Beginning of operation on APEX of the polarimeter for the Large APEX Bolometer Camera (LABOCA)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Siringo, Giorgio ^a   Kreysa, Ernst ^b   Kovács, Attila ^c   Menten, Karl M ^b   Forbrich, Jan ^d  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

APEX; array; bolometer; LABOCA; polarization; submillimeter

Indexed keywords

APEX; ARRAY; ATACAMA PATHFINDER EXPERIMENTS; BOLOMETER CAMERAS; COMMISSIONING PHASE; CONTINUUM EMISSION; LABOCA; SUBMILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; SUBMILLIMETERS;

ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; CAMERAS; DETECTORS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 77956209920     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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