SCUBA-2 arrays to system interfaces
Creators
- Duncan, W.
- Audley, D.
- Holland, W.
- Atkinson, D.
- Baillie, T.
- Cliffe, M.
- Ellis, M.
- Gao, X.
- Gostick, D.
- Hodson, T.
- Kelly, D.
- MacIntosh, M.
- McGregor, H.
- Peacocke, T.
- Smith, I.
- Robson, I.
- Walton, A.
- Parkes, W.
- Dunare, C.
- Smith, S.
- Terry, J.
- Stevenson, T.
- Gundlach, A.
- Ruthven, A.
- Ade, P.
- Tucker, C.
- Gannaway, F.
- Walker, I.
- Sudiwala, R.
- Woodcraft, A.
- Griffin, M.
- Bintley, D.
- Schulte, E.
- Fich, M.
- Kycia, J.
- Halpern, M.
- Molnar, J.
- Burger, B.
- Naylor, D.
- Bastien, P.
- Mitchell, G.
- Irwin, K.
- Hilton, G.
- Ullom, J.
- Reintsema, C.
- Vale, L.
- Ferreira, L.
- Doriese, W.
Description
Submillimeter common user bolometer array (SCUBA)-2 is a wide field sub-mm bolometer camera designed to replace the existing SCUBA instrument on the JCMT in Hawaii. It will be many hundreds of times faster in large area mapping than SCUBA and will also go deeper in a single frame. It will enable the many discoveries of SCUBA to be followed up with deep systematic surveys and help act as a pathfinder for the ALMA interferometer. The key technologies for making the arrays have been demonstrated and will be put together to fabricate the first prototype later this year (2003). The wide field nature of the SCUBA-2 bolometer camera, combined with the diffraction limit at sub-mm wavelengths, leads to physically large focal planes where the issues of stray light control, magnetic shielding, and electrical, thermal and mechanical connection must be carefully addressed in order to realise a successful instrument. We describe the solutions we have adopted for these problem areas
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.355;
- PII
- S0168900203032637;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 520
- Journal Issue
- 1-3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 427-430
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
Conference
- Title
- 10. international workshop on low temperature detectors
- Dates
- 7-11 Jul 2003
- Place
- Genoa (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35083988
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BOLOMETERS; CAMERAS; DIFFRACTION; INTERFACES; INTERFEROMETERS; MAGNETIC SHIELDING; MULTIPLEXERS; NIOBIUM; WAVELENGTHS
- Descriptors DEC
- COHERENT SCATTERING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELEMENTS; EQUIPMENT; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; REFRACTORY METALS; SCATTERING; SHIELDING; TRANSITION ELEMENTS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.