CCAT will be a 25m diameter sub-millimeter telescope capable of operating in the 0.2 to 2.1mm wavelength range. It will be located at an altitude of 5600m on Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile near the ALMA site. The anticipated first generation instruments include large format (60,000 pixel) kinetic inductance detector (KID) cameras, a large format heterodyne array and a direct detection multi-object spectrometer. The paper describes the architecture of the CCAT software and the development strategy.
@article{arxiv.1406.1515,
title = {An overview of the planned CCAT software system},
author = {Tim Jenness and Martin C. Shepherd and Reinhold Schaaf and Jack Sayers and Volker Ossenkopf and Thomas Nikola and Gaelen Marsden and Ronan Higgins and Kevin Edwards and Adam Brazier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1515},
year = {2014}
}
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17 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III, Chiozzi & Radziwill (eds), Proc. SPIE 9152, paper ID 9152-109