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ScopeSim: A flexible general purpose astronomical instrument data simulation framework in Python

ScopeSim is a flexible multipurpose instrument data simulation framework built in Python. It enables both raw and reduced observation data to be simulated for a wide range of telescopes and instruments quickly and efficiently on a personal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Kieran Leschinski , Hugo Buddelmeijer , Oliver Czoske , Miguel Verdugo , Gijs Verdoes-Kleijn , Werner Zeilinger

Studies of Systematic Uncertainties for Simons Observatory: Detector Array Effects

In this proceeding, we present studies of instrumental systematic effects for the Simons Obsevatory (SO) that are associated with the detector system and its interaction with the full SO experimental systems. SO will measure the Cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-10 Kevin T. Crowley , Sara M. Simon , Max Silva-Feaver , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Aamir Ali , Jason Austermann , Michael L. Brown , Yuji Chinone , Ari Cukierman , Bradley Dober , Shannon M. Duff , Jo Dunkley , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Patricio A. Gallardo , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Johannes Hubmayr , Brian Keating , Akito Kusaka , Nialh McCallum , Jeff McMahon , Federico Nati , Michael D. Niemack , Giuseppe Puglisi , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Christian L. Reichardt , Maria Salatino , Praween Siritanasak , Suzanne Staggs , Aritoki Suzuki , Grant Teply , Daniel B. Thomas , Joel N. Ullom , Clara Vergès , Michael R. Vissers , Benjamin Westbrook , Edward J. Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Ningfeng Zhu

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

COSMOSOMAS: A Circular Scanning Instrument to Map the Sky at Centimetric Wavelengths

We describe the first instrument of a Cosmic Microwave Background experiment for mapping cosmological structures on medium angular scales (the COSMOSOMAS experiment) and diffuse Galactic emission. The instrument is located at Teide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. E. Gallegos , J. F. Macias-Perez , C. M. Gutierrez , R. Rebolo , R. A. Watson , R. J. Hoyland , S. Fernandez-Cerezo

The Simons Observatory: component separation pipelines for B-modes

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Kevin Wolz , Susanna Azzoni , Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Josquin Errard , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , David Alonso , Benjamin Beringue , Emilie Hertig

RemoteSAM: Towards Segment Anything for Earth Observation

We aim to develop a robust yet flexible visual foundation model for Earth observation. It should possess strong capabilities in recognizing and localizing diverse visual targets while providing compatibility with various input-output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Liang Yao , Fan Liu , Delong Chen , Chuanyi Zhang , Yijun Wang , Ziyun Chen , Wei Xu , Shimin Di , Yuhui Zheng

Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is designed to provide an unprecedented optical imaging dataset that will support investigations of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe, across half the sky and over ten years of repeated observation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 LSST Science Collaboration , Phil Marshall , Timo Anguita , Federica B. Bianco , Eric C. Bellm , Niel Brandt , Will Clarkson , Andy Connolly , Eric Gawiser , Zeljko Ivezic , Lynne Jones , Michelle Lochner , Michael B. Lund , Ashish Mahabal , David Nidever , Knut Olsen , Stephen Ridgway , Jason Rhodes , Ohad Shemmer , David Trilling , Kathy Vivas , Lucianne Walkowicz , Beth Willman , Peter Yoachim , Scott Anderson , Pierre Antilogus , Ruth Angus , Iair Arcavi , Humna Awan , Rahul Biswas , Keaton J. Bell , David Bennett , Chris Britt , Derek Buzasi , Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Laura Chomiuk , Chuck Claver , Kem Cook , James Davenport , Victor Debattista , Seth Digel , Zoheyr Doctor , R. E. Firth , Ryan Foley , Wen-fai Fong , Lluis Galbany , Mark Giampapa , John E. Gizis , Melissa L. Graham , Carl Grillmair , Phillipe Gris , Zoltan Haiman , Patrick Hartigan , Suzanne Hawley , Renee Hlozek , Saurabh W. Jha , C. Johns-Krull , Shashi Kanbur , Vassiliki Kalogera , Vinay Kashyap , Vishal Kasliwal , Richard Kessler , Alex Kim , Peter Kurczynski , Ofer Lahav , Michael C. Liu , Alex Malz , Raffaella Margutti , Tom Matheson , Jason D. McEwen , Peregrine McGehee , Soren Meibom , Josh Meyers , Dave Monet , Eric Neilsen , Jeffrey Newman , Matt O'Dowd , Hiranya V. Peiris , Matthew T. Penny , Christina Peters , Radoslaw Poleski , Kara Ponder , Gordon Richards , Jeonghee Rho , David Rubin , Samuel Schmidt , Robert L. Schuhmann , Avi Shporer , Colin Slater , Nathan Smith , Marcelles Soares-Santos , Keivan Stassun , Jay Strader , Michael Strauss , Rachel Street , Christopher Stubbs , Mark Sullivan , Paula Szkody , Virginia Trimble , Tony Tyson , Miguel de Val-Borro , Stefano Valenti , Robert Wagoner , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Bevin Ashley Zauderer

