8 papers
Simons Observatory Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Readout -- Cryogenic RF Amplifier and Coaxial Chain Design
Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Aamir Ali +33
The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarization-sensitive Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment on the Cerro Toco Plateau (Chile) with large overlap with other optic…
Small Aperture Telescopes for the Simons Observatory
Aamir M. Ali, Shunsuke Adachi, Kam Arnold +49
The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located on Cerro Toco, Chile, that will map the microwave sky in temperature and polarizatio…
Characterization of Transition Edge Sensors for the Simons Observatory
Jason R. Stevens, Nicholas F. Cothard, Eve M. Vavagiakis +31
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…
Characterization of aliased noise in the Advanced ACTPol receiver
Patricio A. Gallardo, Michael D. Niemack, Jason E. Austermann +14
Advanced ACTPol is the second generation polarization-sensitive upgrade to the aperture Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), which increased detector count and frequency…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Component-separated maps of CMB temperature and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
Mathew S. Madhavacheril, J. Colin Hill, Sigurd Naess +51
Optimal analyses of many signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) require map-level extraction of individual components in the microwave sky, rather than measurements at th…
The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…