A New Facility Receiver on APEX: The Submillimetre APEX Bolometer Camera, SABOCA
Journal article published in 2010 by
G. Siringo,
E. Kreysa,
C. De Breuck,
A. Kovacs 
,
A. Lundgren,
F. Schuller,
T. Stanke,
A. Weiss,
R. Guesten,
N. Jethava,
T. May,
Menten K ~M,
K. M. Menten,
H. G. Meyer,
M. Starkloff
and other authors.
,
A. Lundgren,
F. Schuller,
T. Stanke,
A. Weiss,
R. Guesten,
N. Jethava,
T. May,
Menten K ~M,
K. M. Menten,
H. G. Meyer,
M. Starkloff
and other authors.
Abstract
The Submillimetre APEX Bolometer Camera, SABOCA, was successfully commissioned in March 2009 for operation as a facility instrument on the 12-metre APEX telescope, located on Llano de Chajnantor at an altitude of 5100 m. This new camera for the 350-μm atmospheric window uses superconducting bolometers and was built by the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in collaboration with the Institute of Photonic Technology. SABOCA complements the existing suite of sub-mm receivers available on APEX, fully exploiting the excellent atmospheric transmission at the site by offering effective mapping of the thermal continuum dust emission at shorter wavelengths.