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Optical design concept of the CMB-S4 large-aperture telescopes and cameras

CMB-S4 -- the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment - will significantly advance the sensitivity of CMB measurements and improve our understanding of the origin and evolution of the universe. CMB-S4 will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Patricio A. Gallardo , Bradford Benson , John Carlstrom , Simon R. Dicker , Nick Emerson , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Richard Hills , Michele Limon , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Johanna M. Nagy , Stephen Padin , John Ruhl , Sara M. Simon , the CMB-S4 collaboration

Overview of the Optical Design of the CMB-S4 Large Aperture Telescopes and Camera Optics

CMB-S4, the next-generation CMB observatory, will deploy hundreds of thousands of detectors to enable mapping the millimeter-wavelength sky with unprecedented speed. The large aperture telescopes for CMB-S4 consist of six-meter diameter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Patricio A. Gallardo , Kathleen Harrington , Roberto Puddu , Bradford Benson , John Carlstrom , Nick Emerson , Jeff McMahon , Tyler Natoli , Johanna M. Nagy , Michael D. Niemack , John Ruhl

The Simons Observatory: Dark Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background experiment composed of three 0.42 m Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) and one 6 m Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The Large Aperture Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Saianeesh K. Haridas , Zeeshan Ahmed , Tanay Bhandarkar , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , Kathleen Harrington , Shawn W. Henderson , Johannes Hubmayr , Bradley R. Johnson , Anna Kofman , Alex Manduca , Michael D. Niemack , Michael J. Randall , Thomas P. Satterthwaite , John Orlowski-Scherer , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Carlos Sierra , Max Silva-Feaver , Robert J. Thornton , Yuhan Wang , Kaiwen Zheng

The Simons Observatory: A fully remote controlled calibration system with a sparse wire grid for cosmic microwave background telescopes

For cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization observations, calibration of detector polarization angles is essential. We have developed a fully remote controlled calibration system with a sparse wire grid that reflects linearly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Masaaki Murata , Hironobu Nakata , Kengo Iijima , Shunsuke Adachi , Yudai Seino , Kenji Kiuchi , Frederick Matsuda , Michael J. Randall , Kam Arnold , Nicholas Galitzki , Bradley R. Johnson , Brian Keating , Akito Kusaka , John B. Lloyd , Joseph Seibert , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Osamu Tajima , Tomoki Terasaki , Kyohei Yamada

