15 papers
CCAT: a two-octave 1.024 GHz KID readout featuring an overlap-channel polyphase synthesis filter bank on RFSoC
Ruixuan, Xie, Adrian K. Sinclair +7
Next-generation submillimeter instruments require gigahertz-scale readout bandwidths to support the growing detector counts of large microwave kinetic inductance detector (KID) arr…
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: 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…
CCAT: Optical Responsivity, Noise, and Readout Optimization of KIDs for Prime-Cam
Eliza Gazda, Quintin Meyers, James R. Burgoyne +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: 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…