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Description
The CCAT Observatory's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope, a novel, high-throughput, 6-meter aperture telescope, is currently under construction at 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in the Chilean Atacama Desert. CCAT will address a suite of science goals, including Big Bang cosmology, star formation, line-intensity mapping of cosmic reionization, galactic magnetic fields, astronomical transients, galaxy evolution over cosmic time, and more. We highlight the complementarity of CCAT and current mm-wave surveys and describe CCAT's submillimeter measurement capabilities with its first generation science receiver: Prime-Cam. Prime-Cam will be capable of fielding over 100,000 kinetic inductance detectors to enable over 10x faster mapping speed than previous submillimeter observatories in windows from 0.3 – 1.1 mm (280 – 850 GHz). We present CCAT's astrophysics and cosmology science goals with Prime-Cam, the project status, and plans for early science observations starting in 2026.
| Would you be interested in presenting a poster if the conference is oversubcribed? | Yes |
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