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astro-ph.IM2018★ 6 cited

Development of Calibration Strategies for the Simons Observatory

Sean A. Bryan, Sara M. Simon, Martina Gerbino +19

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a set of cosmic microwave background instruments that will be deployed in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The key science goals include setting new cons…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

Measurements of tropospheric ice clouds with a ground-based CMB polarization experiment, POLARBEAR

Satoru Takakura, Mario A. O. Aguilar-Faúndez, Yoshiki Akiba +45

The polarization of the atmosphere has been a long-standing concern for ground-based experiments targeting cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. Ice crystals in upper tro…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 18 cited

Studies of Systematic Uncertainties for Simons Observatory: Detector Array Effects

Kevin T. Crowley, Sara M. Simon, Max Silva-Feaver +36

In this proceeding, we present studies of instrumental systematic effects for the Simons Obsevatory (SO) that are associated with the detector system and its interaction with the f…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 2 cited

Studies of Systematic Uncertainties for Simons Observatory: Polarization Modulator Related Effects

Maria Salatino, Jacob Lashner, Martina Gerbino +24

The Simons Observatory (SO) will observe the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over a wide range of frequencies (27 to 270 GHz) and…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Studies of Systematic Uncertainties for Simons Observatory: Optical Effects and Sensitivity Considerations

Patricio A. Gallardo, Jon Gudmundsson, Brian J. Koopman +32

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new experiment that aims to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. SO will measure the polarized sky over a…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 72 cited

The Simons Observatory: Instrument Overview

Nicholas Galitzki, Aamir Ali, Kam S. Arnold +75

The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1.5k cited

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 19 cited

Broadband spectral energy distributions of SDSS-selected quasars and of their host galaxies: intense activity at the onset of AGN feedback

Federico Bianchini, Giulio Fabbian, Andrea Lapi +3

We present the mean spectral energy distribution (SED) of a sample of optically selected quasars (QSOs) at redshifts of . To derive it, we exploit photometric inform…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

BoloCalc: a sensitivity calculator for the design of Simons Observatory

Charles A. Hill, Sarah Marie M. Bruno, Sara M. Simon +34

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming experiment that will study temperature and polarization fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Atacama Desert in…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 52 cited

Lensing Reconstruction in Post-Born Cosmic Microwave Background Weak Lensing

Dominic Beck, Giulio Fabbian, Josquin Errard

The study of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lensing potential has established itself by now as a robust way of probing the physics of large-scale structure growth. The most…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 9 cited

Iterative map-making with two-level preconditioning for polarized Cosmic Microwave Background data sets

Giuseppe Puglisi, Davide Poletti, Giulio Fabbian +3

An estimation of the sky signal from streams of Time Ordered Data (TOD) acquired by Cosmic Microwave Background (\cmb) experiments is one of the most important steps in the context…