Systems and control software for the atacama cosmology telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7019, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Switzer, E R ^a   Allen, C ^b   Amiri, M ^c   Appel, J W ^a   Battistelli, E S ^c,l   Burger, B ^c   Chervenak, J A ^b   Dahlen, A J ^a   Das, S ^a   Devlin, M J ^d   Dicker, S R ^d   Doriese, W B ^e   Dunner R ^a,k   Essinger Hileman, T ^a   Gao, X ^f   Halpern, M ^c   Hasselfield, M ^c   Hilton, G C ^e   Hincks, A D ^a   Irwin, K D ^e   Knotek, S ^c   Fisher, R P ^a   Fowler, J W ^a   Jarosik, N ^a   Kaul, M ^d   Klein, J ^d   Lau, J M ^g   Limon, M ^h   Lupton, R H ^a   Marriage, T A ^a   Martocci, K L ^m   Moseley, S H ^b   Netterfield, C B ⁱ   Niemack, M D ^a   Nolta, M R ^j   Page, L ^a   Parker, L P ^a   Reid, B A ^a   Reintsema, C D ^d   Sederberg, A J ^a   Sievers, J L ^j   Spergel, D N ^a   Staggs, S T ^a   Stryzak, O R ^a   Swetz, D S ^d   Thornton, R J ^d   Wollack, E J ^b   Zhao, Y ^a   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

^f UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^k PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^l SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^m CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATACAMA; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; DATA RATES; FREE SPACE; REAL-TIME DATA; REMOTE SITES; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS; SYSTEMS AND CONTROL; TELESCOPE SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE ANISOTROPY; TRANSITION-EDGE;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSMOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 66949137415     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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