The Simons Observatory (SO) is a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment to observe the microwave sky in six frequency bands from 30GHz to 290GHz. The Observatory -- at ∼5200m altitude -- comprises three Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) and one Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) at the Atacama Desert, Chile. This research note describes the design and current status of the LAT along with its future timeline.
@article{arxiv.2104.09511,
title = {The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope (LAT)},
author = {Zhilei Xu and Shunsuke Adachi and Peter Ade and J. A. Beall and Tanay Bhandarkar and J. Richard Bond and Grace E. Chesmore and Yuji Chinone and Steve K. Choi and Jake A. Connors and Gabriele Coppi and Nicholas F. Cothard and Kevin D. Crowley and Mark Devlin and Simon Dicker and Bradley Dober and Shannon M. Duff and Nicholas Galitzki and Patricio A. Gallardo and Joseph E. Golec and Jon E. Gudmundsson and Saianeesh K. Haridas and Kathleen Harrington and Carlos Hervias-Caimapo and Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho and Zachary B. Huber and Johannes Hubmayr and Jeffrey Iuliano and Daisuke Kaneko and Anna M. Kofman and Brian J. Koopman and Jack Lashner and Michele Limon and Michael J. Link and Tammy J. Lucas and Frederick Matsuda and Heather McCarrick and Federico Nati and Michael D. Niemack and John Orlowski-Scherer and Lucio Piccirillo and Karen Perez Sarmiento and Emmanuel Schaan and Maximiliano Silva-Feaver and Rita Sonka and Shreya Sutariya and Osamu Tajima and Grant P. Teply and Tomoki Terasaki and Robert Thornton and Carole Tucker and Joel Ullom and Eve M. Vavagiakis and Michael R. Vissers and Samantha Walker and Zachary Whipps and Edward J. Wollack and Mario Zannoni and Ningfeng Zhu and Andrea Zonca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09511},
year = {2021}
}