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26 August 2022 The Mexico UK sub-mm camera for astronomy (MUSCAT) on-sky commissioning: Instrument overview and performance
Simon M. Doyle, David Hughes, Peter Ade, Peter Barry, Thomas L. Brien, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Chris Dodd, Chris Dunscombe, Stephen Eales, Daniel Ferrusca Sr., José Luis Jáuregui Garcia, Víctor Goméz-Rivera, Peter Hargrave, Amber Hornsby, Julian House, Philip Mauskopf, Dulce Murias, Andreas Papageorgiou, Enzo Pascale, Nicolas Peretto, Abel Perez, José Luis Rebollar, Sam Rowe, 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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Abstract
The Mexico-UK Submm Camara for Astronomy (MUSCAT) is a 1.1 mm receiver comprising 1458 Horn-Coupled Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKIDs) built through a collaborative effort led by Cardiff University in the UK and the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) in Mexico. MUSCAT was successfully installed on the 50 m diameter Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano, in December 2021 Here we provide an overview of the MUSCAT platform and present on-sky engineering tests results from scientific commissioning data.
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Simon M. Doyle, David Hughes, Peter Ade, Peter Barry, Thomas L. Brien, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Chris Dodd, Chris Dunscombe, Stephen Eales, Daniel Ferrusca Sr., José Luis Jáuregui Garcia, Víctor Goméz-Rivera, Peter Hargrave, Amber Hornsby, Julian House, Philip Mauskopf, Dulce Murias, Andreas Papageorgiou, Enzo Pascale, Nicolas Peretto, Abel Perez, José Luis Rebollar, Sam Rowe, 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: Instrument overview and performance", Proc. SPIE PC12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, PC1219003 (26 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630126
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KEYWORDS
Astronomy

Cameras

Inductance

Sensors

Telescopes

Calibration

Cryogenics

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