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Benefits of Bolometer Joule Step** and Joule Pulsing
We introduce the ‘Joule step**’ technique, whereupon a constantly biased bolometer has its bias voltage modified by a small additional step. We demonstrate this technique using a composite NTD semiconductor ...
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Open AccessDevelopment of \(^{100}\hbox {Mo}\) -containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search
This paper reports on the development of a technology involving \(^{100}\hbox {Mo}\) ...
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Characterization and Physical Explanation of Energetic Particles on Planck HFI Instrument
The Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) has been surveying the sky continuously from the second Lagrangian point (L2) between August 2009 and January 2012. It operates with 52 high impedance bolometers cool...
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Complementary Measurement of Thermal Architecture of NbSi TES with Alpha Particle and Complex Impedance
As shown by the Planck mission (Planck Collaboration. Astronomy and astrophysics. ar**v1303.5071P, 2013), background limited bolometers in a space environment are very sensitive to high energy particles. In order...
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Measurement of the L/K electron capture ratio of the 207Bi decay to the 1633 keV level of 207Pb with a BGO scintillating bolometer
The ROSEBUD Collaboration has dedicated several underground runs to study different types of bolometers, mainly for the search of dark matter. Some of these runs, profiting from the good energy resolution of o...
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Characterization of a SrF2 Scintillating Bolometer
We present the analysis of the data obtained with a 53 g SrF2 scintillating bolometer operated at 20 mK. We have analyzed its heat and light response (time constants, linearity and energy resolution) and measured...
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Towards an Absolute Determination of the Particle Energy Thermalized in Bolometers
We describe a procedure to derive the absolute energy thermalized in the bolometer’s target after a particle interaction. It relies on the comparison of the theoretical responsivity in stationary regime (deduc...
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Recent Performance of Scintillating Bolometers Developed for Dark Matter Searches
Scintillating bolometers of sapphire, BGO and LiF have been recently tested both at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) and the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC) in the frame of the ROSEBUD co...
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Measurement of the Nuclear Recoil Thermal Relative Efficiency Factor with an Undoped Sapphire Scintillating Bolometer
In previous work of the ROSEBUD (Rare Objects SEarch with Bolometers UndergrounD) collaboration, undoped sapphire has shown high light yield at very low temperature and low particle discrimination energy thre...
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Open AccessThe SciCryo Project and Cryogenic Scintillation of Al2O3 for Dark Matter
We discuss cryogenic scintillation of Al2O3. Room-temperature measurements with α particles are first carried out to study effect of Ti concentration on response. Measurements under X-rays between room temperatu...
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Enhanced performance of a bolometric detector at mK temperatures in high magnetic fields
Results on the operation of a bolometer detector in high magnetic fields and at very low temperatures are presented. We tested a diamond absorber on a Ge thermistor in magnetic fields up to 8 Tesla and tempera...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detection of parent molecules in comet P/Halley from the IKS-Vega experiment
Several parent molecules have been detected in comet P/Halley using the 2.5–5 μm channel of the IKS experiment aboard Vega 1. The spectral resolving power was about 40 at 2.5 μm and 70 at 5 μm. The v3 band of H2O...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Temperature and size of the nucleus of comet P/Halley deduced from IKS infrared Vega 1 measurements
The infrared thermal emission of the nucleus of Halley’s comet was measured by the imaging channel of the IKS spectrometer in two wavelengths bands (7–10 µm and 9–14 µm) and in two perpendicular directions of ana...
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Infrared sounding of comet Halley from Vega 1
The IKS instrument carried by the Vega 1 spacecraft performed infrared sounding of the inner coma and nuclear region of comet Halley. An emissive centre, a few kilometres in size, was detected with a temperatu...
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A composite bolometer as a charged-particle spectrometer
The measurement of radioactivity by direct conversion of nuclear radiation into a temperature rise of a calorimeter is as old as nuclear physics itself. As part of a general programme aiming at a determination...
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Metallic mesh properties and design of submillimeter filters
By using a Michelson interferometer in the asymmetric mode with helium cooled bolometer, we have measured with precision the complex transmittance and reflectance of metallic meshes in the wavelength region 0....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
New High Spectral Resolution Airborne Line Observations in the Far Infrared
A high resolution (λ/Δλ~104 Michelson interferometer has been used on NASA’s AIRO (C-141) telescope in November-December 1975 to observe far infrared emission lines from HII regions. The instrument operates in th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
High Resolution Atmospheric Emission Spectroscopy at 120 cm -1 and 535 cm -1, with a Rapid Scan Interferometer and 91 cm Airborne Telescope
Instrumentation for observing infrared ionic lines from the interstellar medium has been developed by the present observers for use with the 91 cm telescope on NASA’s G.P. Kuiper airborne observatory. Technica...
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Observation of Comet Kohoutek at 1.4 mm
WE made observations of Comet Kohoutek at Kitt Peak with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) 36-foot telescope during two consecutive periods: December 27, 1973–January 2, 1974; and January 6–Janua...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A New Type of Helium-Cooled Bolometer
Astrophysical far infrared experiments are still often limited by the detectors available, though high performances have been obtained, in particular with cooled bolometers [1,2].
