Scaling the summit of the submillimetre: Instrument performance of SCUBA-2

Dan Bintley; Michael J. MacIntosh; Wayne S. Holland; Jessica T. Dempsey; Per Friberg; John T. Kuroda; Erik G. Starman; Holly S. Thomas; Craig Walther; Xiaofeng Gao; Peter A.R. Ade; Rashmi V. Sudiwala; Camelia Dunare; William Parkes; Anthony J. Walton; Kent D. Irwin; Gene C. Hilton; Michael Niemack; Mandana Amiri; Viktoria Asboth; Bryce Burger; Edward L. Chapin; Mark Halpern; Matthew Hasselfield; Adam Woodcraft

doi:10.1117/12.926613

Scaling the summit of the submillimetre: Instrument performance of SCUBA-2

Dan Bintley, Michael J. MacIntosh, Wayne S. Holland, Jessica T. Dempsey, Per Friberg, John T. Kuroda, Erik G. Starman, Holly S. Thomas, Craig Walther, Xiaofeng Gao, Peter A.R. Ade, Rashmi V. Sudiwala, Camelia Dunare, William Parkes, Anthony J. Walton, Kent D. Irwin, Gene C. Hilton, Michael Niemack, Mandana Amiri, Viktoria AsbothBryce Burger, Edward L. Chapin, Mark Halpern, Matthew Hasselfield, Adam Woodcraft

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SCUBA-2 is a revolutionary 10,000 pixel wide-field submillimetre camera, recently commissioned and now operational at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Twin focal planes each consist of four 32 by 40 sub-arrays of superconducting Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers, the largest combined low temperature bolometer arrays in operation, to provide simultaneous imaging at wavelengths of 450 and 850 microns. SCUBA-2 was designed to map large areas of sky more than 100 times faster than the original ground breaking SCUBA instrument and has achieved this goal. In this paper we describe the performance of the instrument and present results of characterising the eight science grade TES bolometer arrays. We discuss the steps taken to optimise the setup of the TES arrays to maximise mapping speed and show how critical changes to the sub-array module thermal design, the introduction of independent focal plane and 1K temperature control and enhancements to the cryogenics have combined to significantly improve the overall performance of the instrument.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926613
State	Published - 2012
Event	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: Jul 3 2012 → Jul 6 2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8452
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	7/3/12 → 7/6/12

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Condensed Matter Physics
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Bintley, D., MacIntosh, M. J., Holland, W. S., Dempsey, J. T., Friberg, P., Kuroda, J. T., Starman, E. G., Thomas, H. S., Walther, C., Gao, X., Ade, P. A. R., Sudiwala, R. V., Dunare, C., Parkes, W., Walton, A. J., Irwin, K. D., Hilton, G. C., Niemack, M., Amiri, M., ... Woodcraft, A. (2012). Scaling the summit of the submillimetre: Instrument performance of SCUBA-2. In Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI Article 845208 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8452). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926613

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Scaling the summit of the submillimetre: Instrument performance of SCUBA-2. / Bintley, Dan; MacIntosh, Michael J.; Holland, Wayne S. et al.
Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. 2012. 845208 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8452).

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