CRUSH Legacy Support

MAKO

arXiv: MAKO: a pathfinder instrument for on-sky demonstration of low-cost 350 micron imaging arrays.

Loren J. Swenson, Peter K. Day, Charles D. Dowell, Byeong H. Eom, Matthew I. Hollister, Robert Jarnot, Attila Kovács, Henry G. Leduc, Christopher M. McKenney, Ryan Monroe, Tony Mroczkowski, Hien T. Nguyen, & Jonas Zmuidzinas

Proc. SPIE 8452, 84520P (2012)

Documentation

For details on how to use the MAKO module please refer to the README (also available as README.mako within crush).

First Light

Here is the first astronomical image produced by MAKO, around 8PM HST on 21 April 2013, just a few hours after going on sky for the first time. The data were collected in a single 9-minute integration with a small Lissajous scan with in-band, line-of-sight opacity around 3.7(!). The image has 30+ dB of dynamic range, making the primary error beam of the CSO clearly visible as the coma surrounding the planet's disk.

Figure 1. Jupiter with MAKO on 21 April 2013.