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Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21532506s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #325.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.422
Computer Science
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The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) is a NASA sounding rocket payload that was first launched in February 2009. CIBER consists of four co-aligned instruments designed with foreground subtraction and control of systematics in mind. In addition, the platform of a sounding rocket enables observations of the NIRB outside of narrow atmospheric windows that are uncontaminated by airglow. We will present preliminary results from the first flight.
CIBER seeks to measure the absolute brightness spectrum of the extragalactic NIRB, and has two spectrometers dedicated to that purpose. One, a high-resolution Fabry-Perot spectometer, is tuned to the 8545 nm Ca II line of the solar spectrum, and is designed to measure the absolute brightness of the Zodiacal Light directly, which is the source of greatest uncertainty in the NIRB spectrum. The second spectrometer measures the NIRB spectrum from 700nm to 1800nm, which spans the wavelength range where a Lyman cutoff feature from Reionization could appear.
CIBER also houses two Infrared imaging telescopes, which have identical optics that give 2º x 2º field of views with 7 arcsec pixels, but have different band defining filters. The first imager has a wide band centered at 1600nm, and images the background at the expected peak of the spectrum. The imagers’ wide field of view allows them to measure the distinctive power spectrum peaking at 10 arcminutes. The second imager has a wide band centered at 1000nm that is intended to image at wavelengths shorter than the Lyman cutoff, and provides a powerful systematic test for any detection made at 1600 nm. First-light fluctuations should have a distinctive spatial power spectrum with very red 1600nm / 1000nm color, distinctly redder than the approximately solar color of any residual fluctuations arising from Zodiacal light, Galactic starlight, or low-redshift galaxies.
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