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The Optomechanical Design, Alignment, and Performance of TolTEC: A Millimeter-wave Polarimeter
Description
TolTEC is a three-band millimeter-wave, imaging polarimeter installed on the 50 m diameter Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico. This camera simultaneously images the focal plane at three wavebands centered at 1.1 mm (270 GHz), 1.4 mm (214 GHz), and 2.0 mm (150 GHz). TolTEC combines polarization-sensitive kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) with the LMT to produce high resolution images of the sky in both total intensity and polarization. I present an overview of the TolTEC camera’s optical system and my contributions to the optomechanical design and characterization of the instrument. As part of my work with TolTEC, I designed the mounting structures for the cold optics within the cryostat accounting for thermal contraction to ensure the silicon lenses do not fracture when cooled. I also designed the large warm optics that re-image the light from the telescope, requiring me to perform static and vibration analyses to ensure the mounts correctly supported the mirrors. I discuss the various methods used to align the optics and the cryostat in the telescope. I discuss the Zemax optical model of TolTEC and compare it with measurements of the instrument to help with characterization. Finally, I present the results of stacking galaxies on data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) to measure the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect and estimate the thermal energy in the gas around high red-shift, quiescent galaxies as an example of science that could be done with TolTEC data. Since the camera combines high angular resolution with images at three wavelengths near distinct SZ features, TolTEC will provide precise measurements to learn more about these types of galaxies.
Date Created
2023
Contributors
- Lunde, Emily Louise (Author)
- Mauskopf, Philip (Thesis advisor)
- Groppi, Christopher (Committee member)
- Scannapieco, Evan (Committee member)
- Noble, Allison (Committee member)
- Bryan, Sean (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
144 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.190900
Level of coding
minimal
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Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2023
Field of study: Astrophysics and Astronomy
System Created
- 2023-12-14 01:46:12
System Modified
- 2023-12-14 01:46:19
- 11 months 2 weeks ago
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