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Digital Readout System

• _Digital fMUX Readout System IP Specification, Matt Dobbs and Rajat Mukherjee, May 31, 2006, EBEX-DAS-2006-002
  • MCGILL-READOUT-2006-05-01a
  • 2006-06_DfMUX-TCP-PacketSpecificationRev0_1.pdf
• Documentation for the UDP Emulator, Rajat Mukherjee, August 2006
  • MCGILL-READOUT-2006-08-10a
  • UDP_Emulator_and_Collector_Documentation.pdf
  • The Source Codes for the Collector and the Emulator EmulatorCodes.zip
• Clock behaviour on the DfMUX boards from master to slave, François Aubin, October 4, 2007
  • MCGILL-CLOCK-2007-10-04a
  • DfMUX_clock.pdf
• Thermal/Vacuum (Bemco) Test Results - Kevin MacDermid, May 2008
  • DfmuxBemco-May08.pdf
• Lookup Table Noise - Kevin MacDermid, March 2009 - describes how the lookup table approach to demodulator generation can lead to some unexpected noise behavior.
  
  • LookupTableNoiseMemo
• Transfer functions to use for the DfMUX boards. Calculation made from the board's schematic - François Aubin, August 2009
  • DfmuxTransferFunctionsMemo.pdf
  • see Franky's thesis (Appendix A) for updated information.
• Detailed bolometer noise calculation using the DfMUX multiplexing system - François Aubin, August 2009
  • BoloNoiseMemo.pdf
  • BoloNoiseMemo_v2.pdf
  • see Franky's thesis (Appendix B) for updated information.

CryoElectronics

• Commissioning of Cryoelectronics System, Peter Dahlberg, Undergrad Research Report, August 2009

APEX-SZ

• Removing the Atmospheric Foreground from the APEX-SZ Experiment Galaxy Cluster Survey Data, Claire Cohalan, March 2007, Undergrad Honors Thesis.
  • 2007_CCohalanUGradThesisApexPCA.pdf
• Bolometer Glitch Instability Investigation for January ’06 APEX-SZ Engineering Run, Matt Dobbs, March 1, 2006 APEX-SZ-20060220
  • 2006-02_ApexGlitchesMemo.pdf: 2006-02_ApexGlitchesMemo.pdf
• Noise Expectation and Measurement for Representative APEX-SZ Bolometers, Matt Dobbs and Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Rev. 1 March 16, 2006, APEX-SZ-20060213a
  • 2006-02_ApexNoiseMemoRev1.pdf: 2006-02_ApexNoiseMemoRev1.pdf

Posters of Undergraduate Research

• What Happened Right After the Big Bang, by Rajat Mukherjee, September 2006, McGill University
  • Poster_Rajat.pdf
• The APEX_SZ Experiment: Detecting Galaxy Clusters, by Claire Cohalan (St. Mary's University), September 2006, McGill University
  • Poster_Claire.pdf
• Design of a Bolometer Support Structure for Cryogenic Testing, by Mohamed Najih, Summer 2007, McGill University
  • 2007_MNajih-SummerReport-ColdStageDesign_revFinal.pdf

Other students mentored by Matt, outside of McGill

• APEX-SZ Observation Simulations, Senior thesis by Mike Fogel, December 2004, UC Berkeley.
  • 2004-12-17_MFogel-SeniorThesis-APEX-SZ-sim.pdf

Undergrad Research at McGill

• SPT and EBEX Simulations, Summer Research by Catherine Laflamme, Summer 2008 (These files are also available by logging into spt_north at /mnt/dns_323_vol1/spt_ebex_simulations. As well at /mnt/dns_323_vol2/EBEX_SCANS you will find the binary files of simulated scans.)
• spt_simulations.tgz
• ebex_simulations.tgz
• README Instructions for Simulation Code (pdf)
• 2008-08 Catherine Laflamme, Final Paper (PDF)
• 2009-04 South_Pole_Telescope_Calibration_and_Cluster_Detection.pdf (Tijmen's Honours Research Thesis)

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