CONCERTO at APEX: Installation and first phase of on-sky commissioning
Abstract
CONCERTO (CarbON CII line in post-rEionisation and ReionisaTiOn) is a large field-of-view (FoV) spectro-imager that has been installed on the Cassegrain Cabin of Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) telescope in April 2021. CONCERTO hosts 2 focal planes and a total number of 4000 Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID), with an instantaneous FoV of 18.6 arcminutes in the range of 130-310 GHz. The spectral resolution can be easily tuned down to 1 GHz depending on the scientific target. The scientific program of CONCERTO has many objectives, with two main programs focused on mapping the fluctuations of the [CII] line intensity in the reionisation and post-reionisation epoch (4.5<z<8.5), and on studying galaxy clusters via the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. CONCERTO will also measure the dust and molecular gas contents of local and intermediate-redshift galaxies, it will study the Galactic star-forming clouds and finally it will observe the CO intensity fluctuations arising from 0.3<z<2 galaxies. The design of the instrument, installation at APEX and current status of the commissioning phase and science verification will be presented. Also we describe the deployment and first on-sky tests performed between April and June 2021.
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@article{arxiv.2110.14984,
title = {CONCERTO at APEX: Installation and first phase of on-sky commissioning},
author = {A. Catalano and P. Ade and M. Aravena and E. Barria and A. Beelen and A. Benoit and M. Béthermin and J. Bounmy and O. Bourrion and G. Bres and C. De Breuck and M. Calvo and F. -X. Désert and C. A Duràn and G. Duvauchelle and L. Eraud and A. Fasano and T. Fenouillet and J. Garcia and G. Garde and J. Goupy and C. Groppi and C. Hoarau and W. Hu and G. Lagache and J. -C. Lambert and J. -P. Leggeri and F. Levy-Bertrand and J. Macìas-Pérez and H. Mani and J. Marpaud and M. Marton and P. Mauskopf and A. Monfardini and G. Pisano and N. Ponthieu and L. Prieur and G. Raffin and S. Roni and S. Roudier and D. Tourres and C. Tucker and L. Vivargent},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14984},
year = {2022}
}
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To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference entitled mm Universe @ NIKA2, Rome (Italy), June 2021, EPJ Web of conferences