Feedhorn development and scalability for Simons Observatory and beyond

The Simons Observatory (SO) will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in both temperature and polarization over a wide range of angular scales and frequencies from 27-270 GHz with unprecedented sensitivity. One technology for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-21 Sara M. Simon , Joseph E. Golec , Aamir Ali , Jason Austermann , James A. Beall , Sarah Marie M. Bruno , Steve K. Choi , Kevin T. Crowley , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Shannon M. Duff , Erin Healy , Charles A. Hill , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Yaqiong Li , Marius Lungu , Jeff McMahon , John Orlowski-Scherer , Maria Salatino , Suzanne Staggs , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scientific goals of the experiment, motivate the design, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-05 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , Peter Ade , James Aguirre , Zeeshan Ahmed , Simone Aiola , Aamir Ali , David Alonso , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Jason Austermann , Humna Awan , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Darcy Barron , Nick Battaglia , Richard Battye , Eric Baxter , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Dominic Beck , Shawn Beckman , Benjamin Beringue , Federico Bianchini , Steven Boada , David Boettger , J. Richard Bond , Julian Borrill , Michael L. Brown , Sarah Marie Bruno , Sean Bryan , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Paolo Calisse , Julien Carron , Anthony Challinor , Grace Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Jens Chluba , Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho , Steve Choi , Gabriele Coppi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , Devin Crichton , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , John M. D'Ewart , Rolando Dünner , Tijmen de Haan , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Bradley Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon Duff , Adri Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , John Dusatko , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Stephen Feeney , Simone Ferraro , Pedro Fluxà , Katherine Freese , Josef C. Frisch , Andrei Frolov , George Fuller , Brittany Fuzia , 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 , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Masaya Hasegawa , Matthew Hasselfield , Makoto Hattori , Victor Haynes , Masashi Hazumi , Yizhou He , Erin Healy , Shawn W. Henderson , 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 , Logan Howe , Zhiqi Huang , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Anna Ijjas , Margaret Ikape , Kent Irwin , Andrew H. Jaffe , Bhuvnesh Jain , Oliver Jeong , Daisuke Kaneko , Ethan D. Karpel , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Sarah S. Kernasovskiy , Reijo Keskitalo , Theodore Kisner , Kenji Kiuchi , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Stephen E. Kuenstner , Chao-Lin Kuo , Akito Kusaka , Jacob Lashner , Adrian Lee , Eunseong Lee , David Leon , Jason S. -Y. Leung , Antony Lewis , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Eric Linder , Carlos Lopez-Caraballo , Thibaut Louis , Lindsay Lowry , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Daisy Mak , Felipe Maldonado , Hamdi Mani , Ben Mates , Frederick Matsuda , Loïc Maurin , Phil Mauskopf , Andrew May , Nialh McCallum , Chris McKenney , Jeff McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , Joel Meyers , Amber Miller , Mark Mirmelstein , Kavilan Moodley , Moritz Munchmeyer , Charles Munson , Sigurd Naess , Federico Nati , Martin Navaroli , Laura Newburgh , Ho Nam Nguyen , Michael Niemack , Haruki Nishino , John Orlowski-Scherer , Lyman Page , Bruce Partridge , Julien Peloton , Francesca Perrotta , Lucio Piccirillo , Giampaolo Pisano , Davide Poletti , Roberto Puddu , Giuseppe Puglisi , Chris Raum , Christian L. Reichardt , Mathieu Remazeilles , Yoel Rephaeli , Dominik Riechers , Felipe Rojas , Anirban Roy , Sharon Sadeh , Yuki Sakurai , Maria Salatino , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Emmanuel Schaan , Marcel Schmittfull , Neelima Sehgal , Joseph Seibert , Uros Seljak , Blake Sherwin , Meir Shimon , Carlos Sierra , Jonathan Sievers , Precious Sikhosana , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Adrian Sinclair , Praween Siritanasak , Kendrick Smith , Stephen R. Smith , David Spergel , 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 , 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 , Jon Ward , Ben Westbrook , Nathan Whitehorn , Jason Williams , Joel Williams , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Byeonghee Yu , Cyndia Yu , Fernando Zago , Hezi Zhang , Ningfeng Zhu

Simons Observatory Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Readout -- Cryogenic RF Amplifier and Coaxial Chain Design

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarization-sensitive Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment on the Cerro Toco Plateau (Chile) with large overlap with other optical and infrared surveys (e.g., DESI, LSST, HSC). To enable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Aamir Ali , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Bradley J. Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Nicholas Galitzki , Erin Healy , Shawn Henderson , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Jonathan Hoh , Anna M. Kofman , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Aashrita Mangu , Justin Mathewson , Philip Mauskopf , Heather McCarrick , Jenna Moore , Michael D. Niemack , Christopher Raum , Maria Salatino , Trevor Sasse , Joseph Seibert , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne Staggs , Jason R. Stevens , Grant Teply , Robert Thornton , Joel Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Benjamin Westbrook , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

The Simons Observatory: Galactic Science Goals and Forecasts

Observing in six frequency bands from 27 to 280 GHz over a large sky area, the Simons Observatory (SO) is poised to address many questions in Galactic astrophysics in addition to its principal cosmological goals. In this work, we provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Brandon S. Hensley , Susan E. Clark , Valentina Fanfani , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Giulio Fabbian , Davide Poletti , Giuseppe Puglisi , Gabriele Coppi , Jacob Nibauer , Roman Gerasimov , Nicholas Galitzki , Steve K. Choi , Peter C. Ashton , Carlo Baccigalupi , Eric Baxter , Blakesley Burkhart , Erminia Calabrese , Jens Chluba , Josquin Errard , Andrei V. Frolov , Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Kevin M. Huffenberger , Bradley R. Johnson , Baptiste Jost , Brian Keating , Heather McCarrick , Federico Nati , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Alexander van Engelen , Samantha Walker , Kevin Wolz , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu , Andrea Zonca

