Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON TERAHERTZ SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages 588-596Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2014.2342498
Keywords
Astronomical instrumentation; heterodyne receiver; submillimeter (sub-mm) telescope
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We report on the design and on-site performance of the recently upgraded FLASH instrument operated at the APEX telescope in the Chilean Atacama desert in 5100 m altitude. The dual-channel receiver allows parallel observations in the atmospheric submillimeter windows between 268 and 516 GHz. A signal of in total 16 GHz is processed simultaneously. Equipped with state-of-the-art sideband separating mixers (spin-off developments from the ALMA bands 7 and 8), its outstanding on-sky performance makes FLASH(+) a most efficient spectral line mapping machine. Operation is fully automated and allows flexible remote observations from the APEX base in San Pedro de Atacama.
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