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 ground. It is characterized by a wide instantaneous 18.6 arcmin field of view, operates at 130-310 GHz, and was installed on the 12-meter Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope at 5100 m above sea level. CONCERTO's double focal planes host two arrays of 2152 kinetic inductance detectors and represent a pioneering instrument to meet a state-of-the-art scientific challenge. This paper introduces the CONCERTO instrument and explains its status, shows the first CONCERTO spectral maps of Orion, and describes the perspectives of the project.
@article{arxiv.2311.04704,
title = {CONCERTO: instrument and status},
author = {Alessandro Fasano and Peter Ade and Manuel Aravena and Emilio Barria and Alexandre Beelen and Alain Benoît and Matthieu Béthermin and Julien Bounmy and Olivier Bourrion and Guillaume Bres and Martino Calvo and Andrea Catalano and Carlos De Breuck and François-Xavier Désert and Carlos Durán and Thomas Fenouillet and Jose Garcia and Gregory Garde and Johannes Goupy and Christopher Groppi and Christophe Hoarau and Wenkai Hu and Guilaine Lagache and Jean-Charles Lambert and Jean-Paul Leggeri and Florence Levy-Bertrand and Andreas Lundgren and Juan Macías-Pérez and Hamdi Mani and Julien Marpaud and Philip Mauskopf and Alessandro Monfardini and Giampaolo Pisano and Nicolas Ponthieu and Leo Prieur and Samuel Roni and Sebastien Roudier and Damien Tourres and Carol Tucker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04704},
year = {2024}
}
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6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Proc. of the mm Universe 2023 conference, Grenoble (France), June 2023, published by F. Mayet et al. (Eds), EPJ Web of conferences, EDP Sciences