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20162026
most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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40 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

PRIMA prototype spaceflight KID readout electronics laboratory characterization

Adrian K. Sinclair, Chris Albert, C. Matt Bradford +28

We present further development and testing of prototype kinetic inductance detector (KID) readout electronics for the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA). PRIMA is…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Balloon-borne VLBI Experiment (BVEX) Radio Telescope and Position Tracking System

Felix M. Thiel, Mayukh Bagchi, Laura M. Fissel +17

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy that vastly increases the diffraction limited angular resolution of radio observations by correlating sim…

astro-ph.IM2026

An RFSoC-based Backend and Timing System for the Balloon-borne Very Long Baseline Interferometry Experiment

Mayukh Bagchi, Felix M. Thiel, Laura M. Fissel +13

We present the design and performance characterization of the digital backend and precision-timing system for the Balloon-borne Very Long Baseline Interferometry Experiment (BVEX),…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: a two-octave 1.024 GHz KID readout featuring an overlap-channel polyphase synthesis filter bank on RFSoC

Ruixuan, Xie, Adrian K. Sinclair +7

Next-generation submillimeter instruments require gigahertz-scale readout bandwidths to support the growing detector counts of large microwave kinetic inductance detector (KID) arr…

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.IM2026

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…

physics.ins-det2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

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 +27

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.IM2025

CCAT: Mod-Cam Cryogenic Performance and its Impact on 280 GHz KID Array Noise

Lawrence T. Lin, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Jason E. Austermann +27

The CCAT Observatory's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is designed to observe submillimeter astronomical signals with high precision, using receivers fielding state-of-th…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Multi-Rate DSP for Sub-mm Astronomy: Polyphase Synthesis Filter Bank on FPGA for Enhanced MKID Readout

Ruixuan, Xie, Adrian K. Sinclair +3

The next-generation mm/sub-mm/far-IR astronomy will in part be enabled by advanced digital signal processing (DSP) techniques. The Prime-Cam instrument of the Fred Young Submillime…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: LED Mapping and Characterization of the 280 GHz TiN KID Array

Alicia Middleton, Steve K. Choi, Samantha Walker +21

Prime-Cam, one of the primary instruments for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) developed by the CCAT Collaboration, will house up to seven instrument modules, with the…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Superfluid-tight cryogenic receiver with continuous sub-Kelvin cooling for EXCLAIM

Sumit Dahal, Peter A. R. Ade, Christopher J. Anderson +67

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to survey star formation over cosmological time scales using intensity…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

CCAT: Nonlinear effects in 280 GHz aluminum kinetic inductance detectors

Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann, James R. Burgoyne +22

Prime-Cam, a first-generation science instrument for the Atacama-based Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope, is being built by the CCAT Collaboration to observe at millimeter and sub…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: Detector Noise Limited Performance of the RFSoC-based Readout Electronics for mm/sub-mm/far-IR KIDs

Adrian K. Sinclair, James Burgoyne, Anthony I. Huber +16

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama desert of Chile, will conduct wide-field and small deep-field surveys of the sky with more than 10…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

CCAT: Comparisons of 280 GHz TiN and Al Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays

Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann, James Beall +27

The CCAT Collaboration's six-meter Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope is scheduled to begin observing in the Chilean Atacama in 2025, targeting a variety of science goals throughou…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: FYST Prime-Cam Readout Software: A framework for massively scalable KID arrays

James R. Burgoyne, Adrian K. Sinclair, Scott C. Chapman +12

We outline the development of the readout software for the Prime-Cam and Mod-Cam instruments on the CCAT Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), primecam_readout. The instrument…

astro-ph.IM2023

Breaking the 10 mW/pixel Limit for Kinetic Inductance Detector Readout Electronics

Adrian K. Sinclair, James R. Burgoyne, Yaqiong Li +4

We demonstrate a prototype kinetic inductance detector (KID) readout system that uses less than 10 mW per pixel. The CCAT-prime RFSoC based readout is capable of reading four indep…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: Optical and cryogenic design of the 850 GHz module for Prime-Cam

Anthony I. Huber, Scott C. Chapman, Adrian K. Sinclair +14

Prime-Cam is a first-generation instrument for the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-prime) Facility. The 850GHz module for Prime-Cam will probe the highest frequen…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: RFSoC Based Readout for Frequency Multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Adrian K. Sinclair, Ryan C. Stephenson, Cody A. Roberson +21

The Prime-Cam instrument on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is expected to be the largest deployment of millimeter and submillimeter sensitive kinetic inductance dete…