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The Simons Observatory: Large-Scale Characterization of 90/150 GHz TES Detector Modules

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,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Daniel Dutcher , Shannon M. Duff , John C. Groh , Erin Healy , Johannes Hubmayr , Bradley R. Johnson , Dante Jones , Ben Keller , Lawrence T. Lin , Michael J. Link , Tammy J. Lucas , Samuel Morgan , Yudai Seino , Rita F. Sonka , Suzanne T. Staggs , Yuhan Wang , Kaiwen Zheng

Antenna-coupled TES Bolometer Arrays for BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER

BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER are cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeters targeting the B-mode polarization induced by primordial gravitational waves from inflation. They will be using planar arrays of polarization sensitive antenna-coupled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Orlando , R. W Aikin , M. Amiri , J. J. Bock , J. A. Bonetti , J. A. Brevik , B. Burger , G. Chattopadthyay , P. K. Day , J. P. Filippini , S. R. Golwala , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. C. Hilton , K. D. Irwin , M. Kenyon , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , A. E. Lange , H. G. LeDuc , N. Llombart , H. T. Nguyen , R. W. Ogburn , C. D. Reintsema , M. C. Runyan , Z. Staniszewski , R. Sudiwala , G. Teply , A. R. Trangsrud , A. D. Turner , P. Wilson

Design and preliminary performance study of the broad-band spectrometer detector for POLAR-2

POLAR-2, the successor of the POLAR experiment aboard China's Tiangong-2 space lab, is set to be deployed on the China Space Station. The POLAR-2 mission aims to conducting high-precision polarization measurements of high-energy transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Jian-Chao Sun , Jiang He , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Shao-Lin Xiong , Jiang-Tao Liu , Yan-Bing Xu , Jia Ma , Shuo Wang , Lei Shuai , Xiu-Zuo Liang , Hong-Bang Liu , Fei Xie , Ming Zeng , Philipp Azzarello , Joerg Bayer , Franck Cadoux , Nicolas De Angelis , Huan-Bo Feng , Zu-Ke Feng , Min Gao , Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot , Jochen Greiner , Alejandro Guzman , Jin-Xiu Hu , Yue Huang , Johannes Hulsman , Zheng-Huo Jiang , Merlin Kole , Dao-Wu Li , Han-Cheng Li , Tong-Lei Liao , Long Peng , Agnieszka Pollo , Nicolas Produit , Dominik Rybka , Andrea Santangelo , Li-Ming Song , Chris Tenzer , Xiao-Ming Wang , Yuan-Hao Wang , Bo-Bing Wu , Pei-Lian Wu , Xin Wu , Shuo Xiao , Sheng Yang , Lai-Yu Zhang , Lei Zhang , Yong-Jie Zhang

280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the SPIDER-2 Suborbital Polarimeter

We describe the construction and characterization of the 280 GHz bolometric focal plane units (FPUs) to be deployed on the second flight of the balloon-borne SPIDER instrument. These FPUs are vital to SPIDER's primary science goal of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 A. S. Bergman , P. A. R. Ade , S. Akers , M. Amiri , J. A. Austermann , J. A. Beall , D. T. Becker , S. J. Benton , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , R. S Domagalski , O. Doré , S. M. Duff , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , A. Grigorian , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , J. Hubmayr , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Khan , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , S. Li , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , A. S. Rahlin , S. Redmond , C. Reintsema , L. J. Romualdez , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , E. C. Shaw , C. Shiu , J. D. Soler , X. Song , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. Ullom , J. F. van der List , J. Van Lanen , M. R. Vissers , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver Design Overview

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-31 Ningfeng Zhu , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Zhilei Xu , Aamir Ali , Kam S. Arnold , Peter C. Ashton , Gabriele Coppi , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Shawn W. Henderson , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Brian Keating , Adrian T. Lee , Michele Limon , Marius Lungu , Philip D. Mauskopf , Andrew J. May , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Lucio Piccirillo , Giuseppe Puglisi , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Maria Salatino , Max Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne Staggs , Robert Thornton , Joel N. Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: In-lab Testing and Characterization Program

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background instrument to be sited in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will deploy 60,000 transition-edge sensor bolometers in 49 separate focal-plane modules across a suite of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-08 Yuhan Wang , Kaiwen Zheng , Zachary Atkins , Jason Austermann , Tanay Bhandarkar , Steve K. Choi , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , Nicholas Galitzki , Erin Healy , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Bradley R. Johnson , Jack Lashner , Yaqiong Li , Heather McCarrick , Michael D. Niemack , Joseph Seibert , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Rita Sonka , Suzanne T. Staggs , Eve Vavagiakis , Zhilei Xu

