Scaling the summit of the submillimetre: Instrument performance of SCUBA-2

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8452, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bintley, Dan ^a   MacIntosh, Michael J ^b   Holland, Wayne S ^b,d   Dempsey, Jessica T ^a   Friberg, Per ^a   Kuroda, John T ^a   Starman, Erik G ^a   Thomas, Holly S ^a   Walther, Craig ^a   Gao, Xiaofeng ^b   Ade, Peter A R ^c   Sudiwala, Rashmi V ^c   Dunare, Camelia ^e   Parkes, William ^e   Walton, Anthony J ^e   Irwin, Kent D ^f   Hilton, Gene C ^f   Niemack, Michael ^f   Amiri, Mandana ^g   Asboth, Viktoria ^g   Burger, Bryce ^g   Chapin, Edward L ^g   Halpern, Mark ^g   Hasselfield, Matthew ^g   Woodcraft, Adam ^b,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Low temperature detector; SCUBA 2; SQUID; Submillimetre astronomy; TES; Transition edge sensor

Indexed keywords

LOW TEMPERATURE DETECTOR; SCUBA-2; SUBMILLIMETRE ASTRONOMY; TES; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS;

ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; FOCUSING; INFRARED DETECTORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SENSORS; SQUIDS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84872072398     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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