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20182024
most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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16 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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 53 cited

Chemical profiles of the oxides on tantalum in state of the art superconducting circuits

Russell A. McLellan, Aveek Dutta, Chenyu Zhou +23

Over the past decades, superconducting qubits have emerged as one of the leading hardware platforms for realizing a quantum processor. Consequently, researchers have made significa…

quant-ph2023★ 77 cited

Disentangling Losses in Tantalum Superconducting Circuits

Kevin D. Crowley, Russell A. McLellan, Aveek Dutta +17

Superconducting qubits are a leading system for realizing large scale quantum processors, but overall gate fidelities suffer from coherence times limited by microwave dielectric lo…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Simons Observatory: Design and Measured Performance of a Carbon Fiber Strut for a Cryogenic Truss

Kevin D. Crowley, Peter Dow, Jordan E. Shroyer +25

We present the design and measured performance of a new carbon fiber strut design that is used in a cryogenically cooled truss for the Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope (…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 50 cited

The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design

Heather McCarrick, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed +56

Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducti…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 13 cited

The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope (LAT)

Zhilei Xu, Shunsuke Adachi, Peter Ade +57

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment to observe the microwave sky in six frequency bands from 30GHz to 290GHz. The Observatory -- at …