1 code implementation • 8 Dec 2020 • Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zeeshan Ahmed, Aamir Ali, Kam Arnold, Jason Austermann, Sarah Marie Bruno, Steve K. Choi, Jake Connors, Nicholas F. Cothard, Simon Dicker, Brad Dober, Shannon Duff, Valentina Fanfani, Erin Healy, Shawn Henderson, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho, Duc-Thuong Hoang, Gene Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Yaqiong Li, John Mates, Heather McCarrick, Federico Nati, Michael Niemack, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Suzanne Staggs, Jason Stevens, Michael Vissers, Joel Ullom, Kasey Wagoner, 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 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • Ian Lowe, Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton, Jason E. Austermann, James Beall, Susan Clark, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Simon Dicker, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Brandon Hensley, Johannes Hubmayr, Steven Li, Zhi-Yun Li, Nathan P. Lourie, Peter G. Martin, Philip Mauskopf, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, L. Javier Romualdez, Adrian Sinclair, Juan D. Soler, Carole Tucker, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler, Paul A. Williams, Mario Zannoni
The BLAST Observatory is a proposed superpressure balloon-borne polarimeter designed for a future ultra-long duration balloon campaign from Wanaka, New Zealand.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • Ian Lowe, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton, Jason E. Austermann, Gabriele Coppi, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Samuel Gordon, Christopher E. Groppi, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Klein, Dale Li, Nathan P. Lourie, Hamdi Mani, Philip Mauskopf, Christopher McKenney, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, L. Javier Romualdez, Juan D. Soler, Adrian Sinclair, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Caleb Wheeler, Paul A. Williams
The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 250, 350, and 500 microns during a 24-day Antarctic flight.
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