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Design and development of the PRIMAger instrument for PRIMA
Anne Costille, Fabrice Madec, Johan Floriot +11
PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) is an infrared space observatory designed to operate over the next decade. Equipped with a 1.8 m telescope actively cooled to 4.…
Development of TIFUUN: Terahertz Integral Field Units with Universal Nanotechnology
Akira Endo, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Jochem J. A. Baselmans +50
TIFUUN (THz Integral Field Units with Universal Nanotechnology) is an ultra-wideband mm-submm wave imaging spectrometer that capitalizes on the highly scalable integrated supercond…
Demonstrating Single Photon Counting with Kinetic Inductance Detectors from 3.8 to 25 m
Wilbert G. Ras-Vinke, Kevin Kouwenhoven, Jochem J. A. Baselmans +4
One of the primary objectives of modern astronomy is the atmospheric characterization of Earth-like exoplanets at visible and infrared wavelengths. Achieving this goal requires ext…
DESHIMA 2.0: A 200-400 GHz Ultra-wideband Integrated Superconducting Spectrometer
K. Karatsu, A. Endo, A. Moerman +26
DESHIMA (Deep Spectroscopic HIgh-redshift MApper) is a broadband integrated superconducting spectrometer (ISS) for millimeter (mm) / sub-millimeter (sub-mm) wave astronomy based on…
AMKID -- a large KID-based camera at the APEX telescope
N. Reyes, A. Weiss, S. J. C. Yates +26
The thermal emission at sub-millimeter wavelengths carries unique information in many astronomical applications ranging from disks and planet formation around young stars, to galax…
The Far-Infrared Enhanced Survey Spectrometer (FIRESS) for PRIMA: Science Drivers
Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Alberto Bolatto, J D Smith +25
We present the science drivers for the Far-Infrared Enhanced Survey Spectrometer (FIRESS), one of two science instrument on the PRobe Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA). FIR…
PRIMA: PRIMAger, a far-infrared hyperspectral and polarimetric instrument
Laure Ciesla, Charles Darren Dowell, Marc Sauvage +27
The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) is an infrared observatory for the next decade, currently in Phase A, with a 1.8m telescope actively cooled to 4.5K. On boar…
Lens based Kinetic Inductance Detectors with Distributed Dual Polarised Absorbers for Far Infra-red Space-based Astronomy
Shahab O. Dabironezare, Giulia Conenna, Daan Roos +16
Future space-based far infra-red astronomical observations require background limited detector sensitivities and scalable focal plane array solutions to realise their vast potentia…
Alignment and optical verification of DESHIMA 2.0 at ASTE
A. Moerman, K. Karatsu, J. J. A. Baselmans +12
We developed, characterized, and verified an alignment procedure for the DESHIMA 2.0 instrument, an ultra wide-band spectrometer operating between 200--400 GHz, at the ASTE telesco…
Demonstration of Ultra-Sensitive KIDs for Future THz Space Borne Polarimeters
Stephen J. C. Yates, Alejandro Pascual Laguna, Willem Jellema +8
We present measurements and simulations of the polarization purity of leaky lens-antenna coupled microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) at 1.5 THz. We find the integrated cr…
Commissioning the CMB polarization telescope GroundBIRD with the full set of detectors
Miku Tsujii, Jochem J. A. Baselmans, Jihoon Choi +39
GroundBIRD is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment for observing the polarization pattern imprinted on large angular scales ( ) from the Teide Obse…
A 25-micron single photon sensitive kinetic inductance detector
Peter K. Day, Nicholas F. Cothard, Christopher Albert +15
We report measurements characterizing the performance of a kinetic inductance detector array designed for a wavelength of 25 microns and very low optical background level suitable…
Vibrational modes as the origin of dielectric loss at 0.27$\unicode{x2013}$100 THz in a-SiC:H
B. T. Buijtendorp, A. Endo, W. Jellema +9
Low-loss deposited dielectrics are beneficial for the advancement of superconducting integrated circuits for astronomy. In the microwave band (1$\unicode{x2013}$10 G…
Directional Filter Design and Simulation for Superconducting On-chip Filter-banks
Louis H. Marting, Kenichi Karatsu, Akira Endo +2
Many superconducting on-chip filter-banks suffer from poor coupling to the detectors behind each filter. This is a problem intrinsic to the commonly used half wavelength filter, wh…
Optimisation-based alignment of wideband integrated superconducting spectrometers for sub-mm astronomy
A. Moerman, K. Karatsu, S. J. C. Yates +7
Integrated superconducting spectrometers (ISSs) for wideband sub-mm astronomy utilise quasi-optical systems for coupling radiation from the telescope to the instrument. Misalignmen…
Modeling of cosmic rays and near-IR photons in aluminum KIDs
Elijah Kane, Chris Albert, Ritoban Basu Thakur +13
The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) is working to develop kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) that can meet the sensitivity targets of a far-infrared spectromet…
Characterization of a Far-Infrared Kinetic Inductance Detector Prototype for PRIMA
Steven Hailey-Dunsheath, Sven van Berkel, Andrew E. Beyer +10
The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) is under study as a potential far-IR space mission, featuring actively cooled optics, and both imaging and spectroscopic ins…
High-sensitivity Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays for the Probe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics
Logan Foote, Chris Albert, Jochem Baselmans +15
Far-infrared (far-IR) astrophysics missions featuring actively cooled telescopes will offer orders of magnitude observing speed improvement at wavelengths where galaxies and formin…
Lens Absorber Coupled MKIDs for Far Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy
Shahab O. Dabironezare, Sven van Berkel, Pierre M. Echternach +3
Future generation of astronomical imaging spectrometers are targeting the far infrared wavelengths to close the THz astronomy gap. Similar to lens antenna coupled Microwave Kinetic…
Pointing calibration of GroundBIRD telescope using Moon observation data
Y. Sueno, J. J. A. Baselmans, A. H. M. Coppens +16
Understanding telescope pointing (i.e., line of sight) is important for observing the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and astronomical objects. The Moon is a candidate astronomic…
Ultra-sensitive Super-THz Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for future space telescopes
J. J. A. Baselmans, F. Facchin, A. Pascual Laguna +5
Future actively cooled space-borne observatories for the far-infrared, loosely defined as a 1--10 THz band, can potentially reach a sensitivity limited only by background radiation…
DESHIMA 2.0: Rapid redshift surveys and multi-line spectroscopy of dusty galaxies
M. Rybak, T. Bakx, J. Baselmans +7
We present a feasibility study for the high-redshift galaxy part of the Science Verification Campaign with the 220-440 GHz DESHIMA 2.0 integrated superconducting spectrometer on th…
DESHIMA 2.0: development of an integrated superconducting spectrometer for science-grade astronomical observations
Akio Taniguchi, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Jochem J. A. Baselmans +32
Integrated superconducting spectrometer (ISS) technology will enable ultra-wideband, integral-field spectroscopy for (sub)millimeter-wave astronomy, in particular, for uncovering t…
Terahertz Band-Pass Filters for Wideband Superconducting On-chip Filter-bank Spectrometers
Alejandro Pascual Laguna, Kenichi Karatsu, David J. Thoen +4
A superconducting microstrip half-wavelength resonator is proposed as a suitable band-pass filter for broadband moderate spectral resolution spectroscopy for terahertz (THz) astron…