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Multichroic TES Bolometers and Galaxy Cluster Mass Scaling Relations with the South Pole Telescope

Saliwanchik, Benjamin Roman Bernard
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5089-7472
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1440589102

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Physics.
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a high-resolution microwave-frequency telescope designed to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). To date, two cameras have been installed on the SPT to conduct two surveys of the CMB, the first in intensity only (SPT-SZ) and the second in intensity and polarization (SPTpol). A third-generation polarization-sensitive camera is currently in development (SPT-3G). This thesis describes work spanning all three instruments on the SPT. I present my work in time-reversed order, to follow the canonical narrative of instrument development, deployment, and analysis. First, the development and testing of novel 3-band multichroic Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers for the SPT-3G experiment is detailed, followed by the development and deployment of the frequency multiplexed cryogenic readout electronics for the SPTpol experiment, and concluding with the analysis of data taken by the SPT-SZ instrument. I describe the development of a Bayesian likelihood based method I developed for measuring the integrated Comptonization (YSZ) of galaxy clusters from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, and constraining galaxy cluster YSZ-mass scaling relations.
John Ruhl (Committee Chair)
Corbin Covault (Committee Member)
Glenn Starkman (Committee Member)
Paul Harding (Committee Member)
188 p.
Astrophysics; Physics
cosmology; cosmic microwave background; CMB; South Pole Telescope; SPT; transition edge sensors; TES; galaxy clusters

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  • Saliwanchik, B. R. B. (2015). Multichroic TES Bolometers and Galaxy Cluster Mass Scaling Relations with the South Pole Telescope [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1440589102

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Saliwanchik, Benjamin. Multichroic TES Bolometers and Galaxy Cluster Mass Scaling Relations with the South Pole Telescope. 2015. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1440589102.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Saliwanchik, Benjamin. "Multichroic TES Bolometers and Galaxy Cluster Mass Scaling Relations with the South Pole Telescope." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1440589102

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