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MUSTANG-2 on GBT to Commence Science Observing (Dec, 2016)

MUSTANG-2 has been installed on the GBT with upgraded readout multiplexers and 211 detectors working. Observing on shared risk science proposals in collaboration with the instrument team have begun.

MUSTANG-2 First Light on GBT (May, 2016)

The full MUSTANG-2 camera achieved first light on the GBT in May, 2016! It will return to the GBT in fall 2016 for shared-risk science through the 2017-A Green Bank Observatory proposal call.

MUSTANG-2 green-lighted for full production (July, 2015)

The NSF ATI program has funded our proposal to fully populated the MUSTANG-2 focal plane with 215 dual polarization detectors. The completed MUSTANG-2 receiver is expected to arrive at the GBT for commissioning & early science observations early in 2016.

MUSTANG-1.5 completes successful engineering run on the GBT (May, 2015)

MUSTANG-1.5 was successfully integrated with the GBT and first light observations of a variety of sources obtained. This run allowed the team to shake out final integration issues with the telescope and software systems, and constituted the first astronomical use of MKID-style microwave resonators to read out TES detectors.

MUSTANG-1.5 Arrives at the GBT (December 2, 2014)

MUSTANG-1.5 arrived in Green Bank and is preparing for first light on the GBT later this month!

MUSTANG-2 is Under Construction!

MUSTANG-1.5 is currently being integrated and tested in the lab at U.Penn., with first light on the GBT scheduled for winter 2014.

MUSTANG-2 Detectors delivered to U.Penn!

In June 2014 72 packaged detectors were delivered to U.Penn for testing and characterization.

Left: Cutaway view of tapered feed design; Right: the final MUSTANG-2 feed horn array as fabricated (223 feeds). The feed array weighs 8kg and has been successfully cooled to 300 mK in the MUSTANG-2 cryostat.

Cutaway showing the design of the MUSTANG-1.5 receiver

Pictures of the receiver in the lab at U.Penn.

One ROACH board with its custom daughter cards for the microwave resonator readout.

MUSTANG retired at the end of 2013

MUSTANG– the original 90 GHz, 64 pixel GBT bolometer camera– was retired at the end of calendar year 2013 in anticipation of the arrival of its successor, MUSTANG-1.5 MUSTANG proposals were accepted from June 2009 through Feburary 2012.

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• New image captures galaxy cluster emerging from cosmic web
• More than Meets the Eye: Complete Imaging of Cluster Collision
• The Green Bank Telescope Snaps New Hot Photos of the Moon

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MUSTANG-2:

• Observations of compact sources in galaxy clusters using MUSTANG2 (S. Dicker et al. 2021, Submitted to MNRAS)
• A high-resolution view of the filament of gas between Abell 399 and Abell 401 from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and MUSTANG-2 (A. Hincks et al. 2021, Submitted to MNRAS)
• Thermodynamic evolution of the z=1.75 galaxy cluster IDCS J1426.5+3508 (S. Andreon et al. 2021, Accepted to MNRAS)
• Active gas features in three HSC-SSP CAMIRA clusters revealed by high angular resolution analysis of MUSTANG-2 SZE and XXL X-ray observations (N. Okabe et al. 2021, MNRAS, 501, 1701)
• The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. X. Initial Results from a Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Study of Massive Galaxy Clusters at z > 1 Using MUSTANG2 on the GBT (S. Dicker et al. 2021, ApJ, 502, 144)
• The MUSTANG Galactic Plane Survey (MGPS90) Pilot (A. Ginsburg et al. 2020, ApJS, 248, 24)
• Confirmation of Enhanced Long-wavelength Dust Emission in OMC 2/3 (B. Mason et al. 2020, ApJ, 893, 13)
• Pressure Profiles and Mass Estimates Using High-resolution Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Observations of Zwicky 3146 with MUSTANG-2 (C. Romero et al. 2020, ApJ, 891, 90)
• MUSTANG 2: A Large Focal Plane Array for the 100 m Green Bank Telescope (S. Dicker et al. 2014, JLTP, 176, 808)
• MUSTANG2: a large focal plan array for the 100 meter Green Bank Telescope (S. Dicker et al. 2014, SPIE, 9153)

MUSTANG:

• A multi-instrument non-parametric reconstruction of the electron pressure profile in the galaxy cluster CLJ1226.9+3332 (C. Romero et al. 2018, A&A, 612, 39)
• Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles as Determined by Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect Observations with MUSTANG and Bolocam. II. Joint Analysis of 14 Clusters (C. Romero et al. 2017, ApJ, 838, 86)
• Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles, as Determined by Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Observations with MUSTANG and Bolocam. I. Joint Analysis Technique (C. Romero et al. 2015, ApJ 807, 121)
• Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in MACS J0647.7+7015 and MACS J1206.2-0847 at High Angular Resolution with MUSTANG (A. Young et al. 2015, ApJ 809, 185)
• Evidence for large grains in the star-forming filament OMC 2/3 (S. Schnee et al., MNRAS 44, 2303S) “Orion Rocks” NRAO Press Release
• 90 GHz Continuum Observations of Messier 66 (B. Nikolic & R. Bolton, 2011 MNRAS 425, 1275)
• A Multi-wavelength Study of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in the Triple-Merger Cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 with MUSTANG and Bolocam (T. Mroczkowski et al., 2012 ApJ 761, 47) Related EVLA press release
• Confirming the Primarily Smooth Structure of the Vega Debris Disk at Millimeter Wavelengths (A.M. Hughes et al., 2012 ApJ 750, 82)
• Discovery of the correspondence between intra-cluster radio emission and a high pressure region detected through the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effec (Ferrari et al. 2011, A&A 534, L12)
• MUSTANG 3.3 Millimeter Continuum Observations of Class 0 Protostars (Shirley et al. 2011, AJ 141, 39)
• MUSTANG High Angular Resolution Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Imaging of Sub-Structure in Four Galaxy Clusters (Korngut et al. 2011, ApJ 734, 10)
• High-frequency Radio Spectral Energy Distributions and Polarization Fractions of Sources in an Atacama Cosmology Telescope Survey Field (Sajina et al. 2011, ApJ 732, 45)
• Implications of a High Angular Resolution Image of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in RXJ1347-1145 (Mason et al. 2010, ApJ 716, 739)
• The Radio-2 mm Spectral Index of the Crab Nebula” (Arendt et al. 2011, ApJ 734, 54)
• 90GHz and 150GHz observations of the Orion M42 region. A sub-millimeter to radio analysis (Dicker et al., 2009 ApJ 705 226)
• Observations of M87 and Hydra A at 90 GHz (Cotton et al., 2009 ApJ 701 1872)
• MUSTANG: 90 GHz Science with the Green Bank Telescope (Dicker et al., Presented at the SPIE conference on astronomical instrumentation in 2008; “Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV.”, Proc. SPIE, Volume 7020, pg 702005, (2008))
• A 90-GHz bolometer array for the Green Bank Telescope (Dicker et al. in Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III. Edited by Zmuidzinas, Jonas; Holland, Wayne S.; Withington, Stafford; Duncan, William D.. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6275, pp. 62751B (2006))