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ARCONS: a Highly Multiplexed Superconducting UV-to-Near-IR Camera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

Kieran O'Brien ,
Ben Mazin ,
Sean McHugh ,
Seth Meeker  and
Bruce Bumble
Kieran O'Brien
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA email: kobrien@physics.ucsb.edu
Ben Mazin
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA email: kobrien@physics.ucsb.edu
Sean McHugh
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA email: kobrien@physics.ucsb.edu
Seth Meeker
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA email: kobrien@physics.ucsb.edu
Bruce Bumble
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California 91107, USA
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Abstract

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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, 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 transient phenomena.

Keywords

instrumentation: detectorsinstrumentation: spectrographspulsars: individual (Crab)
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , September 2011 , pp. 385 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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