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CASIMIR: The Caltech Airborne Submillimeter Interstellar Medium Investigations Receiver
Edgar, M.L. Harris, A.I. Karpov, A. Lin, S. Miller, D. Radford, S. Rice, F. Zmuidzinas, J.
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA;

This paper appears in: Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 2008. IRMMW-THz 2008. 33rd International Conference on
Publication Date: 15-19 Sept. 2008
On page(s): 1-1
Location: Pasadena, CA,
ISBN: 978-1-4244-2119-0
INSPEC Accession Number: 10383987
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICIMW.2008.4665439
Current Version Published: 2008-11-05

Abstract
CASIMIR, the Caltech Airborne Submillimeter Interstellar Medium Investigations Receiver, is a far infrared and submillimeter heterodyne spectrometer under development for the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. CASIMIR will carry out observations in the frequency range from 500 GHz up to 1.4 THz, with extremely high spectral resolution, of order 10⁶. Capitalizing on recent advances in SIS mixer development, CASIMIR will cover this region of the spectrum with unprecedented sensitivity. CASIMIR is extremely well suited to observe the warm, ~100 K, interstellar medium, particularly water lines, in both Galactic and extragalactic sources.

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