The CCAT project nearing first light: updates on the facility, instrumentation, and science

Gordon J. Stacey

doi:10.1117/12.3020216

28 August 2024 The CCAT project nearing first light: updates on the facility, instrumentation, and science

Gordon J. Stacey

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Proceedings Volume 13094, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X; 130940T (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020216
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

We report on the progress of the CCAT-prime Project: the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), its instrumentation and the associated science program. The FYST system is optimized for wide-field high surface brightness sensitivity in the submillimeter to millimeter-wave telluric windows. Our science program ranges from constraining fundamental properties of the Universe with high frequency CMB polarization studies through studies of reionization, galaxy and structure formation with line-intensity mapping, submillimeter continuum studies and the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect to revealing the physics of star formation in the Galaxy through large field, high frequency velocity-resolved spectroscopy and wide-field submillimeter dust polarization studies. These and other studies are enabled by wide-field polarimetric cameras, broad-band imaging spectrometers and heterodyne receiver arrays. FYST first light is expected in early 2025.

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Gordon J. Stacey "The CCAT project nearing first light: updates on the facility, instrumentation, and science", Proc. SPIE 13094, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X, 130940T (28 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020216

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