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20182024
most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

1.5k citations · 1.8k across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.CO2024

Calibration Measurements of the BICEP3 and BICEP Array CMB Polarimeters from 2017 to 2024

Christos Giannakopoulos, Clara Vergès, P. A. R. Ade +83

The BICEP3 and BICEP Array polarimeters are small-aperture refracting telescopes located at the South Pole designed to measure primordial gravitational wave signatures in the Cosmi…

astro-ph.IM2022

Thermal Testing for Cryogenic CMB Instrument Optical Design

D. C. Goldfinger, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +83

Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background rely on cryogenic instrumentation with cold detectors, readout, and optics providing the low noise performance and instrumental stab…

astro-ph.IM2022

Laminate polyethylene window development for large aperture millimeter receivers

Miranda Eiben, Denis Barkats, Aurelia Balkanski +12

New experiments that target the B-mode polarization signals in the Cosmic Microwave Background require more sensitivity, more detectors, and thus larger-aperture millimeter-wavelen…

astro-ph.IM2022

2022 Upgrade and Improved Low Frequency Camera Sensitivity for CMB Observation at the South Pole

A. Soliman, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +83

Constraining the Galactic foregrounds with multi-frequency Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations is an essential step towards ultimately reaching the sensitivity to measur…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 30 cited

Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum from Two Years of POLARBEAR Data

Mario Aguilar Faúndez, Kam Arnold, Carlo Baccigalupi +48

We present a measurement of the gravitational lensing deflection power spectrum reconstructed with two seasons cosmic microwave background polarization data from the POLARBEAR expe…

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…