Opto-mechanical design and performance of a compact three-frequency camera for the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Thornton, R J ^a   Ade, P A R ^b   Allen, C ^c   Amiri, M ^d   Appel, J W ^e   Battistelli, E S ^d,j   Burger, B ^d   Chervenak, J A ^c   Devlin, M J ^a   Dicker, S R ^a   Doriese, W B ^f   Essinger Hileman, T ^e   Fishery, R P ^e   Fowler, J W ^e   Halpern, M ^d   Hargrave, P C ^b   Hasselfield, M ^b   Hilton, G C ^f   Hincks, A D ^e   Irwin, K D ^f   Jarosik, N ^e   Kaul, M ^a   Klein, J ^a   Lau, J M ^g   Limon, M ^h   Marriage, T A ^e   Martocci, K L ⁱ   Mauskopf, P ^b   Moseley, S H ^c   Niemack, M D ^e   Page, L ^e   Parker, L P ^e   Reidel, J ^e   Reintsema, C D ^f   Staggs, S T ^e   Stryzak, O R ^e   Swetz, D S ^a   Switzer, E R ^e   Tucker, C ^b   Wollack, E J ^c   Zhao, Y ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

ⁱ CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^j SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

CMB telescope; Cryogenic; Mechanical design; Millimeter camera

Indexed keywords

ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE; BOLOMETER ARRAYS; CMB TELESCOPE; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; CRYOGENIC; DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES; FIELDS OF VIEW; FREQUENCY CHANNELS; MAGNETIC SHIELDING; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MILLIMETER CAMERA; MILLIMETER WAVES; MULTIPLE LAYERS; OPTICAL ELEMENTS; OPTICAL-; OPTO-MECHANICAL DESIGNS; SUB-MILLIMETER; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSOR;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; CAMERAS; COSMOLOGY; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 52249099882     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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