The Simons Observatory: Project Overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over angular scales between 1 arcminute and tens of degrees using over 60,000 detectors and sampling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-08 Nicholas Galitzki

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: Instrument Overview

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular scales between 1 arcminute and tens of degrees, contain over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Nicholas Galitzki , Aamir Ali , Kam S. Arnold , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Darcy Barron , James A. Beall , Shawn Beckman , Sarah Marie M. Bruno , Sean Bryan , Paolo G. Calisse , Grace E. Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Steve K. Choi , Gabriele Coppi , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Shannon M. Duff , Jo Dunkley , Giulio Fabbian , Patricio A. Gallardo , Martina Gerbino , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Joseph E. Golec , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Erin E. Healy , Shawn Henderson , Charles A. Hill , Gene C. Hilton , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Logan A. Howe , Johannes Hubmayr , Oliver Jeong , Brian Keating , Brian J. Koopman , Kenji Kuichi , Akito Kusaka , Jacob Lashner , Adrian T. Lee , Yaqiong Li , Michele Limon , Marius Lungu , Frederick Matsuda , Philip D. Mauskopf , Andrew J. May , Nialh McCallum , Jeff McMahon , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Stephen C. Parshley , Lucio Piccirillo , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Christopher Raum , Maria Salatino , Joseph S. Seibert , Carlos Sierra , Max Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne T. Staggs , Jason R. Stevens , Aritoki Suzuki , Grant Teply , Robert Thornton , Calvin Tsai , Joel N. Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R. Vissers , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

Characterization and performance of the second-year SPT-3G focal plane

The third-generation instrument for the 10-meter South Pole Telescope, SPT-3G, was first installed in January 2017. In addition to completely new cryostats, secondary telescope optics, and readout electronics, the number of detectors in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 D. Dutcher , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , A. J. Anderson , J. S. Avva , R. Basu Thakur , A. N. Bender , B. A. Benson , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , J. F. Cliche , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , W. Everett , A. Foster , J. Gallicchio , A. Gilbert , J. C. Groh , S. T. Guns , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , W. L. Holzapfel , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , T. S. Khaire , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , A. E. Lowitz , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , Z. Pan , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , W. Quan , A. Rahlin , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young

The Simons Observatory: Detector Polarization Angle Calibration using Sparse Wire Grid with Initial Data Sets of the Small Aperture Telescope

Improved measurements of $B$-modes in the cosmic microwave background can be obtained through accurate calibration of the orientation of detector antennas as projected onto the sky. Miscalibration of the detector polarization angle leads to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Hironobu Nakata , Shunsuke Adachi , Kyohei Yamada , Michael Randall , Yutaro Kasai , Kam Arnold , Bryce Bixler , Yuji Chinone , Kevin T. Crowley , Nadia Dachlythra , Samuel Day-Weiss , Nicholas Galitzki , Serena Giardiello , Bradley R. Johnson , Brian Keating , Brian J. Koopman , Akito Kusaka , Jack Lashner , Federico Nati , Lyman Page , Daichi Sasaki , Yoshinori Sueno , Junya Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Tran Tsan

BICEP3 performance overview and planned Keck Array upgrade

BICEP3 is a 520 mm aperture, compact two-lens refractor designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at 95 GHz. Its focal plane consists of modularized tiles of antenna-coupled transition edge sensors…

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Response of the first POLAR-2 Prototype to Polarized Beams

POLAR-2 is a dedicated gamma-ray polarimeter currently foreseen to be launched towards the China Space Station around 2027. The design of the detector is based on the legacy of its predecessor mission POLAR which was launched in 2016.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Merlin Kole , Nicolas de Angelis , Ana Bacelj , Franck Cadoux , Agnieszka Elwertowska , Johannes Hulsman , Hancheng Li , Grzegorz Łubian , Tomasz Kowalski , Gilles Koziol , Agnieszka Pollo , Nicolas Produit , Dominik Rybka , Adrien Stil , Jianchao Sun , Xin Wu , Kacper Zezuliński , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Fabrication of Feedhorn-Coupled Transition Edge Sensor Arrays for Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Characterization of the minute cosmic microwave background polarization signature requires multi-frequency, high-throughput precision instrument systems. We have previously described the detector fabrication of a 40 GHz focal plane and now…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Kevin L. Denis , Aamir Ali , John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , Meng-Ping Chang , David T. Chuss , Felipe Colazo , Nicholas Costen , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Ron Hu , Tobias Marriage , Karwan Rostem , Kongpop U-Yen , Edward J. Wollack

