CONCERTO: Instrument and status

• Main Authors: Fasano, Alessandro, Ade, Peter, Aravena, Manuel, Barria, Emilio, Beelen, Alexandre, Benoît, Alain, Béthermin, Matthieu, Bounmy, Julien, Bourrion, Olivier, Bres, Guillaume, Calvo, Martino, Catalano, Andrea, De Breuck, Carlos, Désert, François-Xavier, Durán, Carlos, Fenouillet, Thomas, Garcia, Jose, Garde, Gregory, Goupy, Johannes, Groppi, Christopher, Hoarau, Christophe, Hu, Wenkai, Lagache, Guilaine, Lambert, Jean-Charles, Leggeri, Jean-Paul, Levy-Bertrand, Florence, Lundgren, Andreas, Macías-Pérez, Juan, Mani, Hamdi, Marpaud, Julien, Mauskopf, Philip, Monfardini, Alessandro, Pisano, Giampaolo, Ponthieu, Nicolas, Prieur, Leo, Roni, Samuel, Roudier, Sebastien, Tourres, Damien, Tucker, Carol
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2100-014X; 2100-014X
• DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202429300018

CONCERTO (CarbON CII line in post-rEionization and ReionizaTiOn) is a low-resolution Fourier transform spectrometer dedicated to the study of star-forming galaxies and clusters of galaxies in the transparent millimeter windows from the ground. It is characterized by a wide instantaneous 18.6 arcmin field of view, operates at 130–310 GHz, and was installed on the 12-meter Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope at 5 100m above sea level. CONCERTO’s double focal planes host two arrays of 2 152 kinetic inductance detectors and represent a pioneering instrument to meet a state-of-the-art scientific challenge. This paper introduces the CONCERTO instrument and explains its status, shows the first CONCERTO spectral maps of Orion, and describes the perspectives of the project.