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The POLARBEAR-2/Simons Array Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization experiment is an upgrade and expansion of the existing POLARBEAR-1 (PB-1) experiment, located in the Atacama desert in Chile. Along with the CMB temperature and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-15 Logan Howe , Calvin Tsai , Lindsay Lowry , Kam Arnold , Gabriele Coppi , John Groh , Xiaoyu Guo , Brian Keating , Adrian Lee , Andrew J. May , Lucio Piccirillo , Nathan Stebor , Grant Teply

Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) will be a new instrument designed to be mounted at the Nasmyth--A focus of the ESO 3.5 m New Technology Telescope in La Silla site (Chile). SOXS is composed of two high-efficiency spectrographs with a resolution slit…

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a polarization-sensitive telescope array located at an altitude of 5,200 m in the Chilean Atacama Desert and designed to measure the polarized Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over…

The Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) instrument is a cryogenic ($\sim$10 K) crossed-Dragone telescope located at an elevation of 5190 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile that observed for three seasons between February 2012 and October 2014. ABS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 S. M. Simon , J. W. Appel , L. E. Campusano , S. K. Choi , K. T. Crowley , T. Essinger-Hileman , P. Gallardo , S. P. Ho , A. Kusaka , F. Nati , G. A. Palma , L. A. Page , S. Raghunathan , S. T. Staggs

The Simons Observatory (SO) Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) will be coupled to the Large Aperture Telescope located at an elevation of 5,200 m on Cerro Toco in Chile. The resulting instrument will produce arcminute-resolution…

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

The SOXS spectrograph, designed for the ESO NTT telescope, operates in both the optical (UV-VIS: 350-850 nm) and NIR (800-2000 nm) bands. This article provides an overview of the final tests conducted on the UV-VIS camera system using a…

We present on the status of POLARBEAR-2 A (PB2-A) focal plane fabrication. The PB2-A is the first of three telescopes in the Simon Array (SA), which is an array of three cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization sensitive telescopes…

Current- and next-generation Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments will measure polarization anisotropies with unprecedented sensitivities. The need for high precision in these measurements underscores the importance of gaining a…

The upcoming Simons Observatory (SO) Small Aperture Telescopes aim at observing the degree-scale anisotropies of the polarized CMB to constrain the primordial tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ at the level of $\sigma(r=0)\lesssim0.003$ to probe…

The third-generation South Pole Telescope camera is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background across three frequency bands (95, 150 and 220 GHz) with ~16,000 transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each multichroic pixel on a…

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

SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is the new ESO instrument that is going to be installed on the 3.58-m New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. SOXS is a single object spectrograph offering a wide simultaneous spectral coverage from U-…

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) experiment is a 145 GHz polarimeter designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales. The ABS instrument will ship to the Atacama Desert of Chile…

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

SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a single object spectrograph, characterized by offering a wide simultaneous spectral coverage from U- to H-band, built by an international consortium for the 3.6-m ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla…

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. 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We present the design and characterization of the POLARBEAR experiment. POLARBEAR will measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on angular scales ranging from the experiment's 3.5 arcminute beam size to several…