Bolocam: status and observations

Douglas J. Haig; Peter A. R. Ade; James E. Aguirre; James J. Bock; Samantha F. Edgington; Melissa L. Enoch; Jason Glenn; Alexey Goldin; Sunil Golwala; Kevin Heng; Glenn Laurent; Philip R. Maloney; Philip D. Mauskopf; Philippe Rossinot; Jack Sayers; Patrick Stover; Carole Tucker

doi:10.1117/12.553154

8 October 2004 Bolocam: status and observations

Douglas J. Haig, Peter A. R. Ade, James E. Aguirre, James J. Bock, Samantha F. Edgington, Melissa L. Enoch, Jason Glenn, Alexey Goldin, Sunil Golwala, Kevin Heng, Glenn Laurent, Philip R. Maloney, Philip D. Mauskopf, Philippe Rossinot, Jack Sayers, Patrick Stover, Carole Tucker

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Proceedings Volume 5498, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.553154
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

Bolocam is a millimetre-wave (1.1 and 2.1 mm) camera with an array of 119 bolometers. It has been commissioned at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in Hawaii and is now in routine operation. Here we give an overview of the instrument and the data reduction pipeline. We discuss models of the sensitivity of Bolocam in different observing modes and under different atmospheric conditions. We briefly discuss observations of star-forming Galactic molecular clouds, a blank field survey for sub-millimeter galaxies, preliminary results of a blank-field CMB secondary anisotropy survey and discuss observations of galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.

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Douglas J. Haig, Peter A. R. Ade, James E. Aguirre, James J. Bock, Samantha F. Edgington, Melissa L. Enoch, Jason Glenn, Alexey Goldin, Sunil Golwala, Kevin Heng, Glenn Laurent, Philip R. Maloney, Philip D. Mauskopf, Philippe Rossinot, Jack Sayers, Patrick Stover, and Carole Tucker "Bolocam: status and observations", Proc. SPIE 5498, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy II, (8 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.553154

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