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Author Risacher, C.; Meledin, D.; Belitsky, V.; Bergman, P.
Title First 1.3 THz observations at the APEX telescope Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication Proc. 20th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 54-61
Keywords (up) balanced HEB mixer noise temperature APEX telescope stability Allan variance aperture efficiency
Abstract The Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) 12m telescope is operating on the Llano Chajnantor, Chile, since 2003 and a set of state of the art sub-millimeter receivers have been installed for frequencies spanning from 150 GHz to 1500 GHz. In 2008, a balanced 1.3 THz Hot Electron Bolometer (HEB) receiver was installed for the atmospheric window 1250-1380 GHz. This instrument is part of a 4-channel receiver cryostat with the other channels being 211-275 GHz, 275-370 GHz and 380-500 GHz Sideband Separating (SSB) SIS receivers. This paper presents the first observations obtained so far with the 1.3 THz band during its first months of operation. The sky measurements were taken during opportunistic commissioning and science verification phases, when the weather conditions were sufficiently good with a Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) below 0.25 mm, which was the case only a few nights during these months. We present the first observations of the molecular transition CO J=(11-10) line on different sources such as Orion-FIR4, CW-Leo and SgrB2(M). We describe the many challenges and difficulties encountered for achieving successful THz observations from a large sub-millimeter ground-based telescope.
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Author Cooper, L. N.
Title Bound electron pairs in a degenerate fermi gas Type Journal Article
Year 1956 Publication Phys. Rev. Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev.
Volume 104 Issue 4 Pages 1189-1190
Keywords (up) BCS
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Author Bardeen, J.; Cooper, L. N.; Schrieffer, J. R.
Title Microscopic theory of superconductivity Type Journal Article
Year 1957 Publication Phys. Rev. Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev.
Volume 106 Issue Pages 162-164
Keywords (up) BCS
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Author Bardeen, J.; Cooper, L. N.; Schrieffer, J. R.
Title Theory of superconductivity Type Journal Article
Year 1957 Publication Phys. Rev. Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev.
Volume 108 Issue 5 Pages 1175-1204
Keywords (up) BCS
Abstract A theory of superconductivity is presented, based on the fact that the interaction between electrons resulting from virtual exchange of phonons is attractive when the energy difference between the electrons states involved is less than the phonon energy, â„<8f>ω. It is favorable to form a superconducting phase when this attractive interaction dominates the repulsive screened Coulomb interaction. The normal phase is described by the Bloch individual-particle model. The ground state of a superconductor, formed from a linear combination of normal state configurations in which electrons are virtually excited in pairs of opposite spin and momentum, is lower in energy than the normal state by amount proportional to an average (â„<8f>ω)2, consistent with the isotope effect. A mutually orthogonal set of excited states in one-to-one correspondence with those of the normal phase is obtained by specifying occupation of certain Bloch states and by using the rest to form a linear combination of virtual pair configurations. The theory yields a second-order phase transition and a Meissner effect in the form suggested by Pippard. Calculated values of specific heats and penetration depths and their temperature variation are in good agreement with experiment. There is an energy gap for individual-particle excitations which decreases from about 3.5kTc at T=0°K to zero at Tc. Tables of matrix elements of single-particle operators between the excited-state superconducting wave functions, useful for perturbation expansions and calculations of transition probabilities, are given.
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Author Irwin, K.D.
Title Thermodynamics of nonlinear bolometers near equilibrium Type Conference Article
Year 2006 Publication Proc. 11th International Workshop on Low Temp. Detectors Abbreviated Journal Proc. 11th International Workshop on Low Temp. Detectors
Volume 559 Issue 2 Pages 718-720
Keywords (up) bolometers, microcalorimeters, nonlinear thermodynamics, nonequilibrium
Abstract We present the first thermodynamically correct calculation of the noise in a simple nonlinear resistive bolometer or calorimeter operated out of equilibrium. The solution is rigorous only for first- and second-order deviations from equilibrium, and for the linear and quadratic terms of dissipative elements. In contrast, existing models of noise in resistive bolometers are based on the application of equilibrium theories to a system that is often nonlinear and out of equilibrium. We derive solutions applicable both in and out of steady state. The noise has power spectral density different from the equilibrium theory, and it has higher-order correlations and non-Gaussian characteristics. The results do not apply to non-Markovian hidden variables in the bolometer.
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Call Number Serial 915
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