Commissioning SCUBA-2 at JCMT and optimising the Performance of the Superconducting TES Arrays

Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Volumn 167, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 152-160

  Bintley, D ^a   Dempsey, J ^a   Friberg, P ^a   Thomas, H ^a   MacIntosh, M ^b   Holland, W ^b   Ade, P ^c   Sudiwala, R ^c   Irwin, K ^d   Hilton, G ^d   Niemack, M ^d   Amiri, M ^e   Chapin, E ^e   Halpern, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bolometer; Detector array; Submillimeter astronomy; TES

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETER ARRAY; DETECTOR ARRAYS; FOCAL PLANE; IN-LINE; LOW TEMPERATURE DETECTOR; SCUBA-2; SIMULTANEOUS IMAGING; STATE OF THE ART; SUB-ARRAYS; SUB-MILLIMETER ASTRONOMY; SUBMILLIMETERS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION EDGE SENSORS; TES; WIDE-FIELD;

INFRARED DETECTORS; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 84863717299     PISSN: 00222291     EISSN: 15737357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-012-0601-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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