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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: 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…
The Simons Observatory: On-sky performance of radio-transparent multi-layer insulation (RT-MLI) using Styroace-II Styrofoam
Samuel Day-Weiss, Nicholas Galitzki, Atsuto Takeuchi +14
We present the on-sky performance of a Radio-Transparent Multi-Layer Insulation filter (RT-MLI) that uses Styroace-II styrofoam to reject ambient thermal radiation from entering a…
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…
The Simons Observatory: Studies of Phase Drift in RF Transmission Lines from the First Large-Scale Deployment of Microwave Frequency Multiplexing for Cosmology
Thomas P. Satterthwaite, Zeeshan Ahmed, Cody J. Duell +4
Fulfilling the science goals of the Simons Observatory, a state-of-the-art cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment, has required deploying tens of thousands of superconducting…
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: Characterization of the 220/280 GHz TES Detector Modules
Daniel Dutcher, Peter Dow, Shannon M. Duff +11
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new suite of cosmic microwave background telescopes in the Chilean Atacama Desert with an extensive science program spanning cosmology, Galactic an…
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…
The Simons Observatory: Design, Optimization, and Performance of Low Frequency Detectors
Aashrita Mangu, Benjamin Westbrook, Shawn Beckman +11
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make precise temperature and polarization measurement…
The Simons Observatory: Design, Integration, and Current Status of Small Aperture Telescopes
Aashrita Mangu, Lance Corbett, Sanah Bhimani +14
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile at an elevation of 5200 meters, nominally consisting of…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Quantifying Atmospheric Emission above Cerro Toco
Thomas W. Morris, Elia Battistelli, Ricardo Bustos +17
At frequencies below 1 Hz, fluctuations in atmospheric emission in the Chajnantor region in northern Chile are the primary source of interference for bolometric millimeter-wave obs…
The Simons Observatory: Dark Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope
Saianeesh K. Haridas, Zeeshan Ahmed, Tanay Bhandarkar +20
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background experiment composed of three 0.42 m Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) and one 6 m Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) in the…
The Simons Observatory: Studies of Detector Yield and Readout Noise From the First Large-Scale Deployment of Microwave Multiplexing at the Large Aperture Telescope
Thomas P. Satterthwaite, Zeeshan Ahmed, Kyuyoung Bae +21
The Simons Observatory is a new ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, which is currently being commissioned in Chile's Atacama Desert. During its survey, the observa…
Simons Observatory: Pre-deployment Performance of a Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tube in the 90 and 150 GHz Spectral Bands
Carlos E. Sierra, Kathleen Harrington, Shreya Sutariya +42
The Simons Observatory will map the temperature and polarization over half of the sky, at millimeter wavelengths in six spectral bands from the Atacama Desert in Chile. These data…
The Simons Observatory: Design, integration, and testing of the small aperture telescopes
Nicholas Galitzki, Tran Tsan, Jake Spisak +77
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that includes small-aperture telescopes (SATs) observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Ata…
The Simons Observatory: Development and Optical Evaluation of Achromatic Half-Wave Plates
Junna Sugiyama, Tomoki Terasaki, Kana Sakaguri +16
The Simons Observatory (SO) experiment is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The SO' s small aperture telescopes (SATs) consist of…