Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER): A Probe of Extragalactic Background Light from Reionization
Abstract
The Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) is a rocket-borne absolute photometry imaging and spectroscopy experiment optimized to detect signatures of first-light galaxies present during reionization in the unresolved IR background. CIBER-I consists of a wide-field two-color camera for fluctuation measurements, a low-resolution absolute spectrometer for absolute EBL measurements, and a narrow-band imaging spectrometer to measure and correct scattered emission from the foreground zodiacal cloud. CIBER-I was successfully flown on February 25th, 2009 and has one more planned flight in early 2010. We propose, after several additional flights of CIBER-I, an improved CIBER-II camera consisting of a wide-field 30 cm imager operating in 4 bands between 0.5 and 2.1 microns. It is designed for a high significance detection of unresolved IR background fluctuations at the minimum level necessary for reionization. With a FOV 50 to 2000 times largerthan existing IR instruments on satellites, CIBER-II will carry out the definitive study to establish the surface density of sources responsible for reionization.
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@article{arxiv.0904.2016,
title = {Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER): A Probe of Extragalactic Background Light from Reionization},
author = {Asantha Cooray and James J. Bock and Mitsunobu Kawada and Brian Keating and Andrew Lange and Dae-Hee Lee and Louis Levenson and Toshio Matsumoto and Shuji Matsuura and Tom Renbarger and Ian Sullivan and Kohji Tsumura and Takehiko Wada and Michael Zemcov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2016},
year = {2010}
}
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6 pages; for the proceedings of "AKARI: a light to illuminate the misty Universe", February 16-19 2009, Tokyo