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astro-ph.IM2020

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2021

Design and experimental investigation of a planar metamaterial Silicon based lenslet

Thomas Gascard, Giampaolo Pisano, Simon Doyle +9

The next generations of ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments will require polarisation sensitive, multichroic pixels of large focal planes comprising several thousa…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Design, Implementation, and Testing of a System to Read Out over 10,000 280 GHz KIDs using RFSoC Electronics

Darshan A. Patel, Yuhan Wang, Cody J. Duell +28

Over the past decade, kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) have emerged as a viable superconducting technology for astrophysics at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. KIDs spa…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Silicon-Platelet Feedhorns for Submillimeter Wavelengths

Jason Austermann, James Beall, James R. Burgoyne +12

Silicon-platelet feedhorn arrays are an established technology at millimeter wavelengths that, for some applications, can provide significant advantages over traditional direct-mac…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: The 850 GHz camera for Prime-Cam on FYST

Scott C. Chapman, Anthony I. Huber, Adrian K. Sinclair +23

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the Cerro-Chajnantor Atacama Telescope prime (CCAT- prime) Facility will host Prime-Cam as a powerful, first generation camera with…