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CONCERTO: Readout and control electronics

The CONCERTO spectral-imaging instrument was installed at the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) 12-meter telescope in April 2021. It has been designed to look at radiation emitted by ionised carbon atoms, [CII], and use the "intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 O. Bourrion , C. Hoarau , J. Bounmy , D. Tourres , C. Vescovi J. -L. Bouly , N. Ponchant , A. Beelen , M. Calvo , A. Catalano , J. Goupy , G. Lagache , J. -F. Macías-Pérez , J. Marpaud , A. Monfardini

A wide field-of-view low-resolution spectrometer at APEX: instrument design and science forecast

Characterise the large-scale structure in the Universe from present times to the high redshift epoch of reionisation is essential to constraining the cosmology, the history of star formation and reionisation, measuring the gas content of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 The CONCERTO collaboration , P. Ade , M. Aravena , E. Barria , A. Beelen , A. Benoit , M. Béthermin , J. Bounmy , O. Bourrion , G. Bres , C. De Breuck , M. Calvo , Y. Cao , A. Catalano , F. -X. Désert , C. A Durán , A. Fasano , T. Fenouillet , J. Garcia , G. Garde , J. Goupy , C. Groppi , C. Hoarau , G. Lagache , J. -C. Lambert , J. -P. Leggeri , F. Levy-Bertrand , J. Macias-Perez , H. Mani , J. Marpaud , P. Mauskopf , A. Monfardini , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , L. Prieur , S. Roni , S. Roudier , D. Tourres , C. Tucker

CONCERTO: Instrument model of Fourier transform spectroscopy, white-noise components

Modern astrophysics relies on intricate instrument setups to meet the demands of sensitivity, sky coverage, and multi-channel observations. An example is the CONCERTO project, employing advanced technology like kinetic inductance detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Alessandro Fasano , Peter Ade , Manuel Aravena , Emilio Barria , Alexandre Beelen , Alain Benoit , Matthieu Béthermin , Julien Bounmy , Olivier Bourrion , Guillaume Bres , Martino Calvo , Andrea Catalano , Carlos De Breuck , François-Xavier Désert , Cédric Dubois , Carlos Durán , Thomas Fenouillet , Jose Garcia , Gregory Garde , Johannes Goupy , Christophe Hoarau , Wenkai Hu , Guilaine Lagache , Jean-Charles Lambert , Florence Levy-Bertrand , Andreas Lundgren , Juan-Francisco Macías-Pérez , Julien Marpaud , Alessandro Monfardini , Giampaolo Pisano , Nicolas Ponthieu , Leo Prieur , Samuel Roni , Sebastien Roudier , Damien Tourres , Carol Tucker , Mathilde Van Cuyck

CONCERTO at APEX: Installation and first phase of on-sky commissioning

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 A. Catalano , P. Ade , M. Aravena , E. Barria , A. Beelen , A. Benoit , M. Béthermin , J. Bounmy , O. Bourrion , G. Bres , C. De Breuck , M. Calvo , F. -X. Désert , C. A Duràn , G. Duvauchelle , L. Eraud , A. Fasano , T. Fenouillet , J. Garcia , G. Garde , J. Goupy , C. Groppi , C. Hoarau , W. Hu , G. Lagache , J. -C. Lambert , J. -P. Leggeri , F. Levy-Bertrand , J. Macìas-Pérez , H. Mani , J. Marpaud , M. Marton , P. Mauskopf , A. Monfardini , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , L. Prieur , G. Raffin , S. Roni , S. Roudier , D. Tourres , C. Tucker , L. Vivargent

CONCERTO: instrument and status

CONCERTO (CarbON CII line in post-rEionization and ReionizaTiOn) is a low-resolution Fourier transform spectrometer dedicated to the study of star-forming galaxies and clusters of galaxies in the transparent millimeter windows from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Alessandro Fasano , Peter Ade , Manuel Aravena , Emilio Barria , Alexandre Beelen , Alain Benoît , Matthieu Béthermin , Julien Bounmy , Olivier Bourrion , Guillaume Bres , Martino Calvo , Andrea Catalano , Carlos De Breuck , François-Xavier Désert , Carlos Durán , Thomas Fenouillet , Jose Garcia , Gregory Garde , Johannes Goupy , Christopher Groppi , Christophe Hoarau , Wenkai Hu , Guilaine Lagache , Jean-Charles Lambert , Jean-Paul Leggeri , Florence Levy-Bertrand , Andreas Lundgren , Juan Macías-Pérez , Hamdi Mani , Julien Marpaud , Philip Mauskopf , Alessandro Monfardini , Giampaolo Pisano , Nicolas Ponthieu , Leo Prieur , Samuel Roni , Sebastien Roudier , Damien Tourres , Carol Tucker

CONCERTO: a breakthrough in wide field-of-view spectroscopy at millimeter wavelengths

