CCATObservatory

The CCAT Observatory hosts the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope under construction at 5600m altitude on Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile.

[Eve Vavagiakis, PhD @EveVavagiakis]

Our #SPIEastro paper "CCAT-prime: Design of the Mod-Cam receiver and 280 GHz MKID instrument module" is now on the arXiv! https://t.co/AoUmQrMMxr

🧵on the instrumentation work we've been up to:

[Eve Vavagiakis, PhD @EveVavagiakis]

Our @CCATObservatory collaborators are having a busy Thanksgiving week installing ZEUS-2 on APEX

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Our 350 GHz instrumentation is #NSFfunded!

[Michael Niemack @michaelniemack]

Thrilled the NSF has funded our project! 🎉 We’re developing 0.9 mm (350 GHz) telescope instrumentation to characterize galactic dust and study cosmology with @CCATObservatory! ✨#NSFfunded @CornellPhysics @CornellAstro

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Our paper detailing the science goals and predictions for the Prime-Cam receiver on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is now on the arXiv: https://t.co/JHZrwNfheC

[Eve Vavagiakis, PhD @EveVavagiakis]

Now on the arXiv: "CCAT-prime (@CCATObservatory): Designs and Status of the First Light 280 GHz MKID Array and Mod-Cam Receiver," Proc. SPIE 2020 in submission by @CodyJDuell & myself

Paper here: https://t.co/jj02CeWEzR 🔭
Blog post here:

https://t.co/5joqavMm1l

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We have broken ground for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope #FYST at the #CCATObservatory on Cerro Chajnantor #CCATprime @CCATObservatory https://t.co/J5aL1hOzgA

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CCAT-prime is now the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope! https://t.co/GwVePKp6GD

[Eve Vavagiakis, PhD @EveVavagiakis]

Mod-Cam is real!!! Next step: leak checking and painting @Cornell Red! 🐻

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We're working on fabricating the optics module for the testbed and first light instrument, Mod-Cam!

[Eve Vavagiakis, PhD @EveVavagiakis]

Yesterday I washed the first optics module (OM) cylinders for Mod-Cam, to get them ready for the final welding and machining. The OMs will hold the filters and lenses of the camera. And they’re big! Me for scale.

[Michael Niemack @michaelniemack]

Check out our new outreach video about how we're "Measuring the Oldest Light in the Universe": https://t.co/f23AmujZZ9 @CornellCAS @CornellPhysics @CornellAstro @CCATObservatory @ACT_Pol @SimonsObs

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Steve Choi reports on how experience gained with other projects, e.g., ACT, can contribute to planning for #CCATprime #CCATObservatory

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Eric Rosolowsky rolls out data stream questions for discussion #CCATprime #CCATObservatory

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The CHAI team shows that in-house optics manufacturing works #CCATprime #CCATObservatory

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The other instrument is CHAI, presented by Urs Graf #CCATprime #CCATObservatory

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Mike Niemack sums up the next steps for #PrimeCam #CCATprime #CCATObservatory

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Scott Chapman gives more details of 350 micron module development for #PrimeCam #CCATprime #CCATObservatory

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Doug Hencke discusses plans for the early-science 350 micron module #PrimeCam #CCATprime #CCATObservatory

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Mahiro Abe discussed how to use the FPI for science #PrimeCam #CCATprime #CCATObservatory

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Bugao Zou shows the #PrimeCam prototype FPI etalons for EoRSpec module #CCATprime #CCATObservatory

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Nick Cothard talks about design of the EoR-Spec module for #PrimeCam #CCATprime #CCATObservatory #intensitymapping