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astro-ph.IM2026

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Passband Measurements with an Analysis of Systematic Errors

Thomas Alford, Rahul Datta, Erminia Calabrese +14

We present measurements of the spectral response of the four Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) multichroic detector arrays, which observed in frequency bands centered near 30, 40, 90, 150,…

astro-ph.IM2024

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…

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.IM2024★ 11 cited

Optical modeling of systematic uncertainties in detector polarization angles for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Colin C. Murphy, Steve K. Choi, Rahul Datta +10

We present an estimate of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) detector polarization angle systematic uncertainty from optics perturbation analysis using polarization-sensitive ra…

astro-ph.IM2022

Wide Field High Cadence CMB Survey Designs for Chilean Telescopes

Haruki Ebina, Reijo Keskitalo, Julian Borrill +5

We present new wide field survey strategies for Chilean Large Aperture Telescopes (LAT) measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which we call Sinusoidal Modulated High Cad…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: Detector Re-biasing With Bias-step Measurements

Yuhan Wang, Tanay Bhandarkar, Steve K. Choi +14

The Simons Observatory is a ground-based cosmic microwave background survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope,…

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: The Optical Design for the Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer

Zachary B. Huber, Steve K. Choi, Cody J. Duell +11

The Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer (EoR-Spec) will be an instrument module for the Prime-Cam receiver on the CCAT-prime Collaboration's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST…

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…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

CCAT-prime: Design of the Mod-Cam receiver and 280 GHz MKID instrument module

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann +33

Mod-Cam is a first light and commissioning instrument for the CCAT-prime project's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), currently under construction at 560…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: The Design and Characterization of the Silicon Mirrors for the Fabry-Perot Interferometer in the Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer

Bugao Zou, Steve K. Choi, Nicholas F. Cothard +10

The Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer (EoR-Spec) is one of the instrument modules to be installed in the Prime-Cam receiver of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). This…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 10 cited

Assembly development for the Simons Observatory focal plane readout module

Erin Healy, Aamir M. Ali, Kam Arnold +28

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of instruments sensitive to temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 17 cited

The Simons Observatory 220 and 280 GHz Focal-Plane Module: Design and Initial Characterization

Erin Healy, Daniel Dutcher, Zachary Atkins +16

The Simons Observatory (SO) will detect and map the temperature and polarization of the millimeter-wavelength sky from Cerro Toco, Chile across a range of angular scales, providing…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

The 90 and 150 GHz universal focal-plane modules for the Simons Observatory

Heather McCarrick, Kam Arnold, Zachary Atkins +21

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of telescopes located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make sensitive measurements of the cosmic microwave background. There are a ho…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 21 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Measurement and Analysis of 1D Beams for DR4

Marius Lungu, Emilie R. Storer, Matthew Hasselfield +28

We describe the measurement and treatment of the telescope beams for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope's fourth data release, DR4. Observations of Uranus are used to measure the cent…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 19 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Modeling Bulk Atmospheric Motion

Thomas W. Morris, Ricardo Bustos, Erminia Calabrese +17

Fluctuating atmospheric emission is a dominant source of noise for ground-based millimeter-wave observations of the CMB temperature anisotropy at angular scales $\gtrsim 0.5^{\circ…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Shielding Measurements for the Universal Multiplexing Module

Zachary B. Huber, Yaqiong Li, Eve M. Vavagiakis +14

The Simons Observatory (SO) includes four telescopes that will measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background using over 60,000 highly sensitive transi…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: In-lab Testing and Characterization Program

Yuhan Wang, Kaiwen Zheng, Zachary Atkins +20

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background instrument to be sited in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will deploy 60,000 transition-edge sensor bolome…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 50 cited

The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design

Heather McCarrick, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed +56

Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducti…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 13 cited

The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope (LAT)

Zhilei Xu, Shunsuke Adachi, Peter Ade +57

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment to observe the microwave sky in six frequency bands from 30GHz to 290GHz. The Observatory -- at …

astro-ph.IM2021★ 48 cited

The Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver

Ningfeng Zhu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi +68

The Simons Observatory (SO) Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) will be coupled to the Large Aperture Telescope located at an elevation of 5,200 m on Cerro Toco in Chile. The…