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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★ 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.CO2020★ 22 cited

MERGHERS Pilot: MeerKAT discovery of diffuse emission in nine massive Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-selected galaxy clusters from ACT

K. Knowles, D. S. Pillay, S. Amodeo +26

The MeerKAT Exploration of Relics, Giant Halos, and Extragalactic Radio Sources (MERGHERS) survey is a planned project to study a large statistical sample of galaxy clusters with t…

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★ 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★ 302 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of > 4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters

M. Hilton, C. Sifón, S. Naess +146

We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise > 4 in 13,211 deg of sky surveyed by the Atacama…