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Optical Design of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Millimeter Bolometric Array Camera

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a 6-meter telescope designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background simultaneously at 145 GHz, 215 GHz, and 280 GHz with arcminute resolution. Each frequency will have a 32 by 32 element focal plane array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. W. Fowler , M. D. Niemack , S. R. Dicker , A. M. Aboobaker , P. A. R. Ade , E. S. Battistelli , M. J. Devlin , R. P. Fisher , M. Halpern , P. C. Hargrave , A. D. Hincks , M. Kaul , J. Klein , J. M. Lau , M. Limon , T. A. Marriage , P. D. Mauskopf , L. Page , S. T. Staggs , D. S. Swetz , E. R. Switzer , R. J. Thornton , C. E. Tucker

Development of a CsI:Tl calorimeter subsystem for the All-Sky Medium-Energy Gamma-Ray Observatory (AMEGO)

We report on the development of the thallium-doped cesium iodide (CsI:Tl) calorimeter subsystem for the All-Sky Medium-Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) [1]. The CsI:Tl calorimeter is one of the three main subsystems that comprise the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-18 Richard S. Woolf , J. Eric Grove , Bernard F. Phlips , Eric A. Wulf

Development and characterization of the readout system for POLARBEAR-2

POLARBEAR-2 is a next-generation receiver for precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)). Scheduled to deploy in early 2015, it will observe alongside the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 D. Barron , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , C. Aleman , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , A. Bender , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , N. Katayama , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , E. Linder , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , H. Morii , M. J. Myers , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , T. Okamura , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , C. Raum , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , K. Rotermund , D. E. Schenck , B. D. Sherwin , I. Shirley , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , G. Smecher , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , S. Takada , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , B. Wilson , A. Yadav , H. Yamaguchi , O. Zahn

Test results of the optical calibration system for the Large Sized Telescope camera

In 2018 the Large Sized Telescope (LST-1) prototype, designed to be the lowest energy detector for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, was inaugurated at the Observatorio de Roque de Los Muchachos in La Palma, Canary Island and today…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 M. Iori , F. Ferrarotto , L. Recchia , A. Girardi , R. Lunadei

Testing of the LSST's photometric calibration strategy at the CTIO 0.9 meter telescope

The calibration hardware system of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is designed to measure two quantities: a telescope's instrumental response and atmospheric transmission, both as a function of wavelength. First of all, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-08 Michael W. Coughlin , Susana Deustua , Augustin Guyonnet , Nicholas Mondrik , Joseph P. Rice , Christopher W. Stubbs , John T. Woodward

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. 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 , T. Souverin , J. Spisak , S. T. Staggs , G. Stein , J. R. Stevens , R. Stompor , E. Storer , R. Sudiwala , Y. Sueno , J. Sugiyama , P. Suman , K. M. Surrao , S. Sutariya , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , R. Takaku , S. Takakura , A. Takeuchi , I. Tansieri , A. C. Taylor , G. Teply , T. Terasaki , A. Thomas , D. B. Thomas , R. Thornton , P. Timbie , 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 , 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

HARP/ACSIS: A submillimetre spectral imaging system on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

This paper describes a new Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme (HARP) and Auto-Correlation Spectral Imaging System (ACSIS) that have recently been installed and commissioned on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The 16-element…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. V. Buckle , R. E. Hills , H. Smith , W. R. F. Dent , G. Bell , E. I. Curtis , R. Dace , H. Gibson , S. F. Graves , J. Leech , J. S. Richer , R. Williamson , S. Withington , G. Yassin , R. Bennett , P. Hastings , I. Laidlaw , J. F. Lightfoot , T. Burgess , P. E. Dewdney , G. Hovey , A. G. Willis , R. Redman , B. Wooff , D. S. Berry , B. Cavanagh , G. R. Davis , J. Dempsey , P. Friberg , T. Jenness , R. Kackley , N. P. Rees , R. Tilanus , C. Walther , W. Zwart , T. M. Klapwijk , M. Kroug , T. Zijlstra

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 software for the robotization of the TROBAR telescope

The Telescopi ROBotic de ARas (TROBAR) is a new robotic facility built at Aras de Los Olmos (Valencia-Spain). This is a 60cm telescope equipped with a 4kx4k optical camera, corresponding to 30x30 arcmin2 FoV, and it will be primarily used…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Mauro Stefanon

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

ShaneAO: wide science spectrum adaptive optics system for the Lick Observatory

A new high-order adaptive optics system is now being commissioned at the Lick Observatory Shane 3-meter telescope in California. This system uses a high return efficiency sodium beacon and a combination of low and high-order deformable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Donald Gavel , Renate Kupke , Daren Dillon , Andrew Norton , Chris Ratliff , Jerry Cabak , Andrew Phillips , Connie Rockosi , Rosalie McGurk , Srikar Srinath , Michael Peck , William Deich , Kyle Lanclos , John Gates , Michael Saylor , Jim Ward , Terry Pfister

