APEX facility bolometers

• LABOCA

  The Large Apex BOlometer CAmera is a 295-pixel, 870 µm bolometer array build by the bolometer development group at MPIfR Bonn. It was successfully commissioned in May 2007.

• SABOCA

  The Submillimetre APEX Bolometer Camera (SABOCA), a 39-channel bolometer array operating at 350 micron, will be commissioned on the APEX 12m telescope on Chajnantor in September 2008.