Unsupervised self-organised mapping: a versatile empirical tool for object selection, classification and redshift estimation in large surveys

We present an application of unsupervised machine learning - the self-organised map (SOM) - as a tool for visualising, exploring and mining the catalogues of large astronomical surveys. Self-organisation culminates in a low-resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 James E. Geach

The ALMA archive and its place in the astronomy of the future

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile, is the largest astronomical project in existence. While ALMA's…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 Felix Stoehr , Mark Lacy , Stéphane Leon , Erik Muller , Alisdair Manning , Christophe Moins , Dustin Jenkins

SAOLIM, a prototype of a low cost System for Adaptive Optics with Lucky Imaging

A prototype of a low cost Adaptive Optics (AO) system has been developed at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC) and tested at the 2.2m telescope of the Calar Alto observatory. We present here the status of the project, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Aceituno , S. F. Sanchez , J. L. Ortiz , F. J. Aceituno

Common Software for the ALMA project

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is a joint project between astronomical organizations in Europe, USA and Japan. ALMA will consist of at least 64 12-meter antennas operating in the millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength range,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Chiozzi , B. Gustafsson , B. Jeram , P. Sivera , M. Plesko , M. Sekoranja , G. Tkacik , J. Dovc , M. Kadunc , G. Milcinski , I. Verstovsek , K. Zagar

SRAO: optical design and the dual-knife-edge WFS

The Southern Robotic Adaptive Optics (SRAO) instrument will bring the proven high-efficiency capabilities of Robo-AO to the Southern-Hemisphere, providing the unique capability to image with high-angular-resolution thousands of targets per…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Carl Ziegler , Nicholas M. Law , Andrei Tokovinin

European ALMA operations: the interaction with and support to the users

The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) is one of the largest and most complicated observatories ever built. Constructing and operating an observatory at high altitude (5000m) in a cost effective and safe manner, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paola Andreani , Martin Zwaan

Current status and future plan of Osaka Prefecture University 1.85-m mm-submm telescope project

We report the current status of the 1.85-m mm-submm telescope installed at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (altitude 1400 m) and the future plan. The scientific goal is to reveal the physical/chemical properties of molecular clouds in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Atsushi Nishimura , Kazuki Tokuda , Ryohei Harada , Yutaka Hasegawa , Shota Ueda , Sho Masui , Ryotaro Konishi , Yasumasa Yamasaki , Hiroshi Kondo , Koki Yokoyama , Takeru Matsumoto , Taisei Minami , Masanari Okawa , Shinji Fujita , Ayu Konishi , Yuka Nakao , Shimpei Nishimoto , Sana Kawashita , Sho Yoneyama , Tatsuyuki Takashima , Kenta Goto , Nozomi Okada , Kimihiro Kimura , Yasuhiro Abe , Kazuyuki Muraoka , Hiroyuki Maezawa , Toshikazu Onishi , Hideo Ogawa

