Large Format SQUID Multiplexed Arrays for Polar Astrophysics

这个极地仪器和技术开发项目将导致开发一个16 x 16元件的测辐射热计阵列，并带有超导量子干涉器件（SQUID）读数。 该阵列将用作南极亚毫米波望远镜和远程天文台（AST/RO）焦平面上的成像设备。 AST/RO上的新探测器将能够在几百微米的波长上进行比以前任何望远镜装置都快得多的观测，并将允许完成全新的天文学。 新的探测器阵列也将用于其他地点的其他亚毫米望远镜，因此它将得到广泛的应用。

This Polar Instrumentation and Technology Development project will lead to the development of a 16 x 16 element array of bolometers with Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) readout. The array will be used as an imaging device in the focal plane of a submillimeter wavelength telescope at South Pole, the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO). The new detector on AST/RO will be able to make observations much faster at wavelengths of a few hundred micrometers than any previous telescope arrangement and will permit entirely new astronomy to be done. The new detector array will also be used on other submillimeter telescopes at other sites, so it will find broad application.