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astro-ph.CO2018★ 48 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-season ACTPol Extragalactic Point Sources and their Polarization properties

Rahul Datta, Simone Aiola, Steve K. Choi +30

We report on measurements of the polarization of extragalactic sources at 148 GHz made during the first two seasons of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization (ACTPol) survey.…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 22 cited

Feedhorn development and scalability for Simons Observatory and beyond

Sara M. Simon, Joseph E. Golec, Aamir Ali +21

The Simons Observatory (SO) will measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in both temperature and polarization over a wide range of angular scales and frequencies from 27-270…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 72 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1.5k cited

The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Peter Ade, James Aguirre +247

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a new cosmic microwave background experiment being built on Cerro Toco in Chile, due to begin observations in the early 2020s. We describe the scient…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 15 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 99 cited

Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration of ACTPol Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Clusters with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

Hironao Miyatake, Nicholas Battaglia, Matt Hilton +57

We present weak-lensing measurements using the first-year data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program on the Subaru telescope for eight galaxy clusters selected throug…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 53 cited

Results from the Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) Experiment

Akito Kusaka, John Appel, Thomas Essinger-Hileman +25

The Atacama B-mode Search (ABS) is an experiment designed to measure cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization at large angular scales (). It operated from the ACT si…