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We present the design methodology and characterization of a superconducting magnetic bearing (SMB) system for the polarization modulator in the SAT-LF, one of the small aperture telescopes (SATs) in the Simons Observatory (SO) that is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Daichi Sasaki , Junna Sugiyama , Kyohei Yamada , Bryce Bixler , Yuki Sakurai , Kam Arnold , Bradley R. Johnson , Akito Kusaka

We investigate the cosmological information in higher-order statistics of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence field for a near-term experiment with noise properties similar to the Simons Observatory (SO). Using a fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Shu-Fan Chen , J. Colin Hill , Zoltán Haiman

The Diffuse Microwave Emission Survey (DIMES) has been selected for a mission concept study for NASA's New Mission Concepts for Astrophysics program. DIMES will measure the frequency spectrum of the cosmic microwave background and diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Al Kogut

The Simons Observatory (SO), a next-generation ground-based CMB experiment in its final stages of construction, will target primordial $B$-modes with unprecedented sensitivity to set tight bounds on the amplitude of inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Emilie Hertig , Kevin Wolz , Toshiya Namikawa , Antón Baleato Lizancos , Susanna Azzoni , Anthony Challinor

We conduct a small-scale pathfinding survey designed to identify the average polarization properties of the diffuse ISM locally at the lowest dust content regions. We perform deep optopolarimetric surveys within three $\sim 15' \times 15'$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 R. Skalidis , G. V. Panopoulou , K. Tassis , V. Pavlidou , D. Blinov , I. Komis , I. Liodakis

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover angular scales between one arcminute and tens of degrees and…

Observations of far-infrared (FIR) and submillimeter (SMM) polarized emission are used to study magnetic fields and dust grains in dense regions of the interstellar medium (ISM). These observations place constraints on models of molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 John E. Vaillancourt

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…

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…

We present observations with the new 11 GHz radiometer of the COSMOSOMAS experiment at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife). The sky region between 0 deg <= RA <= 360 deg and 26 deg <= DEC 49 deg (ca. 6500 square degrees) was observed with an…

Dust is a ubiquitous component in our Galaxy. It accounts for only $1\%$ mass of the ISM but still is an essential part of the Galaxy. It affects our view of the Galaxy by obscuring the starlight at shorter wavelengths and re-emitting in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-17 Namita Uppal , Shashikiran Ganesh , Santosh Joshi , Mrinmoy Sarkar , Prachi Prajapati , Athul Dileep

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background instrumentation suite in the Atacama Desert of Chile. More than 65,000 polarization-sensitive transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers will be fielded in the frequency range…

We explore in this paper the ability to constrain the Galactic magnetic field intensity and spatial distribution with the incoming data from the Planck satellite experiment. We perform realistic simulations of the Planck observations at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macías-Pérez , T. R. Jaffe , A. J. Banday , F. -X. Désert , D. Santos

Context. The polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust offers a valuable tool for probing both the dust and the magnetic field in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, existing observations only yield the total amount of dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Katia Ferrière , Ludovic Montier , Jean-Sébastien Carrière

We present a spectroscopic survey of galaxies in the COSMOS field using the Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS), a near-infrared instrument on the Subaru Telescope. Our survey is specifically designed to detect the Halpha emission line…

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment currently being deployed to Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The initial deployment of SO, consisting of three 0.46m-diameter small-aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Jack Lashner , Kaiwen Zheng , Kevin T. Crowley , Nicholas Galitzki , Kathleen Harrington , Hironobu Nakata , Max Silva-Feaver

We present results of multifrequency polarimetric VLBA observations of 34 compact radio sources. The observations are part of a large survey undertaken to identify CSOs Observed in the Northern Sky (COINS). Based on VLBI continuum surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Peck , G. B. Taylor

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background instrumentation suite being deployed in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The telescopes within SO use three types of dichroic transition-edge sensor (TES) detector arrays,…

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a Cosmic Microwave Background experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO consists of three small aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large aperture telescope (LAT) with a total of 60,000 detectors in…

We present the first results from a new carbon monoxide (CO) survey of the southern Galactic plane being conducted with the Mopra radio telescope in Australia. The 12CO, 13CO and C18O J=1-0 lines are being mapped over the l = 305-345 deg, b…

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