The CCAT 25m diameter submillimeter-wave telescope

David Woody; Steve Padin; Eric Chauvin; Bruno Clavel; German Cortes; Andy Kissil; John Lou; Paul Rasmussen; David Redding; Jeff Zolkower

doi:10.1117/12.925229

27 September 2012 The CCAT 25m diameter submillimeter-wave telescope

David Woody, Steve Padin, Eric Chauvin, Bruno Clavel, German Cortes, Andy Kissil, John Lou, Paul Rasmussen, David Redding, Jeff Zolkower

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Proceedings Volume 8444, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV; 84442M (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925229
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

CCAT will be a 25 m diameter telescope operating in the 2 to 0.2 mm wavelength range. It will be located at an altitude of 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in Northern Chile. The telescope will be equipped with wide-field, multi-color cameras for surveys and multi-object spectrometers for spectroscopic follow up. Several innovations have been developed to meet the <0.5 arcsec pointing error and 10 μm surface error requirements while keeping within the modest budget appropriate for radio telescopes.

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David Woody, Steve Padin, Eric Chauvin, Bruno Clavel, German Cortes, Andy Kissil, John Lou, Paul Rasmussen, David Redding, and Jeff Zolkower "The CCAT 25m diameter submillimeter-wave telescope", Proc. SPIE 8444, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV, 84442M (27 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925229

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