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astro-ph.IM2020★ 9 cited

The Simons Observatory: Overview of data acquisition, control, monitoring, and computer infrastructure

Brian J. Koopman, Jack Lashner, Lauren J. Saunders +16

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope that…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

Comparing complex impedance and bias step measurements of Simons Observatory transition edge sensors

Nicholas F. Cothard, Aamir M. Ali, Jason E. Austermann +16

The Simons Observatory (SO) will perform ground-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several small and large aperture telescopes, each outfitted with th…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 7 cited

The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) Integration and Validation Results

Zhilei Xu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi +42

The Simons Observatory (SO) will observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The observatory consists of three 0.5 m Small Apertur…

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…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 29 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of mm-wave transient sources

Sigurd Naess, Nick Battaglia, J. Richard Bond +29

We report on the serendipitous discovery of three transient mm-wave sources using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The first, detected at RA = 273.8138, dec = -49.4628 at…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 47 cited

Strong detection of the CMB lensingxgalaxy weak lensingcross-correlation from ACT-DR4,PlanckLegacy and KiDS-1000

Naomi Clare Robertson, David Alonso, Joachim Harnois-Déraps +48

We measure the cross-correlation between galaxy weak lensing data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000, DR4) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing data from the Atacama C…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 24 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Weighing distant clusters with the most ancient light

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Cristóbal Sifón, Nicholas Battaglia +58

We use gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to measure the mass of the most distant blindly-selected sample of galaxy clusters on which a lensing measurem…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 132 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Modeling the Gas Thermodynamics in BOSS CMASS galaxies from Kinematic and Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurements

Stefania Amodeo, Nicholas Battaglia, Emmanuel Schaan +52

The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects (tSZ, kSZ) probe the thermodynamic properties of the circumgalactic and intracluster medium (CGM and ICM) of galaxies, groups,…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 162 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Combined kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements from BOSS CMASS and LOWZ halos

Emmanuel Schaan, Simone Ferraro, Stefania Amodeo +55

The scattering of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons off the free-electron gas in galaxies and clusters leaves detectable imprints on high resolution CMB maps: the thermal a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 47 cited

Probing galaxy evolution in massive clusters using ACT and DES: splashback as a cosmic clock

Susmita Adhikari, Tae-hyeon Shin, Bhuvnesh Jain +113

We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmolo…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 7 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Delensed Power Spectra and Parameters

Dongwon Han, Neelima Sehgal, Amanda MacInnis +39

We present LCDM cosmological parameter constraints obtained from delensed microwave background power spectra. Lensing maps from a subset of DR4 data from the Atacama Cosmology Tele…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 110 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR5 maps of 18,000 square degrees of the microwave sky from ACT 2008-2018 data

Sigurd Naess, Simone Aiola, Jason E. Austermann +59

This paper presents a maximum-likelihood algorithm for combining sky maps with disparate sky coverage, angular resolution and spatially varying anisotropic noise into a single map…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 271 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

Steve K. Choi, Matthew Hasselfield, Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho +136

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra of the CMB measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 5400 deg of the 2013-2016 survey, which cove…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 629 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 Maps and Cosmological Parameters

Simone Aiola, Erminia Calabrese, Loïc Maurin +138

We present new arcminute-resolution maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, using data taken from 2013…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 111 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A CMB lensing mass map over 2100 square degrees of sky and its cross-correlation with BOSS-CMASS galaxies

Omar Darwish, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Blake Sherwin +50

We construct cosmic microwave background lensing mass maps using data from the 2014 and 2015 seasons of observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). These maps cover 21…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 3 cited

The cross correlation of the ABS and ACT maps

Zack Li, Sigurd Naess, Simone Aiola +29

One of the most important checks for systematic errors in CMB studies is the cross correlation of maps made by independent experiments. In this paper we report on the cross correla…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 15 cited

Characterization of Transition Edge Sensors for the Simons Observatory

Jason R. Stevens, Nicholas F. Cothard, Eve M. Vavagiakis +31

The Simons Observatory is building both large (6 m) and small (0.5 m) aperture telescopes in the Atacama desert in Chile to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 84 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence

Toshiya Namikawa, Yilun Guan, Omar Darwish +51

We present new constraints on anisotropic birefringence of the cosmic microwave background polarization using two seasons of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope covering $456…