CarbON CII line in post-rEionization and ReionizaTiOn (CONCERTO) is a low-resolution spectrometer with an instantaneous field-of-view of 18.6 arcmin, operating in the 130-310 GHz transparent atmospheric window. It is installed on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 Alessandro Fasano , Alexandre Beelen , Alain Benoit , Andreas Lundgren , Peter Ade , Manuel Aravena , Emilio Barria , Matthieu Béthermin , Julien Bounmy , Olivier Bourrion , Guillaume Bres , Martino Calvo , Andrea Catalano , François-Xavier Désert , Carlos De Breuck , Carlos Durán , Thomas Fenouillet , Jose Garcia , Gregory Garde , Johannes Goupy , Christopher Groppi , Christophe Hoarau , Wenkai Hu , Guilaine Lagache , Jean-Charles Lambert , Jean-Paul Leggeri , Florence Levy-Bertrand , Juan-Francisco Macias-Pérez , Hamdi Mani , Julien Marpaud , Philip Mauskopf , Alessandro Monfardini , Giampaolo Pisano , Nicolas Ponthieu , Leo Prieur , Samuel Roni , Sebastien Roudier , Damien Tourres , Carol Tucker , Mathilde Van Cuyck

CONCERTO : Optimization of readout electronics

The CONCERTO millimeter-wave spectral-imaging instrument was deployed on the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX), where it acquired science data between April 2021 and May 2023. The instrument features two focal-plane arrays, each composed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Mounir Abdkrimi , Olivier Rossetto , Olivier Bourrion , Christophe Hoarau , Christophe Vescovi

CONCERTO: forward modeling of interferograms for calibration

The CarbON [CII] line in post-rEionisation and ReionisaTiOn epoch (CONCERTO) instrument is a low-resolution mapping Fourier-transform spectrometer, based on lumped-element kinetic inductance detector (LEKID) technology, operating at 130-…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 A. Lundgren , A. Beelen , G. Lagache , F. -X. Desert , A. Fasano , J. Macias-Perez , A. Monfardini , P. Ade , M. Aravena , E. Barria , A. Benoit , M. Bethermin , J. Bounmy , O. Bourrion , G. Bres , C. De Breuck , M. Calvo , A. Catalano , C. Dubois , C. A Duran , T. Fenouillet , J. Garcia , G. Garde , J. Goupy , C. Hoarau , W. Hu , J. -C. Lambert , F. Levy-Bertrand , J. Marpaud , R. Parra , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , L. Prieur , D. Quinatoa , S. Roni , S. Roudier , D. Tourres , C. Tucker , M. Van Cuyck

CONCERTO: Characterization of analog readout electronics

CONCERTO is a millimeter-wave imaging instrument that operated on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope from April 2021 to May 2023. Its primary scientific objectives include the study of galaxy clusters through the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Mounir Abdkrimi , Olivier Rossetto , O. Bourrion , Christophe Vescovi , C. Hoarau

Continuum, CO and Water vapour maps of the Orion Nebula. First millimetre spectral imaging with Concerto

The millimetre spectrum of Galactic regions and galaxies is rich in continuum and molecular lines. This diversity is mostly explored using either broad-band photometry or high-resolution heterodyne spectroscopy. We aim to map the millimetre…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-22 F. -X. Désert , J. F. Macías-Pérez , A. Beelen , A. Benoît , M. Béthermin , J. Bounmy , O. Bourrion , M. Calvo , A. Catalano , C. De Breuck , C. Dubois , C. A Durán , A. Fasano , J. Goupy , W. Hu , E. Ibar , G. Lagache , A. Lundgren , A. Monfardini , N. Ponthieu , D. Quinatoa , M. Van Cuyck , R. Adam , P. Ade , H. Ajeddig , S. Amarantidis , P. André , H. Aussel , S. Berta , A. Bongiovanni , D. Chérouvrier , M. De Petris , S. Doyle , E. F. C. Driessen , G. Ejlali , A. Ferragamo , A. Gomez , C. Hanser , S. Katsioli , F. Kéruzoré , C. Kramer , B. Ladjelate , S. Leclercq , J. -F. Lestrade , S. C. Madden , A. Maury , F. Mayet , A. Moyer-Anin , M. Muñoz-Echeverría , I. Myserlis , A. Paliwal , L. Perotto , G. Pisano , V. Revéret , A. J. Rigby , A. Ritacco , H. Roussel , F. Ruppin , M. Sánchez-Portal , S. Savorgnano , A. Sievers , C. Tucker , R. Zylka

{\mu}-Spec Spectrometers for the EXCLAIM Instrument

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic balloon-borne instrument that will map carbon monoxide and singly-ionized carbon emission lines across redshifts from 0 to 3.5, using an intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-29 Mona Mirzaei , Emily M. Barrentine , Berhanu T. Bulcha , Giuseppe Cataldo , Jake A. Connors , Negar Ehsan , Thomas M. Essinger-Hileman , Larry A. Hess , Jonas W. Mugge-Durum , Omid Noroozian , Trevor M. Oxholm , Thomas R. Stevenson , Eric R. Switzer , Carolyn G. Volpert , Edward J. Wollack

