Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 2006
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Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III. Edited by Zmuidzinas, Jonas; Holland, Wayne S.; W
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
GREAT, the German REceiver for Astronomy at Terahertz frequencies, is a first generation SOFIA dual channel heterodyne PI-instrument for high resolution spectroscopy. The system is developed by a consortium of German research institutes. The receiver will allow simultaneous observations in two out of the following three far-infrared frequency bands: a 1.4-1.9 THz channel for e.g. the fine-structure line of ionized carbon [CII] at 158μm a 2.4-2.7 THz channel for e.g. the 112μm transition of HD; and a 4.7 THz channel for the 63 μm fine-structure line of neutral atomic oxygen. Hot electron bolometers (HEB) mixers provide state of the art sensitivity. A spectral resolving power of up to 108 is achieved with chirp transform spectrometers, and a total bandwidth of 4 GHz at 1 MHz resolution is reached with wide band acousto-optical spectrometers. The modular concept of GREAT allows to observe with any combination of two out of the three channels aboard SOFIA. A more complete frequency coverage of the THz regime by adding additional GREAT channels is possible in the future. The adaptation of new LO-, mixer- or backend-techniques is easily possible. We describe details of the receiver and the results of first performance tests of the system at 1.9 THz.
Graf Urs U.
Güsten Rolf
Hartogh Paul
Heyminck Stefan
Hübers Heinz-Wilhelm
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