Progress in the Design of the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope

The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) aims to be the premier next generation large diameter (50 meter) single dish observatory capable of observations across the millimeter/submillimeter spectrum, from 30~GHz to 1~THz.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 Tony Mroczkowski , Claudia Cicone , Matthias Reichert , Patricio Gallardo , Hans Kaercher , Richard Hills , Daniel Bok , Erik Dahl , Pierre Dubois-dit-Bonclaude , Aleksej Kiselev , Martin Timpe , Thomas Zimmerer , Simon Dicker , Mike Macintosh , Pamela Klaassen , Michael Niemack

Cold optical design for the Large Aperture Simons Observatory telescope

The Simons Observatory will consist of a single large (6 m diameter) telescope and a number of smaller (0.5 m diameter) refracting telescopes designed to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background to unprecedented accuracy.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-16 S. R. Dicker , P. A. Gallardo , J. E Gudmundsson , P. D. Mauskopf , A. Ali , P. C. Ashton , G. Coppi , M. J. Devlin , N. Galitzki , S. P. Ho , C. A. Hill , J. Hubmayr , B. Keating , A. T. Lee , M. Limon , F. Matsuda , J. McMahon , M. D. Niemack , J. L. Orlowski-Scherer , L. Piccirillo , M. Salatino , S. M. Simon , S. T. Staggs , R. Thornton , J. N. Ullom , E. M. Vavagiakis , E. J. Wollack , Z. Xu , N. Zhu

The Simons Observatory: Combining delensing and foreground cleaning for improved constraints on inflation

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

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

Son of X--Shooter: a multi--band instrument for a multi--band universe

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. Claudi , S. Campana , P. Schipani , M. Aliverti , A. Baruffolo , S. Ben-Ami , F. Biondi , A. Brucalassi , G. Capasso , R. Cosentino , F. D'Alessio , P. D'Avanzo , O. Hershko , H. Kuncarayakti , M. Munari , A. Rubin , S. Scuderi , F. Vitali , J. Achren , J. Antonio Araiza-Duran , I. Arcavi , A. Bianco , E. Cappellaro , M. Colapietro , M. Della Valle , O. Diner , S. D'Orsi , D. Fantinel , J. Fynbo , A. Gal-Yam , M. Genoni , M. Hirvonen , J. Kotilainen , T. Kumar , M. Landoni , J. Lehti , G. Li Causi , L. Marafatto , S. Mattila , G. Pariani , G. Pignata , M. Rappaport , M. Riva , D. Ricci , B. Salasnich , S. Smartt , M. Turatto , R. Zanmar Sanchez , H. U. Kaufl , M. Accardo

Development status of the SOXS spectrograph for the ESO-NTT telescope

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-24 P. Schipani , S. Campana , R. Claudi , M. Aliverti , A. Baruffolo , S. Ben-Ami , F. Biondi , G. Capasso , R. Cosentino , F. D'Alessio , P. D'Avanzo , O. Hershko , H. Kuncarayakti , M. Landoni , M. Munari , G. Pignata , A. Rubin , S. Scuderi , F. Vitali , D. Young , J. Achren , J. A. Araiza-Duran , I. Arcavi , A. Brucalassi , R. Bruch , E. Cappellaro , M. Colapietro , M. Della Valle , M. De Pascale , R. Di Benedetto , S. D'Orsi , A. Gal-Yam , M. Genoni , M. Hernandez , J. Kotilainen , G. Li Causi , L. Marty , S. Mattila , K. Radhakrishnan , M. Rappaport , D. Ricci , M. Riva , B. Salasnich , S. Savarese , S. Smartt , R. Zanmar Sanchez , M. Stritzinger , H. Ventura , L. Pasquini , M. Scholler , H. U. Kaufl , M. Accardo , L. Mehrgan , E. Pompei