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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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astro-ph.CO2025

Study the nature of dynamical dark energy by measuring the CMB polarization rotation angle

Hua Zhai, Si-Yu Li, Yang Liu +6

Recent results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) support the dynamical dark energy. Intriguingly, the data favor a transition of the dark energy equation of stat…

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.IM2024★ 1 cited

CCAT: A status update on the EoR-Spec instrument module for Prime-Cam

Rodrigo Freundt, Yaqiong Li, Doug Henke +15

The Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer (EoR-Spec) is an upcoming Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) instrument designed to study the evolution of the early universe (z = 3.5 to 8) by pro…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2024

CCAT: Detector Noise Limited Performance of the RFSoC-based Readout Electronics for mm/sub-mm/far-IR KIDs

Adrian K. Sinclair, James Burgoyne, Anthony I. Huber +16

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama desert of Chile, will conduct wide-field and small deep-field surveys of the sky with more than 10…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

CCAT: Comparisons of 280 GHz TiN and Al Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays

Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann, James Beall +27

The CCAT Collaboration's six-meter Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope is scheduled to begin observing in the Chilean Atacama in 2025, targeting a variety of science goals throughou…

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.EP2023★ 3 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Millimeter Observations of a Population of Asteroids or: ACTeroids

John Orlowski-Scherer, Ricco Venterea, Nicholas Battaglia +24

We present fluxes and light curves for a population of asteroids at millimeter (mm) wavelengths, detected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) over 18, 000 deg2 of the sky usin…

astro-ph.IM2023

Breaking the 10 mW/pixel Limit for Kinetic Inductance Detector Readout Electronics

Adrian K. Sinclair, James R. Burgoyne, Yaqiong Li +4

We demonstrate a prototype kinetic inductance detector (KID) readout system that uses less than 10 mW per pixel. The CCAT-prime RFSoC based readout is capable of reading four indep…

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.SR2023★ 16 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Systematic Transient Search of 3-Day Maps

Yaqiong Li, Emily Biermann, Sigurd Naess +34

We conduct a systematic search for transients in three years of data (2017-2019) from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). ACT covers 40 percent of the sky at three bands spannin…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: Detector Re-biasing With Bias-step Measurements

Yuhan Wang, Tanay Bhandarkar, Steve K. Choi +14

The Simons Observatory is a ground-based cosmic microwave background survey experiment that consists of three 0.5 m small-aperture telescopes and one 6 m large-aperture telescope,…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: Optical and cryogenic design of the 850 GHz module for Prime-Cam

Anthony I. Huber, Scott C. Chapman, Adrian K. Sinclair +14

Prime-Cam is a first-generation instrument for the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-prime) Facility. The 850GHz module for Prime-Cam will probe the highest frequen…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: The Optical Design for the Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer

Zachary B. Huber, Steve K. Choi, Cody J. Duell +11

The Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer (EoR-Spec) will be an instrument module for the Prime-Cam receiver on the CCAT-prime Collaboration's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

CCAT-prime: Design of the Mod-Cam receiver and 280 GHz MKID instrument module

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann +33

Mod-Cam is a first light and commissioning instrument for the CCAT-prime project's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), currently under construction at 560…

astro-ph.IM2022

CCAT-prime: The Design and Characterization of the Silicon Mirrors for the Fabry-Perot Interferometer in the Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer

Bugao Zou, Steve K. Choi, Nicholas F. Cothard +10

The Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer (EoR-Spec) is one of the instrument modules to be installed in the Prime-Cam receiver of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST). This…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 10 cited

Assembly development for the Simons Observatory focal plane readout module

Erin Healy, Aamir M. Ali, Kam Arnold +28

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of instruments sensitive to temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Shielding Measurements for the Universal Multiplexing Module

Zachary B. Huber, Yaqiong Li, Eve M. Vavagiakis +14

The Simons Observatory (SO) includes four telescopes that will measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background using over 60,000 highly sensitive transi…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Simons Observatory Focal-Plane Module: In-lab Testing and Characterization Program

Yuhan Wang, Kaiwen Zheng, Zachary Atkins +20

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background instrument to be sited in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will deploy 60,000 transition-edge sensor bolome…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 101 cited

CCAT-prime Collaboration: Science Goals and Forecasts with Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope

Prime collaboration, M. Aravena, J. E. Austermann +84

We present a detailed overview of the science goals and predictions for the Prime-Cam direct detection camera/spectrometer being constructed by the CCAT-prime collaboration for ded…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 50 cited

The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design

Heather McCarrick, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed +56

Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducti…