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The Simons Observatory: Design and Measured Performance of a Carbon Fiber Strut for a Cryogenic Truss

We present the design and measured performance of a new carbon fiber strut design that is used in a cryogenically cooled truss for the Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope (SAT). The truss consists of two aluminum 6061 rings…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-27 Kevin D. Crowley , Peter Dow , Jordan E. Shroyer , John C. Groh , Bradley Dober , Jacob Spisak , Nicholas Galitzki , Tanay Bhandarkar , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Patricio A. Gallardo , Kathleen Harrington , Bradley R. Johnson , Delwin Johnson , Anna M. Kofman , Akito Kusaka , Adrian Lee , Michele Limon , Jeffrey Iuliano , Federico Nati , John Orlowski-Scherer , Lyman Page , Michael Randall , Grant Teply , Tran Tsan , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

Simons Observatory: Broadband Metamaterial Anti-Reflection Cuttings for Large Aperture Alumina Optics

We present the design, fabrication, and measured performance of metamaterial Anti-Reflection Cuttings (ARCs) for large-format alumina filters operating over more than an octave of bandwidth to be deployed on the Simons Observatory (SO). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 Joseph E. Golec , Shreya Sutariya , Rebecca Jackson , Jerry Zimmerman , Simon R. Dicker , Jeffrey Iuliano , Jeff McMahon , Giuseppe Puglisi , Carole Tucker , Edward J. Wollack

Simons Observatory: Observatory Scheduler and Automated Data Processing

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a next-generation ground-based telescope located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, designed to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with unprecedented precision. The observatory consists of three small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yilun Guan , Kathleen Harrington , Jack Lashner , Sanah Bhimani , Kevin T. Crowley , Nicholas Galitzki , Ken Ganga , Matthew Hasselfield , Adam D. Hincks , Brian Keating , Brian J. Koopman , Laura Newburgh , David V. Nguyen , Max Silva-Feaver

