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Parque Astron\'omico de Atacama: An ideal site for millimeter, submillimeter, and mid-infrared astronomy

The area of Chajnantor, at more than 5000 meters altitude in northern Chile, offers unique atmospheric and operational conditions which arguably make it the best site in the world for millimeter, submillimeter, and mid-infrared…

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Design and operation of the ATLAS Transient Science Server

The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two 0.5m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 arcsec per pixel. Working in tandem, the telescopes routinely survey the…

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The Calar Alto Observatory: current status and future instrumentation

The Calar Alto Observatory, located at 2168m height above the sea level in continental Europe, holds a significant number of astronomical telescopes and experiments, covering a large range of the electromagnetic domain, from gamma-ray to…

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Observing the sky at extremely high energies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Status of the GCT project

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the main global project of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy for the coming decades. Performance will be significantly improved relative to present instruments, allowing a new insight into the high-energy…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending…

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The Simons Observatory: Design, integration, and testing of the small aperture telescopes

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that includes small-aperture telescopes (SATs) observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO SATs will cover six spectral…

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APECS - The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment Control System

APECS is the distributed control system of the new Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) telescope located on the Llano de Chajnantor at an altitude of 5107 m in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. APECS is based on Atacama Large…

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Small Aperture Telescopes for the Simons Observatory

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located on Cerro Toco, Chile, that will map the microwave sky in temperature and polarization in six frequency bands spanning 27 to 285 GHz. SO will…

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The Simons Observatory: Overview of data acquisition, control, monitoring, and computer infrastructure

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope that will observe from the Atacama Desert in Chile. In total, SO…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-21 Brian J. Koopman , Jack Lashner , Lauren J. Saunders , Matthew Hasselfield , Tanay Bhandarkar , Sanah Bhimani , Steve K. Choi , Cody J. Duell , Nicholas Galitzki , Kathleen Harrington , Adam D. Hincks , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Laura Newburgh , Christian L. Reichardt , Joseph Seibert , Jacob Spisak , Benjamin Westbrook , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment from the Atacama Desert in Chile comprising three small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large-aperture telescope (LAT). In total, SO will field over 60,000…

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The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough discoveries in fundamental physics, cosmology, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-10 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Shunsuke Adachi , Peter Ade , James Aguirre , Zeeshan Ahmed , Simone Aiola , Aamir Ali , David Alonso , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Zachary Atkins , Jason Austermann , Humna Awan , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Anton Baleato Lizancos , Darcy Barron , Nick Battaglia , Richard Battye , Eric Baxter , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Dominic Beck , Shawn Beckman , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Sanah Bhimani , Federico Bianchini , Steven Boada , David Boettger , Boris Bolliet , J. Richard Bond , Julian Borrill , Michael L. Brown , Sarah Marie Bruno , Sean Bryan , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Paolo Calisse , Julien Carron , Fred. M Carl , Juan Cayuso , Anthony Challinor , Grace Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Jens Chluba , Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho , Steve Choi , Susan Clark , Philip Clarke , Carlo Contaldi , Gabriele Coppi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , Will Coulton , Devin Crichton , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , John M. D'Ewart , Rolando Dünner , Tijmen de Haan , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon Duff , Adri Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Hamza El Bouhargani , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Stephen Feeney , James Fergusson , Simone Ferraro , Pedro Fluxà , Katherine Freese , Josef C. Frisch , Andrei Frolov , George Fuller , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi , Jiansong Gao , Eric Gawiser , Martina Gerbino , Vera Gluscevic , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Joseph Golec , Sam Gordon , Megan Gralla , Daniel Green , Arpi Grigorian , John Groh , Chris Groppi , Yilun Guan , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Matthew Hasselfield , Makoto Hattori , Victor Haynes , Masashi Hazumi , Erin Healy , Shawn W. Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervias-Caimapo , Charles A. Hill , J. Colin Hill , Gene Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Gary Hinshaw , Renée Hložek , Shirley Ho , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Thuong D. Hoang , Jonathan Hoh , Selim C. Hotinli , Zhiqi Huang , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Anna Ijjas , Margaret Ikape , Kent Irwin , Andrew H. Jaffe , Bhuvnesh Jain , Oliver Jeong , Matthew Johnson , Daisuke Kaneko , Ethan D. Karpel , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Reijo Keskitalo , Theodore Kisner , Kenji Kiuchi , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Anna Kofman , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Akito Kusaka , Phil LaPlante , Jacob Lashner , Adrian Lee , Eunseong Lee , Antony Lewis , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Eric Linder , Jia Liu , Carlos Lopez-Caraballo , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Daisy Mak , Felipe Maldonado , Hamdi Mani , Ben Mates , Frederick Matsuda , Loïc Maurin , Phil Mauskopf , Andrew May , Nialh McCallum , Heather McCarrick , Chris McKenney , Jeff McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , James Mertens , Joel Meyers , Amber Miller , Mark Mirmelstein , Kavilan Moodley , Jenna Moore , Moritz Munchmeyer , Charles Munson , Masaaki Murata , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Martin Navaroli , Laura Newburgh , Ho Nam Nguyen , Andrina Nicola , Mike Niemack , Haruki Nishino , Yume Nishinomiya , John Orlowski-Scherer , Luca Pagano , Bruce Partridge , Francesca Perrotta , Phumlani Phakathi , Lucio Piccirillo , Elena Pierpaoli , Giampaolo Pisano , Davide Poletti , Roberto Puddu , Giuseppe Puglisi , Chris Raum , Christian L. Reichardt , Mathieu Remazeilles , Yoel Rephaeli , Dominik Riechers , Felipe Rojas , Aditya Rotti , Anirban Roy , Sharon Sadeh , Yuki Sakurai , Maria Salatino , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Lauren Saunders , Emmanuel Schaan , Marcel Schmittfull , Neelima Sehgal , Joseph Seibert , Uros Seljak , Paul Shellard , Blake Sherwin , Meir Shimon , Carlos Sierra , Jonathan Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Adrian Sinclair , Kendrick Smith , Wuhyun Sohn , Rita Sonka , David Spergel , Jacob Spisak , Suzanne T. Staggs , George Stein , Jason R. Stevens , Radek Stompor , Aritoki Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Satoru Takakura , Grant Teply , Daniel B. Thomas , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Calvin Tsai , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Sunny Vagnozzi , Alexander van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Daniel D. Van Winkle , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Clara Vergès , Michael Vissers , Kasey Wagoner , Samantha Walker , Yuhan Wang , Jon Ward , Ben Westbrook , Nathan Whitehorn , Jason Williams , Joel Williams , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Siavash Yasini , Edward Young , Byeonghee Yu , Cyndia Yu , Fernando Zago , Mario Zannoni , Hezi Zhang , Kaiwen Zheng , Ningfeng Zhu , Andrea Zonca

