Publications (18)
CCAT: Characterization of the first science-grade MKID array for the Prime-Cam 850 GHz module
Anthony I. Huber, Jordan Wheeler, James Burgoyne +16
The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is a 6-meter crossed-Dragone telescope developed by the CCAT collaboration. Sited at 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Plateau…
KID Detector Readout Electronics Development for Habitable Worlds Observatory
Sean Bryan, Hugh Barnaby, Oketa Basha +15
We present the status and goals of the readout electronics system we are developing to support the detector arrays in the coronagraph instrument on the NASA Habitable Worlds Observ…
Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays
Nathan P. Lourie, Peter A. R. Ade, Francisco E. Angile +26
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight f…
CCAT: The 410 GHz camera module for FYST - design and testing of the MKID focal plane
Scott C. Chapman, Jordan Wheeler, Anthony Huber +17
Prime-Cam, the primary first-light instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) developed by the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) Collaboration, will accom…
Readout of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) Arrays for Habitable Worlds Observatory Using a Polyphase Filterbank Algorithm
Oketa Basha, Tracee Lynn Jamison-Hooks, Philip Mauskopf +12
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), a nextgeneration ultraviolet/optical/infrared space telescope, will require detector technologies capable of supporting substantially larger…
Spaceflight KID Readout Electronics for PRIMA
Thomas Essinger-Hileman, C. Matt Bradford, Patrick Brown +23
We present the design and testing of a prototype multiplexing kinetic inductance detector (KID) readout electronics for the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) spac…
In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform
Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30
The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular reso…
Development of Space Qualified Signal Processing Readout Electronics for HabWorlds and Origins Space Telescope Detector and Arrays
Tracee Jamison-Hooks, Lynn Miles, Sanetra Newman-Bailey +10
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) -- a flagship ultraviolet/optical/infrared space telescope recommended by the National Academies' Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astr…
Instrumental performance and results from testing of the BLAST-TNG receiver, submillimeter optics, and MKID arrays
Nicholas Galitzki, Peter Ade, Francesco E. Angile +39
Polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains can be used to map magnetic fields in star forming molecular clouds and the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). The Balloon-…
The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…
An Open Source RFSoC-based Readout Electronics System for Arrays of Kinetic Inductance Detectors and Superconducting Resonators
Cody Roberson, Nia McNichols, Jack Sayers +12
We present a novel readout electronics system for large arrays of superconducting electromagnetic resonators, such as kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs), based on a Radio Frequenc…
CCAT-prime: Characterization of the First 280 GHz MKID Array for Prime-Cam
Steve K. Choi, Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann +20
The Prime-Cam receiver on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope for the CCAT-prime project aims to address important astrophysical and cosmological questions with sensitive broadb…
An Open Source, FPGA-based LeKID readout for BLAST-TNG: Pre-flight Results
Samuel Gordon, Bradley Dober, Adrian Sinclair +17
We present a highly frequency multiplexed readout for large-format superconducting detector arrays intended for use in the next generation of balloon-borne and space-based sub-mill…
Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver
Ian Lowe, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 25…
Overview and status of EXCLAIM, the experiment for cryogenic large-aperture intensity mapping
Giuseppe Cataldo, Peter Ade, Christopher Anderson +41
The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne far-infrared telescope that will survey star formation history over cosmological time sca…
Development of an Array of Kinetic Inductance Magnetometers (KIMs)
Sasha Sypkens, Farzad Faramarzi, Marco Colangelo +6
We describe optimization of a cryogenic magnetometer that uses nonlinear kinetic inductance in superconducting nanowires as the sensitive element instead of a superconducting quant…
The Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope Observatory
Ian Lowe, Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade +30
The BLAST Observatory is a proposed superpressure balloon-borne polarimeter designed for a future ultra-long duration balloon campaign from Wanaka, New Zealand. To maximize scienti…
The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…