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027, the SO Small Aperture Telescope (SAT) complement will be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , I. Abril-Cabezas , S. Adachi , P. Ade , A. E. Adler , P. Agrawal , J. Aguirre , S. Aiola , T. Alford , A. Ali , D. Alonso , M. A. Alvarez , R. An , M. Aravena , K. Arnold , P. Ashton , F. Astori , Z. Atkins , J. Austermann , S. Azzoni , C. Baccigalupi , D. Baker , R. Balafendiev , A. Baleato Lizancos , D. Barron , P. Barry , J. Bartlett , A. Basyrov , N. Battaglia , E. S. Battistelli , R. Battye , A. Bayer , 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 , M. Billi , S. Biquard , B. Bixler , L. Bizzarri , 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 , E. Chamberlain , 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 , D. Crichton , K. D. Crowley , K. T. Crowley , A. Cukierman , J. M. D'Ewart , K. Dachlythra , O. Darwish , R. Datta , S. Day-Weiss , T. de Haan , S. Desai , M. Devlin , L. Di Mascolo , S. Dicker , K. Ding , C. Doux , P. Dow , S. Doyle , C. J. Duell , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , J. Dunkley , M. Duparc , D. Dutcher , R. Dünner , M. Edenton , H. El Bouhargani , C. Embil Villagra , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , V. Fanfani , F. Farhadi Khouzani , G. S. Farren , J. Fergusson , S. Ferraro , R. Flauger , M. Forconi , A. Foster , K. Freese , J. C. Frisch , A. Frolov , G. Fuller , N. Galitzki , P. A. Gallardo , G. Galloni , J. T. Galvez Ghersi , K. Ganga , X. Garrido , E. Gawiser , M. Gerbino , R. Gerras , S. Giardiello , A. Gill , V. Gilles , U. Giri , E. Gleave , V. Gluscevic , N. Goeckner-Wald , S. Goldstein , J. E. Golec , S. Gordon , M. Gralla , S. Gratton , D. Green , J. C. Groh , C. Groppi , S. Grubb , Y. Guan , N. Gupta , J. E. Guðmundsson , B. Hadzhiyska , 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 , M. Hilton , A. D. Hincks , G. Hinshaw , R. Hložek , A. Y. Q. Ho , S. Ho , S. P. Ho , T. D. Hoang , J. Hoh , J. Holder , J. Hood , E. Hornecker , A. L. Hornsby , S. C. Hotinli , Z. Huang , Z. B. Huber , J. Hubmayr , K. Huffenberger , A. Hughes , J. P. Hughes , A. Idicherian Lonappan , M. Ikape , K. Inaba , K. Irwin , J. Iuliano , A. H. Jaffe , B. Jain , D. Jain , H. T. Jense , O. Jeong , A. Johnson , B. R. Johnson , M. Johnson , M. E. Jones , N. Joshi , B. Jost , W. Kabalan , V. Kabra , D. Kaneko , J. Kania , E. D. Karpel , Y. Kasai , N. Katayama , B. Keating , B. Keller , R. Keskitalo , A. A. Khatua , J. Kim , T. Kisner , K. Kiuchi , K. Knowles , A. M. Kofman , Y. Koizumi , B. J. Koopman , A. Kosowsky , R. Kou , N. Krachmalnicoff , D. Kramer , A. Krishak , A. Krolewski , A. Kusaka , A. Kusiak , Y. Kvasiuk , P. La Plante , A. La Posta , A. Laguë , A. Lai , J. Lashner , M. Lattanzi , A. Lee , E. Lee , J. Leech , L. Legrand , C. Lessler , J. S. Leung , A. Lewis , Y. Li , Z. Li , M. Limon , L. Lin , E. Linder , M. Link , J. Liu , Y. Liu , J. Lloyd , 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 , P. Masson , J. Mates , J. Mathewson , T. Matsumura , P. Mauskopf , A. May , N. McCallum , H. McCarrick , F. McCarthy , M. McCulloch , J. McMahon , P. D. Meerburg , Y. Mehta , J. Melin , E. Meulbroek , J. Meyers , A. Middleton , Y. Miki , A. Miller , M. Mirmelstein , Y. Mizozoe , B. Mohammadian , G. Montefalcone , K. Moodley , J. Moore , T. Morris , M. Morshed , T. Morton , E. Moser , T. Mroczkowski , M. Murata , J. Myers , 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. Novelli , S. O'Neill , N. Okumoto , A. Orlando , J. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Pagano , L. A. Page , S. Pandey , A. Papageorgiou , I. Paraskevakos , B. Partridge , D. Patel , R. Patki , S. Paulino Korte , M. Peel , K. Perez Sarmiento , F. Perrotta , P. Phakathi , L. Piccirillo , E. Pierpaoli , T. Pinsonneault-Marotte , G. Pisano , J. Pitocco , D. Poletti , C. Popik , B. Prasad , R. Puddu , G. Puglisi , F. J. Qu , F. Rahman , M. J. Randall , C. Ranucci , C. Raum , R. Reeves , C. L. Reichardt , M. Remazeilles , X. Ren , Y. Rephaeli , D. Riechers , B. Reid Guachalla , A. Rizzieri , J. Robe , M. 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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 , A. Villarrubia Aguilar , M. Vissers , M. Viña , K. Wagoner , S. Walker , L. Walters , Y. Wang , B. Westbrook , J. Williams , P. Williams , J. Wilson , H. Winch , E. J. Wollack , K. Wolz , J. Wong , Z. Xu , K. Yamada , E. Young , B. Yu , C. Yu , G. Zagatti , M. Zannoni , W. Zhang , K. Zheng , N. Zhu , A. Zonca , I. Zubeldia

Designs for next generation CMB survey strategies from Chile

New telescopes are being built to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented sensitivity, including Simons Observatory (SO), CCAT-prime, the BICEP Array, SPT-3G, and CMB Stage-4. We present observing strategies for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-16 Jason R. Stevens , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Reijo Keskitalo , Nialh McCallum , Aamir Ali , Julian Borrill , Michael L. Brown , Yuji Chinone , Patricio A. Gallardo , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman Page , Giuseppe Puglisi , Maria Salatino , Suet Ying D. Mak , Grant Teply , Daniel B. Thomas , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

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

The Simons Observatory: gain, bandpass and polarization-angle calibration requirements for B-mode searches

