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Astronomy Tea Talks at Caltech

Mondays, Hameetman auditorium (Cahill)
Tea:  4.00pm
Talk: 4.15pm

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2010 - 2011 season:
11 April 2011 Stephen Padin (Caltech)

'How to build CCAT'

CCAT will be a 25m diameter submillimeter-wave telescope, located at an altitude of 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile. CCAT will emphasize wide-field surveys for galaxies out to z~10, with a goal of measuring the mass function across cosmic time to gain an understanding of how galaxies were assembled. CCAT will operate in the 0.2-2 mm wavelength range, with high efficiency even at the shorter wavelengths. This requires wavefront errors <25 um rms and pointing errors <0.3" rms, which are challenging given the inexpensive materials typically used in radio telescopes. CCAT will be equipped with wide-field, multi-color cameras and multi-object spectrometers, with up to 1 degree field of view. The large field of view will allow us to take full advantage ongoing rapid advances in submillimeter detectors. In this talk, I will describe the technology that is needed to build CCAT.

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