SAGACE: the Spectroscopic Active Galaxies And Clusters Explorer
Abstract
The SAGACE experiment consists of a mm/sub-mm telescope with a 3-m diameter primary mirror, coupled to a cryogenic multi-beam differential spectrometer. SAGACE explores the sky in the 100-760 GHz frequency range, using four diffraction-limited bolometer arrays. The instrument is designed to perform spectroscopic surveys of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effects of thousands of galaxy clusters, of the spectral energy distribution of active galactic nuclei, and of the [CII] line of a thousand galaxies in the redshift desert. In 2008 a full phase-A study for a national small mission was completed and delivered to the Italian Space Agency (ASI). We have shown that taking advantage of the differential operation of the Fourier Transform Spectrometer, this ambitious instrument can operate from a Molniya orbit, and can be built and operated within the tight budget of a small mission.
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@article{arxiv.1002.0867,
title = {SAGACE: the Spectroscopic Active Galaxies And Clusters Explorer},
author = {P. De Bernardis and D. Bagliani and A. Bardi and E. Battistelli and M. Birkinshaw and M. Calvo and S. Colafrancesco and A. Conte and S. De Gregori and M. De Petris and G. De Zotti and A. Donati and L. Ferrari and A. Franceschini and F. Gatti and M. Gervasi and P. Giommi and C. Giordano and J. Gonzalez-Nuevo and L. Lamagna and A. Lapi and G. Luzzi and R. Maiolino and P. Marchegiani and A. Mariani and S. Masi and M. Massardi and P. Mauskopf and F. Nati and L. Nati and P. Natoli and M. Negrello and F. Piacentini and G. Polenta and M. Salatino and G. Savini and A. Schillaci and S. Spinelli and A. Tartari and M. Tavanti and A. Tortora and M. Vaccari and R. Vaccarone and M. Zannoni and V. Zolesi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0867},
year = {2016}
}
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Proceedings of the 12th Marcel Grossman Meeting