We quantify the calibration requirements for systematic uncertainties for next-generation ground-based observatories targeting the large-angle $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, with a focus on the Simons Observatory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Maximilian H. Abitbol , David Alonso , Sara M. Simon , Jack Lashner , Kevin T. Crowley , Aamir M. Ali , Susanna Azzoni , Carlo Baccigalupi , Darcy Barron , Michael L. Brown , Erminia Calabrese , Julien Carron , Yuji Chinone , Jens Chluba , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin D. Crowley , Mark Devlin , Jo Dunkley , Josquin Errard , Valentina Fanfani , Nicholas Galitzki , Martina Gerbino , J. Colin Hill , Bradley R. Johnson , Baptiste Jost , Brian Keating , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Thibaut Louis , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Heather McCarrick , Jeffrey McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , Federico Nati , Haruki Nishino , Lyman A. Page , Davide Poletti , Giuseppe Puglisi , Michael J. Randall , Aditya Rotti , Jacob Spisak , Aritoki Suzuki , Grant P. Teply , Clara Vergès , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Mario Zannoni

Large-aperture wide-bandwidth antireflection-coated silicon lenses for millimeter wavelengths

The increasing scale of cryogenic detector arrays for sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelength astrophysics has led to the need for large aperture, high index of refraction, low loss, cryogenic refracting optics. Silicon with n = 3.4, low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-24 R. Datta , C. D. Munson , M. D. Niemack , J. J. McMahon , J. Britton , E. J. Wollack , J. Beall , M. J. Devlin , J. Fowler , P. Gallardo , J. Hubmayr , K. Irwin , L. Newburgh , J. P. Nibarger , L. Page , M. A. Quijada , B. L. Schmitt , S. T. Staggs , R. Thornton , L. Zhang

Prime-Cam: A first-light instrument for the CCAT-prime telescope

CCAT-prime will be a 6-meter aperture telescope operating from sub-mm to mm wavelengths, located at 5600 meters elevation on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Its novel crossed-Dragone optical design will deliver a high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-28 Eve M. Vavagiakis , Zeeshan Ahmed , Aamir Ali , Kaustuv Basu , Nicholas Battaglia , Frank Bertoldi , Richard Bond , Ricardo Bustos , Scott C. Chapman , Dongwoo Chung , Gabriele Coppi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Simon Dicker , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Jens Erler , Michel Fich , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Shawn W. Henderson , Terry L. Herter , Gene Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Brian J. Koopman , Jeffrey McMahon , Norman Murray , Michael D. Niemack , Thomas Nikolas , Michael Nolta , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Stephen C. Parshley , Dominik A. Riechers , Kayla Rossi , Douglas Scott , Carlos Sierra , Max Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Gordon J. Stacey , Jason R. Stevens , Joel N. Ullom , Michael R. Vissers , Samantha Walker , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

A wide field-of-view crossed Dragone optical system using the anamorphic aspherical surfaces

A side-fed crossed Dragone telescope provides a wide field-of-view. This type of a telescope is commonly employed in the measurement of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, which requires an image-space telecentric telescope with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-07 Shingo Kashima , Masashi Hazumi , Hiroaki Imada , Nobuhiko Katayama , Tomotake Matsumura , Yutaro Sekimoto , Hajime Sugai

Optical Design of the Orbiting Astronomical Satellite for Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS)

The Orbiting Astronomical Satellite for Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS) is a proposed space telescope with a 14 m inflatable primary reflector that will perform high spectral resolution observations at terahertz frequencies with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Siddhartha Sirsi , Yuzuru Takashima , Arthur Palisoc , Heejoo Choi , Jonathan W. Arenberg , Daewook Kim , Chistopher Walker

The CMB Cold Spot under the lens II: Lensing signatures in polarization and cosmic texture footprints

We forecast the detectability of the lensing footprint of a collapsing cosmic texture, a topological defect proposed as an explanation of the CMB Cold Spot. Our pipeline is a quadratic, template-amplitude estimator for localized,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Pedro da Silveira Ferreira , Stephen Owusu

The Simons Observatory: Differentiating Thermal and Optical Effects in Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensing Bolometers

The Simons Observatory aims to field 70,000 Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background. With so many detectors, rapid but accurate validation of their properties prior to their integration into…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-21 Rita F. Sonka , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , Suzanne T. Staggs

Development of Calibration Strategies for the Simons Observatory

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a set of cosmic microwave background instruments that will be deployed in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The key science goals include setting new constraints on cosmic inflation, measuring large scale structure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-11 Sean A. Bryan , Sara M. Simon , Martina Gerbino , Grant Teply} , Aamir Ali , Yuji Chinone , Kevin Crowley , Giulio Fabbian , Patricio A. Gallardo , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Brian Keating , Brian Koopman , Akito Kusaka , Frederick Matsuda , Philip Mauskopf , Jeff McMahon , Federico Nati , Giuseppe Puglisi , Christian L Reichardt , Maria Salatino , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

