Late Breaking News

 

24 March, 2014

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Observing time calculation for the APEX instruments Artemis and Supercam:

 

A new observing time calculator is now available for the Artemis 350µm

camera on APEX, see

http://www.apex-telescope.org/bolometer/artemis/obscalc/

This calculator assumes a field of view of 4.7'x2.5', with fully

sampled pixels in the 350µm focal plane. The 450µm or 200µm planes are

not offered in P94. Note that this is only a preliminary version of

the calculator, as the full commissioning of Artemis will only be done

in June.

 

The Supercam 345 GHz heterodyne array instrument for APEX does not

have a dedicated calculator. However, to estimate the observing time

request, the SHFI on-the-fly calculator

(http://www.apex-telescope.org/heterodyne/calculator/otf/) should be

used, and the time request should be divided by a factor of 13. This

factor takes into account the expected 52 operational pixels of

Supercam and the slightly higher receiver temperature compared to SHFI.

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