The IGM Project: Searching For IGM Emission Over 0<z<7
Abstract
I discuss several experimental projects underway or proposed designed to discover and map emission from the IGM. The Cosmic Web Imager (CWI) is a ground-based high resolution spectrometer designed to detect low surface brightness emission from redshifted Lyman alpha, OVI and CIV at Palomar and Keck Observatories, over 2<z<7. FIREBALL is a balloon-borne telescope/spectrometer that is searching for IGM emission in the 0.3<z<1.0 range in the UV balloon window at 200 nm. ISTOS is a proposed mission to discover and map baryons in the IGM in the space UV. I will report on preliminary results from FIREBALL and CWI. This work is supported by NASA and NSF.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #221
- Pub Date:
- January 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013AAS...22121201M