Paper 13094-30
Paper 13094-30
The CCAT project nearing first light: updates on the facility, instrumentation, and science (Invited Paper)
18 June 2024 • 11:00 - 11:30 Japan Standard Time | Room G403/404, North - 4F
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.
Presenter
Cornell Univ. (United States)
Dr. Stacey is a Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. He has 43 years of experience with the design, construction and use of cameras and spectrometers (Fourier transform, Grating, Fabry-Perot, and VIPA) outfitted with photo-conductor and milli-K thermistor and TES bolometers and KID arrays for mid-IR to mm-wave astrophysics on NASA airborne observatories (Lear Jet, KAO and SOFIA) and premier ground-based telescopes (JCMT, AST/RO, CSO, APEX and (soon) on FYST). His science focuses on far-IR line emission from nearby and high redshift galaxies. He is presently the Director of the CCAT Project that is building the FYST telescope at a 5600 m elevation near the peak of Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile, and PI on: EoR-Spec a FPI spectrometer designed for line-intensity mapping science on FYST; and on ZEUS-2 a grating spectrometer deployed on APEX to detect redshifted far-IR fine structure lines.