CCAT-prime: Design of the Mod-Cam receiver and 280 GHz MKID instrument module

Mod-Cam is a first light and commissioning instrument for the CCAT-prime project's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), currently under construction at 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in Chile's Atacama Desert.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-11 Eve M. Vavagiakis , Cody J. Duell , Jason Austermann , James Beall , Tanay Bhandarkar , Scott C. Chapman , Steve K. Choi , Gabriele Coppi , Simon Dicker , Mark Devlin , Rodrigo G. Freundt , Jiansong Gao , Christopher Groppi , Terry L. Herter , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Doug Johnstone , Ben Keller , Anna M. Kofman , Yaqiong Li , Philip Mauskopf , Jeff McMahon , Jenna Moore , Colin C. Murphy , Michael D. Niemack , Thomas Nikola , John Orlowski-Scherer , Kayla M. Rossi , Adrian K. Sinclair , Gordon J. Stacey , Joel Ullom , Michael Vissers , Jordan Wheeler , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu , Bugao Zou

The Cherenkov Telescope Array transient and multi-messenger program

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory that will allow for observations in the >10 GeV range with unprecedented photon statistics and sensitivity. This will enable the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Alessandro Carosi , Alicia López-Oramas , Francesco Longo

The Simons Observatory: Design, Optimization, and Performance of Low Frequency Detectors

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make precise temperature and polarization measurements over six spectral bands ranging from 27 to 285 GHz. Three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Aashrita Mangu , Benjamin Westbrook , Shawn Beckman , Lance Corbett , Kevin T. Crowley , Daniel Dutcher , Bradley R. Johnson , Adrian T. Lee , Varun Kabra , Bhoomija Prasad , Suzanne T. Staggs , Aritoki Suzuki , Yuhan Wang , Kaiwen Zheng

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, or ALMA, is an international telescope project which will be built over the coming decade in Northern Chile. With over 7000 m^2 of collecting area comprised of 64 12m antennas arrayed over baselines up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alwyn Wootten

The Cherenkov Telescope Array sensitivity to the transient sky

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

The Transient program of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation high-energy gamma-ray observatory. It will improve the sensitivity of current instruments up to an order of magnitude, while providing energy coverage for photons from 20 GeV to at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-18 Fabian Schüssler

CCAT: Comparisons of 280 GHz TiN and Al Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays

The CCAT Collaboration's six-meter Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope is scheduled to begin observing in the Chilean Atacama in 2025, targeting a variety of science goals throughout cosmic history. Prime-Cam is a 1.8-meter diameter cryostat…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Cody J. Duell , Jason Austermann , James Beall , James R. Burgoyne , Scott C. Chapman , Steve K. Choi , Rodrigo G. Freundt , Jiansong Gao , Christopher Groppi , Anthony I. Huber , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Ben Keller , Yaqiong Li , Lawrence T. Lin , Justin Matthewson , Philip Mauskopf , Alicia Middleton , Colin C. Murphy , Michael D. Niemack , Thomas Nikola , Adrian K. Sinclair , Ema Smith , Jeff van Lanen , Anna Vaskuri , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael Vissers , Samantha Walker , Jordan Wheeler , Bugao Zou

The Simons Observatory: Deployment of the observatory control system and supporting infrastructure

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) observatory consisting of three small aperture telescopes and one large aperture telescope. SO is located in the Atacama Desert in Chile at an elevation of 5180m.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Brian J. Koopman , Sanah Bhimani , Nicholas Galitzki , Matthew Hasselfield , Jack Lashner , Hironobu Nakata , Laura Newburgh , David V. Nguyen , Tai Sakuma , Kyohei Yamada

Commensal observing with the Allen Telescope array: software command and control

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is a Large-Number-Small-Diameter radio telescope array currently with 42 individual antennas and 5 independent back-end science systems (2 imaging FX correlators and 3 time domain beam formers) located at the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-12 Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill , Garrett K. Keating , David MacMahon , Peter K. G. Williams , Gerald Harp , Robert Ackermann , Tom Kilsdonk , Jon Richards , William C. Barott