Results from the first engineering run of BOLOCAM and plans for the future

Authors :: B. Knowles
Andrew E. Lange
Philip Daniel Mauskopf
D. Haig
Peter A. R. Ade
H. Nguyen
Jason Glenn
V. V. Hristov
S. G. Edgington
A. Goldin
B. K. Rownd
J. J. Bock
Sunil Golwala
De Petris, Marco
Gervasi, Massimo
Publication Year :: 2002
Publisher :: American Institute of Physics, 2002.
Abstract: We present results from the engineering run of the BOLOCAM receiver at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in May, 2000 and simulations of the sensitivity of the completed BOLOCAM receiver to astrophysical sources. BOLOCAM is a 144 element array of bolometers designed to operate in the millimeter wave atmospheric windows at 150, 220, and 280 GHz. These bands are well suited to studies of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in distant clusters of galaxies as well as measurements of the emission of interstellar dust.