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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
CCAT-prime: Characterization of the First 280 GHz MKID Array for Prime-Cam
Steve K. Choi, Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann +20
The Prime-Cam receiver on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope for the CCAT-prime project aims to address important astrophysical and cosmological questions with sensitive broadb…
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…
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 …