High resolution imaging with MUSTANG-2 on the GBT

Stanchfield, Sara, Ade, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Aguirre, James, Brevik, Justus A., Cho, Hsiao-Mei, Datta, Rahul, Devlin, Mark, Dicker, Simon R., Dober, Bradley, Duff, Shannon M., Egan, Dennis, Ford, Pam, HIlton, Gene, Hubmayr, Brian Scott, Irwin, Kent, Knowles, Kenda, Marganian, Paul, Mason, Brian Scott, Mates, John A. B., McMahon, Jeff, Mello, Melinda, Mroczkowski, Tony, Romero, Charles, Sievers, Jonathan, Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Vale, Leila R., Vissers, Michael, White, Steven, Whitehead, Mark, Ullom, Joel and Young, Alexander 2018. High resolution imaging with MUSTANG-2 on the GBT. Presented at: 231st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington D.C., USA, 08-12 January 2018.

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Abstract

We present early science results from MUSTANG-2, a 90 GHz feedhorn-coupled, microwave SQUID-multiplexed TES bolometer array operating on the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The feedhorn and waveguide-probe-coupled detector technology is a mature technology, which has been used on instruments such as the South Pole Telescope, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, and the Atacama B-mode Search telescope. The microwave SQUID multiplexer-based readout system developed for MUSTANG-2 currently reads out 66 detectors with a single coaxial cable and will eventually allow thousands of detectors to be multiplexed. This microwave SQUID multiplexer combines the proven abilities of millimeter wave TES detectors with the multiplexing capabilities of KIDs with no degradation in noise performance of the detectors. Each multiplexing device is read out using warm electronics consisting of a commercially available ROACH board, a DAC/ADC card, and an Intermediate Frequency mixer circuit. The hardware was originally developed by the Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronic Research (CASPER) group, whose primary goal is to develop scalable FPGA-based hardware with the flexibility to be used in a wide range of radio signal processing applications. MUSTANG-2 is the first on-sky instrument to use microwave SQUID multiplexing and is available as a shared-risk/PI instrument on the GBT. In MUSTANG-2’s first season 7 separate proposals were awarded a total of 230 hours of telescope time.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Last Modified:	02 May 2023 13:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156848

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