CCAT-prime: Science Goals & First Light 280 GHz Instrumentation
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Abstract
The CCAT-prime Collaboration's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is a six-meter aperture telescope currently being built to observe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths in Chile's Atacama desert on Cerro Chajnantor and expected to begin science observations in 2024. Prime-Cam, the primary first generation science instrument, will house up to seven total instrument modules, including both polarimetric broadband and imaging spectrometer modules, to simultaneously observe the sky from 210-850 GHz using kinetic inductance detectors. By capitalizing on FYST's extraordinary site at an elevation of 5600 meters, Prime-Cam will enable a more than 10 times improvement in mapping speed over current and near-term submillimeter facilities. CCAT-prime will serve as a complement to upcoming CMB surveys and pursue a broad range of science goals, including tracing galaxy formation during the Epoch of Reionization, probing star formation within the Milky Way, and studying time-domain variability at submillimeter wavelengths. We present the science goals, instrument designs, and status for Prime-Cam on FYST, with a particular emphasis on the detectors and readout for the first light 280 GHz Instrument Module.
*The CCAT-prime project, FYST and Prime-Cam instrument have been supported by generous contributions from the Fred M. Young, Jr. Charitable Trust, Cornell University, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Provinces of Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. The construction of the FYST telescope was supported by the Großgeräte-Programm of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) under grant INST 216/733-1 FUGG, as well as funding from Universität zu Köln, Universität Bonn and the Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Garching.
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Presenters
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Cody J Duell
- Cornell University