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25 October 2024 Mexico-UK Submillimeter Camera for AsTronomy focal plane performance at the Large Millimeter Telescope
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Abstract

The Mexico-UK Submillimeter Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a continuum camera in the 1.1-mm band for the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), with 1458 lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors distributed across six arrays. Installed on the telescope at the end of 2021, we present the characterization of the detector beams of four of the six arrays based on the beam map observations of bright point sources developed during the first commissioning campaign between February and June 2022. With all the observations, we estimate the average positions of each detector with an average error in azimuth of less than 0.70 arcsec and less than 1.05 arcsec in elevation. From the positions, we created the coadded maps of all the detectors, from which we selected only eight observations to calculate the mean beam width of MUSCAT-LMT, of 6.32±0.36 arcsec×5.78±0.19 arcsec. By stacking the maps, we identify the sidelobes with three main structures whose amplitudes are 3% with respect to the main beam.

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Marcial Becerril Tapia, Peter A. R. Ade, Emmaly Aguilar Pérez, Peter S. Barry, Thomas L. R. Brien, Edgar Castillo-Domínguez, Christopher Dodd, Christopher Dunscombe, Stephen Eales, Daniel Ferrusca, Víctor Gómez-Rivera, Peter Hargrave, José Luis Hernández-Rebollar, Amber Hornsby, Julian House, David Hughes, Abraham Luna, José Miguel Jáuregui-García, Philip Mauskopf, Dulce Murias, Andreas Papageorgiou, Enzo Pascale, Nicolas Peretto, Abel Pérez, Samuel Rowe, Iván Rodríguez, David Sánchez-Argüelles, Matthew W. L. Smith, Kamal Souccar, Rashmikant Sudiwala, Ana Torres-Campos, Carole Tucker, Miguel Velázquez, Salvador Ventura-González, Ian Walker, and Simon Doyle "Mexico-UK Submillimeter Camera for AsTronomy focal plane performance at the Large Millimeter Telescope," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 10(4), 045003 (25 October 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.10.4.045003
Received: 12 May 2024; Accepted: 11 September 2024; Published: 25 October 2024
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KEYWORDS
Sensors

Detector arrays

Cameras

Telescopes

Astronomy

Staring arrays

Signal to noise ratio

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