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- About APEX-SZ
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- APEX-SZ group in Bonn
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- Links
- APEX-SZ Links:
- Berkeley public website
- Berkeley internal pages (restricted access)
- Bonn wiki (restricted access)
- SZworkshop 2009
- APEX-SZ institutions:
- UC Berkeley
- University of Bonn
- University of Cardiff
- University of Colorado
- ESO
- McGill University
- MPE
- MPIfR
- Onsala Space Observatory
- Contact:
- Argelander-Institut für Astronomie
Universität Bonn
Auf dem Hügel 71,
D-53121 Bonn,
Germany - apexsz (at) astro.uni-bonn.de
- tel:+49 (0)228 733670
fax:+49 (0)228 731775
Last Modified: Monday, 01-Feb-2010 10:16:35 UTC
The APEX-SZ Experiement
- Bolometer array composed of 330 transition edge sensors (TES)
- 0.4 degree field of view
- Spectral band centered on 150 GHz (wavelength = 2 [mm])
- Single-moded conical horns
- Multiplexed detector readout using SQUIDs
- Single detector NET of ~700 [μK √ s]
- Pulse-tube cooler and Helium-10 refrigerator
- Detector array temperature of 300 [mK]