TY - GEN
T1 - The terahertz intensity mapper
T2 - Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI 2022
AU - Marrone, Daniel P.
AU - Aguirre, James E.
AU - Bracks, Justin S.
AU - Bradford, Charles M.
AU - Brendal, Brockton S.
AU - Bumble, Bruce
AU - Corso, Anthony J.
AU - Devlin, Mark J.
AU - Emerson, Nick
AU - Filippini, Jeffrey P.
AU - Fu, Jianyang
AU - Gasho, Victor
AU - Groppi, Christopher E.
AU - Hailey-Dunsheath, Steve
AU - Hoh, Jonathan
AU - Hollister, Matthew I.
AU - Janssen, Reinier M.J.
AU - Joralmon, Dylan
AU - Keenan, Ryan P.
AU - Liu, Lun Jun
AU - Lowe, Ian
AU - Mauskopf, Philip
AU - Mayer, Evan C.
AU - Nie, Rong
AU - Razavimaleki, Vesal
AU - Redford, Joseph
AU - Saeid, Talia
AU - Trumper, Isaac L.
AU - Vieira, Joaquin D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 SPIE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM) is a balloon-borne far-infrared imaging spectrometer designed to characterize the star formation history of the universe. In its Antarctic science flight, TIM will map the redshifted 158um line of ionized carbon over the redshift range 0.5-1.7 (lookback times of 5-10 Gyr). TIM will spectroscopically detect ∼100 galaxies, determine the star formation rate history over this time interval through line intensity mapping, and measure the stacked CII emission from galaxies in its well-studied target fields (GOODS-S, SPT Deep Field). TIM consists of a 2-meter telescope feeding two grating spectrometers that that cover 240-420um at R∼250 across a 1.3deg field of view, detected with 7200 kinetic inductance detectors and sampled through a novel RF system-on-chip readout. TIM will serve as an important scientific instrument, accessing wavelengths that cannot easily be studied from the ground, and as a testbed for future FIR space technology.
AB - The Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM) is a balloon-borne far-infrared imaging spectrometer designed to characterize the star formation history of the universe. In its Antarctic science flight, TIM will map the redshifted 158um line of ionized carbon over the redshift range 0.5-1.7 (lookback times of 5-10 Gyr). TIM will spectroscopically detect ∼100 galaxies, determine the star formation rate history over this time interval through line intensity mapping, and measure the stacked CII emission from galaxies in its well-studied target fields (GOODS-S, SPT Deep Field). TIM consists of a 2-meter telescope feeding two grating spectrometers that that cover 240-420um at R∼250 across a 1.3deg field of view, detected with 7200 kinetic inductance detectors and sampled through a novel RF system-on-chip readout. TIM will serve as an important scientific instrument, accessing wavelengths that cannot easily be studied from the ground, and as a testbed for future FIR space technology.
KW - Balloon-borne instruments
KW - Far-infrared
KW - Far-infrared spectrometer
KW - Galaxy formation
KW - Intensity mapping
KW - Kinetic Inductance Detectors
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2630644
DO - 10.1117/12.2630644
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85140710269
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI
A2 - Zmuidzinas, Jonas
A2 - Gao, Jian-Rong
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 17 July 2022 through 22 July 2022
ER -