Assembly development for the Simons Observatory focal plane readout module
astro-ph.IM
/ Authors
Erin Healy, Aamir M. Ali, Kam Arnold, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall, Sarah Marie Bruno, Steve K. Choi, Jake Connors, Nicholas F. Cothar, Bradley Dober
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Shannon M. Duff, Nicholas Galitzki, Gene Hilton, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Johannes Hubmayr, Bradley R. Johnson, Yaqiong Li, Michael J. Link, Tammy J. Lucas, Heather McCarrick, Michael D. Niemack, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Rita F. Sonka, Suzanne Staggs, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Michael R. Vissers, Yuhan Wang, Benjamin Westbrook, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Kaiwen Zheng
/ Abstract
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of instruments sensitive to temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Five telescopes, one large aperture telescope and four small aperture telescopes, will host roughly 70,000 highly multiplexed transition edge sensor (TES) detectors operated at 100 mK. Each SO focal plane module (UFM) couples 1,764 TESes to microwave resonators in a microwave multiplexing (uMux) readout circuit. Before detector integration, the 100 mK uMux components are packaged into multiplexing modules (UMMs), which are independently validated to ensure they meet SO performance specifications. Here we present the assembly developments of these UMM readout packages for mid frequency (90/150 GHz) and ultra high frequency (220/280 GHz) UFMs.