I gathered in this page various information conserning GISMO (the Goddard Iram Superconducting Observer), a prototype of filled array bolometers camera for the 30m telescope.

Only the documents that I consider of intersest for public communication are presented below. For more material or questions, please contact me.

    2007/08/09 - Report about visits I did in May 2007 to SCUBA 2 group at UK ATC, and the GISMO group at GSFC, and summary of some interesting presentations shown at the LTD12 conference in July: pdf.

    2007/10 - GISMO test plan for the Run #1 at the 30m telescope: doc.

    2007/11/21 - Presentation for IRAM personnel reporting the first run of GISMO at the 30m telescope: ppt.

    2008/06/17 - 3 slides presentation showing picturtes of GISMO optics and mounting in the receiver cabin of the 30m telescope: ppt.

    2008/09 - Articles by J.Staguhn presenting GISMO at the 2008 SPIE conference in Marseille: (1) the instrument, and (2) the performances during Run #1.

    2008/11 - Report by H.Ungerechts describing the interfacing of GISMO with the telescope (in particular Lissajou scan patterns): pdf.

    2008/10 - GISMO test plan for the Run #2 at the 30m telescope: doc.

    2008/11 - Preliminiary report by J.Staguhn on GISMO Run #2: pdf.

    2009/04/28 - Presentation for the 2009 SAC meeting reporting (1) the results of my Mathcad simulation defining specifications for the future bolometer instrument at the 30m telescope, (2) the 2007 and 2008 GISMO runs, and (3) the organization of the NIKA prototype: pdf and ppt.

Pictures of GISMO at the 30m telescope (November 2007).

Link to IRAM Spain GISMO Wiki page by Carsten Kramer.