The large APEX bolometer camera LABOCA

Giorgio Siringo; Ernst Kreysa; Attila Kovacs; Frederic Schuller; Axel Weiß; Walter Esch; Hans-Peter Gemünd; Nikhil Jethava; Gundula Lundershausen; Rolf Güsten; Karl M. Menten; Alexandre Beelen; Frank Bertoldi; Jeffrey W. Beeman; Eugene E. Haller; Angel Colin

doi:10.1117/12.787981

18 July 2008 The large APEX bolometer camera LABOCA

Giorgio Siringo, Ernst Kreysa, Attila Kovacs, Frederic Schuller, Axel Weiß, Walter Esch, Hans-Peter Gemünd, Nikhil Jethava, Gundula Lundershausen, Rolf Güsten, Karl M. Menten, Alexandre Beelen, Frank Bertoldi, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Eugene E. Haller, Angel Colin

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Proceedings Volume 7020, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV; 702003 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787981
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

A new facility instrument, the Large APEX Bolometer Camera (LABOCA), developed by the Max-Planck-Institut f&diaeru;r Radioastronomie (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany), has been commissioned in May 2007 for operation on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope (APEX), a 12 m submillimeter radio telescope located at 5100 m altitude on Llano de Chajnantor in northern Chile. For mapping, this 295-bolometer camera for the 870 micron atmospheric window operates in total power mode without wobbling the secondary mirror. One LABOCA beam is 19 arcsec FWHM and the field of view of the complete array covers 100 square arcmin. Combined with the high efficiency of APEX and the excellent atmospheric transmission at the site, LABOCA offers unprecedented capability in large scale mapping of submillimeter continuum emission. Details of design and operation are presented.

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Giorgio Siringo, Ernst Kreysa, Attila Kovacs, Frederic Schuller, Axel Weiß, Walter Esch, Hans-Peter Gemünd, Nikhil Jethava, Gundula Lundershausen, Rolf Güsten, Karl M. Menten, Alexandre Beelen, Frank Bertoldi, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Eugene E. Haller, and Angel Colin "The large APEX bolometer camera LABOCA", Proc. SPIE 7020, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 702003 (18 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787981

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