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) are expected to be complete by 2028,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , M. Abitbol , I. Abril-Cabezas , S. Adachi , P. Ade , A. E. Adler , P. Agrawal , J. Aguirre , Z. Ahmed , S. Aiola , T. Alford , A. Ali , D. Alonso , M. A. Alvarez , R. An , K. Arnold , P. Ashton , Z. Atkins , J. Austermann , S. Azzoni , C. Baccigalupi , A. Baleato Lizancos , D. Barron , P. Barry , J. Bartlett , N. Battaglia , R. Battye , E. Baxter , A. Bazarko , J. A. Beall , R. Bean , D. Beck , S. Beckman , J. Begin , A. Beheshti , B. Beringue , T. Bhandarkar , S. Bhimani , F. Bianchini , E. Biermann , S. Biquard , B. Bixler , S. Boada , D. Boettger , B. Bolliet , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , J. Borrow , C. Braithwaite , T. L. R. Brien , M. L. Brown , S. M. Bruno , S. Bryan , R. Bustos , H. Cai , E. Calabrese , V. Calafut , F. M. Carl , A. Carones , J. Carron , A. Challinor , P. Chanial , N. Chen , K. Cheung , B. Chiang , Y. Chinone , J. Chluba , H. S. Cho , S. K. Choi , M. Chu , J. Clancy , S. E. Clark , P. Clarke , J. Cleary , D. L. Clements , J. Connors , C. Contaldi , G. Coppi , L. Corbett , N. F. Cothard , W. Coulton , K. D. Crowley , K. T. Crowley , A. Cukierman , J. M. D'Ewart , K. Dachlythra , R. Datta , S. Day-Weiss , T. de Haan , M. Devlin , L. Di Mascolo , S. Dicker , B. Dober , C. Doux , P. Dow , S. Doyle , C. J. Duell , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , D. Dutcher , R. Dünner , M. Edenton , H. El Bouhargani , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , V. Fanfani , G. S. Farren , J. Fergusson , S. Ferraro , R. Flauger , A. Foster , K. Freese , J. C. Frisch , A. Frolov , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , P. A. Gallardo , J. T. Galvez Ghersi , K. Ganga , J. Gao , X. Garrido , E. Gawiser , M. Gerbino , R. Gerras , S. Giardiello , A. Gill , V. Gilles , U. Giri , E. Gleave , V. Gluscevic , N. Goeckner-Wald , J. E. Golec , S. Gordon , M. Gralla , S. Gratton , D. Green , J. C. Groh , C. Groppi , Y. Guan , N. Gupta , J. E. Guðmundsson , S. Hagstotz , P. Hargrave , S. Haridas , K. Harrington , I. Harrison , M. Hasegawa , M. Hasselfield , V. Haynes , M. Hazumi , A. He , E. Healy , S. W. Henderson , B. S. Hensley , E. Hertig , C. Hervías-Caimapo , M. Higuchi , C. A. Hill , J. C. Hill , G. Hilton , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , G. Hinshaw , R. Hložek , A. Y. Q. Ho , S. Ho , S. P. Ho , T. D. Hoang , J. Hoh , E. Hornecker , A. L. Hornsby , S. C. Hotinli , Z. Huang , Z. B. Huber , J. Hubmayr , K. Huffenberger , J. P. Hughes , A. Idicherian Lonappan , M. Ikape , K. Irwin , J. Iuliano , A. H. Jaffe , B. Jain , H. T. Jense , O. Jeong , A. Johnson , B. R. Johnson , M. Johnson , M. Jones , B. Jost , D. Kaneko , E. D. Karpel , Y. Kasai , N. Katayama , B. Keating , B. Keller , R. Keskitalo , J. Kim , T. Kisner , K. Kiuchi , J. Klein , K. Knowles , A. M. Kofman , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , R. Kou , N. Krachmalnicoff , D. Kramer , A. Krishak , A. Krolewski , A. Kusaka , A. Kusiak , P. La Plante , A. La Posta , A. Laguë , J. Lashner , M. Lattanzi , A. Lee , E. Lee , J. Leech , C. Lessler , J. S. Leung , A. Lewis , Y. Li , Z. Li , M. Limon , L. Lin , M. Link , J. Liu , Y. Liu , J. Lonergan , T. Louis , T. Lucas , M. Ludlam , M. Lungu , M. Lyons , N. MacCrann , A. MacInnis , M. Madhavacheril , D. Mak , F. Maldonado , M. Mallaby-Kay , A. Manduca , A. Mangu , H. Mani , A. S. Maniyar , G. A. Marques , J. Mates , T. Matsumura , P. Mauskopf , A. May , N. McCallum , H. McCarrick , F. McCarthy , M. McCulloch , J. McMahon , P. D. Meerburg , Y. Mehta , J. Melin , J. Meyers , A. Middleton , A. Miller , M. Mirmelstein , K. Moodley , J. Moore , M. Morshed , T. Morton , E. Moser , T. Mroczkowski , M. Murata , M. Münchmeyer , S. Naess , H. Nakata , T. Namikawa , M. Nashimoto , F. Nati , P. Natoli , M. Negrello , S. K. Nerval , L. Newburgh , D. V. Nguyen , A. Nicola , M. D. Niemack , H. Nishino , Y. Nishinomiya , A. Orlando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Pagano , L. A. Page , S. Pandey , A. Papageorgiou , I. Paraskevakos , B. Partridge , R. Patki , M. Peel , K. Perez Sarmiento , F. Perrotta , P. Phakathi , L. Piccirillo , E. Pierpaoli , T. Pinsonneault-Marotte , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , R. Puddu , G. Puglisi , F. J. Qu , M. J. Randall , C. Ranucci , C. Raum , R. Reeves , C. L. Reichardt , M. Remazeilles , Y. Rephaeli , D. Riechers , J. Robe , M. F. Robertson , N. Robertson , K. Rogers , F. Rojas , A. Romero , E. Rosenberg , A. Rotti , S. Rowe , A. Roy , S. Sadeh , N. Sailer , K. Sakaguri , T. Sakuma , Y. Sakurai , M. Salatino , G. H. Sanders , D. Sasaki , M. Sathyanarayana Rao , T. P. Satterthwaite , L. Saunders , L. Scalcinati , E. Schaan , B. Schmitt , M. Schmittfull , N. Sehgal , J. Seibert , Y. Seino , U. Seljak , S. Shaikh , E. Shaw , P. Shellard , B. Sherwin , M. Shimon , J. E. Shroyer , C. Sierra , J. Sievers , C. Sifón , P. Sikhosana , M. Silva-Feaver , S. M. Simon , A. Sinclair , K. Smith , W. Sohn , X. Song , R. F. Sonka , D. Spergel , J. Spisak , S. T. Staggs , G. Stein , J. R. Stevens , R. Stompor , E. Storer , R. Sudiwala , J. Sugiyama , K. M. Surrao , S. Sutariya , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , S. Takakura , A. Takeuchi , I. Tansieri , A. C. Taylor , G. Teply , T. Terasaki , A. Thomas , D. B. Thomas , R. Thornton , H. Trac , T. Tsan , E. Tsang King Sang , C. Tucker , J. Ullom , L. Vacher , L. Vale , A. van Engelen , J. Van Lanen , J. van Marrewijk , D. D. Van Winkle , C. Vargas , E. M. Vavagiakis , I. Veenendaal , C. Vergès , M. Vissers , M. Viña , K. Wagoner , S. Walker , L. Walters , Y. Wang , B. Westbrook , J. Williams , P. Williams , H. Winch , E. J. Wollack , K. Wolz , J. Wong , Z. Xu , K. Yamada , E. Young , B. Yu , C. Yu , M. Zannoni , K. Zheng , N. Zhu , A. Zonca , I. Zubeldia

