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CASIMIR: The Caltech Airborne Submillimeter Interstellar Medium Investigations Receiver

Michael L. Edgar, A. I. Harris, A. Karpov, Sean Lin, David A. B. Miller, S. J. E. Radford, F. Rice, J. Žmuidzinas

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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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Key concepts: Casimir effect, Physics, Interstellar medium, Terahertz radiation, Astronomy, Spectrometer, Astrophysics, Infrared