CCATObservatory 已转推

Our #SPIEastro paper "CCAT-prime: Design of the Mod-Cam receiver and 280 GHz MKID instrument module" is now on the arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2208.05468
🧵on the instrumentation work we've been up to:

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












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.












