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astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes

Kathleen Harrington, Remington Gerras, Nicholas Galitzki +88

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO Small Aperture Tel…

astro-ph.IM2026

Proof of concept of the COSMOCal project at the IRAM 30m telescope

S. Savorgnano, L. Bizzarri, A. Ritacco +25

This work reports on a test campaign conducted at the IRAM 30m telescope to validate the COSMOCal instrument, a novel concept for absolute calibration of polarization angle, beam p…

astro-ph.IM2026

Status and future development of the COSMOCal Project for absolute CMB polarization calibration

Silvia Micheli, Alessia Ritacco, Alessandro Carones +36

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization measurements are pushing instrumental sensitivities to levels where calibration systematics become a dominant limitation. The large d…

astro-ph.CO2026

High-accuracy polarimetry for CMB: new frontiers with the POLOCALC project

A. Novelli, F. Astori, L. Bizzarri +8

Modern telescopes observing the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization require an exquisite control of systematics to target Inflationary Gravitational Waves (IGW), Cosmic…

astro-ph.IM2026

Status of the COSmological Microwave Observations CALibrator

L. Mousset, J. Aumont, S. Berta +33

As the sensitivity of CMB telescopes increases, the need for precise calibration becomes critical. Started in 2022, the COSMOCal project aims to place an artificial polarized sourc…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Simons Observatory: Detector Polarization Angle Calibration using Sparse Wire Grid with Initial Data Sets of the Small Aperture Telescope

Hironobu Nakata, Shunsuke Adachi, Kyohei Yamada +22

Improved measurements of -modes in the cosmic microwave background can be obtained through accurate calibration of the orientation of detector antennas as projected onto the sky…