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20242026
most citedAlignment and optical verification of DESHIMA 2.0 at ASTE

3 citations · 4 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Anti-windup PI controller for millimeter-wave adaptive optics: a Nobeyama 45 m radio telescope simulation

Ichiro Jikuya, Yoichi Tamura, Akio Taniguchi +8

This work addresses the control problem for Millimeter-wave Adaptive Optics (MAO), which we define as compensating for the distance variation between the primary reflector (M1) and…

astro-ph.IM2026

Millimeter-wave adaptive optics: Demonstrating closed-loop correction for lowest Zernike modes

Yoichi Tamura, Akio Taniguchi, Kotaro Iwakami +15

We report on a five-element prototype wavefront sensor for millimeter-wave adaptive optics (MAO), enabling closed-loop correction of tip-tilt and defocus via secondary mirror (M2)…

astro-ph.IM2026

A Wideband Millimeter-wave Receiver at 210-350 GHz for LMT-FINER

Haoran Kang, Takafumi Kojima, Takeshi Sakai +9

The Far-Infrared Nebular Emission Receiver (FINER) project is developing two wideband dual-polarization sideband-separating receivers covering 120-210 GHz and 210-350 GHz to effici…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST): enabling large-scale sub-mm science beyond 2030

Claudia Cicone, Tony Mroczkowski, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou +38

AtLAST is designed to be the largest (sub-)mm single-dish astronomical observatory and the first climate-neutral modern research infrastructure. It offers a unique combination of l…

astro-ph.IM2026

FINER: development of the wideband millimeter-wave receiver system and preparations for first light on the Large Millimeter Telescope

Akio Taniguchi, Yoichi Tamura, Takeshi Sakai +38

The recent discovery of an excess of luminous galaxies in the early Universe necessitates sensitive and wideband millimeter spectroscopy to understand their rapid growth. To addres…

astro-ph.IM2026

Development of TIFUUN: Terahertz Integral Field Units with Universal Nanotechnology

Akira Endo, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Jochem J. A. Baselmans +50

TIFUUN (THz Integral Field Units with Universal Nanotechnology) is an ultra-wideband mm-submm wave imaging spectrometer that capitalizes on the highly scalable integrated supercond…

astro-ph.IM2026

Control problem in millimeter-wave adaptive optics

Ichiro Jikuya, Yoichi Tamura

Millimeter-wave Adaptive Optics (MAO) is essential for high-precision large-aperture submillimeter telescopes, requiring real-time compensation of wavefront errors by capturing the…

astro-ph.IM2025

Meta-heuristic design of a light-weight homologous backup structure of the primary reflector for the Large Submillimeter Telescope

Chihiro Imamura, Yoichi Tamura, Hiroaki Kawamura +3

The development of large-aperture submillimeter telescopes, such as the Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST) and the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST), is esse…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Alignment and optical verification of DESHIMA 2.0 at ASTE

A. Moerman, K. Karatsu, J. J. A. Baselmans +12

We developed, characterized, and verified an alignment procedure for the DESHIMA 2.0 instrument, an ultra wide-band spectrometer operating between 200--400 GHz, at the ASTE telesco…

astro-ph.IM2024

A 10.24-GHz-wide digital spectrometer array system for LMT-FINER: system design and laboratory performance verification

Masato Hagimoto, Akio Taniguchi, Yoichi Tamura +10

For efficient spectroscopic redshift identification of early galaxies in the northern hemisphere, we aim to combine the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) with a wide-band heterodyne…

astro-ph.IM2024

FINER: Far-Infrared Nebular Emission Receiver for the Large Millimeter Telescope

Yoichi Tamura, Takeshi Sakai, Ryohei Kawabe +34

Unveiling the emergence and prevalence of massive/bright galaxies during the epoch of reionization and beyond, within the first 600 million years of the Universe, stands as a pivot…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Development Status of Wideband Millimeter-Wave Receivers for LMT-FINER

Haoran Kang, Takafumi Kojima, Takeshi Sakai +4

Spectroscopic observations of the far-infrared [O III] and [C II] lines present a pathway to explore the mechanisms of the emergence of massive galaxies in the epoch of reionizatio…