The Simons Observatory: Design, Integration, and Current Status of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile at an elevation of 5200 meters, nominally consisting of an array of three 0.42-meter small aperture telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Aashrita Mangu , Lance Corbett , Sanah Bhimani , Fred Carl , Samuel Day-Weiss , Brooke DiGia , Josquin Errard , Nicholas Galitzki , Masashi Hazumi , Shawn W. Henderson , Varun Kabra , Amber Miller , Jenna Moore , Xue Song , Tran Tsan , Yuhan Wang , Andrea Zonca

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

Designs for a large-aperture telescope to map the CMB 10X faster

Current large-aperture cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescopes have nearly maximized the number of detectors that can be illuminated while maintaining diffraction-limited image quality. The polarization-sensitive detector arrays being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Michael D. Niemack

BoloCalc: a sensitivity calculator for the design of Simons Observatory

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming experiment that will study temperature and polarization fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will field both a large aperture telescope (LAT)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-17 Charles A. Hill , Sarah Marie M. Bruno , Sara M. Simon , Aamir Ali , Kam S. Arnold , Peter C. Ashton , Darcy Barron , Sean Bryan , Yuji Chinone , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , Simon Dicker , Jo Dunkley , Giulio Fabbian , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Johannes Hubmayr , Brian Keating , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Frederick Matsuda , Philip D. Mauskopf , Jeffrey McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Giuseppe Puglisi , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Maria Salatino , Carlos Sierra , Suzanne Staggs , Aritoki Suzuki , Grant Teply , Joel N. Ullom , Benjamin Westbrook , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

The Simons Observatory: Studies of Detector Yield and Readout Noise From the First Large-Scale Deployment of Microwave Multiplexing at the Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory is a new ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, which is currently being commissioned in Chile's Atacama Desert. During its survey, the observatory's small aperture telescopes will map 10% of the sky in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 Thomas P. Satterthwaite , Zeeshan Ahmed , Kyuyoung Bae , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , Saianeesh K. Haridas , Shawn W. Henderson , Johannes Hubmayr , Bradley R. Johnson , Anna Kofman , Jack Lashner , Michael J. Link , Tammy J. Lucas , Alex Manduca , Michael D. Niemack , John Orlowski-Scherer , Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte , Max Silva-Feaver , Suzanne Staggs , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Yuhan Wang , Kaiwen Zheng

The Simons Observatory: Antenna control software integration and implementation

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope, sited at an elevation of 5200 m in the Atacama Desert…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Lauren J. Saunders , Matthew Hasselfield , Brian J. Koopman , Laura Newburgh

The Simons Observatory: Characterizing the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver with Radio Holography

We present near-field radio holography measurements of the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver optics. These measurements demonstrate that radio holography of complex millimeter-wave optical systems comprising cryogenic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-05 Grace E. Chesmore , Kathleen Harrington , Carlos E. Sierra , Patricio A. Gallardo , Shreya Sutariya , Tommy Alford , Alexandre E. Adler , Tanay Bhandarkar , Gabriele Coppi , Nadia Dachlythra , Joseph Golec , Jon Gudmundsson , Saianeesh K. Haridas , Bradley R. Johnson , Anna M. Kofman , Jeffrey Iuliano , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , John Orlowski-Scherer , Karen Perez Sarmiento , Roberto Puddu , Max Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Julia Robe , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu

Plans for a 10-m Submillimeter-wave Telescope at the South Pole

A 10 meter diameter submillimeter-wave telescope has been proposed for the NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Current evidence indicates that the South Pole is the best submillimeter-wave telescope site among all existing or proposed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Antony A. Stark , John E. Carlstrom , Frank P. Israel , Karl M. Menten , Jeffrey B. Peterson , T. G. Phillips , Giorgio Sironi , Christopher K. Walker

The South Pole Telescope

A new 10 meter diameter telescope is being constructed for deployment at the NSF South Pole research station. The telescope is designed for conducting large-area millimeter and sub-millimeter wave surveys of faint, low contrast emission, as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 SPT Collaboration , J. E. Ruhl , P. A. R. Ade , J. E. Carlstrom , H. M. Cho , T. Crawford , M. Dobbs , C. H. Greer , N. W. Halverson , W. L. Holzapfel , T. M. Lantin , A. T. Lee , J. Leong , E. M. Leitch , W. Lu , M. Lueker , J. Mehl , S. S. Meyer , J. J. Mohr , S. Padin , T. Plagge , C. Pryke , D. Schwan , M. K. Sharp , M. C. Runyan , H. Spieler , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark

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

Optical Design of the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)

This work describes the design and implementation of optics for EXCLAIM, the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping. EXCLAIM is a balloon-borne telescope that will measure integrated line emission from carbon monoxide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Danny Chmaytelli , Trevor Oxholm , Tatsat Parekh , Gage Siebert , Eric R. Switzer , Alyssa Barlis , Emily M. Barrentine , Jeffrey Beeman , Christine Chung , Paul Cursey , Sumit Dahal , Rahul Datta , Negar Ehsan , Jason Glenn , Joseph Golec , Andrew Lennon , Luke N. Lowe , Jeffrey McMahon , Maryam Rahmani , Peter Timbie , Bruce Tretheway , Carole Tucker , Carolyn Volpert , Joseph Watson , Edward J. Wollack