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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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34 papers

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.GA2022★ 23 cited

Extragalactic magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program) -- III: First data release and on-the-fly polarization mapping characterization

Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Melanie Clarke, Sachin Shenoy +17

We describe the data processing of the Survey on extragALactic magnetiSm with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). This first data release presents 33% (51.34h out of 155.7h, including ov…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 30 cited

The Simons Observatory: Galactic Science Goals and Forecasts

Brandon S. Hensley, Susan E. Clark, Valentina Fanfani +31

Observing in six frequency bands from 27 to 280 GHz over a large sky area, the Simons Observatory (SO) is poised to address many questions in Galactic astrophysics in addition to i…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 12 cited

Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope overview

Kenji Kiuchi, Shunsuke Adachi, Aamir M. Ali +51

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment from the Atacama Desert in Chile comprising three small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one large-apert…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver

Ian Lowe, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 25…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform

Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton +30

The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular reso…