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20162026
most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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68 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Passband Measurements with an Analysis of Systematic Errors

Thomas Alford, Rahul Datta, Erminia Calabrese +14

We present measurements of the spectral response of the four Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) multichroic detector arrays, which observed in frequency bands centered near 30, 40, 90, 150,…

astro-ph.CO2026

Is cosmic birefringence due to dark energy or dark matter? Simulation-based inference

Florie Carralot, Patricia Diego-Palazuelos, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +3

Simulation-based inference (SBI) is a powerful inference technique for cases where the exact functional form of the likelihood is not known. A prime example is the likelihood of cr…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Robust CMB B-mode analysis with Needlet-ILC and simulation-based inference

Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Kristen Surrao, Adrian E. Bayer +4

We explore a novel analysis framework for parameter inference with large-scale CMB polarization data. Our method uses simulation-based inference combined with the needlet internal…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A demonstration of CMB lensing measurement from daytime data

Irene Abril-Cabezas, Frank J. Qu, Joshua Kim +30

We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum analysis using daytime data (11am-11pm UTC) gathered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) over the period…

astro-ph.CO2025

The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in galaxy clusters and filaments using multifrequency temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background: Abell 399--Abell 401 cluster pair case study

Ajay S. Gill, Yilun Guan, Adam D. Hincks +19

We present a multifrequency and multi-instrument methodology to study the physical properties of galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments using cosmic microwave background observations…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 8 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectrum Foreground Model and Validation

Benjamin Beringue, Kristen M. Surrao, J. Colin Hill +28

We discuss the model of astrophysical emission at millimeter wavelengths used to characterize foregrounds in the multi-frequency power spectra of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (A…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 20 cited

Unified and consistent structure growth measurements from joint ACT, SPT and \textit{Planck} CMB lensing

Frank J. Qu, Fei Ge, W. L. Kimmy Wu +143

We present the tightest cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing constraints to date on the growth of structure by combining CMB lensing measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Te…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Maps

Sigurd Naess, Yilun Guan, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +163

We present Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy at arcminute resolution over three…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 14 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models

Erminia Calabrese, J. Colin Hill, Hidde T. Jense +169

We use new cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) to test fo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 11 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and CDM Parameters

Thibaut Louis, Adrien La Posta, Zachary Atkins +165

We present power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in temperature and polarization, measured from the Data Release 6 maps made from Atacama Cosmology Tele…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: Quantifying the impact of beam chromaticity on large-scale B-mode science

Nadia Dachlythra, Kevin Wolz, Susanna Azzoni +17

The Simons Observatory (SO) Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) will observe the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization at six frequency bands. Within these ba…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 8 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Semi-Analytic Covariance Matrices for the DR6 CMB Power Spectra

Zachary Atkins, Zack Li, David Alonso +18

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6 (ACT DR6) power spectrum is expected to provide state-of-the-art cosmological constraints, with an associated need for precise error…

astro-ph.CO2024

Modeling beam chromaticity for high-resolution CMB analyses

S. Giardiello, A. J. Duivenvoorden, E. Calabrese +7

We investigate the impact of beam chromaticity, i.e., the frequency dependence of the beam window function, on cosmological and astrophysical parameter constraints from CMB power s…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of galaxy cluster temperatures through relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

William R. Coulton, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Zachary Atkins +32

The high electron temperature in galaxy clusters (keV or K) leads to corrections at the level of a few percent in their thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect signatures.…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Quantifying Atmospheric Emission above Cerro Toco

Thomas W. Morris, Elia Battistelli, Ricardo Bustos +17

At frequencies below 1 Hz, fluctuations in atmospheric emission in the Chajnantor region in northern Chile are the primary source of interference for bolometric millimeter-wave obs…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Superclustering with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Dark Energy Survey: II. Anisotropic large-scale coherence in hot gas, galaxies, and dark matter

M. Lokken, A. van Engelen, M. Aguena +73

Statistics that capture the directional dependence of the baryon distribution in the cosmic web enable unique tests of cosmology and astrophysical feedback. We use constrained orie…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Analysis of Polarized Dust Emission Using Data from the First Flight of SPIDER

SPIDER Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Amiri +67

Using data from the first flight of SPIDER and from Planck HFI, we probe the properties of polarized emission from interstellar dust in the SPIDER observing region. Component separ…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 14 cited

Evidence for large baryonic feedback at low and intermediate redshifts from kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations with ACT and DESI photometric galaxies

B. Hadzhiyska, S. Ferraro, B. Ried Guachalla +70

Recent advances in cosmological observations have provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the distribution of baryons relative to the underlying matter. In this work,…

astro-ph.IM2024

: GPU Accelerated Spherical Harmonic Transforms on Arbitrary Pixelizations

Sebastian Belkner, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Julien Carron +2

We present , a general-purpose Python package that wraps a highly efficient CUDA implementation of the nonuniform spin- spherical harmonic transform. The metho…

astro-ph.CO2024

Denoising Diffusion Delensing Delight: Reconstructing the Non-Gaussian CMB Lensing Potential with Diffusion Models

Thomas Flöss, William R. Coulton, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +2

Optimal extraction of cosmological information from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background critically relies on our ability to accurately undo the distortions caused by we…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 8 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A search for late-time anisotropic screening of the Cosmic Microwave Background

William R. Coulton, Theo Schutt, Abhishek S. Maniyar +37

Since the formation of the first stars, most of the gas in the Universe has been ionized. Spatial variations in the density of this ionized gas generate cosmic microwave background…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 50 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmology from cross-correlations of unWISE galaxies and ACT DR6 CMB lensing

Gerrit S. Farren, Alex Krolewski, Niall MacCrann +33

We present tomographic measurements of structure growth using cross-correlations of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) DR6 and Planck CMB lensing maps with the unWISE Blue and Green…