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20182026
most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: The Prime-Cam Instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope -- Overview and Status

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Yuhan Wang, Lawrence T. Lin +33

Prime-Cam is a first-generation science instrument for the CCAT Observatory's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), under construction at an elevation of 56…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Design and Characterization of the 350 GHz Instrument Module

Ben Keller, Jordan Wheeler, Cody J. Duell +24

The CCAT Collaboration's Prime-Cam instrument will soon be deployed to the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's Atacama Desert. Featuring prominently in Prime-Cam's…

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.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Optical Responsivity, Noise, and Readout Optimization of KIDs for Prime-Cam

Eliza Gazda, Quintin Meyers, Steve K. Choi +18

The Prime-Cam instrument on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the CCAT Observatory will conduct sensitive millimeter to submillimeter surveys for a range of astrophy…

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…