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most citedMeasurement of the Relativistic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Corrections in RX J1347.5-1145

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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

TIME Commissioning Observations: II. On-sky Characterization and the 2D Map Data Processing Pipeline

Benjamin J. Vaughan, Abigail T. Crites, Dongwoo T. Chung +24

The Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME) is a line intensity mapping (LIM) instrument that is designed to observe the power spectrum of the [CII] ~m emissio…

astro-ph.IM2025

TIME Commissioning Observations: I. Mapping Dust and Molecular Gas in the Sgr A Molecular Cloud Complex at the Galactic Center

Selina F. Yang, Sophie M. McAtee, Benjamin J. Vaughan +24

We present the processing of an observation of Sagittarius A (Sgr A) with the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), part of the 2021-2022 commissioning run to verif…

astro-ph.IM2025

Development of a planar cable-driven parallel robot for submillimeter and terahertz beam mapping measurements

Evan C. Mayer, Ian N. Lowe, Daniel P. Marrone +20

The spatial sensitivity pattern of millimeter-wavelength receivers is an important diagnostic of performance and is affected by the alignment of coupling optics. Characterization c…

astro-ph.IM2025

TES Bolometer Design and Testing for the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment Millimeter Array

Victoria L. Butler, James J. Bock, Dongwoo T. Chung +7

Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers are a well-established technology with a strong track record in experimental cosmology, making them ideal for current and future radio astro…

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.GA2025

Measuring the Temperature of Extremely Hot Shock-Heated Gas in the Major Merger MACS J0717.5+3745 With Relativistic Corrections to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

Benjamin J. Vaughan, Jack Sayers, Locke Spencer +10

The conversion of gravitational potential to kinetic energy results in an intracluster medium (ICM) gas with a characteristic temperature near 10 keV in the most massive galaxy clu…

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

PCAT-DE: Reconstructing point-like and diffuse signals in astronomical images using spatial and spectral information

Richard M. Feder, Victoria Butler, Tansu Daylan +5

Observational data from astronomical imaging surveys contain information about a variety of source populations and environments, and its complexity will increase substantially as t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 11 cited

Measurement of the Relativistic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Corrections in RX J1347.5-1145

Victoria Butler, Richard M. Feder, Tansu Daylan +8

We present a measurement of the relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect spectrum, the rSZ effect, toward the massive galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145 b…