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Optical design of the atacama cosmology telescope and the millimeter bolometric array camera
J W Fowler1, M D Niemack, S R Dicker
1Department of Physics, Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. jfowler@princeton.edu
Applied Optics
|May 22, 2007
Abstract:
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a 6 m telescope designed to map the cosmic microwave background simultaneously at 145, 215, and 280 GHz with arcminute resolution. Each frequency will have a 32 by 32 element focal plane array of transition edge sensor bolometers. The telescope and the cold reimaging optics are optimized for millimeter-wave observations with these sensitive detectors. The design of each is described.

