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The Simons Observatory: Commissioning of the Mid-Frequency Small Aperture Telescopes
Kathleen Harrington, Remington Gerras, Nicholas Galitzki +88
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO Small Aperture Tel…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Test of the Gravitational Force Law on Cosmological Scales Using the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
Patricio A. Gallardo, Kris Pardo, Oliver H. E. Philcox +38
The mean pairwise velocity of massive halos reflects the gravitational force law on cosmic scales. We combine cosmic microwave background intensity maps from the Atacama Cosmology…
The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479
We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…
The Simons Observatory: Development of a Pipeline to Detect Rapid Transients in Time-Ordered Data
Justin Clancy, Carlo Baccigalupi, Carlo Bacciagalupi +15
We introduce a method for detecting astrophysical transients evolving on timescales of milliseconds to minutes using cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey telescopes. While prev…
Probing Time-Dependent Physics with Phase-Folding CMB Maps
Yilun Guan
Time-resolved observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) offer a powerful probe of time-dependent cosmological signals, such as a stochastic gravitational wave backgroun…
The thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in galaxy clusters and filaments using multifrequency temperature maps of the cosmic microwave background: Abell 399--Abell 401 cluster pair case study
Ajay S. Gill, Yilun Guan, Adam D. Hincks +19
We present a multifrequency and multi-instrument methodology to study the physical properties of galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments using cosmic microwave background observations…
Eternal inflation bubble collision signature on CMB remote dipole and quadrupole fields
Hongbo Cai, Pengjie Zhang, Yilun Guan
The remote dipole and quadrupole fields (RDF/RQF) encode information about the observable universe as seen from remote places within our past light cone. Sensitive to the superhori…
Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Constraints on the Millimetre Flux of the Crab Pulsar
Yilun Guan, Sigurd Naess, Ian Niebres +8
Millimeter-wave observations of pulsars, while crucial for understanding their emission mechanisms, remain scarce. We demonstrate that high-precision cosmic microwave background (C…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Maps
Sigurd Naess, Yilun Guan, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +163
We present Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy at arcminute resolution over three…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models
Erminia Calabrese, J. Colin Hill, Hidde T. Jense +169
We use new cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) to test fo…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Power Spectra, Likelihoods and CDM Parameters
Thibaut Louis, Adrien La Posta, Zachary Atkins +165
We present power spectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy in temperature and polarization, measured from the Data Release 6 maps made from Atacama Cosmology Tele…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Machine Learning Driven Tools for Detecting Millimeter Sources in Timestream Pre-processing
Simran K. Nerval, Erika Hornecker, Yilun Guan +14
We present a new pipeline utilizing machine learning for classifying short-duration features in raw time-ordered data (TOD) of cosmic microwave background survey observations. The…
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.…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Large-scale velocity reconstruction with the kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich effect and DESI LRGs
Fiona McCarthy, Nicholas Battaglia, Rachel Bean +27
The kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect induces a non-zero density-density-temperature bispectrum, which we can use to reconstruct the large-scale velocity field from a comb…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A census of bridges between galaxy clusters
G. Isopi, V. Capalbo, A. D. Hincks +27
According to CMB measurements, baryonic matter constitutes about of the mass-energy density of the universe. A significant population of these baryons, for a long time referr…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Quantifying Atmospheric Emission above Cerro Toco
Thomas W. Morris, Elia Battistelli, Ricardo Bustos +17
At frequencies below 1 Hz, fluctuations in atmospheric emission in the Chajnantor region in northern Chile are the primary source of interference for bolometric millimeter-wave obs…
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…
Superclustering with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Dark Energy Survey: II. Anisotropic large-scale coherence in hot gas, galaxies, and dark matter
M. Lokken, A. van Engelen, M. Aguena +73
Statistics that capture the directional dependence of the baryon distribution in the cosmic web enable unique tests of cosmology and astrophysical feedback. We use constrained orie…
Efficient estimation of rotation-induced bias to reconstructed CMB lensing power spectrum
Hongbo Cai, Yilun Guan, Toshiya Namikawa +1
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum is a powerful probe of the late-time universe, encoding valuable information about cosmological parameters such as the…
Simons Observatory: Observatory Scheduler and Automated Data Processing
Yilun Guan, Kathleen Harrington, Jack Lashner +11
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a next-generation ground-based telescope located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, designed to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with unprecede…
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…
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…
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…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Mitigating the impact of extragalactic foregrounds for the DR6 CMB lensing analysis
Niall MacCrann, Blake D. Sherwin, Frank J. Qu +47
We investigate the impact and mitigation of extragalactic foregrounds for the CMB lensing power spectrum analysis of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data release 6 (DR6) data. Tw…