The Atacama B-Mode Search: CMB Polarimetry with Transition-Edge-Sensor Bolometers

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…

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The Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Ningfeng Zhu , Tanay Bhandarkar , Gabriele Coppi , Anna M. Kofman , John L. Orlowski-Scherer , Zhilei Xu , Shunsuke Adachi , Peter Ade , Simone Aiola , Jason Austermann , Andrew O. Bazarko , James A. Beall , Sanah Bhimani , J. Richard Bond , Grace E. Chesmore , Steve K. Choi , Jake Connors , Nicholas F. Cothard , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Rolando Dünner , Giulio Fabbian , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Joseph E. Golec , Saianeesh K. Haridas , Kathleen Harrington , Erin Healy , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Zachary B. Huber , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , Bradley R. Johnson , Brian Keatin , Kenji Kiuchi , Brian J. Koopman , Jack Lashner , Adrian T. Lee , Yaqiong Li , Michele Limon , Michael Link , Tammy J Lucas , Heather McCarrick , Jenna Moore , Federico Nati , Laura B. Newburgh , Michael D. Niemack , Elena Pierpaoli , Michael J. Randall , Karen Perez Sarmiento , Lauren J. Saunders , Joseph Seibert , Carlos Sierra , Rita Sonka , Jacob Spisak , Shreya Sutariya , Osamu Tajima , Grant P. Teply , Robert J. Thornton , Tran Tsan , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R. Vissers , Samantha Walker , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack , Mario Zannoni

Simons Observatory: Pre-deployment Performance of a Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tube in the 90 and 150 GHz Spectral Bands

The Simons Observatory will map the temperature and polarization over half of the sky, at millimeter wavelengths in six spectral bands from the Atacama Desert in Chile. These data will provide new insights into the genesis, content, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Carlos E. Sierra , Kathleen Harrington , Shreya Sutariya , Thomas Alford , Anna M. Kofman , Grace E. Chesmore , Jason E. Austermann , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Tanay Bhandarkar , Mark J. Devlin , Simon R. Dicker , Peter N. Dow , Shannon M. Duff , Daniel Dutcher , Nicholas Galitzki , Joseph E. Golec , John C. Groh , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Saianeesh K. Haridas , Erin Healy , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , Bradley R. Johnson , Claire S. Lessler , Richard A. Lew , Michael J. Link , Tammy J. Lucas , Jeffrey J. McMahon , Jenna E. Moore , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Benjamin L. Schmitt , Max Silva-Feaver , Robinjeet Singh , Rita F. Sonka , Alex Thomas , Robert J. Thornton , Tran Tsan , Joel N. Ullom , Jeffrey L. Van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R. Vissers , Yuhan Wang , Kaiwen Zheng

Characterization of Transition Edge Sensors for the Simons Observatory

The Simons Observatory is building both large (6 m) and small (0.5 m) aperture telescopes in the Atacama desert in Chile to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with unprecedented sensitivity. Simons Observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Jason R. Stevens , Nicholas F. Cothard , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Aamir Ali , Kam Arnold , Jason E. Austermann , Steve K. Choi , Bradley J. Dober , Cody Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Gene C. Hilton , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Thuong D. Hoang , Johannes Hubmayr , Adrian T. Lee , Aashrita Mangu , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Christopher Raum , Mario Renzullo , Maria Salatino , Trevor Sasse , Sara M. Simon , Suzanne Staggs , Aritoki Suzuki , Patrick Truitt , Joel Ullom , John Vivalda , Michael R. Vissers , Samantha Walker , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Daniel Yohannes

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

Cooldown Strategies and Transient Thermal Simulations for the Simons Observatory

The Simons Observatory (SO) will provide precision polarimetry of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover angular scales from arc-minutes to tens of degrees, contain over 60,000 detectors, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-27 Gabriele Coppi , Zhilei Xu , Aamir Ali , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Brian Keating , Michele Limon , Marius Longu , Andrew J. May , Jeff McMahon , Michael D. Niemack , Jack L. Orlowski-Scherer , Lucio Piccirillo , Giuseppe Puglisi , Maria Salatino , Sara M. Simon , Grant Teply , Robert Thornton , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Ningfeng Zhu