SOXS: Effects on optical performances due to gravity flexures, temperature variations, and subsystems alignment

SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new medium resolution wide-band spectrograph to be installed at the 3.6m New Technology Telescope (NTT) in La Silla. SOXS will offer simultaneous wavelength coverage from 0.35 to 2.0 {\mu}m and will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-24 Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez , Matteo Aliverti , Matteo Munari , Sergio Campana , Riccardo Claudi , Pietro Schipani , Andrea Baruffolo , Sagi Ben-Ami , Federico Biondi , Giulio Capasso , Rosario Cosentino , Francesco D'Alessio , Paolo D'Avanzo , Ofir Hershko , Hanindyo Kuncarayakti , Marco Landoni , Giuliano Pignata , Adam Rubin , Salvatore Scuderi , Fabrizio Vitali , David Young , Jani Achrén , José Antonio Araiza-Duran , Iair Arcavi , Anna Brucalassi , Rachel Bruch , Enrico Cappellaro , Mirko Colapietro , Massimo Della Valle , Marco de Pascale , Rosario di Benedetto , Sergio D'Orsi , Avishay Gal-Yam , Matteo Genoni , Marcos Hernandez , Jari Kotilainen , Gianluca Li Causi , Seppo Mattila , Michael Rappaport , Kalyan Radhakrishnan , Davide Ricci , Marco Riva , Bernardo Salasnich , Stephen Smartt , Maximilian Stritzinger , Hector Ventura

The ALMA Development Program: Roadmap to 2030

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is the premier telescope for sensitive, high-resolution observations at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. The array consists of fifty 12-m diameter antennas that can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-31 John Carpenter , Daisuke Iono , Francisca Kemper , Al Wootten

Scanning Volcanoes by Synthetic Aperture Radar

A problem with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is that due to the poor penetrating action of electromagnetic waves within solid bodies, the ability to observe through distributed targets is precluded. In this context, indeed, imaging is only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Filippo Biondi

The optical design of the six-meter CCAT-prime and Simons Observatory telescopes

A common optical design for a coma-corrected, 6-meter aperture, crossed-Dragone telescope has been adopted for the CCAT-prime telescope of CCAT Observatory, Inc., and for the Large Aperture Telescope of the Simons Observatory. Both are to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-19 Stephen C. Parshley , Michael D. Niemack , Richard Hills , Simon R. Dicker , Rolando Dünner , Jens Erler , Patricio A. Gallardo , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Terry Herter , Brian J. Koopman , Michele Limon , Frederick T. Matsuda , Philip Mauskopf , Dominik A. Riechers , Gordon J. Stacey , Eve M. Vavagiakis

LAMOST observations in the Kepler field

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) at the Xinglong observatory in China is a new 4-m telescope equipped with 4,000 optical fibers. In 2010, we initiated the LAMOST-Kepler project. We requested to observe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Peter De Cat , Jianning Fu , Xiaohu Yang , Anbing Ren , Antonio Frasca , Joanna Molenda-Żakowicz , Giovanni Catanzaro , Richard O. Gray , Chris J. Corbally , Jianrong Shi , Haotong Zhang , Ali Luo

A Broadband and Compact Millimeter-Wave Imaging System based on Synthetic Aperture Radar

In this paper, the design, realization, and demonstration of a broadband millimeter-wave imaging system based on the synthetic aperture radar technique (SAR) are discussed. The proposed system, operating within the frequency range of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Fahimeh Sepehripour , Ahmad Shafiei Alavijeh , Mohammad Fakharzadeh , Amin Khavasi

Optical Design of the TolTEC Millimeter-wave Camera

TolTEC is a new camera being built for the 50-meter Large Millimeter-wave Telescope (LMT) in Puebla, Mexico to survey distant galaxies and star-forming regions in the Milky Way. The optical design simultaneously couples the field of view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Sean Bryan , Jason Austermann , Daniel Ferrusca , Philip Mauskopf , Jeff McMahon , Alfredo Montana , Sara Simon , Giles Novak , David Sanchez-Arguelles , Grant Wilson

Map-making for large-format detector arrays on CCAT

CCAT is a large submillimetre telescope to be built near the ALMA site in northern Chile. A large-format KID camera, with up to 48,000 detectors at a single waveband sampled at about 1 kHz, will have a data rate about 50 times larger than…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-31 Gaelen Marsden , Tim Jenness , Douglas Scott

Gamma rays, electrons and positrons up to 3 TeV with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, GLAST) was successfully launched on June 11 2008. Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), which detects gamma rays from 20 MeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Philippe Bruel