The Tenerife Microwave Spectrometer (TMS) is part of a renewed effort to study and characterize the CMB frequency distribution. The spectrometer is based on a pseudo-correlation architecture with two 10-20 GHz radiometer chains making use of both orthogonal linear polarizations, and will observe in this band with an angular and frequency

WEAVE is a new wide-field multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) facility proposed for the prime focus of the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. The facility comprises a new 2-degree field-of-view Prime Focus Corrector (PFC) with a 1000-multiplex fibre positioner, a small number of individually deployable integral field units, and a large single integral

We report the development of MuSCAT3, a four channel simultaneous imager installed on the 2m Faulkes Telescope North at Haleakala Observatory on Maui, Hawai'i. MuSCAT3 has a capability of 4-color simultaneous imaging in g (400-550 nm), r (550-700 nm), i (700-820 nm), and z s (820-920 nm) bands with four independent 2048×2048 pixel CCDs, each having

Mid-infrared observations are a vital tool for the study of a wide range of astrophysical phenomena. However, ground-based mid-infrared detectors must overcome the challenge of the overwhelming thermal background from sky and telescope emissions making them prohibitively costly for smaller (< 3 m) facilities. We describe the design and testing of a