22–26 Jul 2019
Milano
Europe/Rome timezone

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)

25 Jul 2019, 17:45
1h 15m
Piazza Città di Lombardia (Milano)

Piazza Città di Lombardia

Milano

Piazza Città di Lombardia, 1, 20124 Milano MI
Poster Low Temperature Detector Applications Poster session

Speaker

Emily M. Barrentine (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Description

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a high altitude balloon spectrometer designed to deepen our understanding of star formation in a cosmological context. Rather than identifying individual objects, as in a galaxy redshift survey, EXCLAIM will be a pathfinder to demonstrate an intensity mapping (IM) approach. EXCLAIM will operate at 424 – 540 GHz with a spectral resolution of R=512 to measure the integrated line emission from galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM). The instrument is ideal for observing CO and [CII] line emissions from the nearby universe out to redshifts of z~3.5. CO and [CII] line emissions are key tracers of the gas phases in the interstellar medium involved in star-formation processes. EXCLAIM will shed light on questions such as why the star formation rate declines and breaks away from the cosmological evolution of dark matter at redshifts of z~2. The instrument will employ an array of six superconducting integrated grating-analog spectrometers (µ-Spec) with superconducting microwave kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) in an all-cryogenic telescope (1.5K) to achieve near background-limited sensitivity. Here we present an overview of the EXCLAIM instrument and status.

Student (Ph.D., M.Sc. or B.Sc.) N
Less than 5 years of experience since completion of Ph.D N

Primary authors

Alan Kogut (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Alberto D. Bolatto (University of Maryland) Anthony R. Pullen (New York University) Berhanu T. Bulcha (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Carole Tucker (Cardiff University) Carolyn G. Volpert (University of Maryland) Chris J. Anderson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Edward J. Wollack (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Eli Visbal (Center for Computational Astrophysics) Emily M. Barrentine (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Eric R. Switzer (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Giuseppe Cataldo (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Jake A. Connors (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Jeff McMahon (University of Michigan) Larry A. Hess (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Luke N. Lowe (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Mark K. Kimball (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Mona Mirzaei (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Negar Ehsan (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Nick G. Bellis (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Omid Noroozian (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) Patrick C. Breysse (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics) Paul W. Cursey (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Peter A. R. Ade (Cardiff University) Peter J. Shirron (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Phil Mauskopf (Arizona State University) Rachel S. Somerville (Center for Computational Astrophysics) S. Harvey Moseley (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Samelys Rodriguez (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Shengqi Yang (New York University) Thomas Essinger-Hileman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Thomas R. Stevenson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Ue-Li Pen (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)

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