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The Simons Observatory: Design and Initial Performance of the Detector Readout System for the Large-Aperture Telescope
Thomas P. Satterthwaite, Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte, Shawn W. Henderson +34
We present the design, implementation, and initial performance of a highly multiplexed cryogenic superconducting detector readout system in the context of its deployment to the Sim…
The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes
Kathleen Harrington, Remington Gerras, Nicholas Galitzki +88
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO Small Aperture Tel…
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…
CCAT: Optical Design of the 410 GHz Prime-Cam Module
Tilak M. Patel, Tanner Buck, Anthony Huber +7
Prime-Cam is a first-generation instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), enabling wide-field, multi-frequency observations for cosmology, line-intensity mappin…
Design, assembly, and initial test results of a cryostat for holographic characterization of microwave telescopes
Jon E. Gudmundsson, Miranda Eiben, Thomas J. L. J. Gascard +1
We describe the design, fabrication, assembly, and room-temperature vacuum qualification of a 1.4-m long cylindrical cryostat developed for holographic testing of cryogenic microwa…
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…
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…
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…
Extending to the Submillimeter Universe with the CCAT Observatory
Eve M. Vavagiakis
The CCAT Observatory's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope, a novel, high-throughput, 6-meter aperture telescope, is scheduled for first light in 2026. Located at 5600 m on Cerro Ch…
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…
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…
CCAT: Magnetic Sensitivity Measurements of Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Benjamin J. Vaughan, Yuhan Wang, Cody J. Duell +16
The CCAT Observatory is a ground-based submillimeter to millimeter experiment located on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 5,600 meters. CCAT features the 6…
The Simons Observatory: Characterization of All DC/RF Routing Wafers for Detector Modules
Alicia Middleton, Kyuyoung Bae, Cody J. Duell +11
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background experiment with over 67,000 polarization-sensitive transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors currently installed for use i…
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…
CCAT: Mod-Cam Readout Overview and Flexible Stripline Performance
Ben Keller, Rodrigo Freundt, James R. Burgoyne +14
The CCAT Observatory's primary science instrument, Prime-Cam, is nearing readiness for deployment to the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in the Atacama Desert in northern…
The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419
We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…
Simons Observatory: Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
Tanay Bhandarkar, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Jeff Iuliano +41
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that currently consists of three 0.42m small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one 6m…
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…
CCAT: A status update on the EoR-Spec instrument module for Prime-Cam
Rodrigo Freundt, Yaqiong Li, Doug Henke +15
The Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer (EoR-Spec) is an upcoming Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) instrument designed to study the evolution of the early universe (z = 3.5 to 8) by pro…
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…
CCAT: Prime-Cam Optics Overview and Status Update
Zachary B. Huber, Lawrence T. Lin, Eve M. Vavagiakis +17
Prime-Cam is a first-generation science instrument for the CCAT Observatory's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). FYST's crossed-Dragone design provides h…
Thermal and mechanical study of a parametrised cryostat model for optical characterisation of upcoming CMB experiments
Thomas J. L. J. Gascard, Yi Wang, Jon E. Gudmundsson +6
Current and future experiments observing the cosmic microwave background require a detailed understanding of optical performance at cryogenic temperatures. Pre-deployment analysis…
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…
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…