Luca Conversi

TL;DR: The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) as discussed by the authors is the Herschel Space Observatory's submillimetre camera and spectrometer, which is used for scan-mapping, whereby the field of view is scanned across the sky to achieve full spatial sampling and to cover large areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the sensitivity of SPIRE photometers on the Herschel Space Observatory was investigated and the authors measured the confusion noise from observations taken during the Science Demonstration Phase of the HS-MES survey.

TL;DR: Submillimetre and X-rays observations show that rapid star formation was common in the host galaxies of AGN when the Universe was 2–6 billion years old, but that the most vigorous star formation is not observed around black holes above an X-ray luminosity of 1044 ergs per second.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the SPIRE instrument on the Herschel Multi-tiered Extra-Galactic Survey (HerMES) to directly resolve 15% of the infrared extra-galactic background at the wavelength near where it peaks.