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20152026
most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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93 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Passband Measurements with an Analysis of Systematic Errors

Thomas Alford, Rahul Datta, Erminia Calabrese +14

We present measurements of the spectral response of the four Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) multichroic detector arrays, which observed in frequency bands centered near 30, 40, 90, 150,…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A measurement of galaxy cluster temperatures through relativistic corrections to the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect

William R. Coulton, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, Zachary Atkins +32

The high electron temperature in galaxy clusters (keV or K) leads to corrections at the level of a few percent in their thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect signatures.…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Systematic Transient Search of Single Observation Maps

Emily K. Biermann, Yaqiong Li, Sigurd Naess +24

We conduct a systematic search for astrophysical transients using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The data were taken from 2017 to 2022 in three frequency bands sp…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: Prime-Cam Optics Overview and Status Update

Zachary B. Huber, Lawrence T. Lin, Eve M. Vavagiakis +17

Prime-Cam is a first-generation science instrument for the CCAT Observatory's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). FYST's crossed-Dragone design provides h…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 23 cited

Cosmological constraints from the cross-correlation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies with CMB lensing from Planck PR4 and ACT DR6

Noah Sailer, Joshua Kim, Simone Ferraro +63

We infer the growth of large scale structure over the redshift range from the cross-correlation of spectroscopically calibrated Luminous Red Galaxies (LR…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 38 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure formation over cosmic time with a measurement of the cross-correlation of CMB Lensing and Luminous Red Galaxies

Joshua Kim, Noah Sailer, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +70

We present a high-significance cross-correlation of CMB lensing maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) with spectroscopically calibrated luminous red…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: Detector Noise Limited Performance of the RFSoC-based Readout Electronics for mm/sub-mm/far-IR KIDs

Adrian K. Sinclair, James Burgoyne, Anthony I. Huber +16

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama desert of Chile, will conduct wide-field and small deep-field surveys of the sky with more than 10…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

CCAT: Comparisons of 280 GHz TiN and Al Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays

Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann, James Beall +27

The CCAT Collaboration's six-meter Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope is scheduled to begin observing in the Chilean Atacama in 2025, targeting a variety of science goals throughou…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: FYST Prime-Cam Readout Software: A framework for massively scalable KID arrays

James R. Burgoyne, Adrian K. Sinclair, Scott C. Chapman +12

We outline the development of the readout software for the Prime-Cam and Mod-Cam instruments on the CCAT Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), primecam_readout. The instrument…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Reionization kSZ trispectrum methodology and limits

Niall MacCrann, Frank J. Qu, Toshiya Namikawa +20

Patchy reionization generates kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large-scale velocity perturbations along the line of sight mo…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing and SDSS BOSS cross-correlation measurement and constraints on gravity with the statistic

Lukas Wenzl, Rui An, Nick Battaglia +24

We derive new constraints on the statistic as a test of gravity, combining the CMB lensing map estimated from Data Release 6 (DR6) of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope with SDS…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 11 cited

Optical modeling of systematic uncertainties in detector polarization angles for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Colin C. Murphy, Steve K. Choi, Rahul Datta +10

We present an estimate of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) detector polarization angle systematic uncertainty from optics perturbation analysis using polarization-sensitive ra…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 8 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A search for late-time anisotropic screening of the Cosmic Microwave Background

William R. Coulton, Theo Schutt, Abhishek S. Maniyar +37

Since the formation of the first stars, most of the gas in the Universe has been ionized. Spatial variations in the density of this ionized gas generate cosmic microwave background…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 50 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmology from cross-correlations of unWISE galaxies and ACT DR6 CMB lensing

Gerrit S. Farren, Alex Krolewski, Niall MacCrann +33

We present tomographic measurements of structure growth using cross-correlations of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) DR6 and Planck CMB lensing maps with the unWISE Blue and Green…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Galactic Dust Structure and the Cosmic PAH Background in Cross-correlation with WISE

Rodrigo Córdova Rosado, Brandon S. Hensley, Susan E. Clark +15

We present a cross-correlation analysis between resolution total intensity and polarization observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) at 150 and 220 GHz and 15$'…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: High-resolution component-separated maps across one-third of the sky

William R. Coulton, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +151

Observations of the millimeter sky contain valuable information on a number of signals, including the blackbody cosmic microwave background (CMB), Galactic emissions, and the Compt…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 347 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +156

We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 280 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth

Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +155

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescop…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Systematic Transient Search of 3-Day Maps

Yaqiong Li, Emily Biermann, Sigurd Naess +34

We conduct a systematic search for transients in three years of data (2017-2019) from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). ACT covers 40 percent of the sky at three bands spannin…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 22 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Map-Based Noise Simulations for DR6

Zachary Atkins, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden, William R. Coulton +25

The increasing statistical power of cosmic microwave background (CMB) datasets requires a commensurate effort in understanding their noise properties. The noise in maps from ground…

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.IM2022★ 2 cited

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: Detector Re-biasing With Bias-step Measurements

Yuhan Wang, Tanay Bhandarkar, Steve K. Choi +14

The Simons Observatory is a ground-based cosmic microwave background survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope,…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

CCAT-prime: The 850 GHz camera for Prime-Cam on FYST

Scott C. Chapman, Anthony I. Huber, Adrian K. Sinclair +23

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the Cerro-Chajnantor Atacama Telescope prime (CCAT- prime) Facility will host Prime-Cam as a powerful, first generation camera with…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: Optical and cryogenic design of the 850 GHz module for Prime-Cam

Anthony I. Huber, Scott C. Chapman, Adrian K. Sinclair +14

Prime-Cam is a first-generation instrument for the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-prime) Facility. The 850GHz module for Prime-Cam will probe the highest frequen…