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Victoria Butler , James J. Bock , Dongwoo T. Chung , A. T. Crites , K. Lau , Ian Lowe , Daniel P. Marrone , Evan C. Mayer , Benjamin J. Vaughan , M. Zemcov ·

YOU? · · 2025 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.02459

Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers are a well-established technology with a strong track record in experimental cosmology, making them ideal for current and future radio astronomy instruments. The Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), in collaboration with JPL, has developed advanced silicon nitride leg isolated superconducting titanium detectors for 200 to 300 GHz observations of the Epoch of Reionization. Compared to their MHz counterparts, bolometers operating in this frequency range are less common because of their large absorber size and fragility. TIME aims to fabricate a total of 1920 high frequency (HF) and low frequency (LF) detectors to fully populate the focal plane. TIME has successfully developed HF (230 to 325 GHz) and LF (183 to 230 GHz) wafers that are physically robust and perform well at cryogenic temperatures (300 mK). Recent laboratory tests have shown high optical efficiencies for the LF wafers (30 to 40%), but low device yield for the HFs. To address this, new HF modules have been designed with improved cabling and a reduced backshort distance, and are expected to perform similarly to LFs in a similar lab setting. We report on the development of these detectors as well as recent laboratory and on sky tests conducted at the Arizona Radio Observatory's (ARO) 12 meter prototype antenna at Kitt Peak National Observatory.

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