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The Mexico-UK Sub-millimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a large-format, millimetre-wave camera consisting of 1,500 background-limited lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) scheduled for deployment on the Large…

The Mexico-UK Submillimetre Camera for Astronomy (MUSCAT) is the second-generation large-format continuum camera operating in the 1.1 mm band to be installed on the 50-m diameter Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico. The focal plane…

The Mexico-UK Submillimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a 1.1 mm receiver consisting of 1,500 lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) for the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT; Volc\'an Sierra Negra in Puebla, M\'exico).…

The MUSCAT instrument is a large-format camera planned for installation on the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in 2018. MUSCAT requires continuous cooling of several large-volume stages to sub-Kelvin temperatures, with the focal plane…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 T. L. R. Brien , E. Castillo-Dominguez , S. Chase , S. M. Doyle

The Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (LMT), is the largest millimeter radio telescope in the world, and was founded in 2006. This radio telescope is the final product of a collaboration agreement between Mexico and the United…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Paulina Carmona Rodriguez , Maria de la Paz Ramos-Lara

We report a development of a multi-color simultaneous camera for the 188cm telescope at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory in Japan. The instrument, named MuSCAT, has a capability of 3-color simultaneous imaging in optical wavelength where…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-11 Norio Narita , Akihiko Fukui , Nobuhiko Kusakabe , Masahiro Onitsuka , Tsuguru Ryu , Kenshi Yanagisawa , Hideyuki Izumiura , Motohide Tamura , Tomoyasu Yamamuro

We report the development of a 4-color simultaneous camera for the 1.52~m Telescopio Carlos S\'anchez (TCS) in the Teide Observatory, Canaries, Spain. The new instrument, named MuSCAT2, has a capability of 4-color simultaneous imaging in…

TolTEC is a new camera being built for the 50-meter Large Millimeter-wave Telescope (LMT) in Puebla, Mexico to survey distant galaxies and star-forming regions in the Milky Way. The optical design simultaneously couples the field of view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Sean Bryan , Jason Austermann , Daniel Ferrusca , Philip Mauskopf , Jeff McMahon , Alfredo Montana , Sara Simon , Giles Novak , David Sanchez-Arguelles , Grant Wilson

CCAT will be a 25m diameter sub-millimeter telescope capable of operating in the 0.2 to 2.1mm wavelength range. It will be located at an altitude of 5600m on Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile near the ALMA site. The anticipated first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-01 Tim Jenness , Martin C. Shepherd , Reinhold Schaaf , Jack Sayers , Volker Ossenkopf , Thomas Nikola , Gaelen Marsden , Ronan Higgins , Kevin Edwards , Adam Brazier

In 2018 the Large Sized Telescope (LST-1) prototype, designed to be the lowest energy detector for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, was inaugurated at the Observatorio de Roque de Los Muchachos in La Palma, Canary Island and today…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 M. Iori , F. Ferrarotto , L. Recchia , A. Girardi , R. Lunadei

CCAT is a large submillimetre telescope to be built near the ALMA site in northern Chile. A large-format KID camera, with up to 48,000 detectors at a single waveband sampled at about 1 kHz, will have a data rate about 50 times larger than…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-31 Gaelen Marsden , Tim Jenness , Douglas Scott

Cornell, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) have joined together to study development of a 25 meter sub-millimeter telescope (CCAT) on a high peak in the Atacama region of northern Chile, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Thomas A. Sebring , Riccardo Giovanelli , Simon Radford , Jonas Zmuidzinas

Submillimeter cameras now have up to $10^4$ pixels (SCUBA 2). The proposed CCAT 25-meter submillimeter telescope will feature a 1 degree field-of-view. Populating the focal plane at 350 microns would require more than $10^6$ photon-noise…

A Large Size air Cherenkov Telescope (LST) prototype, proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is under construction at the Canary Island of La Palma (Spain) this year. The LST camera, which comprises an array of about 500…

The CCAT Observatory's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope, a novel, high-throughput, 6-meter aperture telescope, is scheduled for first light in 2026. Located at 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in the Chilean Atacama Desert, the CCAT site…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Eve M. Vavagiakis

Cornell University, the California Institute for Technology, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are jointly studying the construction of a 25 m diameter telescope for submillimeter astronomy on a high mountain in northern Chile. This Cornell…

MUSTANG is a bolometer camera for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) working at a frequency of 90 GHz. The detector has a field of view of 40 arcseconds. To cancel out random emission change from atmosphere and other sources, requires a fast…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-30 Jingquan Cheng , Yang Li , Xinnan Li , Brian Mason

We report on a plan to construct a 50-m-class single-dish telescope, the Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST). The conceptual design and key science behind the LST are presented, together with its tentative specifications. This telescope is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Ryohei Kawabe , Kotaro Kohno , Yoichi Tamura , Tatsuya Takekoshi , Tai Oshima , Shun Ishii , LST working group

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 D. Mazin , J. Cortina , M. Teshima , the CTA Consortium

The next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELT), with diameters up to 39 meters, will start opera- tion in the next decade and promises new challenges in the development of instruments. The growing field of astrophotonics (the use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-07 N. Blind , E. Le Coarer , P. Kern , J. Bland-Hawthorn
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