The new heterodyne receiver system for the ASTE radio telescope: three-cartridge cryostat with two cartridge-type superconducting receivers

Tetsuya Ito; Takeshi Kamazaki; Yasunori Fujii; Natsuko Izumi; Motoko Inata; Kazunori Uemizu; Naohisa Satou; Daisuke Iono; Takeshi Okuda; Shin'ichiro Asayama

doi:10.1117/12.2313087

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9 July 2018 The new heterodyne receiver system for the ASTE radio telescope: three-cartridge cryostat with two cartridge-type superconducting receivers

Tetsuya Ito, Takeshi Kamazaki, Yasunori Fujii, Natsuko Izumi, Motoko Inata, Kazunori Uemizu, Naohisa Satou, Daisuke Iono, Takeshi Okuda, Shin'ichiro Asayama

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Proceedings Volume 10708, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX; 107082V (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313087
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

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The ASTE (Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment) is a 10-m submillimeter telescope located near the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) site in Chile. Recently, the ASTE heterodyne receiver system has been upgraded with a new cryostat and two sub-mm-wave heterodyne receivers. The cryostat has three receiver ports. Its cooling capacity is improved with new design compared to a previous three-cartridge cryostat. The two new receivers are dual polarization Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) sideband-separating receivers in 345 GHz and 460 GHz bands. The 345 GHz band receiver has 55 GHz bandwidth. The single-sideband noise temperature T_SSB measured in the laboratory is between 62 K and 440 K. The 460 GHz band receiver was originally an engineering qualification model of the ALMA Band 8 cartridge. The design of SIS mixer devices has been optimized for full coverage of ALMA Band 8 frequency (385-500 GHz). T_SSB of the receiver is between 98 K and 257 K. The receiver system was installed on ASTE in March 2017. We have started to provide it for open-use observations after our CSV (Commissioning and Science Verification) activities.

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Tetsuya Ito, Takeshi Kamazaki, Yasunori Fujii, Natsuko Izumi, Motoko Inata, Kazunori Uemizu, Naohisa Satou, Daisuke Iono, Takeshi Okuda, and Shin'ichiro Asayama "The new heterodyne receiver system for the ASTE radio telescope: three-cartridge cryostat with two cartridge-type superconducting receivers", Proc. SPIE 10708, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 107082V (9 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313087

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