T. L. R. Brien,1 P. A. R. Ade,1 P. S. Barry,2,3 E. Castillo-Domínguez,4 D. Ferrusca,5 V. Gómez-Rivera,5 P. Hargrave,1 J. L. Hernández Rebollar,5 A. Hornsby,1 D. H. Hughes,5 J. M. Jáuregui-Garcia,5 P. Mauskopf,6 D. Murias,5 A. Papageorgiou,1 E. Pascale,7 A. Pérez,5 S. Rowe,1 M. W. L. Smith,1 M. Tapia,5 C. Tucker,1 M. Velázquezhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-0159,5 S. Ventura,5 S. Doyle1
1Cardiff Univ. (United Kingdom) 2Argonne National Lab. (United States) 3The Univ. of Chicago (United States) 4SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands) 5Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (Mexico) 6Arizona State Univ. (United States) 7La Sapienza Univ. di Roma (Italy)
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The Mexico-UK Submillimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a 1.1 mm receiver consisting of 1,500 lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) for the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT; Volcán Sierra Negra in Puebla, México). MUSCAT utilises the maximum field of view of the LMT's upgraded 50-metre primary mirror and is the first México-UK collaboration to deploy a millimetre/sub-mm receiver on the Large Millimeter Telescope. Using a simplistic simulator, we estimate a predicted mapping speed for MUSCAT by combining the measured performance of MUSCAT with the observed sky conditions at the LMT. We compare this to a previously calculated bolometric-model mapping speed and find that our mapping speed is in good agreement when this is scaled by a previously reported empirical factor. Through this simulation we show that signal contamination due to sky fluctuations can be effectively removed through the use of principle component analysis. We also give an overview
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T. L. R. Brien, P. A. R. Ade, P. S. Barry, E. Castillo-Domínguez, D. Ferrusca, V. Gómez-Rivera, P. Hargrave, J. L. Hernández Rebollar, A. Hornsby, D. H. Hughes, J. M. Jáuregui-Garcia, P. Mauskopf, D. Murias, A. Papageorgiou, E. Pascale, A. Pérez, S. Rowe, M. W. L. Smith, M. Tapia, C. Tucker, M. Velázquez, S. Ventura, S. Doyle, "Pre-deployment verification and predicted mapping speed of MUSCAT," Proc. SPIE 11453, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 1145303 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561305