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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

In-Flight Performance of Spider's 280 GHz Receivers

Elle C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +84

SPIDER is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the cosmic microwave background at degree-angular scales in the presence of Galactic foregrounds. SPIDER has mapped a large sky…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

Design and pre-flight performance of SPIDER 280 GHz receivers

E. C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +79

In this work we describe upgrades to the Spider balloon-borne telescope in preparation for its second flight, currently planned for December 2021. The Spider instrument is optimize…

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.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.IM2017★ 11 cited

280 GHz Focal Plane Unit Design and Characterization for the SPIDER-2 Suborbital Polarimeter

A. S. Bergman, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +76

We describe the construction and characterization of the 280 GHz bolometric focal plane units (FPUs) to be deployed on the second flight of the balloon-borne SPIDER instrument. The…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 15 cited

Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER

Johannes Hubmayr, Jason E. Austermann, James A. Beall +40

We describe 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER. A primary science goal of SPIDER is to measure the large-scale B-mode polarizat…