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The Simons Observatory: a new open-source power spectrum pipeline applied to the Planck legacy data
Zack Li, Thibaut Louis, Erminia Calabrese +12
We present a reproduction of the Planck 2018 angular power spectra at , and associated covariance matrices, for intensity and polarization maps at 100, 143 and 217 GHz.…
The 90 and 150 GHz universal focal-plane modules for the Simons Observatory
Heather McCarrick, Kam Arnold, Zachary Atkins +21
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of telescopes located in the Atacama Desert in Chile that will make sensitive measurements of the cosmic microwave background. There are a ho…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Measurement and Analysis of 1D Beams for DR4
Marius Lungu, Emilie R. Storer, Matthew Hasselfield +28
We describe the measurement and treatment of the telescope beams for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope's fourth data release, DR4. Observations of Uranus are used to measure the cent…
The Simons Observatory: Galactic Science Goals and Forecasts
Brandon S. Hensley, Susan E. Clark, Valentina Fanfani +31
Observing in six frequency bands from 27 to 280 GHz over a large sky area, the Simons Observatory (SO) is poised to address many questions in Galactic astrophysics in addition to i…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Modeling Bulk Atmospheric Motion
Thomas W. Morris, Ricardo Bustos, Erminia Calabrese +17
Fluctuating atmospheric emission is a dominant source of noise for ground-based millimeter-wave observations of the CMB temperature anisotropy at angular scales $\gtrsim 0.5^{\circ…
The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Shielding Measurements for the Universal Multiplexing Module
Zachary B. Huber, Yaqiong Li, Eve M. Vavagiakis +14
The Simons Observatory (SO) includes four telescopes that will measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background using over 60,000 highly sensitive transi…
Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: In-lab Testing and Characterization Program
Yuhan Wang, Kaiwen Zheng, Zachary Atkins +20
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background instrument to be sited in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will deploy 60,000 transition-edge sensor bolome…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on Pre-Recombination Early Dark Energy
J. Colin Hill, Erminia Calabrese, Simone Aiola +40
The early dark energy (EDE) scenario aims to increase the value of the Hubble constant () inferred from cosmic microwave background (CMB) data over that found in CDM, via t…
CCAT-prime Collaboration: Science Goals and Forecasts with Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
Prime collaboration, M. Aravena, J. E. Austermann +84
We present a detailed overview of the science goals and predictions for the Prime-Cam direct detection camera/spectrometer being constructed by the CCAT-prime collaboration for ded…
Atacama Cosmology Telescope measurements of a large sample of candidates from the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey: Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect confirmation of MaDCoWS candidates using ACT
John Orlowski-Scherer, Luca Di Mascolo, Tanay Bhandarkar +35
Galaxy clusters are an important tool for cosmology, and their detection and characterization are key goals for current and future surveys. Using data from the Wide-field Infrared…
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…
Constraining CMB temperature evolution with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy clusters from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Yunyang Li, Adam D. Hincks, Stefania Amodeo +30
The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect introduces a specific distortion of the blackbody spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation when it scatters off hot gas in clu…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A search for Planet 9
Sigurd Naess, Simone Aiola, Nick Battaglia +37
We use Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) observations at 98 GHz (2015--2019), 150 GHz (2013--2019) and 229 GHz (2017--2019) to perform a blind shift-and-stack search for Planet 9.…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Microwave Intensity and Polarization Maps of the Galactic Center
Yilun Guan, Susan E. Clark, Brandon S. Hensley +30
We present arcminute-resolution intensity and polarization maps of the Galactic center made with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). The maps cover a 32 deg field at 98, 150…
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 …
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Summary of DR4 and DR5 Data Products and Data Access
Maya Mallaby-Kay, Zachary Atkins, Simone Aiola +57
Two recent large data releases for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), called DR4 and DR5, are available for public access. These data include temperature and polarization maps…
The Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
Ningfeng Zhu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi +68
The Simons Observatory (SO) Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) will be coupled to the Large Aperture Telescope located at an elevation of 5,200 m on Cerro Toco in Chile. The…
The Integration and Testing Program for the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tubes
Kathleen Harrington, Carlos Sierra, Grace Chesmore +18
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…
CCAT-prime: Designs and status of the first light 280 GHz MKID array and Mod-Cam receiver
Cody J. Duell, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Jason Austermann +23
The CCAT-prime project's first light array will be deployed in Mod-Cam, a single-module testbed and first light cryostat, on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile'…
In situ Performance of the Low Frequency Arrayfor Advanced ACTPol
Yaqiong Li, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall +24
The Advanced Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (AdvACT) \cite{thornton} is an upgrade for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope using Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays t…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with SDSS DR15 Galaxies
Victoria Calafut, Patricio A. Gallardo, Eve M. Vavagiakis +49
We present a 5.4 detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect using Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and CMB observations in combination wi…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the Baryon Content of SDSS DR15 Galaxies with the Thermal and Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effects
Eve M. Vavagiakis, Patricio A. Gallardo, Victoria Calafut +49
We present high signal-to-noise measurements (up to 12) of the average thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect from optically selected galaxy groups and clusters and estimate th…