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

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

Submillimeter and far-IR spectroscopy provides insight into galaxy evolution through measurement of atomic and molecular line emission. The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument designed to carry out intensity mapping to measure t...

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Hauptverfasser: Rahmani, Maryam, Ade, Peter A R, Anderson, Christopher J, Barlis, Alyssa, Barrentine, Emily M, Bolatto, Alberto D, Beeman, Jeffrey, Bolatto, Alberto Daniel, Breysse, Patrick C, Bulcha, Berhanu T, Cataldo, Giuseppe, Connors, Jake, Ehsan, Negar, Essinger-Hileman, Thomas Martin, Hess, Larry A, Jahromi, Amir E, Jenkins, Trevian, Kimball, Mark K, Kogut, Alan J, Lowe, Luke N, Mauskopf, Phil, McMahon, Jeff, Mirzaei, Mona, Moseley, S Harvey, Mugge-Durum, Jonas Walton, Noroozian, Omid, Oxholm, Trevor M, Parekh, Tatsat
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Zusammenfassung:Submillimeter and far-IR spectroscopy provides insight into galaxy evolution through measurement of atomic and molecular line emission. The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument designed to carry out intensity mapping to measure the cumulative redshifted line emission from carbon monoxide and singly-ionized carbon to probe star formation in windows from the present to z=3.5. During this time, the rate of star formation dropped dramatically, while dark matter continued to cluster. Intensity mapping permits a blind and complete survey of emitting gas through statistics of cumulative brightness fluctuations. EXCLAIM achieves high sensitivity using a cryogenic telescope coupled to six integrated spectrometers with spectral resolving power R=512 and employing microwave kinetic inductance detectors. Here we summarize the status of the mission.