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26 August 2022 The Mexico UK Sub-mm Camera for Astronomy (MUSCAT) on-sky commissioning: detector readout and tuning system performance.
Sam Rowe, Simon Doyle, David Hughes, Peter Ade, Peter Barry, Thomas L. Brien, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Chris Dodd, Chris Dunscombe, Stephen Eales, Daniel Ferrusca Sr., Víctor Goméz-Rivera, José Miguel Jáuregui-García, Peter Hargrave, Amber Hornsby, Julian House, Philip Mauskopf, Dulce Murias, Andreas Papageorgiou, Enzo Pascale, Nicolas Peretto, Abel Pérez, José Luis Rebollar, David Sánchez-Argüelles, Matthew Smith, Kamal Souccar, Rashmi Sudiwala, Marcial Tapia, Ana Torres Campos, Carole Tucker, Miguel Velázquez, Salvador Ventura-González, Ian Walker
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Proceedings Volume PC12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI; PC121900J (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630495
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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MUSCAT is a new platform for mm/sub-mm astronomy at the 50m LMT. It is currently configured for 1.1 mm continuum observations with a focal plane consisting of 1458 feedhorn-coupled LEKIDs read out over six frequency division multiplexed RF readout chains with ~250 detectors per readout. We present the performance of the detector readout and tuning system following the initial on-sky commissioning campaign in late 2021. We give details of the readout hardware, the instrument control software, the interfaces between the instrument and telescope control systems, and the automated tuning system for maintaining background-limited performance over the course of an observing night given the varying atmospheric load.
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Sam Rowe, Simon Doyle, David Hughes, Peter Ade, Peter Barry, Thomas L. Brien, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Chris Dodd, Chris Dunscombe, Stephen Eales, Daniel Ferrusca Sr., Víctor Goméz-Rivera, José Miguel Jáuregui-García, Peter Hargrave, Amber Hornsby, Julian House, Philip Mauskopf, Dulce Murias, Andreas Papageorgiou, Enzo Pascale, Nicolas Peretto, Abel Pérez, José Luis Rebollar, David Sánchez-Argüelles, Matthew Smith, Kamal Souccar, Rashmi Sudiwala, Marcial Tapia, Ana Torres Campos, Carole Tucker, Miguel Velázquez, Salvador Ventura-González, and Ian Walker "The Mexico UK Sub-mm Camera for Astronomy (MUSCAT) on-sky commissioning: detector readout and tuning system performance.", Proc. SPIE PC12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, PC121900J (26 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630495
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KEYWORDS
Sensors
Astronomy
Cameras
Imaging systems
Telescopes
Monochromatic aberrations
Multiplexing
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