MUSTANG: 90 GHz science with the Green Bank Telescope
Abstract
MUSTANG is a 90 GHz bolometer camera built for use as a facility instrument on the 100 m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescope (GBT). MUSTANG has an 8 by 8 focal plane array of transition edge sensor bolometers read out using time-domain multiplexed SQUID electronics. As a continuum instrument on a large single dish MUSTANG has a combination of high resolution (8) and good sensitivity to extended emission which make it very competitive for a wide range of galactic and extragalactic science. Commissioning finished in January 2008 and some of the first science data have been collected.
- Publication:
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Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
- Pub Date:
- August 2008
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0907.1306
- Bibcode:
- 2008SPIE.7020E..05D
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 9 Pages, 5 figures, Presented at the SPIE conference on astronomical instrumentation in 2008