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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2023★ 18 cited

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter. A Whitepaper

Sebastian Baum, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe +66

Minerals are solid state nuclear track detectors - nuclear recoils in a mineral leave latent damage to the crystal structure. Depending on the mineral and its temperature, the dama…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 19 cited

Efficient Gravitational Wave Template Bank Generation with Differentiable Waveforms

Adam Coogan, Thomas D. P. Edwards, Horng Sheng Chia +6

The most sensitive search pipelines for gravitational waves from compact binary mergers use matched filters to extract signals from the noisy data stream coming from gravitational…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 34 cited

Faint objects in motion: the new frontier of high precision astrometry

Fabien Malbet, Céline Boehm, Alberto Krone-Martins +83

Sky survey telescopes and powerful targeted telescopes play complementary roles in astronomy. In order to investigate the nature and characteristics of the motions of very faint ob…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

Design and pre-flight performance of SPIDER 280 GHz receivers

E. C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +79

In this work we describe upgrades to the Spider balloon-borne telescope in preparation for its second flight, currently planned for December 2021. The Spider instrument is optimize…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 79 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 52 cited

Theia: Faint objects in motion or the new astrometry frontier

The Theia Collaboration, Celine Boehm, Alberto Krone-Martins +96

In the context of the ESA M5 (medium mission) call we proposed a new satellite mission, Theia, based on relative astrometry and extreme precision to study the motion of very faint…