The Mexico uk sub-mm camera for astronomy (muscat) on-sky commissioning: focal plane performance

M. Tapia; P. A.R. Ade; E. Aguilar Perez; P. S. Barry; T. L.R. Brien; E. Castillo-Dominguez; C. Dodd; C. Dunscombe; S. Eales; D. Ferrusca; V. Gomez-Rivera; P. Hargrave; J. L. Hernandez-Rebollar; A. Hornsby; J. House; D. Hughes; J. M. Jauregui Garcia; P. Mauskopf; D. Murias; A. Papageorgiou; E. Pascale; N. Peretto; A. Perez; S. Rowe; D. Sanchez-Arguelles; M. W.L. Smith; K. Souccar; R. Sudiwala; A. Torres Campos; C. Tucker; M. Velazquez; S. Ventura-Gonzalez; I. Walker; S. Doyle

doi:10.1117/12.2630377

The Mexico uk sub-mm camera for astronomy (muscat) on-sky commissioning: focal plane performance

M. Tapia, P. A.R. Ade, E. Aguilar Perez, P. S. Barry, T. L.R. Brien, E. Castillo-Dominguez, C. Dodd, C. Dunscombe, S. Eales, D. Ferrusca, V. Gomez-Rivera, P. Hargrave, J. L. Hernandez-Rebollar, A. Hornsby, J. House, D. Hughes, J. M. Jauregui Garcia, P. Mauskopf, D. Murias, A. PapageorgiouE. Pascale, N. Peretto, A. Perez, S. Rowe, D. Sanchez-Arguelles, M. W.L. Smith, K. Souccar, R. Sudiwala, A. Torres Campos, C. Tucker, M. Velazquez, S. Ventura-Gonzalez, I. Walker, S. Doyle

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Abstract

The MUSCAT camera is a second-generation continuum camera at the 50-m Large Millimetre Telescope (LMT) operating in the 1.1 mm band, installed in late 2021 and commissioned in early 2022. The instrument's focal plane has 1458 horn-coupled lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) divided into six arrays deposited on three silicon wafers. This work presents the preliminary on-sky performance results of the focal plane obtained during the commissioning campaign. We characterise the detector's beam size and shape, mapping the point-like source 3C 279 along the focal plane using raster scans, known as beam mapping. It also allows us to identify which resonance frequencies correspond to each detector located in the focal plane, which leads us to a more complete understanding of the behaviour of the detectors, providing us with a reasonable estimation of the array yield. Finally, we compare these results with those obtained during the characterization of the focal plane in the Cardiff laboratory, previously reported in Tapia et al. 2020.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI
Editors	Jonas Zmuidzinas, Jian-Rong Gao
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510653610
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630377
State	Published - 2022
Event	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022 - Montreal, Canada Duration: Jul 17 2022 → Jul 22 2022

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	12190
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	7/17/22 → 7/22/22

Keywords

Beam mapping
Instrument commissioning
Instrument installation
KID detectors
On-sky focal plane characterisation
mm camera

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Tapia, M., Ade, P. A. R., Aguilar Perez, E., Barry, P. S., Brien, T. L. R., Castillo-Dominguez, E., Dodd, C., Dunscombe, C., Eales, S., Ferrusca, D., Gomez-Rivera, V., Hargrave, P., Hernandez-Rebollar, J. L., Hornsby, A., House, J., Hughes, D., Jauregui Garcia, J. M., Mauskopf, P., Murias, D., ... Doyle, S. (2022). The Mexico uk sub-mm camera for astronomy (muscat) on-sky commissioning: focal plane performance. In J. Zmuidzinas, & J.-R. Gao (Eds.), Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI Article 1219017 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12190). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630377

The Mexico uk sub-mm camera for astronomy (muscat) on-sky commissioning: focal plane performance. / Tapia, M.; Ade, P. A.R.; Aguilar Perez, E. et al.
Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI. ed. / Jonas Zmuidzinas; Jian-Rong Gao. SPIE, 2022. 1219017 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12190).

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Tapia, M, Ade, PAR, Aguilar Perez, E, Barry, PS, Brien, TLR, Castillo-Dominguez, E, Dodd, C, Dunscombe, C, Eales, S, Ferrusca, D, Gomez-Rivera, V, Hargrave, P, Hernandez-Rebollar, JL, Hornsby, A, House, J, Hughes, D, Jauregui Garcia, JM, Mauskopf, P, Murias, D, Papageorgiou, A, Pascale, E, Peretto, N, Perez, A, Rowe, S, Sanchez-Arguelles, D, Smith, MWL, Souccar, K, Sudiwala, R, Torres Campos, A, Tucker, C, Velazquez, M, Ventura-Gonzalez, S, Walker, I & Doyle, S 2022, The Mexico uk sub-mm camera for astronomy (muscat) on-sky commissioning: focal plane performance. in J Zmuidzinas & J-R Gao (eds), Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI., 1219017, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 12190, SPIE, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022, Montreal, Canada, 7/17/22. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630377

Tapia M, Ade PAR, Aguilar Perez E, Barry PS, Brien TLR, Castillo-Dominguez E et al. The Mexico uk sub-mm camera for astronomy (muscat) on-sky commissioning: focal plane performance. In Zmuidzinas J, Gao JR, editors, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI. SPIE. 2022. 1219017. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2630377

Tapia, M. ; Ade, P. A.R. ; Aguilar Perez, E. et al. / The Mexico uk sub-mm camera for astronomy (muscat) on-sky commissioning : focal plane performance. Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI. editor / Jonas Zmuidzinas ; Jian-Rong Gao. SPIE, 2022. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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