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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 14 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 11 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 347 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters

Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +156

We present cosmological constraints from a gravitational lensing mass map covering 9400 sq. deg. reconstructed from CMB measurements made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) f…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 280 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and its Implications for Structure Growth

Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +155

We present new measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing over sq. deg. of the sky. These lensing measurements are derived from the Atacama Cosmology Telescop…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 43 cited

Wideband 67-116 GHz receiver development for ALMA Band 2

P. Yagoubov, T. Mroczkowski, V. Belitsky +43

ALMA has been operating since 2011, but has not yet been populated with the full suite of intended frequency bands. In particular, ALMA Band 2 (67-90 GHz) is the final band in the…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 79 cited

The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Shunsuke Adachi +280

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 2 cited

Studies of Systematic Uncertainties for Simons Observatory: Polarization Modulator Related Effects

Maria Salatino, Jacob Lashner, Martina Gerbino +24

The Simons Observatory (SO) will observe the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over a wide range of frequencies (27 to 270 GHz) and…

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

Pushing the Limits of Broadband and High Frequency Metamaterial Silicon Antireflection Coatings

K. P. Coughlin, J. J. McMahon, K. T. Crowley +4

Broadband refractive optics realized from high index materials provide compelling design solutions for the next generation of observatories for the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 9 cited

Composite Reflective/Absorptive IR-Blocking Filters Embedded in Metamaterial Antireflection Coated Silicon

C. D. Munson, S. K. Choi, K. P. Coughlin +4

Infrared (IR) blocking filters are crucial for controlling the radiative loading on cryogenic systems and for optimizing the sensitivity of bolometric detectors in the far-IR. We p…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 218 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Spectra and Parameters

Thibaut Louis, Emily Grace, Matthew Hasselfield +80

We present the temperature and polarization angular power spectra measured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol). We analyze night-time data collected during 2013…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 16 cited

Optical modeling and polarization calibration for CMB measurements with ACTPol and Advanced ACTPol

Brian Koopman, Jason Austermann, Hsiao-Mei Cho +21

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) is a polarization sensitive upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. Located at an elevation of 5190 m, ACTPol measures the…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 98 cited

Detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with BOSS DR11 and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

F. De Bernardis, S. Aiola, E. M. Vavagiakis +55

We present a new measurement of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 244 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The polarization-sensitive ACTPol instrument

R. J. Thornton, P. A. R. Ade, S. Aiola +53

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is designed to make high angular resolution measurements of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at millimeter wavelengths. W…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 19 cited

Design and Deployment of a Multichroic Polarimeter Array on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

R. Datta, J. Austermann, J. A. Beall +28

We present the design and the preliminary on sky performance with respect to beams and pass-bands of a multichroic polarimeter array covering the 90 and 146 GHz Cosmic Microwave Ba…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 343 cited

Advanced ACTPol Cryogenic Detector Arrays and Readout

S. W. Henderson, R. Allison, J. Austermann +54

Advanced ACTPol is a polarization-sensitive upgrade for the 6 m aperture Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), adding new frequencies and increasing sensitivity over the previous ACTP…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 85 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Lensing of CMB Temperature and Polarization Derived from Cosmic Infrared Background Cross-Correlation

Alexander van Engelen, Blake D. Sherwin, Neelima Sehgal +47

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields obtained by cross-correlating the reconstructed c…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 177 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: CMB Polarization at

Sigurd Naess, Matthew Hasselfield, Jeff McMahon +75

We report on measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and celestial polarization at 146 GHz made with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) in its first…