A&A 497, 945-962 (2009)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811454

The Large APEX BOlometer CAmera LABOCA

G. Siringo¹, E. Kreysa¹, A. Kovács¹, F. Schuller¹, A. Weiß¹, W. Esch¹, H.-P. Gemünd¹, N. Jethava², G. Lundershausen¹, A. Colin³, R. Güsten¹, K. M. Menten¹, A. Beelen⁴, F. Bertoldi⁵, J. W. Beeman⁶, and E. E. Haller<sup>6

1</sup>  Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
    e-mail: gsiringo@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
²  National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
³  Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Avda. Los Castros, 39005 Santander, Spain
⁴  Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Bât. 121, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
⁵  Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, University of Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany
⁶  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Received 1 December 2008 / Accepted 21 January 2009

Abstract
The Large APEX BOlometer CAmera, LABOCA, has been commissioned for operation as a new facility instrument at the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment 12 m submillimeter telescope. This new 295-bolometer total power camera, operating in the 870 m atmospheric window, combined with the high efficiency of APEX and the excellent atmospheric transmission at the site, offers unprecedented capability in mapping submillimeter continuum emission for a wide range of astronomical purposes.

Key words: instrumentation: detectors -- instrumentation: photometers -- submillimeter -- methods: observational

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