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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

In-Flight Performance of Spider's 280 GHz Receivers

Elle C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +84

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the cosmic microwave background at degree-angular scales in the presence of Galactic foregrounds. SPIDER has mapped a large sky…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Simons Observatory: Pre-deployment Performance of a Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tube in the 90 and 150 GHz Spectral Bands

Carlos E. Sierra, Kathleen Harrington, Shreya Sutariya +42

The Simons Observatory will map the temperature and polarization over half of the sky, at millimeter wavelengths in six spectral bands from the Atacama Desert in Chile. These data…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Simons Observatory: Design, integration, and testing of the small aperture telescopes

Nicholas Galitzki, Tran Tsan, Jake Spisak +77

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that includes small-aperture telescopes (SATs) observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Ata…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Production-level Fabrication of the Mid- and Ultra-High-Frequency Wafers

Shannon M. Duff, Jason Austermann, James A. Beall +11

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background instrumentation suite in the Atacama Desert of Chile. More than 65,000 polarization-sensitive transition-edge sensor (T…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

The BLAST Observatory: A Sensitivity Study for Far-IR Balloon-borne Polarimeters

The BLAST Observatory Collaboration, Gabriele Coppi, Simon Dicker +21

Sensitive wide-field observations of polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains will allow astronomers to address key outstanding questions about the life cycle of ma…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: High-resolution component-separated maps across one-third of the sky

William R. Coulton, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +151

Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compt…