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Table 1

Main characteristics and requirements of the experimental setup divided into test bench and camera specifications.

Test bench characteristics
Component Description
Sky simulator’s black body
Cryostat
Window
Optical sources
270 mm diameter black disk cooled to 16 K
Custom pulse tube cryostat cooled to 130 mK
HDPE, 300 mm diameter
Mounted on 50 μm Kapton membrane (400 mm diameter):
  • High-emissivity disk (3 mm diameter) for photometric point source

  • 30 mm polarizer for extended polarized source

Source movement range
Motor control
Position synchronization
Lenses
Stray-light reduction
±150 mm horizontally and vertically
DC geared motors with 0.1 mm resolution and rotation up to 1 Hz
Rubidium 10 MHz clock
Two HDPE lenses for coupling camera and sky simulator
Blackened baffle at 4 K stage
Camera characteristics
Component Description
Temperature stability
Arrays
Illumination
Configuration
0.1 mK
CPW LEKIDs
Back illuminated
Filled-array

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