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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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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★ 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★ 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★ 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…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 37 cited

Horn Coupled Multichroic Polarimeters for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarization Experiment

Rahul Datta, Johannes Hubmayr, Charles Munson +17

Multichroic polarization sensitive detectors enable increased sensitivity and spectral coverage for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). An array optimized for du…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 91 cited

Large-aperture wide-bandwidth antireflection-coated silicon lenses for millimeter wavelengths

R. Datta, C. D. Munson, M. D. Niemack +17

The increasing scale of cryogenic detector arrays for sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelength astrophysics has led to the need for large aperture, high index of refraction, low lo…