A Proposed Heterodyne Receiver for the Origins Space Telescope
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

The HEterodyne Receiver for the Origins Space Telescope (HERO) is a proposed design for a heterodyne focal plane array for a large space mission. The Origins Space Telescope (OST) is one of the four missions selected to be studied by NASA for the 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal survey. HERO is designed to observe the trail of water from the interstellar medium (ISM) to disks around protostars. In Concept 1, HERO provides continuous frequency coverage from 468 to 2700 GHz in five bands and a sixth band to cover 4700 GHz. Most bands include 2 × 64 pixels providing at least an order of magnitude higher mapping speeds than available with today's instruments. Receiver sensitivities are expected to be close to the quantum limit. HERO Concept 2, highly constrained by cost and denoted Little-HERO, includes four bands with continuous coverage from 486 to 2700 GHz and with focal plane arrays having only 2 × 9 pixels per band. Both of these THz receiver concepts will be described and the designs will be motivated by the science drivers, the space craft constraints and the latest technological developments. The HERO design builds on the highly successful Herschel/Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared, on Stratospheric Observatory for Far-Infrared Astronomy/upGREAT and many other heterodyne receivers, but surpasses these in terms of frequency coverage, array size and sensitivity, thanks to the latest technical advances. HERO can be considered an example of a new generation of heterodyne focal plane arrays for future space missions.

Array receivers

heterodyne receivers

THz detectors

THz astronomy

heterodyne instruments

far-infrared (far-IR) space instruments

Författare

M.C. Wiedner

LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique et Atmospheres

Imran Mehdi

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

A. M. Baryshev

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Victor Belitsky

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium

Vincent Desmaris

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium

Anna Maria Digiorgio

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

J. D. Gallego

Observatorio de Yebes (IGN)

M. Gerin

LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique et Atmospheres

P. F. Goldsmith

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

F. Helmich

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

W. Jellema

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Andre Laurens

Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Christophe Risacher

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

A. Cooray

University of California at Irvine (UCI)

Margaret Meixner

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Johns Hopkins University

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

2156-342X (ISSN) 21563446 (eISSN)

Vol. 8 6 558-571 8491320

Ämneskategorier

Rymd- och flygteknik

Infrastruktur

Onsala rymdobservatorium

DOI

10.1109/TTHZ.2018.2876093

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