ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph

Kieran O'Brien; Ben Mazin; Sean McHugh; Seth Meeker; Danica Marsden; Bruce Bumble

doi:10.1117/12.924920

24 September 2012 ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph

Kieran O'Brien, Ben Mazin, Sean McHugh, Seth Meeker, Danica Marsden, Bruce Bumble

Proceedings Volume 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV; 84460F (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924920
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

ARCONS, the Array Camera for Optical to Near-infrared Spectrophotometry, was recently commissioned at the Coude focus of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. At the heart of this unique instrument is a 1024-pixel Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID), exploiting the Kinetic Inductance effect to measure the energy of the incoming photon to better than several percent. The ground-breaking instrument is lens coupled with a pixel scale of 0.23"/pixel, with each pixel recording the arrival time (< 2 _μsec) and energy of a photon (~10%) in the optical to near-IR (0.4-1.1 microns) range. The scientific objectives of the instrument include the rapid follow-up and classi_cation of the transient phenomena

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Kieran O'Brien, Ben Mazin, Sean McHugh, Seth Meeker, Danica Marsden, and Bruce Bumble "ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph", Proc. SPIE 8446, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, 84460F (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924920

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