6 September 2022 High-precision temperature monitoring system for room-temperature equipment in astrophysical observations
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Abstract

We present a precise thermometry system to monitor room-temperature components of a telescope for radio-astronomy such as cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation. The system realizes precision of 1 mKs on a timescale of 20 s at 300 K. We achieved this high precision by tracking only relative fluctuation and combining thermistors with a low-noise measurement device. We show the required precision of temperature monitors for CMB observation and introduce the performance of our thermometry system. This precise room-temperature monitoring system enables us to reduce the low-frequency noise in a wide range of radio-astronomical detector signals observation and to operate a large detector array perform at its designed high sensitivity.

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Daiki Tanabe, Masaya Hasegawa, Masashi Hazumi, Nobuhiko Katayama, Shuhei Kikuchi, Adrian Lee, Haruki Nishino, and Satoru Takakura "High-precision temperature monitoring system for room-temperature equipment in astrophysical observations," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 8(3), 036003 (6 September 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.3.036003
Received: 21 February 2022; Accepted: 22 August 2022; Published: 6 September 2022
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KEYWORDS
Mirrors

Sensors

Temperature metrology

Signal detection

Electronics

Polarization

Bolometers

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