Optical design of the atacama cosmology telescope and the millimeter bolometric array camera

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 3444-3454

  Fowler, J W ^a   Niemack, M D ^a   Dicker, S R ^b   Aboobaker, A M ^a,c   Ade, P A R ^d   Battistelli, E S ^e   Devlin, M J ^b   Fisher, R P ^a   Halpern, M ^e   Hargrave, P C ^d   Hincks, A D ^a   Kaul, M ^b   Klein, J ^b   Lau, J M ^a   Limon, M ^b   Marriage, T A ^a   Mauskopf, P D ^d   Page, L ^a   Staggs, S T ^a   Swetz, D S ^b   Switzer, E R ^a   Thornton, R J ^b   Tucker, C E ^d   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DETECTORS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE; COSMIC MICROWAVE; REIMAGING OPTICS; SENSITIVE DETECTORS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 34547552503     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003444     Document Type: Article

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