a Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;b Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn 53121, Germany;c Physical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Abstract:
The APEX-SZ experiment is a sky survey designed to discover galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect at millimeter wavelengths. We describe the components of the instrument, including the 12 m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope, optics, Transition-edge sensor bolometer array and SQUID readout. APEX-SZ will begin observations in 2004.