Single Aperture Large Telescope for Universe Studies (SALTUS): Science Overview

The SALTUS Probe mission will provide a powerful far-infrared (far-IR) pointed space observatory to explore our cosmic origins and the possibility of life elsewhere. The observatory employs an innovative deployable 14-m aperture, with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Gordon Chin , Carrie M. Anderson , Jennifer Bergner , Nicolas Biver , Gordon L. Bjoraker , Thibault Cavalie , Michael DiSanti , Jian-Rong Gao , Paul Hartogh , Leon K. Harding , Qing Hu , Daewook Kim , Craig Kulesa , Gert de Lange , David T. Leisawitz , Rebecca C. Levy , Arthur Lichtenberger , Daniel P. Marronh , Joan Najita , Trent Newswander , George H. Rieke , Dimitra Rigopoulou , Peter Roefsema , Nathan X. Roth , Kamber Schwarz , Yancy Shirley , Justin Spilker , Antony A. Stark , Floris van der Tak , Yuzuru Takashima , Alexander Tielens , David J. Willner , Edward J. Wollack , Stephen Yates , Erick Young , Christopher K. Walker

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 40 GHz optical design

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) instrument will measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background at 40, 90, and 150 GHz from Cerro Toco in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. In this paper, we describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-02 Joseph R. Eimer , Charles L. Bennett , David T. Chuss , Tobias A. Marriage , Edward J. Wollack , Lingzhen Zeng

Geometrical and physical optics analysis for mm-wavelength refractor telescopes designed to map the cosmic microwave background

We present a compact two-lens HDPE f/1.6 refractor design that is capable of supporting a 28-deg diffraction-limited field of view at 1-mm wavelengths and contrast it to a similar two-lens refractor using silicon lenses. We compare the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Jon E. Gudmundsson

CCAT-prime: a novel telescope for submillimeter astronomy

The CCAT-prime telescope is a 6-meter aperture, crossed-Dragone telescope, designed for millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength observations. It will be located at an altitude of 5600 meters, just below the summit of Cerro Chajnantor in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-19 Stephen C. Parshley , Jörg Kronshage , James Blair , Terry Herter , Mike Nolta , Gordon J. Stacey , Andrew Bazarko , Frank Bertoldi , Ricardo Bustos , Donald B. Campbell , Scott Chapman , Nicholas Cothard , Mark Devlin , Jens Erler , Michel Fich , Patricio A. Gallardo , Riccardo Giovanelli , Urs Graf , Scott Gramke , Martha P. Haynes , Richard Hills , Michele Limon , Jeffrey G. Mangum , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Thomas Nikola , Markus Omlor , Dominik A. Riechers , Karl Steeger , Jürgen Stutzki , Eve M. Vavagiakis

CCAT: Prime-Cam Optics Overview and Status Update

Prime-Cam is a first-generation science instrument for the CCAT Observatory's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). FYST's crossed-Dragone design provides high optical throughput to take advantage of its unique site…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Zachary B. Huber , Lawrence T. Lin , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Rodrigo G. Freundt , Victoria Butler , Scott C. Chapman , Steve K. Choi , Abigail T. Crites , Cody J. Duell , Patricio A. Gallardo , Anthony I. Huber , Ben Keller , Alicia Middleton , Michael D. Niemack , Thomas Nikola , John Orlowski-Scherer , Ema Smith , Gordon Stacey , Samantha Walker , Bugao Zou

The Simons Observatory: Quantifying the impact of beam chromaticity on large-scale B-mode science

The Simons Observatory (SO) Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) will observe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization at six frequency bands. Within these bands, the angular response of the telescope (beam) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Nadia Dachlythra , Kevin Wolz , Susanna Azzoni , David Alonso , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Alexandre E. Adler , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Alessandro Carones , Gabriele Coppi , Samuel Day-Weiss , Josquin Errard , Nicholas Galitzki , Martina Gerbino , Remington G. Gerras , Carlos Hervias-Caimapo , Selim C. Hotinli , Federico Nati , Bruce Partridge , Yoshinori Sueno , Edward J. Wollack