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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2020

The Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope Observatory

Ian Lowe, Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade +30

The BLAST Observatory is a proposed superpressure balloon-borne polarimeter designed for a future ultra-long duration balloon campaign from Wanaka, New Zealand. To maximize scienti…

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.GA2020★ 16 cited

Far-Infrared Polarization Spectrum of the OMC-1 Star-Forming Region

Joseph M. Michail, Peter C. Ashton, Marc G. Berthoud +12

We analyze the wavelength dependence of the far-infrared polarization fraction toward the OMC-1 star forming region using observations from HAWC+/SOFIA at 53, 89, 154, and 214 m…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 22 cited

Simons Observatory Microwave SQUID Multiplexing Readout -- Cryogenic RF Amplifier and Coaxial Chain Design

Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Maximiliano Silva-Feaver, Aamir Ali +33

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarization-sensitive Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment on the Cerro Toco Plateau (Chile) with large overlap with other optic…

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…