4GREAT is an extension of the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz frequencies (GREAT) operated aboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The spectrometer comprises four different detector bands and their associated subsystems for simultaneous and fully independent science operation. All detector beams are co-aligned on the sky. The frequency bands of 4GREAT cover 491-635, 890-1090, 1240-1525 and 2490-2590 GHz, respectively. This paper presents the design and characterization of the instrument, and its in-flight performance. 4GREAT saw first light in June 2018, and has been offered to the interested SOFIA communities starting with observing cycle 6.
@article{arxiv.2012.05106,
title = {4GREAT -- a four-color receiver for high-resolution airborne terahertz spectroscopy},
author = {Carlos A. Durán and Rolf Güsten and Christophe Risacher and Andrej Görlitz and Bernd Klein and Nicolas Reyes and Oliver Ricken and Hans-Joachim Wunsch and Urs U. Graf and Karl Jacobs and Cornelia E. Honingh and Jürgen Stutzki and Gert de Lange and Yan Delorme and Jean-Michel Krieg and Dariusz C. Lis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05106},
year = {2020}
}
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Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology