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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…

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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…

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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…