The KISS experiment

Mapping millimetre continuum emission has become a key issue in modern multi-wavelength astrophysics. In particular, spectrum-imaging at low frequency resolution is an asset for characterizing the clusters of galaxies via the Sunyaev…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Fasano , M. Aguiar , A. Benoit , A. Bideaud , O. Bourrion , M. Calvo , A. Catalano , A. P. de Taoro , G. Garde , A. Gomez , M. F. Gomez Renasco , J. Goupy , C. Hoarau , R. Hoyland , J. F. Macías-Pérez , J. Marpaud , A. Monfardini , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , J. A. Rubiño Martín , D. Tourres , C. Tucker , A. Beelen , G. Bres , M. De Petris , P. de Bernardis , G. Lagache , L. Lamagna , G. Luzzi , M. Marton , S. Masi , R. Rebolo , S. Roudier

CONCERTO: High-fidelity simulation of millimeter line emissions of galaxies and [CII] intensity mapping

The intensity mapping of the [CII] 158um line redshifted to the sub-mm window is a promising probe of the z>4 star formation and its spatial distribution into the large-scale structure. To prepare the first-generation experiments (e.g.,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-23 M. Bethermin , A. Gkogkou , M. Van Cuyck , G. Lagache , A. Beelen , M. Aravena , A. Benoit , J. Bounmy , M. Calvo , A. Catalano , B. de Batz de Trenquelleon , C. De Breuck , A. Fasano , A. Ferrara , J. Goupy , C. Hoarau , C. Horellou , W. Hu , A. Julia , K. Knudsen , J. -C. Lambert , J. Macias-Perez , J. Marpaud , A. Monfardini , A. Pallottini , N. Ponthieu , Y. Roehlly , L. Vallini , F. Walter , A. Weiss

CONCERTO at APEX -- On-sky performance in continuum

We present the data-processing algorithms and the performance of CONCERTO (CarbON CII line in post-rEionisation and ReionisaTiOn epoch) in continuum by analysing the data from the commissioning and scientific observations. The beam pattern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 W. Hu , A. Beelen , G. Lagache , A. Fasano , A. Lundgren , P. Ade , M. Aravena , E. Barria , A. Benoit , M. Bethermin , J. Bounmy , O. Bourrion , G. Bres , C. De Breuck , M. Calvo , A. Catalano , F. -X. Desert , C. Dubois , C. A Duran , T. Fenouillet , J. Garcia , G. Garde , J. Goupy , C. Hoarau , J. -C. Lambert , E. Lellouch , F. Levy-Bertrand , J. Macias-Perez , J. Marpaud , A. Monfardini , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , L. Prieur , D. Quinatoa , S. Roni , S. Roudier , D. Tourres , C. Tucker , M. Van Cuyck

ESPRESSO@VLT -- On-sky performance and first results

ESPRESSO is the new high-resolution spectrograph of ESO's Very-Large Telescope (VLT). It was designed for ultra-high radial-velocity precision and extreme spectral fidelity with the aim of performing exoplanet research and fundamental…

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RISTRETTO: a VLT XAO design to reach Proxima Cen b in the visible

RISTRETTO is the evolution of the original idea of coupling the VLT instruments SPHERE and ESPRESSO \cite{lovis_2016a}, aiming at High Dispersion Coronagraphy. RISTRETTO is a visitor instrument that should enable the characterization of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 N. Blind , M. Shinde , I. Dinis , N. Restori , B. Chazelas , T. Fusco , O. Guyon , J. Kuehn , C. Lovis , P. Martinez , M. Motte , J. -F. Sauvage , A. Spang

RISTRETTO: Manufacturing of a single-mode visible high resolution spectrograph

The Spectrograph of the RISTRETTO instrument is now currently being manufactured. RISTETTO is an instrument designed to detect and characterize the reflected light of nearby exoplanets. It combines high contrast imaging and high resolution…

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The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory

The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will investigate the physics of the high-energy universe via a…

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The LSST Data Processing Software Stack: Summer 2015 Release

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8-m optical ground-based telescope being constructed on Cerro Pachon in Chile. LSST will survey half the sky every few nights in six optical bands. The data will be transferred to NCSA and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Tim Jenness

RISTRETTO: coronagraph and AO designs enabling High Dispersion Coronagraphy at 2 lambda/D

RISTRETTO is the evolution of the original idea of coupling the VLT instruments SPHERE and ESPRESSO, aiming at High Dispersion Coronagraphy. RISTRETTO is a visitor instrument that should enable the characterization of the atmospheres of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 N. Blind , B. Chazelas , J. Kühn , E. Hocini , C. Lovis , M. Beaulieu , T. Fusco , L. Genolet , O. Guyon , J. Hagelberg , I. Hughes , P. Martinez , J. -F. Sauvage , R. Schnell , M. Sordet , A. Spang