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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2020★ 25 cited

The Simons Observatory: Metamaterial Microwave Absorber (MMA) and its Cryogenic Applications

Zhilei Xu, Grace E. Chesmore, Shunsuke Adachi +26

Controlling stray light at millimeter wavelengths requires special optical design and selection of absorptive materials that should be compatible with cryogenic operating environme…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 31 cited

The Simons Observatory: Modeling Optical Systematics in the Large Aperture Telescope

Jon E. Gudmundsson, Patricio A. Gallardo, Roberto Puddu +35

We present geometrical and physical optics simulation results for the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope. This work was developed as part of the general design process for…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 23 cited

A cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate for the POLARBEAR-2b cosmic microwave background receiver

C. A. Hill, A. Kusaka, P. Ashton +11

We present the design and laboratory evaluation of a cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate (CHWP) for the POLARBEAR-2b (PB-2b) cosmic microwave background (CMB) receiver,…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 271 cited

CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves

S4 Collaboration, Kevork Abazajian, Graeme E. Addison +233

CMB-S4---the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment---is set to significantly advance the sensitivity of CMB measurements and enhance our underst…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 37 cited

A measurement of the CMB E-mode angular power spectrum at subdegree scales from 670 square degrees of POLARBEAR data

S. Adachi, M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez, K. Arnold +53

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBE…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 27 cited

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…