Zpectrometer: an Ultra-wideband Spectrometer for Redshift Searches with the Green Bank Telescope

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Dec 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...207.8801b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #88.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1315

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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To understand the cosmic histories of star formation and accretion, observers must determine the redshifts of distant galaxies whose central starbursts and/or active nuclei are heavily obscured by dust. Direct spectroscopy of molecular emission lines is the ideal way to meet this challenge, but a suitable instrument must have large instantaneous bandwidth to achieve broad redshift coverage. We describe a new, ultra-wideband "Zpectrometer" now under construction for the Green Bank Telescope that satisfies this need. Using a novel analog lag cross-correlator spectrometer technology in a correlation radiometer architecture, the Zpectrometer will produce stable spectra over the entire 26-40 GHz range of the GBT's Ka-band receiver. The Zpectrometer will enable blind searches for CO(1-0) emission in the redshift range where the cosmic star formation rate density peaks, higher-J CO transitions at earlier epochs, and rotational lines from other molecules at a variety of redshifts.
This project is funded by a National Science Foundation ATI Program grant to the University of Maryland and by contributions from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

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