Design of the 50-meter Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope

T Mroczkowski, PA Gallardo, M Timpe… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths can reveal a vast range of objects and
phenomena that are either too cold, too distant, or too hot and energetic to be measured at …

[HTML][HTML] Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) Science: Surveying the distant Universe

E van Kampen, T Bakx, C De Breuck… - Open Research …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Plain language summary Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colours,
despite all of them having originated from similar initial conditions in the early Universe …

CONCERTO at APEX On-sky performance in continuum

W Hu, A Beelen, G Lagache, A Fasano… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. CarbON CII line in post-rEionisation and ReionisaTiOn epoch (CONCERTO)
instrument is a low-resolution mapping spectrometer based on lumped element kinetic …

[HTML][HTML] Combined ultraviolet-and electron-beam lithography with Micro-Resist-Technology GmbH ma-N1400 resist

DJ Thoen, V Murugesan, A Pascual Laguna… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We present a “mix-and-match” process to create large structures with submicrometer
features by combining UV contact lithography and 100 kV electron-beam lithography in a …

The future of cosmology? A case for CMB spectral distortions

M Lucca - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08513, 2023 - arxiv.org
This thesis treats the topic of CMB Spectral Distortions (SDs), which represent any deviation
from a pure black body shape of the CMB energy spectrum. As such, they can be used to …

Optimisation-based alignment of wide-band integrated superconducting spectrometers for submillimeter astronomy

A Moerman, K Karatsu, SJC Yates, R Huiting… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Integrated superconducting spectrometers (ISSs) for wide-band submillimeter
(submm) astronomy use quasi-optical systems for coupling radiation from the telescope to …

Directional Filter Design and Simulation for Superconducting On-Chip Filter-Banks

LH Marting, K Karatsu, A Endo, JJA Baselmans… - Journal of Low …, 2024 - Springer
Many superconducting on-chip filter-banks suffer from poor coupling to the detectors behind
each filter. This is a problem intrinsic to the commonly used half-wavelength filter, which has …

Optimisation-based alignment of wideband integrated superconducting spectrometers for sub-mm astronomy

A Moerman, K Karatsu, SJC Yates, R Huiting… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Integrated superconducting spectrometers (ISSs) for wideband sub-mm astronomy utilise
quasi-optical systems for coupling radiation from the telescope to the instrument …

Optical system design of a femi-class ultra-high-resolution spectrometer based on the quaternary dispersion of a middle echelon grating

Q Xue, J Song, F Lu, J Ma, D Cao - Applied Optics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In order to meet the needs of the femi-ultra-high spectral resolution test, an optical system of
the femi-ultra-high spectral resolution spectrometer in the spectral range of 190–800 nm is …

A Vacuum Waveguide Filter Bank Spectrometer for Far-Infrared Astrophysics

R Nie, J Filippini, E Brooks, P Barry, J Connors… - Journal of Low …, 2024 - Springer
Traditional technologies for far-infrared (FIR) spectroscopy generally involve bulky
dispersive optics. Integrated filter bank spectrometers promise more compact designs, but …