Heterodyne single-pixel facility instrumentation for APEX telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6275, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Belitsky, Victor ^a   Lapkin, Igor ^a   Monje, Raquel ^a   Vassilev, Vessen ^a   Risacher, Christophe ^b   Pavolotsky, Alexey ^a   Meledin, Denis ^a   Olberg, Michael ^a   Pantaleev, Miroslav ^a   Booth, Roy ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

APEX facility receiver; Cryogenics; Nasmyth Cabin A optics; SIS and HEB mixers

Indexed keywords

APEX FACILITY RECEIVERS; MULTICHANNEL FACILITIES; NASMYTH CABIN A OPTICS; SIS AND HEB MIXERS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTROL SYSTEMS; CRYOGENICS; HETERODYNING; LIGHTING; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749652748     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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