Instrument performance of GISMO, a 2 millimeter TES bolometer camera used at the IRAM 30 m telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Staguhn, Johannes G ^a,b   Benford, Dominic J ^a   Allen, Christine A ^a   Maher, Stephen F ^a,c   Sharp, Elmer H ^a,d   Ames, Troy J ^a   Arendt, Richard G ^a,e   Chuss, David T ^a   Dwek, Eli ^a   Fixsen, Dale J ^a,b   Miller, Tim M ^a,f   Harvey Moseley, S ^a   Navarro, Santiago ^g   Sievers, Albrecht ^g   Wollack, Edward J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d GLOBAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^f MEI Technologies   (United States)

^g Institute de Radioastronomie Millimétrique IRAM Núcleo Central   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bolometer cameras; High redshift universe; Superconducting bolometers

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; CAMERAS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TELESCOPES; WASTEWATER; X RAY CAMERAS;

ARRAY ARCHITECTURES; ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS; BOLOMETER ARRAYS; BOLOMETER CAMERAS; FAR INFRA RED; GROUND-BASED; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; HIGH REDSHIFT UNIVERSE; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; MILLIMETER WAVE LENGTHS; SPACE-BASED; SPECTRAL RANGES; STAR FORMATION RATE; SUB-MILLIMETER; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 52249094622     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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