadal Report recommended a line of Probe missions with far-infrared imaging or spectroscopy capabilities. The achievable sensitivity of these FIR missions will be enabled by cooled telescopes and advanced cryogenic detector technologies, potentially resulting in up to three orders of magnitude improvement in sensitivity and mapping speeds up to more than a million times of those achieved so far with past missions. We have obtained NASA funding to build and demonstrate transition edge sensor (TES)-based kilopixel arrays with the properties that match the requirements for cryogenic far-infrared space missions: The arrays are very closely tileable in one direction and with a moderate gap in the other direction. This array architecture can meet the sampling and pixel number requirement of a few 104 pixels. Many details of the architecture have already been demonstrated individually, and the detector board will be optimized for the use of the latest cryogenic NIST 2D time-domain SQUID readout multiplexers with a high-density fanout scheme. Additionally, we will use flex lines that are very similar to those developed at Princeton University for the ACT project. This method allows virtually unlimited tileability of the detector arrays and thus a compact detector/readout design for future FIR instrumentation requiring large pixel counts. We already have a pixel design which, if implemented with TES operating at less than 100 mK, will meet the continuum sensitivity requirements for background-limited cryogenic space missions of NEP < 10–18 W/√Hz). Furthermore, our array design will be compatible with lower noise TES designs for spectroscopy that we are currently demonstrating in our laboratory.

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Science Mission Directorate, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030,21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, 21-SAT21-0030, and 21-SAT21-0030.

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  1. Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

    Johannes Staguhn

  2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 665, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    Johannes Staguhn, Elmer Sharp, Ari Brown, Archana Devasia, Dale Fixsen, Felipe Colazo Petit, Kevin Denis, Mike DiPirro, Jason Glenn, Stephen Maher, Vilem Mikula, Peter Nagler & Edward Wollack

  3. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA

    William Doriese, Malcolm Durkin & Shannon Duff

  4. CRESST, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Dale Fixsen

  5. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    Suzanne Staggs & Bert Harrop

  6. Science Systems and Applications Inc., Langham, MD, 20706, USA

    Vilem Mikula

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JS is PI of project and wrote the manuscript. E.S., A.B., A.D., M.D., and V.M. contributed figures. All authors are Co-Is on project. All have contributed technical support and/or technical advise to the project.

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Staguhn, J., Sharp, E., Brown, A. et al. Design of Large Low Noise Transition Edge Sensor Arrays for Future FIR Space Missions. J Low Temp Phys (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-024-03084-3

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