Tilak Patel

Preprint · August 5, 2026 The CCAT Collaboration's Prime-Cam instrument will soon be deployed to the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's Atacama Desert. Featuring prominently in Prime-Cam's calibration and early science observations will be the 350 GHz instrument m ... Link to item Cite

CCAT: Characterization of the first science-grade MKID array for the Prime-Cam 850 GHz module

Preprint · August 5, 2026 The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is a 6-meter crossed-Dragone telescope developed by the CCAT collaboration. Sited at 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Plateau of Chile, FYST aims to provide superior atmospheric transmission and a wide ... Link to item Cite

CCAT: The 410 GHz camera module for FYST - design and testing of the MKID focal plane

Preprint · August 4, 2026 Prime-Cam, the primary first-light instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) developed by the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) Collaboration, will accommodate seven modules. Here we describe the off-central 410 GHz imager/polari ... Link to item Cite

CCAT: Optical Design of the 410 GHz Prime-Cam Module

Preprint · August 3, 2026 Prime-Cam is a first-generation instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), enabling wide-field, multi-frequency observations for cosmology, line-intensity mapping, and galaxy studies. We present an optical performance study for a candida ... Link to item Cite