@inproceedings{a2db1c4e8e2b44069e8157ca3b2b37d7,
title = "Pre-deployment verification and predicted mapping speed of MUSCAT",
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; Volcan Sierra Negra in Puebla, Mexico). MUSCAT utilises the maximum field of view of the LMT's upgraded 50-metre primary mirror and is the first Mexico-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.",
author = "Brien, {T. L.R.} and Ade, {P. A.R.} and Barry, {P. S.} and E. Castillo-Dominguez and D. Ferrusca and V. Gomez-Rivera and P. Hargrave and {Hernandez Rebollar}, {J. L.} and A. Hornsby and Hughes, {D. H.} and Jauregui-Garcia, {J. M.} and P. Mauskopf and D. Murias and A. Papageorgiou and E. Pascale and A. Perez and S. Rowe and Smith, {M. W.L.} and M. Tapia and C. Tucker and M. Velazquez and S. Ventura and S. Doyle",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge RCUK and CONACYT through the Newton Fund (grant no. ST/P002803/1), CONACYT for supporting the fellowship for the instrument scientist (grant no. 053), Chase Research Cryogenics for the development of the sub-kelvin coolers and to XILINX Inc. for the donation of the FPGAs used for the ROACH2 boards. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.; Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2020 ; Conference date: 14-12-2020 Through 22-12-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1117/12.2561305",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Jonas Zmuidzinas and Jian-Rong Gao",
booktitle = "Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X",
}