SAGACE: The spectroscopic active galaxies and clusters explorer

Paolo De Bernardis, Daniela Bagliani, Antonio Bardi, Elia Battistelli, Mark Birkinshaw, Martino Calvo, Sergio Colafrancesco, Andrea Conte, Simone De Gregori, Marco De Petris, Gianfranco De Zotti, Alessandro Donati, Lorenza Ferrari, Alberto Franceschini, Flavio Gatti, Massimo Gervasi, Paolo Giommi, Claudia Giordano, Joaquin Gonzalez-Nuevo, Luca LamagnaAndrea Lapi, Gemma Luzzi, Roberto Maiolino, Paolo Marchegiani, Alessandro Mariani, Silvia Masi, Marcella Massardi, Phil Mauskopf, Federico Nati, Lavinia Nati, Paolo Natoli, Mattia Negrello, Francesco Piacentini, Gianluca Polenta, Maria Salatino, Giorgio Savini, Alessandro Schillaci, Sebastiano Spinelli, Andrea Tartari, Marco Tavanti, Alessandra Tortora, Mattia Vaccari, Renzo Vaccarone, Mario Zannoni, Valfredo Zolesi

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Abstract

The SAGACE experiment consists of a mm/sub-mm telescope with a 3-m diameter primary mirror, coupled to a cryogenic multi-beam differential spectrometer. SAGACE explores the sky in the 100-760 GHz frequency range, using four diffraction-limited bolometer arrays. The instrument is designed to perform spectroscopic surveys of the Sunyaev- Zeldovich effects of thousands of galaxy clusters, of the spectral energy distribution of active galactic nuclei, and of the [CII] line of a thousand galaxies in the redshift desert. In 2008 a full phase-A study for a national small mission was completed and delivered to the Italian Space Agency (ASI). We have shown that taking advantage of the differential operation of the Fourier Transform Spectrometer, this ambitious instrument can operate from a Molniya orbit, and can be built and operated within the tight budget of a small mission.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
Pages2133-2144
Number of pages12
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009 - Paris, France
Duration: Jul 12 2009Jul 18 2009

Publication series

Name12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity

Other

Other12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period7/12/097/18/09

Keywords

  • Clusters of galaxies
  • Cosmic microwave background
  • Cosmology
  • Early galaxies
  • Space experiments
  • Spectrometers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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