Pre-deployment verification and predicted mapping speed of MUSCAT

Brien, Thomas, Ade, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Barry, Peter, Castillo-Domínguez, Edgar, Ferrusca, Daniel, Gómez-Rivera, Víctor, Hargrave, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3109-6629, Hernández Rebollar, Jose Luis, Hornsby, Amber ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9998-1720, Hughes, David, Jáuregui-García, José Miguel, Mauskopf, Philip, Murias, Dolce, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Pascale, Enzo, Pérez, Abel, Rowe, Samuel, Smith, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3532-6970, Tapia, Marcial, Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Miguel, Velázquez, Ventura, Salvador and Doyle, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-986X 2020. Pre-deployment verification and predicted mapping speed of MUSCAT. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020, Virtual, 14-18 December 2020. Proceedings Volume 11453, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X. , vol.11453 SPIE, p. 1145303. 10.1117/12.2561305

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Abstract

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; Volcán Sierra Negra in Puebla, México). MUSCAT utilises the maximum field of view of the LMT's upgraded 50-metre primary mirror and is the first México-UK collaboration to deploy a millimetre/sub-mm receiver on the Large Millimeter Telescope. Using a simplistic simulator, we estimate a predicted mapping speed for MUSCAT by combining the measured performance of MUSCAT with the observed sky conditions at the LMT. We compare this to a previously calculated bolometric-model mapping speed and find that our mapping speed is in good agreement when this is scaled by a previously reported empirical factor. Through this simulation we show that signal contamination due to sky fluctuations can be effectively removed through the use of principle component analysis. We also give an overview

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Publisher:	SPIE
Funders:	RCUK, CONACYT
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 December 2020
Date of Acceptance:	30 November 2020
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2023 02:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/136980

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