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Recent Achievements on the development of the Herschel/PACS Bolometer arrays

N. Billot, P. Agnese, O. Boulade, C. Cigna, E. Doumeyrou, B. Horeau, J. Lepennec, J. Martignac, J. -L. Pornin, V. Reveret, L. Rodriguez, M. Sauvage, F. Simoens, L. Vigroux

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0603086

Abstract

A new type of bolometer arrays sensitive in the Far Infrared and Submillimeter range has been developped and manufactured by CEA/LETI/SLIR and will be integrated in the PACS instrument onboard the Herschel Space Observatory (launch date 2008). The main innovations are their collective manufacturing technique (production of 3-side buttable 16x16 arrays) and their high mapping efficiency (large format detector and instantaneous Nyquist sampling). Their measured NEP is 2x10-16 W/Hz-0.5 and their thermometric passband about 4-5 Hz. In this paper we describe CEA bolometers and present the results obtained during the last test campaign.

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