Instrumentation for the CCAT Telescope
Creators
- Stacey, G. J.1
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Golwala, S. R.2
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Bradford, C. M.3
- Dowell, C. D.3
- Cortes-Medellin, G.1
- Nikola, T.1
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Zmuidzinas, J.2
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Herter, T. L.1
- Radford, S. J.2
- Lloyd, J. P.1
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Blain, A. W.2
- Brown, R. L.1
- Campbell, D. B.1
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Giovanelli, R.1
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Goldsmith, P.3
- Harvey, P. M.4
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Henderson, C.1
- Langer, W. D.3
- Phillips, T. G.2
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Readhead, A. C. S.2
- Woody, D. P.
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Cornell University
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2.
California Institute of Technology
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3.
Jet Propulsion Lab
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The University of Texas at Austin
Contributors
Abstract
We present a first cut instrument design package for the proposed 25 meter Cornell-Caltech Atacama Telescope (CCAT). The primary science for CCAT can be achieved through wide field photometric imaging in the short submillimeter through millimeter (200 μm to 2 mm) telluric windows. We present strawman designs for two cameras: a 32,000 pixel short submillimeter (200 to 650 μm) camera using transition edge sensed bare bolometer arrays that Nyquist samples (@ 350 μm) a 5'×5' field of view (FoV), and a 45,000 pixel long wavelength camera (850 μm to 2 mm) that uses slot dipole antennae coupled bolometer arrays with wavelength dependent sampling that covers up to a 20' square FoV. These are our first light instruments. We also anticipate "borrowed" instruments such as direct detection and heterodyne detection spectrometers will be available at, or nearly at first light.
Additional Information
© 2006 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). We would like to acknowledge the support of the Atacama project office. Site testing work for the CCAT project has been supported in part by NSF Grant AST-043150.Attached Files
Published - 62751G.pdf
Files
62751G.pdf
Additional details
Identifiers
- Eprint ID
- 87941
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20180717-152755343
Funding
- NSF
- AST-0431503
Dates
- Created
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2018-07-17Created from EPrint's datestamp field
- Updated
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
Caltech Custom Metadata
- Caltech groups
- Physics Department
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 6275