CHAMP+: a powerful array receiver for APEX

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Jul 2006

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Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III. Edited by Zmuidzinas, Jonas; Holland, Wayne S.; W

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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CHAMP+, a dual-color 2 × 7 element heterodyne array for operation in the 450 μm and 350 μm atmospheric windows is under development. The instrument, which is currently undergoing final evaluation in the laboratories, will be deployed for commissioning at the APEX telescope in August this year. With its state-of-the-art SIS detectors and wide tunable local oscillators, its cold optics with SSB filters and with 2 GHz of usable IF bandwidth per pixel, CHAMP+ will provide unmatched observing capabilities for the APEX community. The optics allows for simultaneous observations in both colors. For both sub-arrays a hexagonal arrangement with closest feasible spacing of the pixels on sky (2×Θmb) was chosen, which, in scanning mode, will provide data sampled with half-beam spacing. The front-end is connected to a flexible autocorrelator array with a total bandwidth of 32 GHz and 32768 spectral channels, subdivided into 32 IF bands of 1 GHz and 1024 channels each.

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