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Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver Design Overview
Ningfeng Zhu, John L. Orlowski-Scherer, Zhilei Xu +31
The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover ang…
Cooldown Strategies and Transient Thermal Simulations for the Simons Observatory
Gabriele Coppi, Zhilei Xu, Aamir Ali +19
The Simons Observatory (SO) will provide precision polarimetry of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover angular scales from arc-minute…
Simons Observatory large aperture receiver simulation overview
John L. Orlowski-Scherer, Ningfeng Zhu, Zhilei Xu +22
The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a series of telescopes which will cover ang…
Studies of Systematic Uncertainties for Simons Observatory: Optical Effects and Sensitivity Considerations
Patricio A. Gallardo, Jon Gudmundsson, Brian J. Koopman +32
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new experiment that aims to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in temperature and polarization. SO will measure the polarized sky over a…
Designs for next generation CMB survey strategies from Chile
Jason R. Stevens, Neil Goeckner-Wald, Reijo Keskitalo +20
New telescopes are being built to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented sensitivity, including Simons Observatory (SO), CCAT-prime, the BICEP Array, SPT-…
The Simons Observatory: Instrument Overview
Nicholas Galitzki, Aamir Ali, Kam S. Arnold +75
The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precise temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using a set of telescopes which will cover angular…
Cold optical design for the Large Aperture Simons Observatory telescope
S. R. Dicker, P. A. Gallardo, J. E Gudmundsson +26
The Simons Observatory will consist of a single large (6 m diameter) telescope and a number of smaller (0.5 m diameter) refracting telescopes designed to measure the polarization o…
Advanced ACTPol TES Device Parameters and Noise Performance in Fielded Arrays
Kevin T. Crowley, Jason E. Austermann, Steve K. Choi +14
The Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) features arrays of aluminum manganese transition-edge sensors (TESes) optimized for ground-based obser…
The optical design of the six-meter CCAT-prime and Simons Observatory telescopes
Stephen C. Parshley, Michael D. Niemack, Richard Hills +13
A common optical design for a coma-corrected, 6-meter aperture, crossed-Dragone telescope has been adopted for the CCAT-prime telescope of CCAT Observatory, Inc., and for the Large…
CCAT-prime: a novel telescope for submillimeter astronomy
Stephen C. Parshley, Jörg Kronshage, James Blair +28
The CCAT-prime telescope is a 6-meter aperture, crossed-Dragone telescope, designed for millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength observations. It will be located at an altitude of…
Optimizing the Efficiency of Fabry-Perot Interferometers with Silicon-Substrate Mirrors
Nicholas F. Cothard, Mahiro Abe, Thomas Nikola +8
We present the novel design of microfabricated, silicon-substrate based mirrors for use in cryogenic Fabry-Perot Interferometers (FPIs) for the mid-IR to sub-mm/mm wavelength regim…
Prime-Cam: A first-light instrument for the CCAT-prime telescope
Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zeeshan Ahmed, Aamir Ali +43
CCAT-prime will be a 6-meter aperture telescope operating from sub-mm to mm wavelengths, located at 5600 meters elevation on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Its no…