The Mexico UK sub-mm camera for astronomy (MUSCAT) on-sky commissioning:  Instrument overview and performance

Simon M. Doyle; David Hughes; Peter Ade; Peter Barry; Thomas L. Brien; Edgar Castillo-Domínguez; Chris Dodd; Chris Dunscombe; Stephen Eales; Daniel Ferrusca Sr.; José Luis Jáuregui Garcia; Víctor Goméz-Rivera; Peter Hargrave; Amber Hornsby; Julian House; Philip Mauskopf; Dulce Murias; Andreas Papageorgiou; Enzo Pascale; Nicolas Peretto; Abel Perez; José Luis Rebollar; Sam Rowe; David Sánchez-Argüelles; Matthew Smith; Kamal Souccar; Rashmi Sudiwala; Marcial Tapia; Ana Torres Campos; Carole Tucker; Miguel Velázquez; Salvador Ventura-González; Ian Walker

doi:10.1117/12.2630126

26 August 2022 The Mexico UK sub-mm camera for astronomy (MUSCAT) on-sky commissioning: Instrument overview and performance

Simon M. Doyle, David Hughes, Peter Ade, Peter Barry, Thomas L. Brien, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Chris Dodd, Chris Dunscombe, Stephen Eales, Daniel Ferrusca Sr., José Luis Jáuregui Garcia, Víctor Goméz-Rivera, Peter Hargrave, Amber Hornsby, Julian House, Philip Mauskopf, Dulce Murias, Andreas Papageorgiou, Enzo Pascale, Nicolas Peretto, Abel Perez, José Luis Rebollar, Sam Rowe, David Sánchez-Argüelles, Matthew Smith, Kamal Souccar, Rashmi Sudiwala, Marcial Tapia, Ana Torres Campos, Carole Tucker, Miguel Velázquez, Salvador Ventura-González, Ian Walker

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Proceedings Volume PC12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI; PC1219003 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630126
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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The Mexico-UK Submm Camara for Astronomy (MUSCAT) is a 1.1 mm receiver comprising 1458 Horn-Coupled Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors (LEKIDs) built through a collaborative effort led by Cardiff University in the UK and the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) in Mexico. MUSCAT was successfully installed on the 50 m diameter Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano, in December 2021 Here we provide an overview of the MUSCAT platform and present on-sky engineering tests results from scientific commissioning data.

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Simon M. Doyle, David Hughes, Peter Ade, Peter Barry, Thomas L. Brien, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Chris Dodd, Chris Dunscombe, Stephen Eales, Daniel Ferrusca Sr., José Luis Jáuregui Garcia, Víctor Goméz-Rivera, Peter Hargrave, Amber Hornsby, Julian House, Philip Mauskopf, Dulce Murias, Andreas Papageorgiou, Enzo Pascale, Nicolas Peretto, Abel Perez, José Luis Rebollar, Sam Rowe, David Sánchez-Argüelles, Matthew Smith, Kamal Souccar, Rashmi Sudiwala, Marcial Tapia, Ana Torres Campos, Carole Tucker, Miguel Velázquez, Salvador Ventura-González, and Ian Walker "The Mexico UK sub-mm camera for astronomy (MUSCAT) on-sky commissioning: Instrument overview and performance", Proc. SPIE PC12190, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, PC1219003 (26 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630126

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