HARP: A submillimetre heterodyne array receiver operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Smith, H ^a   Buckle, J ^a   Hills, R ^a   Bell, G ^a   Richer, J ^a   Curti, E ^a   Withington, S ^a   Leech, J ^a,d   Williamson, R ^a   Dent, W ^b   Hastings, P ^b   Redman, R ^c   Wooff, B ^c   Yeung, K ^c   Friberg, P ^d   Walther, C ^d   Kackley, R ^d   Jenness, T ^d   Tilanus, R ^d   Dempsey, J ^d   Kroug, M ^e   Zijlstra, T ^e   Klapwijk, T M ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACSIS; Array; Focal plane; Heterodyne; JCMT; SIS; Submillimetre

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; HETERODYNING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INSTRUMENTS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TECHNOLOGY; TELESCOPES;

3-DIMENSIONAL; ACSIS; ARRAY; ARRAY RECEIVERS; ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS; AUTO CORRELATIONS; CAMBRIDGE; COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS; DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN FEATURES; ELEMENT ARRAY; FOCAL-PLANE; FOCAL-PLANE ARRAYS; GROUP DESIGN; HETERODYNE; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; JAMES CLERK MAXWELL TELESCOPE; JCMT; NETHERLANDS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SIS; SPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEM; SUB-MILLIMETER; SUBMILLIMETRE;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 52249117405     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790707     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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