no code implementations • 3 Feb 2021 • Kathleen Harrington, Carlos Sierra, Grace Chesmore, Shreya Sutariya, Aamir M. Ali, Steve K. Choi, Nicholas F. Cothard, Simon Dicker, Nicholas Galitzki, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Anna M. Kofman, Brian J. Koopman, Jack Lashner, Jeff McMahon, Michael D. Niemack, John Orlowski-Scherer, Joseph Seibert, Max Silva-Feaver, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zhilei Xu, Ningfeng Zhu
The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2021 • Joseph E. Golec, Jeffrey J. McMahon, Aamir M. Ali, Simon Dicker, Nicholas Galitzki, Kathleen Harrington, Benjamin Westbrook, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Ningfeng Zhu
The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • Nicholas F. Cothard, Aamir M. Ali, Jason E. Austermann, Steve K. Choi, Kevin T. Crowley, Bradley J. Dober, Cody J. Duell, Shannon M. Duff, Patricio Gallardo, Gene C. Hilton, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Johannes Hubmayr, Michael J. Link, Michael D. Niemack, Rita F. Sonka, Suzanne T. Staggs, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu
The Simons Observatory (SO) will perform ground-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several small and large aperture telescopes, each outfitted with thousands to tens of thousands of superconducting aluminum manganese (AlMn) transition-edge sensor bolometers (TESs).
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2020 • Maximilian H. Abitbol, David Alonso, Sara M. Simon, Jack Lashner, Kevin T. Crowley, Aamir M. Ali, Susanna Azzoni, Carlo Baccigalupi, Darcy Barron, Michael L. Brown, Erminia Calabrese, Julien Carron, Yuji Chinone, Jens Chluba, Gabriele Coppi, Kevin D. Crowley, Mark Devlin, Jo Dunkley, Josquin Errard, Valentina Fanfani, Nicholas Galitzki, Martina Gerbino, J. Colin Hill, Bradley R. Johnson, Baptiste Jost, Brian Keating, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Akito Kusaka, Adrian T. Lee, Thibaut Louis, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Heather McCarrick, Jeffrey McMahon, P. Daniel Meerburg, Federico Nati, Haruki Nishino, Lyman A. Page, Davide Poletti, Giuseppe Puglisi, Michael J. Randall, Aditya Rotti, Jacob Spisak, Aritoki Suzuki, Grant P. Teply, Clara Vergès, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Mario Zannoni
We quantify the calibration requirements for systematic uncertainties for next-generation ground-based observatories targeting the large-angle $B$-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, with a focus on the Simons Observatory (SO).
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
