@inproceedings{8eb9f44beb8d4dc68c361078bbb2418e,
title = "CCAT-prime: Designs and status of the first light 280 GHz MKID array and mod-cam receiver",
abstract = "The CCAT-prime project's first light array will be deployed in Mod-Cam, a single-module testbed and first light cryostat, on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's high Atacama desert in late 2022. FYST is a six-meter aperture telescope being built on Cerro Chajnantor at an elevation of 5600 meters to observe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths.1 Mod-Cam will pave the way for Prime-Cam, the primary first generation instrument, which will house up to seven instrument modules to simultaneously observe the sky and study a diverse set of science goals from monitoring protostars to probing distant galaxy clusters and characterizing the cosmic microwave background (CMB). At least one feedhorn-coupled array of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) centered on 280 GHz will be included in Mod-Cam at first light, with additional instrument modules to be deployed along with Prime-Cam in stages. The first 280 GHz detector array was fabricated by the Quantum Sensors Group at NIST in Boulder, CO and includes 3,456 polarization-sensitive MKIDs. Current mechanical designs allow for up to three hexagonal arrays to be placed in each single instrument module. We present details on this first light detector array, including mechanical designs and cold readout plans, as well as introducing Mod-Cam as both a testbed and predecessor to Prime-Cam.",
keywords = "CCAT-prime, Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope, cosmic microwave background, cryogenics, detector arrays, kinetic inductance detectors, mechanical design, millimeter and submillimeter astrophysics",
author = "Duell, {Cody J.} and Vavagiakis, {Eve M.} and Jason Austermann and Chapman, {Scott C.} and Choi, {Steve K.} and Cothard, {Nicholas F.} and Brad Dober and Patricio Gallardo and Jiansong Gao and Christopher Groppi and Herter, {Terry L.} and Stacey, {Gordon J.} and Zachary Huber and Johannes Hubmayr and Doug Johnstone and Yaqiong Li and Philip Mauskopf and Jeff McMahon and Niemack, {Michael D.} and Thomas Nikola and Kayla Rossi and Sara Simon and Sinclair, {Adrian K.} and Michael Vissers and Jordan Wheeler and Bugao Zou",
note = "Funding Information: CCAT-prime funding has been provided by Cornell University, the Fred M. Young Jr. Charitable Fund, the German Research Foundation (DFG) through grant number INST 216/733-1 FUGG, the Univ. of Cologne, the Univ. of Bonn, and the Canadian Atacama Telescope Consortium. EMV acknowledges support from the NSF GRFP under Grant No. DGE-1650441. MDN acknowledges support from NSF award AST-1454881. NFC acknowledges support from a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship. SKC acknowledges support from NSF award AST-2001866. YL acknowledges support from the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.; Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X 2020 ; Conference date: 14-12-2020 Through 22-12-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1117/12.2562757",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Jonas Zmuidzinas and Jian-Rong Gao",
booktitle = "Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X",
}