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20192026
most citedThe Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver

48 citations · 129 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Frequency-resolved beam calibration for the SO SATs with POLOCALC

Nadia Dachlythra, Gabriele Coppi, Ludovico Bizzarri +30

We present a far-field beam calibration of the Simons Observatory (SO) Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) using scanned single-frequency measurements of a drone-mounted source emitti…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Design and Initial Performance of the Detector Readout System for the Large-Aperture Telescope

Thomas P. Satterthwaite, Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte, Shawn W. Henderson +34

We present the design, implementation, and initial performance of a highly multiplexed cryogenic superconducting detector readout system in the context of its deployment to the Sim…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

Sensitive 3mm Imaging of Discrete Sources in the Fields of X-ray-Selected Galaxy Clusters

Simon R Dicker, Mark Devlin, Luca Di Mascolo +9

In this paper, we present the results of a blind survey for compact sources in 138 galaxy clusters from the eFEDS X-ray survey. Of these clusters, 96 are new observations. These ta…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Simons Observatory: Improved Cryogenic Struts for use in the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver

John Orlowski-Scherer, Anna Kofman, Tanay Bhandarkar +5

The Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (SO LATR) is a next generation Cosmic Microwave Background camera equipped with > 60, 000 detectors operating at 100 mK. Ma…

astro-ph.CO2025

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,…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts for the Enhanced Large Aperture Telescope

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, M. Abitbol, I. Abril-Cabezas +419

We describe updated scientific goals for the wide-field, millimeter-wave survey that will be produced by the Simons Observatory (SO). Significant upgrades to the 6-meter SO Large A…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Simons Observatory: Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver

Tanay Bhandarkar, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Jeff Iuliano +41

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that currently consists of three 0.42m small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one 6m…

astro-ph.GA2024

The RAdio Galaxy Environment Reference Survey (RAGERS): Evidence of an anisotropic distribution of submillimeter galaxies in the 4C 23.56 protocluster at z=2.48

Dazhi Zhou, Thomas R. Greve, Bitten Gullberg +41

High-redshift radio(-loud) galaxies (HRGs) are massive galaxies with powerful radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and serve as beacons for protocluster identification. Howe…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

The Simons Observatory: Dark Characterization of the Large Aperture Telescope

Saianeesh K. Haridas, Zeeshan Ahmed, Tanay Bhandarkar +20

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background experiment composed of three 0.42 m Small Aperture Telescopes (SATs) and one 6 m Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) in the…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

The Simons Observatory: Studies of Detector Yield and Readout Noise From the First Large-Scale Deployment of Microwave Multiplexing at the Large Aperture Telescope

Thomas P. Satterthwaite, Zeeshan Ahmed, Kyuyoung Bae +21

The Simons Observatory is a new ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, which is currently being commissioned in Chile's Atacama Desert. During its survey, the observa…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Simons Observatory: Pre-deployment Performance of a Large Aperture Telescope Optics Tube in the 90 and 150 GHz Spectral Bands

Carlos E. Sierra, Kathleen Harrington, Shreya Sutariya +42

The Simons Observatory will map the temperature and polarization over half of the sky, at millimeter wavelengths in six spectral bands from the Atacama Desert in Chile. These data…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Sensitive 3mm Imaging of Discrete Sources in the Fields of tSZ-Selected Galaxy Clusters

Simon R. Dicker, Karen Perez Sarmiento, Brian Mason +12

In this paper we present the results of a blind survey for compact sources in 243 Galaxy clusters that were identified using the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (tSZ). The survey…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

maria: A novel simulator for forecasting (sub-)mm observations

J. van Marrewijk, T. W. Morris, T. Mroczkowski +8

Millimeter-wave single-dish telescopes offer two key advantages compared to interferometers: they can efficiently map larger portions of the sky, and they can recover larger spatia…

astro-ph.IM2022

The Simons Observatory: Development and Validation of the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver

Tanay Bhandarkar, Sanah Bhimani, Gabriele Coppi +16

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes (SATs) and one 6 m large-ap…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 13 cited

GBT/MUSTANG-2 9" resolution imaging of the SZ effect in MS0735.6+7421: Confirmation of the SZ Cavities through direct imaging

John Orlowski-Scherer, Saianeesh K. Haridas, Luca Di Mascolo +14

Mechanical feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is thought to be the dominant feedback mechanism quenching cooling flows and star formation in galaxy cluster cores. However,…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 11 cited

The Simons Observatory: Characterizing the Large Aperture Telescope Receiver with Radio Holography

Grace E. Chesmore, Kathleen Harrington, Carlos E. Sierra +23

We present near-field radio holography measurements of the Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver optics. These measurements demonstrate that radio holography of comp…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 13 cited

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 …

astro-ph.IM2021★ 48 cited

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…

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.CO2019★ 25 cited

Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A Measurement of Circular Polarization at 40 GHz

Ivan L. Padilla, Joseph R. Eimer, Yunyang Li +32

We report circular polarization measurements from the first two years of observation with the 40 GHz polarimeter of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS). CLASS is con…