Wie ist das Universum entstanden? Dabei soll in Zukunft ein Teleskop helfen, das Galaxien in Millionen Lichtjahren Entfernung aufnehmen kann. Am Donnerstag wurde es in Xanten vorgestellt.

How did the universe come into being? In the future, a telescope that can record galaxies millions of light years away will help. It was presented in Xanten on Thursday.

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For the past six years, CCAT Observatory Inc., a nonprofit research organization formed by more than a dozen academic institutions led by Cornell University, has been developing a new telescope, the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST, pronounced “feast”) and its supporting infrastructure to observe at sub-millimeter wavelengths.

Read the full article by Stephen Parshley (CCAT Project Engineer) in Cold Facts International, the Magazine of the Cryogenic Society of America, Inc.

While there is still a lot of work to do, we are starting to anticipate the completion of the construction phases of the CCAT project building the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope and the initiation of early science operations. To that end, Terry Herter has asked to step down as Project Director on 30 June 2023. We thank Terry for his dedication, service to and leadership of the construction project over the last years.

Replacing Terry as Project Director on 1 July will be Gordon

In the latest issue of Cold Facts, the magazine of the Cryogenic Society of America, our very own Eve Vavagiakis and Hanna Krüger are among the 15 distinguished women in cryogenics and superconductivity recognized for 2023.

Congratulations, Hanna and Eve!!

CCAT-Collaboration: Science Goals and Forecasts with the Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope.

The CCAT-Collaboration presents a detailed overview of the science goals and predictions for the Prime-Cam direct-detection camera–spectrometer being constructed by the CCAT-prime collaboration for dedicated use on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Dec 16, 2022

An enormous hole 22 meters in diameter has been dug near the summit of Cerro Chajnantor in Chile’s Atacama Desert, at an elevation of 18,400 feet. The hole stands ready for the cement foundation on which the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST, pronounced “feest”) will one day rest. The foundation, which was designed in Chile, began construction in the fall of 2021 and is scheduled to be installed at the summit from May to June.

The third annual CCAT Collaboration Meeting (CCM3) will be held from April 4 – 6, 2022. The CCAT-prime observatory (www.ccatobservatory.org) will feature the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) which is currently under construction.  FYST will be a 6-meter diameter, 10-micron surface precision telescope working at submillimeter to millimeter wavelengths.  It will operate in survey mode only and first light is expected in 2024.

This meeting will provide an update on

The second annual CCAT-prime/FYST Collaboration Meeting (CCM2) will be held from April 20 – 24, 2021. The CCAT-prime observatory (www.ccatobservatory.org) will feature the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) which is currently under construction.  FYST will be a 6-meter diameter, 10-micron surface precision telescope working at submillimeter to millimeter wavelengths.  It will operate in survey mode only and first light is expected in 2023.

This Collaboration Meeting aims

CCAT officially broke ground near the summit of Cerro Chajnantor on November 27^th.  These  photos show the beginning of the follow-on summit leveling process that began in earnest on December 1^st.

View this Cornell A&S Communications article for more details, and the University of Cologne's press release here.

Martha Haynes, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, has been awarded the 2020 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship by Associated Universities, Inc. and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). The Jansky Lectureship recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of radio astronomy and is being awarded to Haynes “for her influential impact to our understanding of galaxies.”

Read the complete Cornell A&S Communications story at the link below.

A new animation about two innovative telescopes being developed at Cornell has just been released by the research group led by Michael Niemack, associate professor of physics and astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Read the story on the Cornell Chronicle website listed below.

Martha P. Haynes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, has been awarded the 2019 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Teams of scientists, including researchers from the Cornell physics and astronomy departments, are collaborating on two of the largest telescopes ever built to take readings on the universe’s oldest light measurable, known as the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB.

Read the full Cornell Chronicle story here.

Read about the CCAT-prime Telescope here