Detector technology
Cryogenic Detector
The broad family of detectors that must be cooled to cryogenic temperatures — sometimes thousandths of a degree above absolute zero — so that thermal noise does not swamp the faint astronomical signal. Bolometers and MKIDs are cryogenic detectors; the technique is essential across the infrared, millimetre, and X-ray.
Facilities, methods & instruments
Knowledge connections
- Associated withBolometer
- Associated withMKID
- Associated withSubmillimeter
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NSF NOIRLabNSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
Ground-based optical/infrared observatory data and imagery.