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The Simons Observatory: Frequency-resolved beam calibration for the SO SATs with POLOCALC
Nadia Dachlythra, Gabriele Coppi, Ludovico Bizzarri +30
We present a far-field beam calibration of the Simons Observatory (SO) Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) using scanned single-frequency measurements of a drone-mounted source emitti…
The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes
Kathleen Harrington, Remington Gerras, Nicholas Galitzki +88
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO Small Aperture Tel…
GroundBIRD: First On-Sky Responsivity Calibration at the Teide Observatory
Alessandro Fasano, Yonggil Jo, Ricardo Tanausú Génova-Santos +12
GroundBIRD is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment located at the Teide Observatory (altitude m, Spain) designed to measure large-angular-scale intensity and p…
The Simons Observatory: Rotation Performance of Cryogenic Half-Wave Plate Polarization Modulators
Kyohei Yamada, Bryce Bixler, Junna Sugiyama +10
We present the on-site rotation performance of the first three cryogenic continuously rotating half-wave plate (HWP) polarization modulators for the Simons Observatory small apertu…
The Simons Observatory: On-sky performance of radio-transparent multi-layer insulation (RT-MLI) using Styroace-II Styrofoam
Samuel Day-Weiss, Nicholas Galitzki, Atsuto Takeuchi +14
We present the on-sky performance of a Radio-Transparent Multi-Layer Insulation filter (RT-MLI) that uses Styroace-II styrofoam to reject ambient thermal radiation from entering a…
The Simons Observatory: Detector Polarization Angle Calibration using Sparse Wire Grid with Initial Data Sets of the Small Aperture Telescope
Hironobu Nakata, Shunsuke Adachi, Kyohei Yamada +22
Improved measurements of -modes in the cosmic microwave background can be obtained through accurate calibration of the orientation of detector antennas as projected onto the sky…
Commissioning the CMB polarization telescope GroundBIRD with the full set of detectors
Miku Tsujii, Jochem J. A. Baselmans, Jihoon Choi +39
GroundBIRD is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment for observing the polarization pattern imprinted on large angular scales ( ) from the Teide Obse…
Pointing calibration of GroundBIRD telescope using Moon observation data
Y. Sueno, J. J. A. Baselmans, A. H. M. Coppens +16
Understanding telescope pointing (i.e., line of sight) is important for observing the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and astronomical objects. The Moon is a candidate astronomic…