Pre-Flight Simulation of DESHIMA2.0: Observation of a High-Redshift Galaxy with the Current DESHIMA2.0 Instrument on the ASTE Telescope

To better understand the formation of stars in dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs), and the evolution of this type of submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), it is of high significance to perform submillimeter/far-infrared surveys. The Deep Spectroscopic High-redshift Mapper 2.0 (DESHIMA2.0) on the ASTE telescope in Chile has been designed to observe the...

Analysing the Performance of SPLITTER: A Noise Removal Algorithm for DESHIMA 2.0

More insight has been gathered on the performance of the SPLITTER (Stationary spectrum Plus Low-rank Iterative TransmiTtance EstimatoR) algorithm as developed by Brackenhoff for denoising data gathered from observations of high-redshift galaxies. By using matrix decomposition to split the gathered data into a low-rank atmosphere matrix and a...

Photon-bunching in ground-based submillimeter-wave astronomy

DESHIMA (the Deep Spectroscopic High-Redshift Mapper) is a 347 channel superconducting spectrometer with spectral resolution R =500 that operates in the range of 220GHz to 440GHz and can therefore accurately measure the frequency of spectral lines in order to calculate redshift z.<br/>This report investigates the sensitivity of DESHIMA-like...

Simulating the radiation loss of superconducting submillimeter wave filters and transmission lines using Sonnet em

Superconducting resonators and transmission lines are fundamental building blocks of integrated circuits for millimeter-submillimeter astronomy. Accurate simulation of radiation loss from the circuit is crucial for the design of these circuits because radiation loss increases with frequency, and can thereby deteriorate the system performance....

DESHIMA 2.0: Development of an Integrated Superconducting Spectrometer for Science-Grade Astronomical Observations

Integrated superconducting spectrometer (ISS) technology will enable ultra-wideband, integral-field spectroscopy for (sub)millimeter-wave astronomy, in particular, for uncovering the dust-obscured cosmic star formation and galaxy evolution over cosmic time. Here, we present the development of DESHIMA 2.0, an ISS for ultra-wideband...

A Gas Emission Setup to Evaluate Wideband Sub-mm Spectrometers: For Frequency Calibration and Long Integration Analysis

A gas-cell-based calibration setup was designed to evaluate the wideband response of sub-millimeter spectrometers like DESHIMA (DEep Spectroscopic High-redshift MApper). The use of low pressure gas emission spectra allowed for accurate calibration of the absolute frequency response, and to test the detectability of faint emission spectra with...

SPLITTER: A data model and algorithm for detecting spectral lines and continuum emission of high-redshift galaxies using DESHIMA 2.0

We propose the Stationary spectrum Plus Low-rank Iterative TransmiTtance EstimatoR (SPLITTER) for removing wideband atmospheric noise from observations of high-redshift galaxies. This algorithm has specifically been developed for the DEep Spectroscopic HIgh-redshift MApper (DESHIMA) 2.0, a spectrometer that is designed to observe the waveband...

Terahertz Band-Pass Filters for Wideband Superconducting On-chip Filter-bank Spectrometers

A superconducting microstrip half-wavelength resonator is proposed as a suitable band-pass filter for broadband moderate spectral resolution spectroscopy for terahertz (THz) astronomy. The proposed filter geometry has a free spectral range of an octave of bandwidth without introducing spurious resonances, reaches a high coupling efficiency in...

Simulation of a High-Redshift Line-Emitting Galaxy Detection with DESHIMA using TiEMPO

In this report, we will focus on simulating galaxy observations with the Deep Spectroscopic High-redshift Mapper (DESHIMA). To do so, we will discuss and evaluate two main parts needed to accurately perform such a simulation:<br/><br/>Firstly, we will answer the question whether Time-dependent End-to-end Model for Post-process Optimization ...

TiEMPO:Time-Dependent End-to-End Model for Post-process Optimization of the DESHIMA Spectrometer

Ultra-wideband submillimeter observations are crucial to study the process of star and galaxy formation and for characterizing cosmic dust in the interstellar medium. The Deep Spectroscopic High-redshift Mapper 2.0 (DESHIMA 2.0) will use an integrated superconducting spectrometer chip with a 220-440 GHz band coverage and a spectral resolution of...

Simulating the Radiation Loss of Superconducting Submillimeter Wave Filters and Transmission Lines Using Sonnet EM

Superconducting resonators and transmission lines are fundamental building blocks of integrated circuits for millimeter-submillimeter astronomy. Accurate simulation of radiation loss from the circuit is crucial for the design of these circuits because radiation loss increases with frequency, and can thereby deteriorate the system performance....

Large format imaging spectrograph for the Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST)

We present a conceptual study of a large format imaging spectrograph for next-generation large (50-m class) single-dish telescopes, i.e., the Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST) and Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST). Recent discoveries of high-redshift star-forming galaxies at z=8-9 and candidate quiescent galaxies at z~6...

TiEMPO: Open-source time-dependent end-To-end model for simulating ground-based submillimeter astronomical observations

The next technological breakthrough in millimeter-submillimeter astronomy is 3D imaging spectrometry with wide instantaneous spectral bandwidths and wide fields of view. The total optimization of the focal-plane instrument, the telescope, the observing strategy, and the signal-processing software must enable efficient removal of foreground...

Quasi-optical system for the DESHIMA spectrometer

DESHIMA is a superconducting on-chip spectrometer using MKIDs in the sub-mm wavelength regime (240-720 GHz, 1:3 bandwidth). This thesis presents (1) an analysis of the quasi-optical system used for DESHIMA on the ASTE telescope in Chile (2) design of the room-temperature optics of this design and (3) a preliminary investigation into an ultra...