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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…

quant-ph2024★ 14 cited

Spectroscopic measurements and models of energy deposition in the substrate of quantum circuits by natural ionizing radiation

Joseph W. Fowler, Paul Szypryt, Raymond Bunker +16

Naturally occurring background radiation is a source of correlated decoherence events in superconducting qubits that will challenge error-correction schemes. To characterize the ra…

astro-ph.IM2022

Wide Field High Cadence CMB Survey Designs for Chilean Telescopes

Haruki Ebina, Reijo Keskitalo, Julian Borrill +5

We present new wide field survey strategies for Chilean Large Aperture Telescopes (LAT) measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which we call Sinusoidal Modulated High Cad…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

In situ Performance of the Low Frequency Arrayfor Advanced ACTPol

Yaqiong Li, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall +24

The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) \cite{thornton} is an upgrade for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays t…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 8 cited

The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Sensitivity Measurements of Microwave SQUID Multiplexers

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zeeshan Ahmed, Aamir Ali +30

The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe…