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Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER): A probe of Extragalactic Background Light from reionization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2012

Asantha Cooray
Affiliation:
Center for Cosmology, University of California, Irvine, USA
Jamie Bock
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Caltech, PasadenaUSA
Mitsunobu Kawada
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Japan
Brian Keating
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, La Jolla, USA
Andrew Lange
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Caltech, PasadenaUSA
Dae-Hee Lee
Affiliation:
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, Korea
Louis Levenson
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Caltech, PasadenaUSA
Toshio Matsumoto
Affiliation:
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, JAXA, Japan email: acooray@uci.edu
Shuji Matsuura
Affiliation:
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, JAXA, Japan email: acooray@uci.edu
Tom Renbarger
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, La Jolla, USA
Ian Sullivan
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Caltech, PasadenaUSA
Kohji Tsumura
Affiliation:
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, JAXA, Japan email: acooray@uci.edu
Takehiko Wada
Affiliation:
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, JAXA, Japan email: acooray@uci.edu
Michael Zemcov
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Caltech, PasadenaUSA
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The Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) is a rocket-borne absolute photometry imaging and spectroscopy experiment optimized to detect signatures of first-light galaxies present during reionization in the unresolved IR background. CIBER-I consists of a wide-field two-color camera for fluctuation measurements, a low-resolution absolute spectrometer for absolute EBL measurements, and a narrow-band imaging spectrometer to measure and correct scattered emission from the foreground zodiacal cloud. CIBER-I was successfully flown in February 2009 and July 2010 and four more flights are planned by 2014, including an upgrade (CIBER-II). We propose, after several additional flights of CIBER-I, an improved CIBER-II camera consisting of a wide-field 30 cm imager operating in 4 bands between 0.5 and 2.1 microns. It is designed for a high significance detection of unresolved IR background fluctuations at the minimum level necessary for reionization. With a FOV 50 to 2000 times larger than existing IR instruments on satellites, CIBER-II will carry out the definitive study to establish the surface density of sources responsible for reionization.

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