ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph
ARCONS, the Array Camera for Optical to Near-infrared Spectrophotometry, was recently commissioned at the Coudé 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...
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| author | O'Brien, K Mazin, B McHugh, S Meeker, S Marsden, D Bumble, B |
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| description | ARCONS, the Array Camera for Optical to Near-infrared Spectrophotometry, was recently commissioned at the Coudé 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 μ sec) 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 classification of the transient phenomena. © 2012 SPIE. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e3f62367-7c46-4d84-965b-96acdaad0d772022-03-27T10:12:58ZARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrographJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e3f62367-7c46-4d84-965b-96acdaad0d77EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2012O'Brien, KMazin, BMcHugh, SMeeker, SMarsden, DBumble, BARCONS, the Array Camera for Optical to Near-infrared Spectrophotometry, was recently commissioned at the Coudé 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 μ sec) 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 classification of the transient phenomena. © 2012 SPIE. |
| spellingShingle | O'Brien, K Mazin, B McHugh, S Meeker, S Marsden, D Bumble, B ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph |
| title | ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph |
| title_full | ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph |
| title_fullStr | ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph |
| title_full_unstemmed | ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph |
| title_short | ARCONS: a 1024 pixel superconducting integral field spectrograph |
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