CCAT-prime: Science with an Ultra-widefield Submillimeter Observatory at
  Cerro Chajnantor
  We present the detailed science case, and brief descriptions of the telescope
design, site, and first light instrument plans for a new ultra-wide field
submillimeter observatory, CCAT-prime, that we are constructing at a 5600 m
elevation site on Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile. Our science goals are to
study star and galaxy formation from the epoch of reionization to the present,
investigate the growth of structure in the Universe, improve the precision of
B-mode CMB measurements, and investigate the interstellar medium and star
formation in the Galaxy and nearby galaxies through spectroscopic,
polarimetric, and broadband surveys at wavelengths from 200 um to 2 mm. These
goals are realized with our two first light instruments, a large field-of-view
(FoV) bolometer-based imager called Prime-Cam (that has both camera and an
imaging spectrometer modules), and a multi-beam submillimeter heterodyne
spectrometer, CHAI. CCAT-prime will have very high surface accuracy and very
low system emissivity, so that combined with its wide FoV at the unsurpassed
CCAT site our telescope/instrumentation combination is ideally suited to pursue
this science. The CCAT-prime telescope is being designed and built by Vertex
Antennentechnik GmbH. We expect to achieve first light in the spring of 2021.
